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Avalign Becomes an RFID Channel Partner

Monday, October 1, 2007

Illinois company Avalign Technologies, Inc., a medical device outsourcing company, announced today its agreement to become a “Channel Partner” for the RFID tracking technologies developed by Fort Wayne-based Solstice Medical, LLC.

As part of this new agreement, Avalign will work with Solstice to apply the RFID technology to instruments, implants, and delivery systems on behalf of Avalign customers. [end] 

LEGIC Identsystems Ltd expanded its partner network in Southern Europe with the announcement of a joint venture with Spain-based security company Softmachine Systems.

The new affiliation aims to produce contactless access control solutions and installations for multifunctional visitor management including applications for electronic payment and time and attendance.

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Authentify introduced 2CHK – spoken as two check – an Out-of-Band authentication service for securing IT remote access and identities as well as online and mobile banking and ecommerce.

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Coca-Cola, in partnership with media agency MEC, Clear Channel and Tapit, has launched an NFC-enabled poster campaign in Singapore for Fanta brand soft drinks.

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Data input technology company Access IS has become a strategic partner with the International Air Transport Association (IATA) so that it can help develop a standard to enable the airline industry to adopt NFC technology for secure, efficient passenger processing.

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New market research from Smiths Point Analytics projects that the global market for action oriented proximity based marketing services – i.e. NFC/QR-enabled ads – is expected to reach $2.3 billion by 2016.

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Silent Partner Technologies (SPT) has been selected by the University of Alabama to provide an RFID asset tracking system to protect the university’s historic costume collection.

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