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…

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.”

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…

An explosion of social connection tools like FaceBook, MySpace and Twitter in recent years has researchers studying their usability by and impact on various…