Cellfire is a pretty neat way of accessing all the offers and coupons using a device that you carry with you all the time: your cell phone. It eliminates the need to clip paper coupons and bring it with you when you shop and you don't have to check email...

Wouldnt it be cool to have a shopping list that can be shared by everyone in the family and can be accessed anytime, anywhere ? I've been looking for an application that I could use to update items for my grocery list anytime and also be able to access...

The Association for Retail Technology Standards (ARTS) announced that it has launched the SOA Blueprint for Retail project, a program that will provide retail businesses with specific guidelines and best practices for implementing a service-oriented architecture...

Retail applications targeted at phones are far more accessible by a larger percentage of people anywhere and anytime. I found the following applications interesting from a retail perspective: MobSaver : By text messaging mobsaver, you can instantly...

The 2007 Microsoft Office system provides a comprehensive set of servers, clients, and tools to make it easier for enterprises, software vendors and developers to build and deploy a new class of business applications called Office Business Applications...

“Going green” is a hot issue in retail today and many retailers are getting in on the action. Increasingly, pro-active environmental management can reduce risk, create opportunities and raise the green profile of retail organisations. Due to the increasing...

A new service, Voice Pay , lets users pay using Voice Recognition. The service uses biometric voice analysis to authenticate users. I think its an interesting way to buy products from newspapers and magazines and then authorize the payment using voice...

Akamai has an interesting site that enables users to monitor the world's online retail habits 24 x 7, providing real-time insight into the trend of consumers increasing their share of spending on the Web: CLICK HERE

Figure 1 A Wiki, which in the Hawaiian language means “quick”, is a website that allows visitors to easily add, remove or edit content on the site, often without the need for registration. Content on the site is often ‘policed’ by a community of contributors...

Try out a business intelligence virtual lab to test out the technology stack that Microsoft has built to help decision makers improve business performance at strategic, tactical, and organizational levels. Microsoft® BI solutions provide employees with...

Re-visit all the news, podcasts, webcasts, demos and other events at the first-ever BI Conference in Seattle, Washington via this link . Some useful content for the Retail Industry: An all up BI scenario using multiple persona. This demo showcases several...

Interesting interview with the WEPOS team on Channel 9. This interview also covers writing applications for POS. Click Here

For manufacturers and retailers, the business benefits of RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) are compelling. Not only does adding RFID technology to many environments increase operational efficiency, but it provides total supply chain visibility, offers...

Articles covering Mobility in Retail: Beyond Wireless E-mail : Retailers are empowering roving workers with access to real-time business information and applications. Microsoft Mobility Solutions for Retail : Mobility solutions are a key enabler for store...

ShopText provides a new way to impulse buy: using text messages from your phone. Ive always been interested in technologies that extends the reach of products and information beyond interfacing via computers. This certainly seems like another such technology...

Microsoft Office 2007 is a great application development platform that enables users to continue using a familiar interface for interacting with business data and applications. Making use of the extensible UI, Workflow capabilities, connections to back...

Achieving Technology-Enabled Customer Centricity in the Store May 2, 2007 The Four Seasons, Dallas Irving, TX In a recent RSAG Research survey, retail respondents identified customer complaints about their in-store experience as their number one business...

District sales managers and store managers spend a great deal of time on the phone—store managers calling district sales managers to ask general questions and to find out about current events, and district sales managers calling the stores to follow up...

Interesting video on Tina Wood's blog about how Jeremy Mazner and David Shadle along with the Frog Design spend a day brainstorming how to improve the user experience of Radiant’s restaurant point of sale system. Click here for Video Click here for WPF...

I just downloaded and installed the Dundas Chart for Sharepoint which is currently in Beta. I love the look an feel of the Dundas Charts and they add a nice touch to the UI of my Sharepoint Portals (MOSS 2007). I especially liked the capability to render...

May 9-11, 2007 Seattle, WA Join us for the first-ever Microsoft Business Intelligence Conference 2007 which will showcase Microsoft's market-leading business intelligence (BI) products, solution expertise and customer successes. The Conference is designed...

At the NRF 07, I got a chance to look at the OTTO Store Application, a virtual store built using Microsoft Visual Studio® 2005 and the .NET Framework 3.0 components: Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Communication Foundation, and Windows CardSpace...

Event: Empower Your Employees Through Information: The Business Intelligence Story Date and Time: Thursday, April 5, 2007 2:00 pm Eastern Daylight Time (GMT -04:00, New York) Change time zone April 5, 2007 1:00 pm Central Daylight...

Online retail spending topped the $100 billion mark last year. According to comScore, the top ten retail web sites were: Amazon Dell Yahoo Wal-Mart TicketMaster JCPenny Apple BestBuy Victoria's Secret Circuit City above data from It is interesting to...

What: Webinar Focused on BI in Retail When: February 20 th - 11 a.m. PST, 2 a.m. EST Who: Rob Garf – AMR analyst David Gruehn – Industry Solutions Director, Former Retail CIO Debbie Hauss, Managing Editor, RIS News Do you know what it truly costs to sell...