Other offline retailers are following suit, implementing mobile point of sale devices to improve customer service.
The Toughbook C2 is built to be the ideal mobile point-of-care solution for nurses, doctors and other healthcare professionals.
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Fitted with a card reader, tablets can serve as mobile point-of-sale terminals.
Is it a coincidence that the average number of items sold and the average selling price both increased after implementing mobile point-of-sale devices?
You can download one of their free whitepapers on different retail and cross channel topics, including one on mobile point of sale (POS) solutions.
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At the flagship Nordstrom store in downtown Seattle, most sales associates in these departments can be found armed with a mobile point-of-sale device and using them to checkout customers paying with plastic.
CrossView, a company that provides mobile point of sales solutions, explained that online retail may get considerable media attention these days, but the vast majority of retail transactions still occur in physical stores.
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Now, Nordstrom, the Seattle-based fashion and beauty retailer offering apparel, shoes, makeup and other beauty products, is rolling out mobile point-of-sale (POS) devices throughout their full-line stores, as well as in some of their Nordstrom Rack stores.
With a mobile point of sale system, the tax rates can be automatically determined using GPS. But more than that, the location of every transaction can also be captured and used in business analytics, allowing merchants to better target the locations where they will sell their goods or services.
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One in three global purchases on eBay involve a mobile touch point, and the growing popularity of mobile devices as Internet access points could see the ratio go up in the coming years.
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The third-generation Gobi modem chipsets also have an integrated application processor and hardware accelerators with a feature rich, Linux-based application development environment and optional mobile access point software stack.
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When paired with the Qualcomm Atheros AR6003 or AR6004 chipsets, the mobile access point software stack enables customers to design high performance, low power portable and fixed 802.11n routers.
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But mobile phone firms point to studies suggesting that masts near schools are well within international standards on electromagnetic emissions.
For a bank, those channels could include automated teller machines (ATMs), bank teller terminals, Web pages, mobile apps, point-of-sale machines in retail, human-staffed call centers, and automated call systems.
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And advocates of mobile phones, including Iqbal Quadir, who has sparred with Mr Negroponte on the subject, point out that mobile phones provide immediate economic benefits, which enables them to spread in a self-sustaining, bottom-up way, without the need for massive government funding.
One of the biggest shifts recently in POS technology is to make the "point" mobile.
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Beyond dispelling the fallacy of mobile limitations, the point of the project is to walk the walk, not just talk the talk.
This flexibility demonstrates that, while the phone is the most mobile, convenient control point, the PC still has a role to play in this area.
Epocrates which provides clinical information to doctors on a mobile device at the point of care, has one of the most formidable networks of doctors.
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The fact that Buzz looks fairly well integrated in mobile devices is another point in its favor for social gaming, which has spread to smart phones.
Findery is at a similar inflection point in mobile.
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At which point the mobile revolution will go the way of all successful revolutions, replaced by a ubiquity that makes mobile and, more importantly, touch, less a distinguishing characteristic and more the basic table stakes for innovation and new functionality.
Smith said that for many people in emerging markets, mobile phones are the primary point of web access.
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After all, what's the point of a mobile device if people don't feel safe using it while they're mobile?
"Mobeam's vision is simple -- to make mobile commerce work with existing point of sale technology, " said Chris Sellers, CEO of mobeam.
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The mobile platform is an important point of focus for Yahoo!
Visa said Friday it created a program that will allow mobile-phone manufacturers, point-of-sale terminal makers and other companies to more quickly certify their products under the card company's security standards.
There are mobile ads, more mobile users and early signs point to those phone owners spending more time on the app and engaging more with ads than people who visit the desktop version of the site.
Mobile keeps getting faster and faster: to the point that I suspect that in a very few years then mobile will be the method of choice to connect.
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With mobile payments clearly hitting a tipping point and the need for restaurants to respond, that near-term pain point will probably be addressed by several companies.
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