Wal-Mart plans to spend $3bn over the next few years on a new inventory tracking technology that uses radio frequency signals to keep tabs on merchandise, sources familiar with the project said. Wal-Mart has enlisted its top 100 merchandise...
Wal-Mart Stores, the world's largest retailer, has begun selling Microtel PCs that come with Sun Microsystems' version of the Linux operating system. We are seriously considering Wal-Mart to be the PC supplier for Sun Microsystems," Jonathan...
Uber-retailer Wal-Mart - which mandated its suppliers to start using RFID from the start of this year - has released the first results of how the tracking technology has affected its business. Wal-Mart hired researchers from the University of...
After receiving a call from silicon.com sister site CNET News.com about the investigation into the 200,000 cancelled credit cards, a Wal-Mart media representative refused to answer questions but called attention to a statement released by the...
The newly appointed CIO at retail giant Wal-Mart has been singing the praises of RFID. Rollin Ford, the US chain's executive VP and CIO, promised at a Wal-Mart sponsored CIO conference last week to pursue the rollout of the tracking technology as...
RFID pioneer and corporate monolith Wal-Mart is speeding on with its deployment of the track-and-trace technology. The new deployments will all use Gen2 tags, with all Wal-Mart's other RFID-enabled locations - which use first generation chips...