As the use of tracking tags grows, some people are concerned by the potential environmental impact of the radio-frequency identification devices. Generally the concerns involve recycling the tags. Joe ...

Chicago, IL - Radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags, similar to the inconspicuous security tags used in store merchandise to thwart shoplifters and increasingly used in hospitals for inventory ...

Pressure to optimize is intense on the floors of motor vehicle manufacturers' factories: Variance is steadily increasing. Costs have to be contained. Fraunhofer researchers are now using RFID ...

Radio-frequency identification technology isn’t going away anytime soon. But some of the companies that sell the stuff might be. Even as uses for the digital barcodes and tracking chips proliferate, ...

An emerging technology could usurp the ubiquitous bar code's quarter-century of quiet domination. Radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, which consist of silicon chips and an antenna that can ...

Big Blue says it is building a facility designed to allow companies to check the accuracy of gear that employs controversial radio frequency identification tags. During her years at CNET News, Ina ...

The risk and number of errors during biopsy analysis can be drastically reduced by instituting labeling systems for specimen bottles, according to a study conducted by the Mayo Clinic. The Clinic is ...

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology has become integral to modern wireless communications, enabling efficient identification, tracking, and data exchange across a multitude of ...

RADIO FREQUENCY ID: The Defense Department is completing plans for several pilot programs that will test an Oct. 2 draft policy calling for suppliers to place Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) ...

Microsoft is enlisting in a venture designed to help develop standards for radio frequency tags intended for use by retailers and manufacturers to track goods. The software maker said Tuesday it will ...

Associated Food Stores Inc. says its supply chain operations are running more efficiently and securely, thanks to recently installed next-generation wireless radio-frequency tags. The firm is one of a ...