Newport Digital Technologies signs licensing agreement with Microsoft

Newport Digital Technologies has signed a licensing agreement with Microsoft to develop applications for its Windows Mobile platform.

Newport Digital Technologies, in conjunction with Taiwan based R&D technology incubators, the Institute for Information Industry (III) and the Industrial Technology Research Institute is commercializing a number of edge radio frequency identification (RFID) technologies.

Newport Digital Technologies (NPDT) will offer a comprehensive line of mobile computing products and solutions targeting RFID field applications for asset tracking, inventory management and point-of-sale for various B2B markets.

NPDT's RFID product suite includes: Electronic Product Code Global certification laboratories, ruggedized, military/commercial-grade RFID enabled, mobile handheld tablet computers, RFID forklifts and RFID tags. NDT will utilize the Microsoft Windows Mobile operating system.

Daren Mancini, general manager in the Windows Mobile sales division at Microsoft, said: "Newport Digital Technologies has developed truly innovative RFID technologies and we are thrilled to work with them to bring these technologies and applications to the Windows Mobile platform."

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