At CES Mobileedge announced the release of several new RFID-blocking wallets aimed at those who use one of the increasingly popular contactless credit cards or other RFID enabled cards.
There are 2 versions, one wallet is to be used to hold credit cards while the other is made to hold and shield RFID enabled passports. […]
[commentary] Consumerist writes [via LifeHacker] about a bank who threw out a customer for refusing to supply a fingerprint. WTF?! Seems Bank of America’s rules state that thumbprints must be given if a consumer wants to cash a cheque and they are not a BoA customer. Even if the cheque is issued from a BoA […]
Even though the business case for RFID is supposed to be strong, the technology is still not on a firm footing; ABI Research says that the reason for this is that the unit price of the RFID tags is still more than what the businesses would like it to be. The situation is a bit […]
Contactless News has an embedded video from Avisian (publisher of RFID-related websites) and Identity Stronghold showing how the latter’s anti-RF (radio frequency) sleeves work. These are small specially designed envelopes that block out RFID readers. The basic principle applied is a Faraday Cage, which is named after physicist Michael Faraday and his experiments in 1836. […]
7th RFID Networking Forum
RFID’s presence is getting to the point where seminars, workshops, conferences are appearing all over the world. Recently, the 7th RFID Networking Forum took place in London, UK to discuss the use of radio frequency technology in various sectors, and to focus on prospective users. Attendees included solution providers, analysts, venture capitalists […]
If you live in or have driven in and around either Toronto, Canada, or Atlanta, Georgia, USA, you know how awful traffic is. In Toronto, it take can some out-of-town commuters two hours or more to get to work in the morning, and longer to get home on bad days. And that’s by car. Atlanta […]
FinnAir is using RFID in an innovative way: managing the assignment of employee tasks. Employees use an RFID-enabled Nokia 51401 phone to read off their tasks from one of various locations hosting RFID tags. Their work details are transmitted to their phones, which can then view on their screens. The solution uses IBM’s WebSphere middleware […]
Finextra reports that a group called the Smart Card Alliance (SCA) is refuting the findings of two researchers studying RFID-enabled contactless credit cards recently. [Note: The Finextra article does not have a link, and they refer to the Smart Card Assocation, which I believe is an error. Here is a link to what appears to […]