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Volume 4 - Issue 24
6/29/2010
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Mobile Roundtable - 6 Retail CIOs and 5 Questions about M-Commerce: Part I
By Nikki Baird, Managing Partner
Two weeks ago, I sat at a round table with six CIO's from a vast array of retail verticals at RIS News' Executive Summit event. The conversation was so engaging that I had to write it up. And since the guys all made me give their feedback to the rest of the room, even though I was the only non-retailer participant at my table, I think it's only fair that I get a chance to share it at large.
Since the conversation was pretty candid... Read more
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Oracle CrossTalk 2010: A Legacy Unbroken
By Paula Rosenblum, Managing Partner
Oracle Retail (and its precursors, Retek and ProfitLogic) set the standard for Retail Executive Conferences in the early 2000’s. The legacy continued unbroken last week with CrossTalk 2010. The tenor is the same (business-oriented discussions of technology value), but the specifics have changed dramatically.
We’ve grown accustomed to hearing testimonials from... Read more
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One Quasi-Happy User Reviews the iPhone 4
By Steve Rowen, Managing Partner
I imagine there are a host of reasons that would cause an individual to wait in very, very long lines last week to get his or her hands on a brand new iPhone 4. Exclusivity comes to mind, as does general “fandom” for the Apple brand. I can only tell you that none of this applied to me – I waited for two hours on June 25 because I broke my previous iPhone earlier in the week, I clearly “needed” a smartphone to continue to exist (half jokingly), and I was not about to replace it with a copy of itself – certainly not now that it was an inferior model.
But was it worth the wait – literally? So far... Read more
RPW will be absent next week in celebration of Independence Day. Happy 4th of July to all of our US readers!
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