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Reminder: 5th Annual RFID World Asia Coming

Monday, March 31, 2008

Following the great success of RFID World Asia 2007, trade expo company Terrapinn announced the 5th Annual RFID World Asia 2008 from April 9-11, 2008 at SUNTEC International Convention and Exhibition Centre, Singapore.

The event, called “the largest and most established,” attracted 250 exhibitors last year, plus more than 5,000 visitors from 62 countries.

The speakers to date include 15 from Asia, 7 from Europe, 6 from USA. For a complete list of speakers, please visit http://www.terrapinn.com/2008/rfid/speakerList.stm[end] 

Gaming Partners International Corporation announced that it will introduce several new products at the upcoming Global Gaming Expo (G2E) Asia exhibition in Macau, China.

GPI will release new currency security features that can be added to any of the company’s chip brands, highlighting several enhancements to its Bourgogne-et-Grasset (B&G) currency and RFID product portfolios.

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C-SAM, a U.S.-based provider of secure mobile transactions technology, has announced a joint initiative with MasterCard to offer a white label mobile wallet solution to mobile operators, retail banks and payment providers in Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa.

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A team from the University of Wollongong in Dubai (UOWD) has invented an RFID- and NFC-based system capable of tracking personal belongings, according to gulfnews.com.

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Secure transactions consultancy Intelling has released a white paper called “eID in South Asia,” which discusses several ongoing eID projects within the region.

The white paper serves as a preview to Intelling’s Smart Insights Report on eID in South East Asia, which it plans to release in April.

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The global RFID market is expected to reach $19.3 billion during 2011 - 2014, according to a new market research report from ReportLinker. Emerging RFID applications under different verticals will also outpace other automatic identification technologies, such as bar code.

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Disney World is trialing a new FastPass system that will utilize RFID technology to speed up ticketing lines at Disney’s popular rides and theme park attractions, according to ITWeb.

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