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Fast and Scalable UHF RFID Tag Printing and Encoding Solutions

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GoToTags continues to grow its UHF RFID capabilities, offering scalable solutions for businesses requiring high-volume RFID label implementation. This expansion provides businesses with the tools to meet evolving retail and compliance standards, including Walmart’s UHF RFID requirements. With new equipment and streamlined software integration, GoToTags offers quick, accurate printing and encoding and increased production capacity to support high-volume needs.

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NFC Wine Labels: Supporting Brand Authenticity with Scalable, Secure Solutions

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NFC wine labels offer a modern technology solution for enhancing wine security by providing a means of origin verification. The labels contain embedded NFC chips with unique identifiers that can be used to authenticate each bottle. By scanning these labels with an NFC-enabled device (such as a smartphone), retailers and consumers can easily confirm the source of premium wines, helping to fight against counterfeiting schemes.

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Increasing Political Campaign Fundraising with NFC Tags

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From local candidates to the national stage, most political campaigns rely on supporter donations to fund their activities and outreach. With tight timelines and growing ad costs, candidates and their campaign teams are pressured to raise as much campaign funding as quickly as possible. NFC (Near Field Communication) technology offers potential donors an easy and accessible way to donate and interact with political campaigns.

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How NFC Event Tickets Can Protect Printed Tickets from Barcode Counterfeiting

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Barcodes, a valuable tool in many sectors and once a revolutionary tool for ticketing, are becoming a gateway for scammers. Recent news stories shed light on how fraudsters are replicating barcodes to sell multiple fake tickets, causing chaos and frustration at event entry points. However, a secure ticketing solution exists in NFC (Near Field Communication) technology.

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How the iPhone 15 Can Use NFC

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Apple’s use of Near Field Communication (NFC) technology on the iPhone has evolved significantly. Apple first added support for NFC with the iPhone 7, primarily to enable contactless payments with Apple Pay. With iOS 11, the iPhone 7 and iPhone 8 gained the ability to read NFC tags which opened a large market for NFC based contactless applications. iOS 12 fixed several issues with the iOS NFC SDK, Core NFC which finally allowed 3rd party developers to build engaging NFC applications.

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STMicroelectronics – Diversifying the NFC Chip Market

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GoToTags is proud to announce the addition of NFC tag products to the GoToTags catalog featuring STMicroelectronics (ST) NFC chips. In the past NXP has maintained a decisive market dominance over the NFC chip production market.

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iPhone 14 – Updates to NFC and NFC Tags with iOS 16 in 2022

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Apple announced the release of iOS 16 at their annual WWDC event in June 2022. If this release follows the decade-long pattern that we’ve come to expect, iOS 16 and the long-awaited iPhone 14 will most likely make an appearance in September. The list of previewed and presumed features has been explored ad nauseam since the release, but what do these updates mean for the iPhone 14 NFC experience?

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How Changing from Barcodes to NFC Tags Made the Security Services Industry More Trustworthy

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Security services is a $132B worldwide industry whose foundation was built on trust. Retailers, local governments, airports, corporate offices, banks, malls, and more trust that guards will execute their assigned patrols at an agreed upon frequency and be present to detect anomalies, deter undesirable activity and to respond when immediate action is necessary. The value of the service is derived from the assured safety of events, facilities, and assets thanks to this scheduled patrol. To prove that value, security companies need high quality and reliable data.

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iPhone 13 – Using NFC and NFC Tags with iOS 15 in 2021

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Apple’s September “Special Event” for 2021 (video below) has followed the theme of the past ten years with the announcement of new iPhone models including the iPhone 13, iPhone 13 mini, iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max (whew!), complementing Apple’s announcement of iOS 15 in June. Like all iPhones since the iPhone 7, released in 2016 alongside iOS 11, the new iPhones feature native software and hardware support for NFC functionality. While the iPhone 6 supported NFC for contactless payment only via Apple Pay, previous iPhones did not support NFC. This lack of NFC capabilities contrasted with Google’s Android devices, which had adopted NFC hardware and software support in late 2010 and has been included in almost all Android phones since.

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How COVID Made QR Codes Cool

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There is a long list of formerly denigrated technologies that have since become key components of the modern world. The bicycle, the car, answering machines, and laptops were all considered dubious fads when they first emerged. In each case, it took some calamity, innovation, or critical mass of adoption before they wormed their way into the realm of the essential.

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