American Hospital Association (AHA) Solutions announced an exclusive endorsement of AeroScout's Wi-Fi-based active RFID tracking system, which helps hospitals track and manage the location, movement and status of patients, caregivers and vital hospital equipment, allowing hospitals to improve patient care and patient experience as well as reduce costs. |
LEGIC and Dorlet have signed a licence agreement. Dorlet will integrate the LEGIC contactless technology into a wide range of their security systems. The Swiss company is thereby strengthening its presence in Spain to an even greater extent by working closely with the company whose systems are installed in some of the most complex security installations in the country like museums and airports.
Blue Bamboo has teamed up with KPay to launch retail payment services for the Beijing transit card.
Solstice Medical announced a new alliance with Magellan Technology. Magellan has selected Solstice as a preferred integrator and sales agent for the medical device industry.
RF Technologies and Office Solutions (OSI) have formed a strategic partnership that creates a single source for senior care operations seeking to integrate resident safety and communication systems into a single solution. The partnership brings together RF Technologies leadership in RFID resident safety systems with OSI’s experience in leveraging telecommunications and network solutions and infrastructure. Together, the companies make it easy for senior care facilities to integrate the entire suite of RF Technologies’ Code Alert Wandering and Fall Management and Wireless Call systems with OSI’s Avaya and Spectralink telephones and networking.
UHF Gen2 RFID tag chip and reader supplier Impinj announced alliances with a growing group of Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) to deliver comprehensive, quickly deployed RFID solutions.
Miles Technologies and OATSystems announced that they have entered into a partnership to accelerate the adoption of RFID solutions through the OATedge programme. 
VeriFone announced that New York City (NYC) taxis are now accepting MasterCard PayPass. Certain NYC taxis began accepting PayPass in June and more than 5,000 NYC taxis are anticipated to accept PayPass by December 2007. MasterCard is the global leader in contactless payments and has more than 16 million PayPass cards and devices in use at more than 55,000 merchant locations worldwide as of Q2 2007. 
Atmel announced that FIME has certified that its AT90SC12872RCFT secure microcontroller is compliant with ICAO and ISO 14443 specifications. The FIME report is available from Atmel upon request. 
