Shipcom Wireless Inc. Joins Texas Instruments RFID Systems Worldwide Team Tag-it(TM) Program
Monday January 12, 9:04 am ET

NEW YORK, Jan. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Texas Instruments Radio Frequency Identification (TI-RFid(TM)) Systems today announced that Shipcom Wireless Inc., a leading global provider of enterprise mobility, RFID, supply chain automation, and business process modeling solutions, has joined TI's Team Tag- it(TM) Program, a partnership of industry-leading companies dedicated to the development and adoption of radio frequency identification (RFID) smart label solutions.

Shipcom Wireless will develop its CATAMARAN RFID software to read TI's RFID tags and is incorporating TI-RFid technology into its RFID Solution Center. The Houston-based laboratory was established to assist companies with planning, installing and deploying mission-critical RFID-based solutions without compromising the performance of their existing enterprise applications.

Shipcom's CATAMARAN software is a Rapid Development Toolkit that integrates RFID reader set-up, coordination and RFID data aggregation, smoothing, forwarding, storage and monitoring. It also allows users to design screens, set-up back-end connectivity to enterprise applications, such as SAP, Oracle and Siebel, and configure business logic to make decisions. Other capabilities of CATAMARAN include its ability to notify users via configurable alerts and trigger transactions to enterprise applications as opposed to most RFID middleware products that are limited to monitoring only. Shipcom's recently announced RFID Fixed Time, Fixed Price Pilot program is designed to address the need for integrating EPC-compliant RFID technology, including Class 1 Generation 2, quickly and seamlessly to customers from the point of data capture through back-end ERP, supply chain and legacy systems.

"By joining TI's Team Tag-it program, we're leveraging the company's world-class RFID hardware technology and network of solutions providers who are seeking an indispensable software link to the different back-end enterprise systems within the Auto ID infrastructure," said Abeezar Tyebji, CEO and president of Shipcom Wireless Inc.

More than 50 RFID hardware and software suppliers, printer, reader and antenna manufacturers and systems integrators have joined TI's Team Tag-it program since it was established in March 2000. The program assists companies like Shipcom Wireless in implementing smart label solutions in their customers' businesses. Team Tag-it members participate in marketing, sales, and networking opportunities as well as provide a forum for sharing resources to further strengthen the market for RFID technology.

For more information on the Team Tag-it program, contact Texas Instruments RFid Systems at 1-888-937-6536 (North America) or +1 214-567-4364 (International), email rfidsupport@ti.com, or visit the TI-RFid Systems Web site at www.ti-rfid.com

About Texas Instruments RFid Systems
Texas Instruments Radio Frequency Identification (TI-RFid(TM)) Systems is an industry leader in radio frequency identification (RFID) technology and the world's largest integrated manufacturer of RFID tags, smart labels and reader systems. With more than 300 million tags manufactured, TI-RFid technology is used in a broad range of applications worldwide including access control, automotive, document tracking, livestock, product authentication, retail, sports timing, supply chain, ticketing and wireless payment. For more information, contact TI-RFid at 1-888-937-6536 (North America) or +1 214-567-4364 (International), or visit the company's Web site at www.ti-rfid.com .

Texas Instruments Incorporated (NYSE: TXN - News ) provides innovative DSP and analog technologies to meet our customers' real world signal processing requirements. In addition to Semiconductor, the company's businesses include Sensors & Controls, and Educational & Productivity Solutions. TI is headquartered in Dallas, Texas and has manufacturing, design or sales operations in more than 25 countries. Texas Instruments is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol TXN. More information is located on the World Wide Web at www.ti.com

About Shipcom Wireless
Shipcom Wireless Inc. is the leading global provider of enterprise mobility, RFID, supply chain automation, and business process modeling solutions. It's CATAMARAN framework easily allows you to capture enterprise RFID, bar code, or keyed data enabling back-end systems such as Siebel, SAP, Oracle, MFGPro, and MS Exchange with RFID, WAP, Windows CE and Palm OS based devices. Founded in 1997, the Houston based company is being used in Fortune 1000 companies such as Philips, Siemens, Shell, Johnson and Johnson, British America Tobacco and Medtronic's. For more information please visit our website at http://www.shipcomwireless.com or call them at 281-558-5252.