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Inventor of RFID radio tags Charles Walton dies aged 89
Charles Walton, inventor of the RFID technology now common everywhere from warehouses to retail stores to public libraries, has died at the age of 89 in California.
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RFID tags triple range in a building duct
A research team at North Carolina State University has used a building ventilation duct to at least triple the normal distance that radio waves emitted from passive RFID tags can travel over open space.
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IBM middleware interprets RFID data
IBM has introduced middleware that can gather data from a wide variety of networked sensors, analyse it, and feed it into other enterprise applications that can also use the data to make decisions.
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HP opts for RFID tags to secure datacentre assets
Keeping track of datacentre assets is a security issue that HP says can be addressed through its new radio-frequency identification (RFID) tagging system.
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Aerohive brings controller-less Wi-Fi to Europe
Aerohive, the enterprise Wi-Fi company that sells access points that co-operate without the use of a central switch, has started European operations, and announced its first customer here.
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Microsoft unveils BizTalk RFID Mobile
Microsoft has added mobile support to its collection of RFID technologies centred on its BizTalk Server 2006.
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Laptop wipes self to beat thieves
A UK company has come up with a nifty laptop-protection system that can automatically wipe hard disk data on machines taken from authorised locations.
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Samsung to embed RFID chips in phones
Samsung has developed an RFID chip it hopes will turn mobile phones into more useful tools able to automatically extract information from a range of products.
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Carbon nanotube memory coming
Start-up Nantero has built a carbon nanotube-based memory wafer using standard semiconductor fabrication processes. This removes a significant hurdle in commercialising the seemingly exotic NRAM (non-volatile RAM) that could replace DRAM, SRAM and flash memory with a universal memory design.
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Intel to ship compact RFID reader chip
Intel has launched a cheap, compressed chip that it said could cut the cost of buying and using radio frequency identification (RFID) readers.
