Samsung produces RFID chips

Samsung Electronics will start mass producing mobile RFID reader chips next month, reports Biz/Tech.

At just 6.5mm x 6.5mm, Samsung`s new RFID reader chip integrates three different chips - a wireless communications signal chip, a digital-analogue signal conversion chip and a memory chip.

The industry forecasts that the mobile RFID market will grow to $755 million by 2010.

Xiring and mobile phone operator SFR are deploying the largest 'machine to machine` network in the French healthcare sector, allowing citizens to have their smart cards updated by pharmacists every time they are treated, says eHealth Europe.

The remote updating service, 'Le Point Xiring`, is being rolled out to 12 000 pharmacies, at a rate of 600 per week, and is designed to work with the French Sesam-Vitale scheme - smart cards carried by citizens proving their membership of a health insurance system.

Sesam-Vitale, in use since 1998, links more than 223 000 healthcare professionals with the health insurance system, benefiting millions of insured patients who have the Vitale card.

US Airways Group has signed a $6 million deal with AT&T to provide wireless service for business travellers, according to Biz Journals.

Handheld bar code scanners that are wirelessly connected to the AT&T network will enable US Airways to provide real-time tracking for its global shipping customers.

US Airways, which is the busiest carrier at Pittsburgh International Airport, operates more than 3 800 flights a day, to 230 destinations in the US, Canada, Europe, the Caribbean and Latin America.