Winemakers combat counterfeits
US wineries are using radio frequency identification (RFID) technology to combat counterfeit in the winemaking industry, reports Business Week.
According to Payne Security, a company that develops anti-counterfeiting measures for the wine industry, RFID tags are placed inside wine bottle labels and can also carbon date wine to ensure authenticity.
“The people who are counterfeiting are getting more sophisticated as time goes by,” says Charles Curtis, head of North American wine sales for Christie's in New York.
Big Brother tactics at Indian school
All students at a Belgaum school in the Indian state of Karnataka are required to wear an RFID card around their necks, states RFID World.
The system is called KeepTrack and according to the school's principal, sends out text messages to parents' cellphones at regular intervals detailing their child's whereabouts.
An installed RFID reader on campus records a student's arrival and passes on the data to a central computer to allow parents and school staff to monitor the students throughout the school day.
MTI turns netbook into RFID reader
MTI and Austria Microsystems have rolled out a smart USB RFID device, says Digitimes.
The dongle is complete with internal antenna and turns any USB-enabled device, such as a desktop PC, notebook, netbook, PDA or a mobile handset into an RFID reader system.
Both the embedded module and dongle target RFID applications for fixed printers, handheld printers, battery-powered mobile printers and handheld readers.
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