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Volume 3 - Issue 43
11/10/2009
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PCI Musings
By Brian Kilcourse, Managing Partner
At an event last week hosted by tekservePOS in Schaumberg, IL (near Chicago), Jeff Wakefield of VeriFone gave the assembled retail technologists an update on the state of PCI compliance. Wakefield is VP of Global Security Solutions at VeriFone, and he also represents his company on the PCI Security Standards Council Board of Advisors. As virtually every U.S. retailer that processes roughly $500,000 or more in payment card transactions a year knows, PCI is “the gift that keeps on giving,” as the standards continue to evolve.
Next up: a looming deadline– that retailers must comply with... Read more
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Loss Prevention 2010: An Early Look
By Steve Rowen, Managing Partner
A few months ago, we launched a survey asking retailers about the state of loss prevention within their organizations. At that time, we anticipated that the economic downturn would result in some reported increases both in the amount of shrink retailers cite taking place in their stores, as well as an increase in their priority to stop it. As unemployment remains high, we expected to hear of increasingly more desperate customers and employees.
However, in our first analysis of this not-yet-released data, we are seeing all of this and more, and some fairly surprising shifts from prior years’ findings... Read more
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Beyond Mobile: Augmented Reality for Retail
By Nikki Baird, Managing Partner
I think the time has come to talk about something that has been increasing in buzz in the general tech community, because of the potential to apply it to retail. So here's my definition of augmented reality: the real-time overlay of digital information over an image of the physical world. In a lot of ways, augmented reality provides the same kind of interaction that quick read codes do, but with a more seamless user interface.
Instead of using a camera to snap a picture of a barcode or QR code, you simply turn... Read more
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