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New RFID Healthcare Site Unveiled

Wednesday, April 4, 2007

Want to learn more about the healthcare issues facing the RFID industry?

Check out the Web site educates healthcare providers about RFID, courtesy of BlueBean – RFIDHealthcare.com[end] 

Research In Motion has unveiled a new device called the BlackBerry Music Gateway that can stream music wirelessly from an NFC-enabled BlackBerry handset.

Slated for release in June, the $50 device can be hooked up to a home stereo or car audio system via auxiliary input. To stream music, the user simply taps his or her NFC-enabled BlackBerry Bold 9790 or Curve 9360/9380 handset against the Music Gateway to establish a connection.

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Tego unveiled its TegoDrive software designed to simplify information stored RFID. Installed on a handheld RFID device or an end-user’s desktop connected to a fixed reader, TegoDrive enables adding new content to a tag with a simple drag-and-drop interface.

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The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival with help from Intellitix, an RFID technology provider for live events, added an online audience of more than 30 million last month when over 30,000 fans registered to “Live Click” around the festival site.

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DeviceFidelity has unveiled the latest addition to its lineup of NFC-enabled protective cases for the iPhone, the In2Pay iCaisse4X NFC.

When equipped with Device Fidelity’s In2Pay microSD, the iCaisse4X enables iPhone users to fully utilize NFC features such as card emulation, NFC tag reading and writing, mobile payments and peer-to-peer data exchange while offering an extended battery that provides several more hours of use.

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Reportlinker.com has added a new report by Frost and Sullivan to its catalog that examines the global health care biometrics market. Called “Strategic Analysis of the Global Healthcare Biometrics Market,” this study looks at the technology around all types of biometric capture, including fingerprint, face, iris, hand and voice.

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Alabama hospitals and medical centers are taking the initiative to improve health quality compliance in a statewide deployment of Proventix’s RFID-enabled hand hygiene monitoring technology.

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