Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Image# 2908874 RFID solutions provider Impinj, Inc. today announced the acquisition of Intel Corporation's RFID operation, along with the R1000 RFID reader chip....

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Jeffrey Smith A new study published in The Journal of the American Medical Association has found that electromagnetic interference generated by RFID chips can interfere...

Dutch designer Jelte van Geest has created an RFID-enabled chair that follows you wherever you go. Designed for libraries, the chair follows anyone carrying a matching RFID library card. Check out...

Holland's Radboud University yesterday announced that researchers had managed to crack and duplicate NXP Semiconductors' MIFARE RFID tech that's used in major public transport systems...

In a report entitled Market Trends: Radio Frequency Identification, Worldwide, 2007-2012, research firm Gartner this week predicted that worldwide RFID revenue will total $1.2 billion in 2008, a 30.9...

BAA and Emirates this week announced a six-month, £150,000 trial of a new RFID-based luggage tracking system at London's Heathrow Airport. The trial will use Motorola XR480 Fixed RFID Readers....

AT&T today announced a combined RFID and GPS based mobile resource management (MRM) solution for the education industry, allowing K-12 institutions to track and monitor school buses while en...

The Guardian's Bobbie Johnson this week broke the news that Transport for London, Nokia and O2 are finalizing plans for a mobile phone handset with a built-in Oyster card, using NFC to transmit...

Over the weekend, the AP's Todd Lewan reported that a series of veterinary and toxicology studies conducted over the past decade or so determined that implanted RFID chips had induced cancerous...

The California State Senate yesterday passed Bill 362, which would make it illegal to force anyone to have an RFID device implanted, by a vote of 28 to 9 - Wisconsin and North Dakota have already...

Over the next two years, VeriChip will be implanting 200 Alzheimer's patients in Palm Beach County, Florida with its VeriMed RFID chips. According to the South Florida Business Journal, the...

New Jersey beach community Ocean City requires residents and visitors to pay for beach access by buying plastic badges that have to be worn at all times so they can be checked by inspectors. The city...

SiliconRepublic's Niall Byrne reports today that Irish radio frequency firm Heavey RF has published a report by company managing director Ronan Clinton, entitled RFID.BOMB?, comparing the hype...

Computerworld's Marc L. Songini reports that the American Medical Association (AMA) has issued a report giving "mixed reviews on the use of implanted radio frequency identification (RFID)...

United Press International reports today that ClearCount Medical has received FDA approval "to sell a radio-frequency-based, sponge-counting system to prevent sponges being left in...

TUV Product Service News reports that Identec Solutions has developed an RFID tag that uses GPS to track a single item's specific location. "The tag uses satellite data with RFID technology...

Akihabara News' Daimaou reports on the arrival of the Brother RL-700S printer, which allows you to print plastic cards that include an RFID chip. "Now all you need is to set it up all over...

The AP's Gary Gentile reports that a new RFID solution from NXP Semiconductors and Kestrel Wireless will render products like DVDs unusable until they're activated at the cash register. The...