NFC (Near Field Communication) technology provides simplicity and ease of use. End users or employees just hold NFC-enabled devices together to access services, interact with content, set up connections, make a payment or present a ticket. Many corporations...

Forty new application templates are scheduled to be made available soon for WSS 3.0. Among these templates, one of them is specifically for the Retail Industry, and several others fit into typical business processes in the Retail Industry. The template...

Wal-Mart unveils its new plan for a flexible workforce; the new plan will schedule workers to follow a work schedule that is determined by customer shopping habits. The goal is to handle heavy shopping hours with more store help, while scaling down during...

I attended the Retail's BIG Show 2007 today at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in NY. The session started off with a keynote by Steve Ballmer. The Seattle Times covered the keynote today ( link ). The show was impressive and well attended as usual...

Windows Vista SideShow technology enables laptop manufacturers to include a secondary or auxiliary display in future laptop designs. This display can be used to easily view the critical information you need, whether the laptop is on, off, or in sleep...

The Jeep Waterfall is a 25-foot-high sheet of falling water that can display arbitrary bitmaps in falling water, using a mechanism "similar to an inkjet printer" (from )

Integrated into the shopping cart handle, Concierge is an interactive touch-screen computer that uses a wireless in-store network to improves customers' shopping experience. The solution claims to boost store loyalty, facilitate up-sell and gather invaluable...