Radio Frequency Identification Technology for Logistics, Tagging and EPC

It's official: New report validates RFID-Healthcare trend

Saturday, May 20, 2006

The headline reads, “The Healthcare RFID Market is Expected to Continue Growing due to New Tagging of Drugs for Anti-Counterfeiting.”

As if we didn’t know that already, right?

But thanks to the new report plugged in a handy press release, you now have the figures to prove this is the direction the industry – and the world– is taking.

Some highlights from the Research and Markets report: Healthcare RFID will grow from three to eight percent of the total RFID market and its needs will be met by prosperous suppliers skilled in the necessary requirements, AND experience “23 fold growth to $2.1 billion in 2016.” [end] 

Research and Markets announced the addition of Polasik Research’s contactless payment cards market report, “The Global Contactless Payment Cards Market”, to its offering.

The report describes the evolution contactless payment methods used at point-of-sale, with reference to the solutions offered under the American Express/MasterCard/Visa Agreement. The report also examines the prospects for the development of contactless payments all over the world, including the potential to develop into NFC-based mobile payments.

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A new report created by the Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Law & Social Policy at UC Berkeley School of Law predicts a price tag of at least $40 billion for a mandatory biometric employment verification card for all U.S. workers that would utilize either fingerprint or fingervein scans.

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The Auriemma Consulting Group (ACG) has announced the launch of its new Mobile Payments Report, a market research service that examines the mobile phone as a payments device, financial managing tool, marketing channel and as a method of engaging with consumers.

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Research and Markets announced the addition of a report concerning the latest state of the Polish contactless payment market.

Entitled “Polish Contactless Payments Market 2011: Issuance, Transactions and Innovations” the report presents detailed analysis based on surveys carried out among all banks issuing contactless payment instruments and acquirers that operated contactless payments on the Polish market.

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The European Payments Council (EPC) has published the second edition of its “White Paper on Mobile Payments.”

According to EPC, the white paper focuses on the usage of the mobile payments in the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) and explores how m-payment services can be delivered through cooperation between service providers in the payment industry and players within the mobile ecosystem.

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A new report on the market for biometric technology in India forecasted a 42.4% compound annual growth rate for the industry in the four year span. TechNavio, a market intelligence reporting company, reviews and forecasts the period of 2010 through 2014 from

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