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Inaugural Customer Experience Summit announced
April 6, 2008
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The inaugural Customer Experience Summit, co-hosted by RetailConnections and by Cathy Hotka & Associates, will take place August 17-19…
read nowAmazon launches text-message shopping
April 2, 2008
Business Week: On Tuesday, Amazon.com introduced Amazon TextBuyIt, a service that lets users purchase items via mobile text messages. The same day, Citibank…
read nowAmerican Express changes contactless payment strategy
March 31, 2008
The Wall Street Journal: Six years after it began testing a payment device that attaches to a key chain, American Express Co. is discontinuing its "Express…
read nowChockstone initiative turns credit cards into loyalty cards
March 30, 2008
Media Daily News: Starting this week, consumers will be able to turn their credit cards into loyalty program cards at retailers, eliminating the need for a…
read nowPay By Touch shuts down all biometric retail services
March 23, 2008
SAN FRANCISCO — Solidus Networks Inc., dba Pay By Touch, announced that it will no longer process biometric transactions on behalf of its merchant customers…
read nowFreedom Shopping unveils RFID checkout solution
March 12, 2008
HICKORY, N.C. — Freedom Shopping Inc. announced the availability of an OEM offering that plugs into existing cash registers and point-of-sale terminals to…
read nowClarity UC solution lets sales associates go mobile
February 11, 2008
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Clarity Consulting Inc. demonstrated a new Unified Communications (UC) retail solution today at Microsoft's Office System Developer…
read nowARTS releases SOA blueprint for retail
January 13, 2008
NEW YORK — The Association for Retail Technology Standards, the standards division of the National Retail Federation, announced the release of the SOA…
read nowWincor Nixdorf bringing retail IT platform to the U.S.
January 10, 2008
AUSTIN, Texas — Wincor Nixdorf, supplier of IT solutions for the retail and banking industries, announced the U.S. introduction of its TP.net software…
read nowIBM unveils new retail software architecture
January 9, 2008
ARMONK, N.Y. — IBM announced the IBM Retail Integration Framework, an enterprise software architecture designed to help retailers accelerate the…
read nowNCR introduces contactless, mobile payment suite for retail
January 3, 2008
DAYTON, Ohio -- NCR Corp., in partnership with ViVOtech, has introduced a suite of contactless payment terminals for the point of sale. These solutions enable…
read nowKroger, University of Cincinnati testing mobile payments
January 2, 2008
CINCINNATI — The University of Cincinnati announced the launch of a mobile payment program for UC Mobile student clients with merchants on the UC campus and in…
read nowTitanium system combines RFID, facial recognition
December 20, 2007
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Titanium Group Ltd., a biometric and security solutions provider, announced the launch of a new product tailor-made for the high growth…
read nowRetail Wi-Fi open to hacking
December 19, 2007
Security consultancy AirDefense recently published its "2007 Retail Shopping Wireless Security Survey," which found that most of the wireless devices in use…
read nowHome Depot launches project-oriented store
December 19, 2007
RICHMOND HILL, ON. — The Home Depot Canada is changing the way customers shop for home improvement projects with the opening of its first project-orientated…
read nowNRF: U.S. should follow Europe's lead on 'hidden' credit card fees
December 19, 2007
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Retail Federation welcomed a ruling by the European Commission that hidden fees currently charged by MasterCard to process…
read nowMore gift cards going unredeemed
December 17, 2007
A Consumer Reports survey conducted in October found that among people who received a gift card during the 2006 holiday season, 27 percent of them left one or…
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