Tech leaders at retailers are heading for a software refresh, and many are expecting to replace legacy in-store systems with unified ecommerce systems in a bid to keep up with changing shopping habits.
Bosch, a company best known as a maker appliances, including stoves, dishwashers, washing machines and coffee makers, is increasing its focus on the Internet of Things.
Though details of the massive data breach at Target are still emerging, it's already clear that, before the dust settles, the retailer will likely have to pay tens of millions of dollars in remediation and notification costs, fines, legal fees and settlements.
Retail store chain Target Thursday confirmed it was hit by a massive data breach in which potentially 40 million customer payment cards and related information was stolen by attackers.
The holidays are here and if you are still shopping for gifts for the tech pro in your life (or maybe you're making your own Christmas wish list), these products are as practical are they are cool.
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Tokyo's world-famous Akihabara district lost one of its signature stores on Saturday, and with it a piece of the area's rich electronics history faded away.
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The ISIS Mobile Wallet went live on Thursday, bringing NFC-powered shopping to consumers across the U.S. through a venture backed by three of the nation's top four carriers.
Specsavers is migrating its 2,500 staff across the world to <a href="http://www.cio.co.uk/article/3257491/twenty-companies-to-watch-in-2011/">Google Apps</a> in an effort to ramp up the pace of <a href="http://www.cio.co.uk/article/786/specsavers-goes-global-cio-michel-khan-explains-his-vision/">expansion into new markets</a>.
Harvey Norman has finally kicked off an information technology transformation program to replace all of its core business systems over the next five years, but has again made it clear there are no immediate plans to embrace online retailing.
Project Reload, expected to cost in excess of $50 million, was originally expected to start early last year but was shelved because of uncertainty created by the global financial crisis.
Philips has rolled out ECN Group’s Enterprise Reverse Logistics (ERL) solution to over 100 Noel Leeming and Bond & Bond retail outlets.
“Returns cost us hundreds of thousands of dollars each year, explains Philips Consumer Lifestyle operations manager Roger Rowley. “When ECN offered us the chance to implement ERL with its web-based goods return authorisation (GRA) business process management tool, we jumped at the chance.”
When thieves stole the PIN pads at a cash register in one of his company's stores, Daniel Marcotte was amazed. Not that they'd done it -- such thefts can happen once a week during the holiday season. But watching it on videotape later, "I couldn't tell they had it with them when they left" the store, says Marcotte, director of systems and data security at La Senza, a Montreal retailer now owned by The Limited.
A couple of hours later, the thieves were back. They'd doctored the PIN pads to let them get customer card data. They got them back onto the point-of-sale system quickly, too. But here's where La Senza's security precautions kicked in: Its PIN pads in effect have their own Media Access Control address, and once they're disconnected, that address is no longer available. So the thieves were foiled--this time.
Online shops may leave the retailing king Gerry Harvey cold, but the generation Y fashion label Sportsgirl has hit the mark with its web store launched last November.
Sales are rapidly approaching that of a mid-size Melbourne outlet, says Sportsgirl chief executive Elle Roseby.