Telecom carriers continue to complain about taxes, regulation and over-the-top competition, but Mozilla's Firefox operating system provides a glimmer of hope to some executives speaking at the opening of Mobile World Congress. Mobile ...
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A partnership between Austria-based semiconductor company ams and US start-up Mobeam is designed to make it possible for barcodes to be scanned from a mobile phone screen. The companies claim they have technology which will enable laser ...
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Nearly half of all Argos sales during the 44 weeks to January 5th were made online - some 42 per cent. Customers can also use the Check & Reserve service across 16,000 Argos products. The news comes as the retailer prepares to launch ...
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MicroStrategy Incorporated, a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, announced that West-coast based specialty retailer Tilly's has launched a state-of-the-art mobile commerce app powered by MicroStrategy's Alert ...
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Branding Brand, a mobile commerce platform used by major retailers today announced the results of its Mobile Commerce Index for Black Friday, which showed substantial increases in consumers shopping on smartphones. This announcement follows ...
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The Association for Retail Technology Standards (ARTS) will once again bring the innovative and cutting-edge technologies retailers use every day to the forefront at Retail’s BIG Show. The ARTS Pavilion (booth 2253), a showcase of ...
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Celerant Technology Corp has again been ranked as a leading retail software vendor for 2012.In the RIS News LeaderBoard's Top 20 Overall Retail Software Companies,Celerant Technology,a mid-size vendor of retail management systems,was again ...
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Retailers have had another rocky year with more high street closures piling up, while online spend continued to enjoy double digit growth. As consumer spending remained stagnant, companies looked to their digital channels to bolster sales. ...
Software developers maintain a high level of interest in Apple's mobile devices, but they are finding the company itself is not getting any easier to deal with, according to a survey conducted by mobile tools provider Appcelerator. In the ...
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The European Union (EU) today agreed to allow the UK’s top operators to work together on mobile payment solutions. Vodafone, O2 and Everything Everywhere announced the plan to create a joint venture in March this year, hoping to ...
The Isis joint venture of three wireless carriers announced the launch today of its new mobile wallet system in Salt Lake City and Austin using nine NFC-ready and Isis-ready smartphones sold by the carriers. Consumers interested in using ...
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Retailers need to address the growing trend of mobile commerce to keep up with the needs of their consumers. This was the belief of Olivier Ropars, senior director of Europe mobile commerce at eBay, who told Computer Weekly that fewer ...
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc announced that @WalmartLabs operation is expanding in Bangalore with the hiring of 100 additional developers and a move into a new facility. @WalmartLabs, a unit of Walmart Global e-Commerce, is the company's hub for ...
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Demandware Inc announced its new Multichannel Commerce Solution, a comprehensive and prescriptive framework that enables high-growth retailers to extend the power of digital commerce to point-of-sale, kiosks, smart phones, tablets and other ...
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A panel of mobile wallet experts predicted a slow pathway to user adoption of technologies such as Near-Field Communication in the U.S. In fact, widespread adoption will take as long as eight years "at best," Dekkers Davidson, the head of ...
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