About two hundred and forty pre-schoolers in Contra Costa County, California are being tracked with radio frequency identification (RFID) technology as part of a Head Start facility upgrade made possible by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA).

The month-old system requires students to be digitally signed in by parents, and then to put on a numbered, v-shaped jersey with the RFID tracking device sewn into the chest area on the right side.

The jersey is similar to what basketball athletes wear and is placed over the children’s everyday clothing…

A young man from Boston, Massachusetts is using the Internet to help raise awareness and funds in the fight against cancer for the Lance Armstrong Foundation (LAF).

The 2nd Annual “Artists 4 Life” charity event will be held on the popular social broadcasting website BlogTV on the following dates (2010 Artists 4 Life Official Schedule):

Friday – August 13 from 6 p.m. to 1:30 a.m.
Saturday – August 14 from 1 p.m. to 1 a.m.
Sunday – August 15 from 2 p.m. to 12 a.m.

The event will consist of about 55 online performers — musicians, singers, poets, painters and artists — showing off their talent and talking…

This is the story of 7th-grader Jessi Slaughter and what Florida law enforcement are investigating as a case of cyber-bulling.

While the actions taken against young Jessi cannot be condoned, some have speculated that the girl’s online use wasn’t being watched or monitored properly by her parents. In addition, Jessi may have been planning to use YouTube and other social sites to to create content that would take her “viral”, an online term used for material that becomes wildly popular almost overnight.

In a profanity-laced original video in which she spoke directly to the online haters…

In a strategic business move that will, among other things, force suppliers and competitors to follow or get out of the way, retail giant Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. will expand its use of radio frequency identification (RFID) tags by implementing it down to the product level.

As early as 2005, Wal-Mart has partnered with suppliers to track inventory through the use of electronic product codes (EPC) — powered by RFID technology — at the pallet and case level…

With over 3,000,000 devices sold since it’s launch three weeks ago, the Apple iPhone 4 has been judged the number one smart phone by a variety of publications — Wired, Engadget, PC World & Consumer Reports.

But a public relations disaster seemed to be brewing as media reports of antenna & reception failure spread over the internet like wildfire.

Critics and manufacturers of phones like the Nokia, the Android and the Windows mobile phone were most likely hoping that Apple’s fortunes would begin dropping like the reception bars on the iPhone 4 phone…

Former Vice-President Richard B. Cheney, 69, is said to be recovering after doctors at a Virginia hospital recently implanted a battery-operated heart pump device designed to compensate for his badly damaged organ.

“A few weeks ago, it became clear that I was entering a new phase of the disease when I began to experience increasing congestive heart failure,” Cheney said in a statement released on Wednesday.

“After a series of recent tests and discussions with my doctors, I decided to take advantage of one of the new technologies available…”

You probably use one every day.

A copier, a printer or some other multi-function digital device — used to transfer all sorts of data from tax forms, to bank statements, to legal documents.

The next time you hit the function button on the control panel, ask yourself this: are you or your company at risk for identity theft if the image is stored on an internal hard drive?

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is taking steps to alert consumers about such risks, and what you can do to protect yourself.

The Obama Administration has approved the nation’s first offshore wind farm in the Cape Cod, Massachusetts area.

Ken Salazar, Secretary of the United States Interior Department, has approved the Cape Cod wind project that will put 130 turbines in Nantucket sound. The project is estimated to cost $1 billion and will be funded.

“I find that the public benefits weigh in favor of approving the Cape Wind project at the Horseshoe Shoal location,” Salazar said in an announcement at the State House in Boston…

Brain teasers and puzzles have long been believed to help improve people’s concentration, attention and memory.

In fact, the production of books and computer games to build cognitive function is a multi-million dollar industry.

According to Sharp Brains, sales from such games may reach between $1 billion and $5 billion by 2015.

But are these brain workouts really effective?

On April 8th 2010, Apple announced some major updates that they will be making in their iPhone firmware — OS 4 (not 4.0).
Calling it the next generation of the most advance mobile operating system in the world, Apple CEO Steve Jobs said the iPhone currently has a 64% U.S. mobile browser useage market share.
“To date, we have sold over 50 million iPhones,” Jobs said. “If you’re a software developer, that is a plum market to go after.”

Marine Power Products Corporation (MPP) has developed a product that will turn water into fuel and only cost $1.50 per gallon.

With the current economy that sounds like a dream come true, and for environmentalists it is revolutionary for the green movement.

The water-to-fuel technology produces hydrogen to fuel on-demand and costs less than electrolysis and gasoline. Hydrogen is the perfect fuel due to it burns clean and produces water…

Calling it a lemon of a decision, FCC Commissioner Michael J. Copps pledged to change how broadband services are classified after a federal appeals court in the District of Columbia sided in favor of the nation’s second largest ISP, Comcast.

The legal decision — which said the FCC has no authority to regulate how internet service provider’s manage their networks — is viewed by some as a setback for so-called “net neutrality” principles, where American consumers have easy access to the Internet without discrimination…

When do technology, education and privacy issues clash?

The Lower Merion School District (LMSD) in Pennsylvania has been accused of using laptop computers sent home with students to spy on their activities.

In a class action lawsuit filed on February 11, 2010, lawyers for Blake J. Robbins, a student at the high school, allege school administrators violated students privacy and civil rights by secretly activating an unknown security feature on the Apple laptops…