02 | 23 | 2007 Posted By RFIDblogger

Weekly NewsWire February 23rd

Access this week's industry, legal, and policy news...

DHS drops using RFID tags for US Visit
GCN.com
The Government Accountability Office in a Jan. 31, 2007, report said the readers did not detect the tags reliably. “The RFID test proved, as GAO indicated, ...

Raytheon Unveils ID Card, Fortifying RFID With Biometrics
RFID Journal
The government is still reviewing comments and has not yet announced its next step. Many complaints came from vendors of high-frequency RFID technology, ...

RFID Technology Firms Win Investors
MoreRFID
The largest acquisition was Lockheed Martin's acquisition of active RFID systems provider Savi Technology. Investments also include $.4 billion of venture ...

South Carolina Port Partners With Savi Networks to Provide Cargo ...
Yahoo! News
The installation of SaviTrak's standards-based Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) infrastructure at the fourth busiest container port on the East and ...

US Military Ramps Up Adoption of Satcom-RFID Kits
RFID Journal
21, 2007—A year and a half after the US Marine Corps placed orders for Savi Technologies' Portable Deployment Kit (PDK), the system is now being used by ...