WiFi thrives, RFID flies, viruses multiply, and VoIP (despite all its problems) survives.Those, in a nutshell, are among the top technology trends for 2005, identified by the seers at Deloitte
Amusement park Legoland in Billund, Denmark, has taken the concept of "lost and found" to a new level. If a child gets lost somewhere between Titania's Palace and Safari Park, a parent quickly can home in on the youngster's location using a cell phone and rented ID worn by the child.
Retail giant Wal-Mart Stores Inc. began testing the use of radio frequency identification (RFID) tagging at seven stores and a regional distribution centre in Texas on Friday, in anticipation of a wider rollout of the technology that the company hopes will eventually replace bar codes.