Clearwire, a Washington based wireless internet firm, has proposed a merger with Sprint’s Xohm WiMAX unit. The new Clearwire network is being referred to as a 4G network (4th generation) in that voice, data, and streaming multimedia will all be accessible over it anytime and anywhere. This is a dramatic change from current cellular networks or wireless coffee shop hubs, and could perhaps offer relief to the latency plagued Satellite Internet customers one day.

Comcast is investing heavily in this new enterprise with the intention of throwing its hat in the wireless ring to offer new services to its large user base. The merger is contested, but Comcast and Sprint both claim the deal will be done by the end of the year. This is important to Comcast as this timetable will give the company the ability to offer a 4G network almost two years before the proposed Verizon 4G rollout. Two years could create a large user gap that will be difficult to fill.

Comcast isn’t the only firm interested in Clearwire. Time Warner, Intel, and Google have all invested in this new 4G network creating a $14.55 billion company poised to change how wireless internet works. This new product offering is stated as being capable of 2MEG downloads from anywhere, making it very appealing if the price is right.

The investing companies intend to wholesale this new service under their own brand. For the cable companies this instantly extends their capability across all of their current markets. Comcast wants you as a customer when you are home or out and about, and this could make this possible incredibly fast.

The deal makes sense for the cable firms, but why is Intel involved? WiMAX wireless devices. Intel didn’t invest over $100 million dollars in Clearwire because it had a catchy name. The sooner this 4G network is available, the sooner Intel can offer a completely new chipset for upcoming hand held devices.

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However, RFID technology is also used at Wal-Mart and the tracking of your every move will continue even after you leave the mall through Wal-Mart’s in-store scanners. Upon entering the store, Wal-Mart knows you are there. A screen brings up your identity, transaction history, and profile. Soon, a store employee whom you have never met or seen before approaches you and welcomes you. He addresses you by your first name as though he has known you as a friend for years. He asks if he can help you today.

This store “greeter” has already seen through the (RFID) transactional database that you bought a Norah Jones CD the last time you were at Wal-Mart. He mentions that the store has just received her newest CD. He also knows, through a database analysis of millions of people with a buying history similar to yours, that a large percentage of people that listen to Norah Jones also enjoy music from Diana Krall and drink white wine. He suggests both items to you as good buys in the store today. He also offers to sign you up for the store credit card since he knows that you usually purchase items using cash.

As you move through Wal-Mart, every aisle that you visit continues to be monitored due to the communication between the in-store scanners and that hidden tag sewn into your jacket. Finally, you decide that you want to buy the Braun coffee maker that is on sale and that newly released Norah Jones CD. Since you have never had a drink of white table wine, you buy a bottle to try something new.

The store rings up the sale by scanning the RFID tags on the coffeemaker, wine, and CD. All of the data concerning these new purchases immediately becomes stored with all your prior purchases in the RFID transactional database. The database knows everything about these new purchases; the fact that you bought a Braun coffeemaker at Wal-Mart, how much you were willing to pay, and that you like to purchase products when they are on sale. It also captures the purchase of the new CD of Norah Jones as well as the bottle of white table wine. It knows that you paid for everything in cash.

After these purchases, you leave the store and the RFID readers in the mall resume tracking and recording your every retail browsing movement. In fact, the tracking of your retail experiences and purchases continues to go on in the same manner, day after day, week after week, store after store. Soon, the RFID transaction database can tell anyone who would like to know about all your buying preferences and shopping habits.

Your retail profile from that transaction database will capture what you like to eat, what brands of clothes,cologne, perfume, and shoes you prefer. It will know about the magazines and books you read, the stores you visit, and the length of your shopping time in each. It will also show how many items you bought that were on sale. In fact, an analysis of your buying habits compared with millions of other similar people in the database, could even be able to predict other things that you may like to buy.

Then, that retail information profile on you in the database can be used as a solicitation source. It could be used for target advertisements to your cell phone, landline telephone, email address, mailing address, or even after entering a store, through the personal solicitation from a store employee.

Of course many readers may by now be thinking that this is all too far fetched. Maybe someday in the distant future, but certainly not today. I will tell you that this future may be a lot closer than you think. This fact becomes clear when you look at the RFID patent requests of several large U.S. corporations that include IBM, NCR, American Express, and Proctor and Gamble. Based on their patent requests, it is clear that a future based on RFID tags may indeed become our reality very soon.

Consider the abstract of the RFID pending patent request ( 20020165758 ) from International Business Machines called, “Identification and tracking of persons using RFID-tagged items” as an example. The IBM abstract description reads: “A method and system for identifying and tracking persons using RFID-tagged items carried on the persons. Previous purchase records for each person who shops at a retail store are collected by POS terminals and stored in a transaction database. When a person carrying or wearing items having RFID tags enters the store or other designated area, a RFID tag scanner located therein scans the RFID tags on that person and reads the RFID tag information. The RFID tag information collected from the person is correlated with transaction records stored in the transaction database according to known correlation algorithms. Based on the results of the correlation, the exact identity of the person or certain characteristics about the person can be determined. This information is used to monitor the movement of the person through the store or other areas”.

RFID technology is not new and has been used in the United States for many years in various business and military operations. RFID technology has been especially invaluable when utilized as barcodes in inventory control and management. Today, by using RFID tags (also known as microchips), you can even store your health records as an implanted chip inside your own body. In addition, government has proposed a future use of RFID tags in drivers licenses, passports, and even border crossing identification cards. These future applications of RFID tags could well compromise our personal security and be an invasion of our privacy in many aspects of our lives.

Indeed, it is the potential use of this next generation of RFID technology that is a concern from a security and privacy perspective. In the retail world, the intention is to place these enhanced RFID tags in all items including clothing. As a result, in the future, even the tags in our clothes could become a source of an invasion of our personal privacy.

For the retail industry, RFID tags would be an advertising and solicitation dream come true. However, for the consumer, it would fast become a security and invasion of privacy nightmare.

James William Smith has worked in Senior management positions for some of the largest Financial Services firms in the United States for the last twenty five years. He has also provided business consulting support for insurance organizations and start up businesses. He has always been interested in writing and listening to different viewpoints on interesting topics.

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In many of the works by classical Italian jewelry designers, you see traces of Egyptian, Greek and Asian culture. How the combination of these cultures impacted the development of designs, is easy to see from the discoveries of jewelry made during the ancient Etruscan period in southern Italy. From the 9th to 4th centuries B.C., these early Italian jewelry designers, whose gold jewelry designs have never been equaled in beauty, perfected the techniques that are still in use in making Italian designer jewelry today. A prime example of the value jewelers place on their craft is seen in the life of one of the best known 19th century Italian jewelry designers, Pio Fortuna Castellani, who studied and revived the Etruscan “granulation” technique for crafting gold jewelry. Castellani, among others throughout the history of Italian jewelry design, have infused passion into this craft of beauty, that in many regions of the country is almost an obsession. This is the main factor which has set their production apart from the rest of the world.

Gold has always been the most highly used metal in Italian designer jewelry; respecting the fact that the human body, mind and spirit has a strong, innate connection to gold, more than any other metal. Prized for its affinity to the color to the sun, our powerful lifegiver on earth, the attraction of gold is magnetic and was revered in ancient times. The demand for gold Italian designer jewelry of today has not lessened, but the wonderful Italian sterling silver jewelry cannot be ignored either. Now there are Italian jewelry designers that have chosen to work exclusively in the highest quality sterling silver, creating beautiful ornaments for every part of the body. The demand for Italian designer jewelry is the result of high production standards along with the originality, quality and diversity. The history of craftsmanship of Italian designer jewelry has always been highly valued, whether it was for gold, sterling silver or gemstone pieces.

Italian designer jewelry today continues to make fashion history with designs in bold and delicate gold, oversized and trendy sterling silver with diamonds or semi-precious gemstones. When you are ready to adorn your body with something beautiful, take advantage of the rich history of Italian designer jewelry to satisfy your every desire.

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Patent Leather Plus Corset — this plus corset has a beautiful pink leather color to it, and comes equipped with hook and eye front openings, a lace up back, a sexy plus g string and boning. Also, the sizes range from 1x to 3x. There are also additional options in the style of corsets, and at other available colors such as black with red laces and black with pink laces.

Patent Leather Plus Bridal Corset — made by Allure Leather, this plus corset comes with a veil, g string, and detachable garters. Lace is run up the front and back of this bridal corset, and comes in sizes 1x up to 3x.

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Plus sized women need not despair. Both the fashion industry and a few designers have already recognized that plus sized women are an important and neglected segment as far as maternity wear is concerned. It is heartening to note that they empathize with this segment of women. Even online stores have entire sections devoted to maternity wear for plus size women. Neither is this effort on the part of fashion designers superfluous. The actual designs are not simply plus-sized versions of the regular ones and are not as ugly as they always were.

These days, the ugly stretch pants and tent dresses that we were used to seeing on pregnant women are a thing of the past. In fact, the variety offered in today’s maternity wear is especially wide. Elegant, lacy tops, summer dresses, fashionable pantsuits, fringed tops and dresses, and even stylish evening gowns are available. If you have a special occasion on the horizon, there is no longer any reason to panic about what outfit you will wear. The plus sized expectant woman is even the focus of many gorgeous wedding gowns. If the wedding is not yours but you happen to be a part of it, there are elegant dresses to suit your needs, as well.

It doesn’t stop there. We can’t forget the plus sized pregnant woman who likes to spend time at the beach or pool. There’s a wide selection of swimwear to choose from online, so browse and pick out the one that’s right for you. There are casual fashions for those who don’t wear anything fancy, but still want to look beautiful. There are plenty of plus size maternity stretchy casual tops that will look perfect with a pair of maternity pants.

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Her street style is very casual with an edge of skater punk. She is most usually seen sporting hooded sweatshirts, with a pair of denim faded jeans and slip-on Vans.

As the style of Ashlee Simpson, punk fashion has been fast growing in popularity over the years. Punk fashion refers to a style of dressing that comes within the confines of punk subculture. When punk music was established in the early nineteen seventies, it became inevitable that the fashion industry should follow. What we are doing now is trying to emulate the lost fashion of the punk past.

Vivienne Westwood is one designer who helped a lot in influencing the punk fashion from that time by using famous punk icons such as Ramones. Their fashion include vulgar clothing, tattered tees, controversial images, studded jackets and anarchy symbols.

Later on, there was the bondage style clothing which was all about corduroy straps attached to the pants and thick chain straps, and tapered jeans. The hairstyles also followed which was all about radically colored brightly dyed hair.

Ten years after, it became revolutionized, with the importance of shock factor and wearing combat boots. Plaid skirts, heavy chains and tattered jeans for clothes. Piercings, tattoos, Mohawks and liberty spikes was normal for most people walking down the street.

Today, in this modern day and age, not a lot of things have changed. The most popular sense of clothing is the Do it Yourself type of clothing which was just as popular today like when it started before. However, the genera population of punks would wear simple tees or hoodies. Most of the punks these days, will pay honor and respect to the original 1970?s look. Punk fashion is highly entertaining, indeed.

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