Walmart (WMT) is now putting radio tags, or RFIDs, onto its jeans and other apparel to better keep track of them. However, unlike digital clothing or another opt-in technology, the "reverse FourSquare ...

Hong Kong knitwear company Crystal Group is employing passive 13.56 MHz RFID tags to track garments as they are manufactured. The company maintains 15 manufacturing sites in Sri Lanka, Vietnam, China, ...

Wal-mart stores and several other major U.S. retailers are moving forward with projects that use radio frequency identification (RFID) to track apparel items in stores. Retailers that manufacture ...

Technology firm Fujitsu Frontech North America Inc, has developed a new low-cost, washable UHF RFID garment tag that allows for more sophisticated garment tracking. Unlike other UHF RFID washable tags ...

Retailers, including Dillard’s, JCPenney, Bloomingdale’s and American Apparel have publically talked about their RFID tagging efforts over the course of the last couple of years, with no particular ...

Retailer Marks & Spencer has begun a trial of radio frequency identification tags in clothes at one of its UK stores this week as part of plans to improve stock accuracy and product availability for ...

FOOTHILL RANCH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fujitsu Frontech North America Inc., a leader in innovative technology and front-end solutions, announced it has developed a new UHF RFID garment tag that ...

Attaching a small contactless tag to an item of clothing enables garment rental companies and laundries to better keep track of items throughout their lifecycle. The chip is embedded inside a heat- ...

As far as wireless technologies go, radio-frequency identification (RFID) is one of the oldest. Patented in 1983 by the late British inventor Charles Walton, RFID made it possible for new, ...

This week, the Spanish clothing company Inditex announced its intention to tag every item of clothing sold in its Zara stores using an RFID technology (radio frequency identification). Designed to ...