< 2005 News Listings Alien Technology® Announces Alliance with Microsoft on RFID Initiatives July 7, 2005 Alien Technology today announced an alliance with Microsoft that establishes Alien as one of the key partners in Microsoft's RFID Initiatives whereby Alien RFID reader and tag products will be supported by Microsoft's RFID technology. Alien also announced that Microsoft selected Alien tags and European-compliant high powered ALR-8780 readers as one of the readers to demonstrate its RFID technology at the Microsoft TechEd EMEA conference this week in Amsterdam. Designed for demanding supply chain applications, the Alien ALR-8780 reader was the first EPC RFID reader certified to the stringent new European specification ( ETSI EN 302-208 ) for higher power readers. " Alien Technology Corporation is a leading provider of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) products for global customers in government, retail, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, transportation, and other industries. Using its patented manufacturing process, Fluidic Self Assembly (FSA®), Alien manufactures EPC tags in very high-volumes and at low cost. The company provides a family of RFID readers for a variety of applications including supply chain management, logistics, and anti-counterfeiting, to improve inventory management and reduce operating costs. Alien is an active member of EPCglobal.
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