Five viral marketing mistakes to avoid

There's a lot of buzz surrounding viral marketing — but retailers need to make sure to avoid these common missteps.

Report: 'Major breakthrough' yields one-cent RFID tags

May 17, 2009

CrunchGear: Japanese business publication The Nikkei is reporting that NEC is planning to sell RFID tags priced at $100 for 10,000 tags. The company seems to…

IDT launches low-cost people counter

May 14, 2009

HOP BOTTOM, Penn. — Inter-Dimensional Technologies has announced the release of its newest Electronic People Counter, the EPC-IRD1. The EPC-IRD1 was…

Wincor Nixdorf becomes technology partner in the GS1 Knowledge Center

May 13, 2009

PADERBORN, Germany — Wincor Nixdorf, provider of IT services and solutions for the banking and retail sectors, announced it is now a technology partner of GS…

Kraft mobile site offers recipes, shopping lists

May 13, 2009

ClickZ: Kraft Foods has launched a mobile destination offering access to Kraft recipes "on the go." Last year, Kraft launched an iFood Assistant application…

Altierre releases high-contrast displays for shelf-level digital signage

May 11, 2009

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Altierre Corp., a provider of digital signage and wireless dynamic pricing solutions for retailers, announced it has achieved a significant…

EC sets privacy requirements for RFID tags

May 11, 2009

PC World: The European Commission Tuesday set a code of conduct for companies using RFID tags that it hopes will safeguard citizens' privacy and allow the…

Avery Dennison announces mobile merchandising tool

May 10, 2009

PASADENA — Avery Dennison Corp. and Scanbuy Inc. have joined forces to produce a new mobile-merchandising solution that uses camera phone technology to enhance…

Solving the player-to-screen puzzle

How to make the right networking and connectivity choices when planning retail digital signage.

Sensormatic lets retailers openly, safely display high-theft items

May 5, 2009

SINGAPORE — ADT announced today a comprehensive new line of Sensormatic safers with Electronic Article Surveillance (EAS) capabilities. Also known as…

Fujitsu POS aimed at retail SMBs

May 3, 2009

SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Fujitsu America today introduced its TeamPoS 3600 family of point-of-sale systems, designed to give retailers a scalable hardware system…

Panasonic broadens POS support

April 28, 2009

ROLLING MEADOWS, Ill. — Panasonic System Solutions Company announced it has broadened its support base for its leading hardware platforms to now include…

Raymark partners with Toshiba to strengthen presence in Asia

April 28, 2009

MONTREAL — Raymark, global provider of advanced retail software solutions, has announced its partnership with Toshiba TEC, whose retail hardware division…

Baesman launches Store Attribute Manager for retail store profiling

April 27, 2009

HILLIARD, Ohio — Baesman, provider of database marketing programs for the retail industry, has announced its new Web-based store profiling technology to…

Design brings multi-touch interface to large displays

April 27, 2009

EE Times: A San Francisco design house has demonstrated a technology for bringing a multi-touch interface to large screen displays. Moto Development Group…

GS1 DataBar set to improve the grocery checkout experience

by James Bickers — Editor, Networld Alliance

The new barcode standard packs more info into a smaller space, creating opportunities for retailers and saving time for shoppers.

Oracle introduces Oracle Retail Data Model

April 26, 2009

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. — To help retailers accelerate their design and implementation of an enterprise data warehouse, Oracle today introduced the Oracle…

New retail display system provides item-level intelligence

April 23, 2009

DIXON, Ill. — UPM Raflatac, Seeonic and Alliance have announced the deployment of a new generation of Alliance's MAXRPM, an inventory management system for…

Espresso Book Machine prints books on demand, while the customer waits

April 23, 2009

Times Online: Beginning next week a small revolution in bookselling will make searching for obscure, out-of-print and otherwise long-forgotten books a whole…

Tesco plans next-gen loyalty program

April 21, 2009

Marketing Week: Supermarket giant Tesco intends to create a next-generation loyalty scheme as a powerful weapon in its fight to prevent rivals eroding its…