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…

Toys "R" Us intros new mobile solutions

November 21, 2011

Toys"R"Us shoppers have more ways to stock up on gifts this holiday season. In addition to updates made to store's iPhone and Android apps, Toys R Us has…

Torex launches mobile POS platform

November 20, 2011

Torex today launched kachng!, a cloud-based HTML5 point of sale which will work via browsers on tablet devices, smartphones and the traditional POS.

CVS debuts new mobile features

November 20, 2011

Customers using smartphones can now scan refills, check ExtraBucks Rewards and order prints from CVS/pharmacy Photo Centers.

Shopkick rewards Visa cardholders

November 20, 2011

Visa Inc. has announced that its mobile app, Shopkick, now allows mobile users to earn more redeemable "kicks" by linking their eligible Visa debit or credit…

Sicap: Mobile money services more successfull when bundling

October 30, 2011

Mobile money services have are more likely to succeed when bundled with offers. This according to sicap innovation, a provider of customized mobile software…

Ubox makes mobile kiosks a reality in China

September 5, 2011

Asian tech blog Penn Olson has a post on Ubox, a Chinese app that lets consumers make purchases at vending machines using their mobile phones. The apps are…

CETW announces first keynote

August 3, 2011

Customer Engagement Technology World has announced the first of its four "visionary keynote presentations" scheduled for this fall's CETW show in New York…