SMARTER SMARTPHONES: Devices to be released this month by Samsung and Sony will have the ability to learn things when you touch them to pre-programmed “tags.”

SOME EXAMPLES: You can program a tag with your phone number, and stick it on your business card. When someone taps the phone to the card, the phone would call you. Or you can put a tag on your night stand. Place the phone there, and it goes into “alarm clock” mode, holding your calls until the morning.