Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is working with its top 100 suppliers to deploy new radio frequency identification (RFID) tags for tracking crates and pallets in its supply chain beginning January 2005.
Sony Corp. of America and Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV have won regulatory approval from the European Commission to acquire InterTrust Technologies Corp., which holds numerous patents in the area of digital rights management (DRM).
Hewlett-Packard Co. has confirmed that it will shutter a computer manufacturing facility in New Jersey that it acquired as part of its merger with Compaq Computer Corp.