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-- Pushpa Sathish, Staff Writer The nature conservationists are at it again. And they’re harnessing the power of RFID to help them preserve and study the vagaries of the zoological kingdom. First it was wasps, now it’s fish – the...

-- Pushpa Sathish, Staff Writer Are RFID tags robust enough to survive the extreme conditions in outer space? That’s what NASA is attempting to find out when Endeavour takes off to the International Space Station in July later this year....

-- Pushpa Sathish, Staff Writer Time and again, nature has had to pay the price for the progress of mankind. The environment has been gradually degraded under the guise of technological advancement. Now it’s time for technology to repay its...

-- Staff WriterRFID smart label converter Worldlabel.com has developed a label converting system called the Infinity V1 RFID Tag and Inlay embedding system for smart label converting, which can embed both HF and UHF inlays into custom label sizes outside...

-- Pushpa Sathish, Staff Writer With RFID being used for a wide range of applications, it follows that a demand exists for rugged, robust tags that withstand extreme conditions. Texas Instruments (TI) has stepped in serve this need with its...

-- Pushpa Sathish, Staff Writer Microsoft’s Technology Centers in Austin, Reston, Chicago, Boston, Silicon Valley and New York have been embedded with RFID hardware from Intermec Inc., which designs and develops products that facilitate the tracking and management of supply...

-- Pushpa Sathish, Staff Writer Another use for rugged RFID technology – in times of war and disasters, natural or manmade. Handheld readers from a collaboration between SkyeTek and ACC Systems will be put to good use – in the...

-- Pushpa Sathish, Staff Writer You know people are really passionate about what they do when they catch wasps, tag them with RFID, and then announce that the workers of each nest “visit” relatives in neighboring nests and help baby-sit...

-- Pushpa Sathish, Staff Writer RFID is ushering in a wave of operational efficiency in the rail transport division of Transnet, an organization of the South African government. The 80,000 wagons of the general freight rail fleet of Spoornet are...

-- Pushpa Sathish, Staff Writer If you’re a woman, this piece of news will have you jumping for joy! A Tokyo department store has harnessed the power of RFID to offer shoppers help decide on the right make-up for them....