RFID tracks shopping habits
News According to Lee, plans for "smart shelves" are in the pipeline. Chief information officer of Samsung Tesco, Lee Kang-Tee, speaking to ZDNet Asia during an RFID conference on Wednesday, said: "Typically, supermarkets place products on the shelves...
[July 5, 2006, 9:50]
Supermarket shopping gets smart tech
News Consumer goods companies, such as Gillette and Procter & Gamble, say they are interested in smart shelves as a tool to help increase sales by ensuring that store shelves are always stocked with their products.
[January 9, 2003, 12:19]
CE family welcomes Mira
News Although devices using Microsoft's Mira technology are still a few months from hitting shelves, the software giant said on Wednesday that it has settled on its name for the software that will power the Web-surfing tablets.
[June 27, 2002, 10:03]
'Secret' RFID test draws consumer ire
News Wal-Mart Stores and Procter & Gamble quietly tested a controversial new retail technology earlier this year that allowed P&G employees to observe shoppers via a Webcam as they removed cosmetics from shelves, representatives of both companies...
[November 17, 2003, 10:50]
PC industry ridiculed by academics and researchers
News Speakers compared modern PCs to Cuisinarts -- highly functional, expandable machines that typically gather dust on kitchen shelves, largely unused by novice cooks because they're heavy, hard to move and too complex.
[March 14, 2001, 12:27]
Intel's XScale chip gets Mira votes
News The first Mira devices are expected to hit the shelves toward the holiday season. Mira extends the PC experience to any room in the home and enables a new generation of smart display devices," said Keith White, senior director of the Embedded and...
[April 15, 2002, 9:32]
Nuggets: Oh Yeah, the second Rio is here...
News It should be on the shelves around August for £229, in a range of casings. Of course you can add memory with 16MB or 32MB, or 64MB Smart Media cards. It's round II for the Rio. An inspired and aggressive advertising campaign -- not to mention that...
[July 9, 1999, 15:50]
Comdex 2001: Device makers expand on wireless
News The camera, which will cost about $2,000 when it hits shelves in February, also comes with a Bluetooth module for cell phones, in case the phone lacks an internal chip. In part of a gradual rise from obscurity, Korean phone maker LG Infocomm showed...
[November 12, 2001, 16:32]
Apple may be readying mid-size 'iPad'
News Intel and Microsoft then turned the hype machine to the UMPC (later rebranded as mobile Internet device or MID), which aren't exactly flying off store shelves. It would be a smart thing for them to do: there are instantly tens of thousands of apps...
[April 30, 2009, 15:51]
Jobs: Apple ecstatic about financials and the iMac
News Jobs said 278,000 iMacs flew off the shelves during the computer's first six weeks on the market, beating analysts' predictions that the company would sell 100,000 to 150,000. It also features support for eight foreign languages, smart scrolling...
[October 15, 1998, 16:24]
A Year Ago: Apple ecstatic about financials and the iMac
News Jobs said 278,000 iMacs flew off the shelves during the computer's first six weeks on the market, beating analysts' predictions that the company would sell 100,000 to 150,000. It also features support for eight foreign languages, smart scrolling...
[October 15, 1999, 7:00]
