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Wal-Mart's plan to use smart RFID tags sparks privacy concerns
3:45PM 7/26/2010
Wal-Mart is trying to keep better track of its inventory by adding smart tags, or RFID (radio frequency identification) tags, to individual items in its stores. But privacy experts and consumers are worried that store merchandise won't be the only thing it tracks.
Starting next month the tags,...
Goodbye PDA, Hello PGA: When your genome tells you what to buy
3:30PM 1/25/2010
Nearly 20 years ago the Apple Newton became the first device to be called a PDA, 14 years ago Nokia provided a newly mobile world with the 9000 Communicator, which was the first phone with PDA functions. Since then we have quickly become a nation that relies on our phones to help us remember...
Not content with revolutionizing how you search for information online, Google is planning to change how you interact with local shops and restaurants. As part of the company's bid to become more relevant in local search and provide searchers with more means of finding what they want, when they...
Any discounts on that Zhu Zhu pet? Scan the barcode with your cellphone
11:20AM 12/03/2009
Company News, Technology, Microsoft, Pepsico, Polo Ralph Lauren, Sony, Wal-Mart Stores, Ericsson
By this time next year, holiday shoppers could be pointing their cellphones at products on store shelves and seeing all kinds of information on their handsets. Retailers and manufacturers are setting standards that could ease the way for the next generation of barcodes, which can send out reams of...
The tech news sites have been aflutter with details for the T-Mobile G1, the first phone to run Google's mobile operating system -- dubbed "Android". The phone packs loads of features and looks like it will give the iPhone a run for its money, especially if all applications are as useful as...
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