I have been consciously finding ways of integrating my smartphone into my day. My typical day: 6:00am: Smartphone alarm plays my favorite tune to wake me up. 6:15am: I sync my calendar and corporate email and check to see what I have scheduled for...

From ContactlessNews.com : Austrian watchmaker LAKS , in conjunction with On Track Innovations, Chinatrust Commercial Bank and MasterCard PayPass, has introduced what is probably the first contactless payment watch. The launch, part of a promotion tied...

Microsoft Point of Sale Demo Microsoft Retail Management System Demo Features and benefits Microsoft Point of Sale Microsoft Retail Management System Efficiently manage and track inventory within a particular store...

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Event: 16th Annual Retail Technology Study Analysis: Committing to the Customer Date and Time: Thursday, June 22, 2006 2:00 pm, Eastern Daylight Time (GMT -04:00, New York) Change time zone Thursday, June 22, 2006 1:00 pm, Central...

Interesting definitions of Retail Data used for reporting on Retail Stores from Activemedia-Guide Same Store Sales Sales per Square foot Gross Margin return in inventory investment (GMROII) Same-Store Sales are sales dollars generated only...

I stumbled on this awesome technology for Retail in eWeek . NeoMedia is pushing its offering dubbed iPOS (Interactive Point of Sale), which company COO Martin Copus describes as delivering "the ability for any piece of POS/POP to link directly to the...

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It's a given that successful collaboration is essential to any well-functioning business enterprise, and that information technology has become one of its key enablers. Retail and hospitality enterprises increasingly recognize the importance of collaboration...

Around the globe, leading retailers are redefining the way they do business with their customers. Using innovative technologies, they are finding new ways to respond to market trends, new avenues for meeting consumer preferences, and new opportunities...

Retail technology is evolving from "point of sale" to "point of service." The key difference is that point of service—the new POS—greatly improves customer service with self-checkout counters, information stations, food ordering kiosks, and more. To...

From Computer World : For the second year in a row, Internet-only players Netflix and Amazon have outperformed brick-and-mortar multichannel merchants in the annual Top 40 Online Retail Satisfaction Index, according to a report released yesterday by Ann...

Recorded event: Smarter Retailers Focus on Profitability Initiatives Date of recording: April 18, 2006 2:00 pm Eastern Daylight Time (GMT -04:00, New York) Panelists Info: Moderator: >>Marc Millstein, Associate Publisher...

Project REAL is an effort to discover best practices for creating business intelligence (BI) applications that are based on Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2005. In Project REAL we are doing this by creating reference implementations based on actual customer scenarios...

Most collaboration solutions for Retail involve the use of mobile devices so that the Store Manager is able to interact with customers rather be bound behind his desk. However a lot of Retail organizations are concerned about the theft of these mobile...

I have worked with SourceCode for over 4 years and have been always impressed by their workflow solutions and the awesome team. I have had an opportunity to team up with them several times over the last few years. K2.net delivers powerful BPM capabilities...

Live Meeting gives you the power to work together with colleagues, customers, and suppliers, no matter where you are. For online meetings, training, and events, Live Meeting is the effective meeting solution that enables you to collaborate with either...

eWeek has an interesting article about the challenges that manufacturers have in using granular POS data that provides store-level insights about product movement and shopper behavior. Click here. "... It's clear that the sharing of more granular store...

One of the key operational challenges a retail organization faces is ensuring consistent execution across stores. Today, many retailers distribute key dates for events and promotions through a manual, labor intensive process. As a result, calendar administrators...

The Dashboard spy listed a pretty interesting Dashboard on Retail Store Operations . You can see a demo of the dashboard at CLICK HERE . Dashboard/Portal/Workbench information from Microsoft: Store Workbench Solution for the Retail Industry ...

Join Microsoft, industry experts, and your peers at the 34th Annual Hospitality Industry Technology Exposition and Conference (HITEC). See how the latest advancements in technology continue to enhance our industry, and the customer experience. With over...