Walmart’s been pushing RFID for years now, using it to better manage the company’s vast inventories and understand where products are and how fast they’re approaching. Now, the mega-retailer is about to take things to another level, and it just might push competitors into getting with the program. As of now, there’s limited consumer-facing benefit to tracking pallets in transit, but a Wall Street Journal report suggests that Wally World will be placing radio-frequency ID tags on individual clothes

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Walmart to add RFID tags to individual items, freak out privacy advocates

Acer’s Android-powered Stream phone already got official way back in May — and we got our hands on it at Computex in June — but the company has only just now confirmed a launch date. According to Acer, the Stream will be rolling out on August 9th, and it’ll be exclusive to UK-based online retailer Expansys , at least initially. As for the phone itself, you can expect a 1GHz Snapdragon processor, a 3.7-inch AMOLED screen, Android 2.1 for an OS, a 5-megapixel camera with 720p video recording (no flash, though), an HDMI out port, and full DLNA / UPnP support for media streaming (hence the name)

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Acer’s Android-powered Stream confirmed for Expansys-exclusive August 9th launch

Check out that sweet, sweet box. Yes folks, we seem to have received our very first in-the-cardboard picture of the retail iPhone 4 out in the wild

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iPhone 4 arrives at Walmart

Listen Microsoft, we know you’ve been wanting to stay absolutely mum on Kinect ’s price since its official E3 unveiling, even as GameStop and Walmart say $149.99 . Included is the Kinect sensor itself, power supply cable, manual, and WiFi extension cable (huh?), and it shows up in our virtual shopping cart just fine.

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Kinect for Xbox 360 now listed for $150… at Microsoft’s own online store

That new prepaid business for the anti-power user crowd that Sprint was fixing to launch ? Yeah, it’s here and it’s official: meet Common Cents Mobile. Billed as a way to help folks “cut unnecessary costs,” Common Cents Mobile is about as simple as it gets, offering pay-as-you-go 7-cent minutes and 7-cent text messages, plus unlimited messaging for $20 a month and data for $1 per megabyte per day.

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Common Cents Mobile becomes Sprint’s latest prepaid brand, exclusive to Walmart

T-Mobile’s not officially selling its world-beating HD2 until Wednesday , but if you’ve a Walmart nearby and hankering to get HTC’s latest and greatest a few days early, it might be worth a trip out.

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T-Mobile’s HTC HD2 gets purchased and unboxed early (video)

So here it is, the now-famous ( that was fast ) Bloom “Box” Energy Servers — all five of ‘em — working their magic at eBay’s north campus.

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Bloom ‘Box’ Energy Server hands-on (literally) with video!

Today’s Nexus One may be the hottest keyboard-free Android smartphone on the market today, but it doesn’t exactly have the hottest network support. That looks like it’ll be changing soon thanks to Walmart of all places, which has put up a “Coming Soon!” page for the Nexus One, listing an impressive suite of wireless bands including 1xEvDO for 3G on Sprint and Verizon and UMTS/HSDPA 850/1900 for 3G on AT&T. Could this finally be the network-agnostic smartphone (or smartphones , as the case may be) that Google has wanted, or is it just a case of some optimistic web admin letting his fingers do the walking when writing up this teaser?

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Walmart greeters will soon welcome you to a Nexus One with Sprint, Verizon, and AT&T 3G?

Cutting the price of its mobile WiMAX subscription prices for the second time in half a year, Sprint’s confirmed a $10 drop in its monthly fee. The price cut, which brings the price to $59.99 for monthly CDMA / mobile WiMAX.

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Sprint hacks $10 off its monthly mobile WiMAX pricing

Despite the incredible realism of the drawing above to the left, we’re probably not looking at iPhone OS 4.0 right here. Instead we’ve got Apple doing what Apple does: applying for a patent for some pretty vague functionality that may or may not end up in a device someday

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Apple tries for ‘adding a contact to a home screen’ patent, but Android beat them to the punch