Blog entries

CYBRA wishes you all a happy thanksgiving!

Yael Brand — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:40:37 +0100

It's contest time! We’re looking for some help renaming our newsletter....

Yael Brand — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:07:40 +0100

Play Don Draper for a moment. What do you think about when you think about CYBRA? That they are the leaders in bar code and RFID technology, right? That's how we came up with our Newsletter name, "Between The Lines." But as it turns out great minds think alike, and when GS1, the supply chain global standards organization, and CYBRA started their newsletters in 2005, Read More...

MarkMagic PrintTransformer Webinar this Thursday

Yael Brand — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 14:19:02 +0100

MarkMagic PrintTransformer: Managing Frequent Changes to Your Formats

Join Us for an Advanced Webcast This Thursday, June 30, 2011 at 2:00 p.m. (EST)

Do you need to support several brands or different companies, all with their own unique doRead More...

Security Solution for Hotel Staff Who Face Daily Dangers

Yael Brand — Tue, 24 May 2011 17:41:04 +0100

Imagine entering dozens of supposedly unoccupied hotel rooms every single day, not knowing what lurks behind the closed door. Hotel housekeepers face this situation day after day, and many fear for their safety. Many hotel housekeepers experience sexual harassment on a regular basis on the job, according tRead More...

Meet Me In Orlando @ UConnect Live!

Yael Brand — Wed, 11 May 2011 17:06:05 +0100

Are you attending UConnect Live? If so, please come visit us at booth #207. We will be there on May 31 through June 2 at the Orlando World Center Marriott Resort showing our demo on RFID item-level tagging. See you there!

CYBRA Offers RFID Retail Item-Level Starter Kit

Yael Brand — Thu, 05 May 2011 18:14:48 +0100

Description: This starter kit is designed for apparel and consumer goods companies desiring to participate in a UHF RFID item level pilot based on the EPCglobal Gen 2 standard. The EdgeMagic Retail Item Level Starter Kit includes a full working license of CYBRA’s EdgeMagic Integrated RFID Control Software for a period of Read More...

Take Our Survey!

Yael Brand — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 17:46:38 +0100

Take Our RFID Survey & You Could Win an iPad2!

We are gathering feedback on trends in RFID to help us plan product upgrades and improvements. By participating in this survey you can play a role in shaping the future of RFID technology. Your opinions will help us Read More...

Meet me in Orlando

Sheldon Reich — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 14:06:35 +0100

Are you attending RFID Journal LIVE 2011? We will be manning a partner pedestal in Motorola's booth (#404). Come see a LIVE demonstration of item level encoding and order/carton validation.

Great Coverage of Our New Suite of In Plant Apparel RFID, Care Labeling, and Price Marking Solutions

Sheldon Reich — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 23:07:59 +0100

Alex Woodie of IT Jungle recently wrote a super story about our announcement of our new suite of in-plant printing offerings specifically targeted at apparel manufacturers facing the following government and retailer mandates:

Item-level RFID Tags for EPC (Electronic Product Code) compliance with Walmart, DillardRead More...

I Broke My Netflix Habit for Avatar... in 3D

Sheldon Reich — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:52:15 +0100

Winter has been wicked in the Northeast. It seems that every minute I look out window there's white stuff falling, and lots of it. My usual response to lots of snow is to stock up on lots of popcorn and hot chocolate, pop in a DVD, and enjoy what Netflix delivers to my home. So for my wife (a nativRead More...

2D Bar Codes Automate Event Photo Shoots

Sheldon Reich — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:33:57 +0100

Photographers who cover events such as road races, or sports teams, or school photography, are faced with a challenge. How to present pictures of each participant for purchase without requiring each subject to browse through hundreds or thousands of pictures. A new professional photography service, snapiRead More...

RFID Popping Up in Lots of New Places

Sheldon Reich — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:38:57 +0100

What do the NYC Marathon, AC power outlets, recyclables, and pet dogs have in common? RFID tags! Here's how they're helping spectators track their favorite runners, electric grids run smarter, recyclables get recycled, and your pooch, and only your pooch, get in and out of the house.

Earlier this month, the ING NYC Marathon employed UHF RFID tags tRead More...

RFID on the iPhone -- from Rumor to Reality

Sheldon Reich — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:14:58 +0100

It can be quite a lot of fun to watch technology evolve in real time -- and at warp speed. Join me as I share the timeline of how an RFID-enabled iPhone went from rumor to market -- in less than two weeks.

November 5 -- Near Field Communications World breaks the news that Einar Rosenberg, the chief technology officer at NFC specialist Narian Technologies and who runs the Near Field ComRead More...

Designer Bar Codes Coming To a Package Near You

Sheldon Reich — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:45:54 +0100

These bar codes may look funky. But they work. According to TPMA Outlook, a number of Japanese companies have begun putting stylized bar codes on their products. And why not? They occupy a lot of real estate on packaging – why not make them at least interesting, and possibly even integrate into the packaging message? Want to try this with your prodRead More...

Xerox Develops "Silver Bullet" for RFID

Sheldon Reich — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:51:35 +0100

The one cent RFID tag may be here sooner than you think. Xerox scientists have developed a low cost silver ink to print flexible circuitry that could make one cent RFID tags a reality. With the development of the new silver ink, Xerox scientists have paved the way for commercialization and low-cost manufacturing of printable electronics.Read More...

New Webinar Videos Added

Sheldon Reich — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:12:21 +0100

We've added the newest recorded webinar videos to our site: "MarkMagic Advanced Topics" and "Develop System i Web Apps with WOW." Grab some popcorn and follow the link...

Google Behind Bars (and White Spaces)

Sheldon Reich — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:20:48 +0100

What a pleasant surprise when I browsed over to "Google" a search term today and I was greeted by a familiar symbol -- a Code 128 bar code in place of the multi-color Google logo.

It is readable. I printed it out and scanned the word "Google" into Notepad using my Honeywell HHP IT3800 Imager. The symbology is Code 128. The CYBRA Auto-ID Glossary defines Code 128 as "a high density, variRead More...

Have You Looked at RFID ROI Lately?

Sheldon Reich — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:52:19 +0100

The numbers will surprise you. Read my article on the topic for Monday's MC Press Online here

Advanced MarkMagic 7 Enterprise Webinar Tomorrow

Sheldon Reich — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:50:44 +0100

New MarkMagic 7 Enterprise Is Our Most Powerful Version Yet with All-New Report Writing, Conditional Printing, and Dynamic Formatting. How do these features work? How do you integrate new MarkMagic FormComposer report writer and PrintTransformer conditional printing?

There's still time to join us for a special advanced webinar tomorrow, Thursday, October 1, to leaRead More...

CYBRA Announces Strategic Joint Venture with China Ministry of Transportation

Sheldon Reich — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:42:37 +0100

Auto-ID Software Company Signs Smart Shipping Technologies Agreement with China Ministry of Transportation's Waterborne Transportation Institute and Key West Technologies LLC

Yonkers, NY September 22, 2009 -- CYBRA Corporation (OTC BB: CYRP.OB), and its partner, Key West Technologies LLC, has signed an agreement wiRead More...