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Radio Frequency Identifier (RFID) has been around since the 60s. If you work at a large office building you probably have an RFID key card with you all the time. If you commute through a toll booth you might have an RFID transponder on your dashboard that broadcasts a radio signal to the receiver at the toll booth.  And you know that piece of metal you have to cut out of your Gap clothing or peel off your DVD purchase? That’s an RFID transponder that sends a one-way signal to an in-store security system, saying “hey, I’m here and I’m active.”

The RFID system is made up of a receiver and a transponder....

Social networking and user-generated content are, without a doubt, hot topics in the mobile sector right now. The marriage of social networking and mobile phones seems logical: our mobile phones are always with us and keep us connected to our networks all day, every day. We currently use our mobile phones to create and share content to a limited degree, and as our devices become more and more sophisticated the kinds of user-generated content we create and the means by which we share them will only increase. In anticipation of this wave, Web-based social networking sites like MySpace are moving into mobile hoping...