NEW YORK—-RFID is being used or trialed in a variety of industries. Global economic conditions and business necessities have resulted in mixed outcomes: in some areas RFID still faces challenges, while in others, it is thriving.

NISKAYUNA, N.Y.—-GE Global Research, the technology development arm for the General Electric Company , today announced a $2 million award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences , part of the National Institutes of Health to develop wearable RFID sensors to alert people to the presence of environmental chemical agents in the air and sample exhaled breath to serve as an …

Sirit Inc. (“Sirit”) (TSX: SI), a global provider of radio frequency identification (“RFID”) technology and 3M Brazil announce their collaboration with Dbtrans to introduce an electronic payment process for commercial truck and passenger tolling in the state of Rio Grande Do Sul, Brazil.

Atmel® Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) today announced the availability of the LF OTP (One Time Programmable) transponder IDIC® ATA5575M1. The device is a new member of Atmel’s broad, well-known RFID transponder family and has been optimized for next-generation access control systems.

Newport Digital Technologies, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: NPDT), announced today successful participation in the VICS Conference in Fayetteville, Arkansas, to introduce the Company’s total RFID Solutions. NPDT demonstrated its capabilities as a full RFID solutions provider, including displaying RFID tag programmers, kiosks, mobile computing readers, and tags.

A business group has appealed to the Department of Transportation and Communication (DoTC) to include them in the Radio Frequency Identification Device (RFID) project of the Land Transportation Office (LTO).

Model SRi2K features on-chip memory of 2 Kb and RFID circuitry that operates at standard 13.56 MHz carrier frequency. It has 64-bit ID and lockable memory blocks for security, while 8-bit anticollision mechanism allows large numbers of tickets to coexist without interfering. To prevent data loss due to power failure while ticket is being debited, IC features dual 32-bit decrementing counters …