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NRF12: Day One launch news round-up

Highlights from a very busy opening day for "Retail's BIG Show," which saw a heavy emphasis on mobile POS.

January 15, 2012 by James Bickers — Editor, Networld Alliance

Today saw the opening of the EXPO Hall at NRF's 101st Annual Convention & Expo, "Retail's BIG SHOW." There was a lot of news coming out of the 150,000-square-foot space at the Jacob K. Javits Center in New York, and throughout the day we've been bringing you some highlights of new product and service launches being announced on the floor.

If today's headlines are any indication, "mobile POS" will be the buzz-phrase for retail tech in 2012, with companies large and small offering their tools for untethering store associates from the cash wrap and bringing them out into the aisles, card-swipes and mobile printers in hand.

Here are some of the selected announcements from the NRF show you might have missed today:

AisleBuyer announces mShop version 2.0

Aruba announces smartphone- and tablet-based POS

C. Wonder stores take POS mobile

Digby launches Localpoint location-based marketing platform

Experian FootFall unveils cloud-based traffic analytics tool

HP unveils latest tools for enhancing, unifying the store experience

JDA Software launches JDA Customer Engagement suite

KWI and VeriFone team up to deliver cloud-based mobile POS

Microsoft announces Dynamics AX 2012 for Retail

Saks Fifth Avenue pilots Cornell-Mayo's mobile POS

Starmount unveils open shopper engagement platform Starmount Connect