Ann Arbor, Mich.

Edwards Brothers, Inc. and Malloy Incorporated, two leading book manufacturers, announced that they would merge (effective Feb. 6, 2012), forming a new company called Edwards Brothers Malloy. The new company will have combined sales of $115 million and will be the sixth largest book manufacturing firm in the United States, offering publishers a global distributed print program and fulfillment services that combine to form a single print supply chain solution.

From March 30 through April 5, the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) awarded 89 one-time print jobs to 28 print supplier clients of Government Print Management.

Tracking devices were once solely the stuff of superheroes and foreboding sci-fi satire featuring a shadowy, technologically advanced Big Brother. Over the last two years though, RFID technologies have been utilized all over the globe, from China’s national ID card program to Germany’s World Cup tickets. In the United States, the State Department’s 2006 passports began including RFID chips. Also in 2006, the New York City subway system tested the RFID-enabled Mastercard PayPass at a portion of its turnstiles, and markets such as Philadelphia, Dallas, and Orlando, Fla., underwent PayPass trials, as well. It’s hard to deny that the future of RFID technology