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• Wal-Mart eyes Microsoft for Web build-out

  Wal-Mart is the latest customer to purchase both Microsoft software and support certificates for Novell's Suse Linux Enterprise Server.

• Dell dumps its roots and goes retail in Asia

  Dell, the world's second-largest computer maker, has announced plans to sell computer systems at retail outlets in Asia-Pacific, however, no Australian chain has been named.

• RFID supply chain hobbled by closed loop mentality

  Despite companies such as Wal-Mart introducing cross-company supply chain RFID, most enterprises are keeping the track-and-trace tech within the family, according to one RFID vendor.

• Privacy activists call for rules on RFID

  A handful of technology and consumer privacy experts testifying at a California senate hearing on Monday called for regulation of a controversial technology that's designed to wirelessly monitor everything from clothing to currency.

• Microsoft 'Vista Capable' debacle points to Intel

  Internal Microsoft e-mails coming to light in a class action against the software company have shown a tangle of chaos -- involving Intel -- surrounding the controversial Vista Capable logo.

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Features and Case Studies (38)

• RFID: Proceed with caution

  Radio frequency identification has the potential to revolutionise supply chains of retailers the world over. However, for a 20-year-old technology, it still has significant teething problems.

• With RFID, corporate might makes right

  Retail powerhouses such as Wal-Mart gather in the United States to push development of controversial tagging technology.

• Dell CIO's daily challenges

  Randy Mott used to run Wal-Mart's technology division. Now, at Dell, his unit keeps 53,000 employees, eight manufacturing sites and more than 800 suppliers ticking.

• The jobless recovery and offshore outsourcing

  Charges that misguidedness, short-sightedness or even evil business leaders is behind the latest outsourcing trend is not true. And the solution to stop the practice is even less true.

• Companies' RFID plans fuzzy so far

  Some of the largest commercial outlets in the United States and abroad have established requirements for their suppliers to begin using radio frequency identification technology before the end of this year. Yet finding a company willing to admit where it stands with RFID is often an exercise in listening to dead air.

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• Lindows--low cost, but a changed tune

  Lindows.com, maker of a Linux-based operating system originally designed to run popular Windows programs, is offering PC makers a flat-rate licensing plan for its OS, in contrast to the per-unit fees charged by Microsoft and others.

• RFID tags: Big Brother in small packages

  Retailers may love the concept of tiny radio tags for tracking products, but consumers should beware the potential for exploitation by corporations, criminals and the government.

• Lindows bids to scuttle Microsoft court action

  Upstart operating system company Lindows is hoping to deal a final death blow to the suit brought against it by Microsoft.

• Microsoft music store to open next year

  The software giant confirms plans that it will launch its own music-download store, putting it on the path to direct competition with Apple's iTunes and a growing list of rival digital song stores.

• Wireless gaming: Back to future?

  Low memory, primitive functionality, the challenges associated with writing wireless games is like a throw back to the early game machines of the 1980s.

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