RegardingID Archive | A Look Back At RFID in '07

Monday, December 10, 2007

The year-end reports are starting to roll in.

As RFID Journal puts it: “2007 was a year of retrenchment, requiring startup companies with a finite amount of capital to reduce their burn rate and refocus on the markets most likely to deliver real revenues in the near term. Even larger companies with deep pockets were forced to cut budgets and become more focused, because the market just wasn’t where they expected it would be, and they could no longer afford to try to be all things to all markets.”

CSC, Daon partner for banking multifactor authentication product

CSC has partnered with identity authentication technology and services provider Daon to produce a biometric multifactor authentication service for the banking industry. The product, called ConfidentID Mobile, provides in and out-of-band identity authentication for transactions in multiple channels, including online and mobile.

Identive launches cloud-based NFC tag management platform

Identive Group has released a cloud-based NFC tag management platform that enables advertisers, retailers and organizations to deliver targeted content and services to customers’ NFC-enabled mobile devices.

RFID tracks historic collection at University of Alabama

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.

Buffalo libraries deploy RFID self-checkout system

The Buffalo & Erie County Public Library, New York has started using a self-checkout system that makes use of RFID technology, according to a local news report. In the past, if patrons wanted to check out a book or CD, they had to wait for a librarian to do it for them.

Security breach at New York college puts credit cards at risk

If you want to use a credit or debit card at College of Brockport dining halls, forget it. Until the end of the school term, it’s mostly cash only due to a security breach which affected hundreds of credit and debit cards from students, staff and faculty.

ANDY Awards offers guests social media experience with RFID technology

The ADEVERTISING Club of New York’s 48th Annual ANDY Awards has selected dwinQ to provide a live social media experience for guests using RFID technology and the patented dwinQ platform.

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A Look Back At RFID in '07