RFID chips have quietly migrated from factory floors into the rubber that meets the road, turning tires into data points long before most drivers noticed. The technology has been embedded in products ...

It's unlikely that these tags could be used to track your location in any meaningful way, but they still have lots of uses that are changing the tire industry.

Industrial automation technology company Turck has acquired U Grok It, a six-year-old privately held Colorado company that makes smartphone-based ultrahigh-frequency (UHF) RFID technology. The ...

As a follow-up question to your answer concerning the impracticality of utilizing an RFID-enabled smartphone to locate a golf ball (see Could a Smartphone Track a Miniature RFID Tag Placed on a Golf ...