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, ...

For chemists who track inventory of laboratory chemicals, radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags can reveal which chemicals are in a storage space much quicker than keeping track of inventory with ...

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 ...

LAS VEGAS--IBM said Wednesday that it is building a testing facility designed to allow companies to check the accuracy of gear that employs controversial RFID tags. The Gaithersburg, Md., facility ...

Engineering specialists from MIT have devised a way to make RFID (radio-frequency identification) tags more reliable and pick up on chemicals in the surrounding environment — without needing the ...

The British Army has been testing technologies - including radio frequency tags - that could reduce casualties from 'friendly fire' incidents. Earlier this month Nato's Operation Urgent Quest exercise ...

NEW YORK -- The company that manages the Internet's core directory -- and has been criticized for trying to take undue advantage of its position -- has been hired to perform a similar role in the ...

A University of Pittsburgh researcher and a U.S. subsidiary of a Korean chipmaker announced Thursday they plan to sell radio-frequency identification tags to get a share of what could be the biggest ...

Radio tags have yet to become as pervasive as the printed bar codes that appear on every domestic product, but industry players and the Federal Communications Commission are working to eliminate the ...