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Catalina Marketing (nyse: POS - news - people ) is the company that dominates the market for customized coupons in checkout lines at supermarkets.
That slump in business, following the end of its pos-Christmas sales, caused a drain in cash that meant the retailer could no longer pay its bills on time.
But it is smart in a another way: I can tap it on a POS terminal- no need to always swipe it.
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Looking at Point-of-Sale (POS) data gives a rear-view mirror view of what consumers want and have bought.
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.
Hill said the ability to drill down into real-time point-of-sale (POS) data to make informed decisions and receive early warnings about stock-outs, promotion effectiveness, sales velocity, and external demand drivers means retailers can quickly adapt plans to enhance performance.
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The promotion will be brought to life at retail with in-store POS, social media integration, grass roots activation, radio, and interactive TV on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.
If a retailer is big enough and powerful enough, it can often dictate that new technology be used along the supply chain to work seamlessly with its own cutting-edge POS system.
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Point-of-Sale (POS) mobile payments where a smart phone becomes the authentication device to complete a transaction at checkout.
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Windows Embedded 8 Industry, which targets retail point-of-service (POS) solutions and other scenarios across manufacturing and healthcare that require fixed experiences with enhanced lockdown, branding and the other benefits of Windows Embedded 8, will be available the week of April 1.
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The study, which looked at 385 metropolitan statistical areas, said nearly two in five metropolitan areas had one insurance company with a combined market share of 50 percent or more among health maintenance organization (HMO), point-of-service (POS) and preferred provider organization (PPO) plans.
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That first computerized register, known as a point-of-sale, or POS, system, wasn't hooked into the Internet.
As Jacobson points out, the mobile commerce ecosystem includes payment processing network companies such as Mastercard (MA), Visa (V) and American Express (AXP) as well as point-of sale (POS) equipment companies like VeriFone (PAY) and NCR Corp. (NCR), which should help alleviate privacy and security concerns.
Mobeam's patented technology solves the key problem that has limited the progress of mobile commerce - the vast majority of existing POS systems are unable to communicate with smartphones.
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The program could be used by anyone who knew the password, and he had picked an especially weak one: "pos, " a common nickname for the cash-register software that was also the system's user name.
Weaving in their experiences with Team Rubicon, POS REP is also a universal mobile platform for non-profit, government and private sector organizations that support veteran reintegration.
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With WiFi, Nordstrom laid a foundation for these new mobile POS devices, which Nordstrom finished initially rolling out in mid-2011 and are primarily being used in B.
Researchers at the Black Hat conference showed just what mischief a commonly used UK PoS terminal could get up to when they inserted a chip-and-pin card crafted with malicious code.
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Breadcrumb POS, which is the official name of yesterday's leaked point-of-sale iPad app, is now officially available, bringing a simple interface and a handful of financial incentives.
Nordstrom has deployed over 6, 000 of these devices throughout their 117 full-line stores, and at some Nordstrom locations, there are more mobile POS devices than regular registers.
Inside its own retail stores Apple has changed the POS experience from visiting a cash register to simply having your credit card swiped on an i-device and the receipt emailed to you via your Apple ID.
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