Monday, February 28, 2005

NFL gets in on the RFID action

Master Card's PayPass system will be used in Seattle and Baltimore throughout the upcoming football season. Master Card will be working with MBNA to produce branded credit cards that will also accumulate points that consumers can use to obtain merchandise from their respective teams. The Seahawks and Ravens have chosen the PayPass system to help reduce concession lines. Article here.

Friday, February 25, 2005

Visa brings out RFID enabled credit cards

Visa has come out with credit cards that have RFID technology in them. Now we wait to see if any card issuers will pick up the card or if retailers will replace their current card readers. The big questions is if the public will accept the cards as being secure enough.

Thursday, February 24, 2005

RFID Nuts and Bolts

The best RFID primer I've seen so far is from RFID Journal. If your looking to get up to speed, this is your best bet.

rfid-blog is now online

In the following days, I will attempt to get this blog up to speed with postings on the basics of RFID, exciting applications in the RFID world, as well as some opinion pieces...Stay tuned.