PayPal's showroom displays its vision for payments

by James Wester — Editor 1, Mobile Payments Today

The company's New York store offers retailers a glimpse of its offline strategy.

Shopkick drives more than $110 m for retail, brand partners in 2011

January 31, 2012

Shopkick, the location-based shopping app that rewards shoppers for walking into stores and interacting with products, recently announced that it helped drive…

NRF 2012 = 0ptimistic, iAnything, tablets and mobility

by Stephen Enfield — CEO, POS Supply

Optimistic, iAnything, Tablets and Mobility are the buzz words I would use to describe this year's NRF Annual Convention & EXPO in New York City. This was…

FIS, Paydiant team on white label mobile wallet

January 27, 2012

Financial technology provider FIS launched its new mobile wallet this week. The cloud-based solution not only gives consumers the ability to use their…

Expanding customer reach via vending kiosks

by Dean Sanders — Director, industry Sales, Zebra Technologies

Where can you find an iPad for sale in a clothing department store, or a portable DVD player for sale in an airport terminal? In product kiosks.

MasterCard makes ordering popcorn easier with m-payment app

MC joins with Commonwealth Bank and Hoyt Corporation to launch new line-busting app at Australian cinemas.

Honeywell launches mobile device management solution

January 20, 2012

Honeywell has created the automatic identification and data capture (AIDC) industry’s first integrated mobility and scanning device management solution, the…

C. Wonder stores take POS mobile

January 19, 2012

Customers are no longer at the mercy of traditional cash register lines in the new C. Wonder brand of women's retail stores introduced last fall. Instead…

NRF12: Using mobile technology to reach teen employees

Aeropostale implemented mobile apps to help manage and communicate with employees.

Kiosk enclosure for Android tablet hits market

January 12, 2012

ArmorActive Inc., a tablet kiosk hardware and software development company based in Utah,  has created kiosk enclosures for the Galaxy Tab 10.1 and Kindle Fire.

Intuit to offer GoPayment mobile POS, redesigned reader to Canadian merchants

January 9, 2012

Intuit is looking to expand its GoPayment mobile point-of-sale product north of the border. The company announced it plans to offer GoPayment to merchants in…

More than 1 billion apps downloaded during holiday week

Week after Christmas breaks record for device activations and app downloads.

Restaurants adding brand personality to mobile apps

by Alicia Kelso — Editor, QSRWeb.com

As more brands launch iPhone and Android applications, they should differentiate with interactive, fun features.

SF deploys NFC to parking meters

December 27, 2011

Parking is again proving itself to be a great test case for mobile payment technology with a new deployment of mobile-enabled meters in San Francisco. 

Hold onto your wallets: Mobile payments seeing slow adoption

December 26, 2011

Although several major retailers from Gap to Toys R Us are partnering with banks, payment processors and Google to allow shoppers to pay via smartphones, the…

Barneys NY using mobile POS

December 21, 2011

Barneys New York is going mobile this holiday season with MICROS-Retail's miStore mobile point-of-sale in its flagship Manhattan store.

Small surf shop plans to overtake competitors with technology

Florida's Friction is using Apple's FaceTime, social media and QR codes to compete with major retailers in the industry.

Parking on the Isle of Wight goes mobile

December 15, 2011

The Isle of Wight Council is making parking more convenient by enabling a new pay-by-mobile program, the Council said on its website. Beginning Jan. 9, 2012…

Church allowing donations via smartphone

December 14, 2011

Parishioners of Stevens Creek Church in Augusta, Ga., can now make donations this holiday season with their phones via a mobile app provided by SecureGive.

CETW: It's iPads to the rescue for POD info

Few things frustrate shoppers more than sales assistants who don't know their products or their inventories. Reality Interactive's Jetty Hartsky shows off her…