Commonwealth Games get RFID tags

The Delhi Commonwealth Games (CWG) organising committee has handed out radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags to cars with access to the CWG venues, reports RFID World.

The RFID tags are said to simplify car identification for the police and streamlining the process of spectators entering the stadiums.

For some of Delhi's high profile individuals, the RFID tags have become a mark of status just like admission for the CWG opening ceremony.

The Land Transportation Office (LTO) in the Philippines has once again postponed the refund of RFID fees to motorists, states ABS-CBN News.

The Supreme Court, in a ruling in January, ordered the LTO and the Department of Transportation and Communications to stop implementing the controversial RFID project.

The decision was made in response to a motion for intervention filed by militant groups that sought to declare the project null and void. The LTO was then given the green light to refund RFID fees to 90 000 motorists; however refunding has been postponed.

Pokertronic has introduced an RFID poker table, a solution for visualising poker games in casinos and poker clubs, says PR.com.

The plastic cards contain flat, embedded RFID transmitter chips. The cards are used for training purposes that analyse each game.

Edgar Stuchly, poker manager at Casino Austria and organiser of the Casino Austria Poker Tour, says: "Thanks to Pokertronic's RFID Poker Table, we will for the first time be streaming the final tables of Texas Hold 'Em and Omaha including hole cards during the Nations Cup 2010.”