Get your facts right — Frost & Sullivan says there is still much confusion about the similarities and differences between the two technologies.

There remains considerable confusion over the similarities and differences between RFID and contactless smart card technology, although contactless technology is experiencing a surge. The market still lacks a clear understanding of what smart [...]

Future Group, the Rs 2,000-crore Indian retail giant, is set to invest close to Rs 400 crore over a period of three years to revamp its IT infrastructure, and is in talks with Cisco and IBM to outsource its IT operations.
While Cisco will be creating a wireless environment for the retail giant, IBM [...]

The first smart card making plant in the country - set up by Hyderabad-based Bartronics India has begun production.
The company will now look at capturing the fast-growing global demand for smart cards. It also aims to close deals to acquire RFID solutions companies in the US.
Bartronics is known for turnkey execution of bar-coding, radio frequency-based [...]

Ever wanted to talk non-stop with your loved one without any drop in connectivity? Ever wondered how wonderful it would be to sit in the garden outside your apartment and log on to the web without the hassle of miles of cables and an extension device? Apartment owners in Bangalore’s Diamond District residential complex are [...]

The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) expects to finalize the consultant who would provide advice on the use of technology based on radio frequency identification devices (RFID) at electronic toll collection systems, by June.
It is also exploring the possibility of paying toll through mobile phones once the system is in place. The blueprint [...]

RFID is among the most talked about emerging technologies. Although there is a lot of hype surrounding this technology worldwide, India is far behind in the same process due to obvious difficulties in the form of high cost and low returns. RFID is an unknown term for medium businesses in terms of its advantages [...]

Indian outsourcer Tata Consultancy Services is working to implement Microsoft’s BizTalk RFI technology.
The RFID partnership between TCS and Microsoft “comes as interest in the technology among businesses in the West is heating up,” says a report by Information Week.
The North American market for passive RFID readers totaled $23.1 million in 2006, according to market [...]