At the Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose back in April, Digi International announced its quarterly "Go Green" competition and judging of the first quarter's entrants just got started. The competition ends on March 31, 2010, so there's plenty of time to enter and win!

You might know Ramtron International for its ferroelectric random-access memory (F-RAM) devices that rely on ferromagnetic polarization in a thin film of crystalline material to store binary information. But the company has started to expand the reach of the F-RAM technology by including it in radio-frequency identification (RFID) devices, or tags. RFID tags are not new, but the characteristics of F-RAM combined with wireless communications will make them a top contender in applications that go beyond basic product identification and tracking.