Virtual Piggy gives kids an m-payment app of their own

February 9, 2012

Mobile payments are about to get kid-friendly. Virtual Piggy, Inc. announced it has released a new mobile iOS application that will let parents and kids manage…

Timberland stores testing interactive shopping experience

February 8, 2012

Timberland has launched an interactive shopping experience to help shoppers discover the great outdoors with Timberland gear, technologies and brand…

NRF 2012: Reducing shrink for high-loss items with kiosks

ZoomSystems showed two automated retailing solutions at NRF 2012 designed to prevent the theft of small, high-dollar items like razor cartridges. The aisle…

Max-Wellness launches health care kiosks

February 6, 2012

Max-Wellness, a health-and-wellness retailer, will start deploying in March its Wellness-in-a-Box concept, a product-dispensing kiosk that allows customers to…

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.

iPad Enclosures, Socket Mobile create barcode scanning solutions for iPad

January 31, 2012

Socket Mobile, a provider of mobile productivity solutions, is partnering with iPad Enclosures to combine iPad Enclosures' tablet mounts and stands with the…

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…

Walmart, redbox renew partnership

January 31, 2012

Coinstar's redbox and Walmart have struck a deal to allow the retail giant to continue featuring redbox kiosks at more than 3,700 Walmart locations nationwide.

PNI upgrades photo kiosks

January 31, 2012

PNI Digital Media, a provider of online and in-store digital media solutions for retailers, announced an upgrade to its PNI Connected Kiosk software, allowing…

NRF 2012: StoreBOT, an automated retailing kiosk

KIOSK Information Systems used NRF 2012 to show StoreBOT, a kiosk designed for the instore sale and dispensing of high-shrinkage items.

ARTS unveils standard interface for improved self-ordering

January 30, 2012

The Association for Retail Technology Standards (ARTS) has unveiled the first standard data interface for online and mobile ordering. The Standard aims to make…

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…

Wincor Nixdorf demos self-service checkout

Wincor Nixdorf has improved its self-service checkout solution, giving it a more modern look with a smaller footprint.

Mobile retail startup Signature announces launch

January 26, 2012

Signature Labs, Inc. launched today, and the company said it is "making retail personal again by delivering VIP treatment to shoppers, both in and out of…

'Engage or Die' at CETW SF

January 26, 2012

Organizers of the Customer Engagement Technology World trade show recently announced that Brian Solis, author on new media and principal at Altimeter Group…

NRF 2012: The 360-degree scanner evolves

At retail's Big Show, Wincor Nixdorf showed the lastest generation of its flagship self-checkout unit.

Sainsbury's signs up for NCR's predictive services for POS and self-checkout

January 17, 2012

NCR Corp. recently announced that U.K.-based supermarket chain Sainsbury's has entered into a five-year managed service agreement which will see Sainsbury's…

Kiosks4business intros new retail Micro Kiosks

January 15, 2012

Kiosks4business designers have created a contemporary new range of Micro Kiosks under the name of Nixi. The wall- or desk-mountable Nixi kiosks are designed…

OpenMotion intros personalized gift card kiosk at NRF Big Show

January 15, 2012

At the National Retail Federation's 101st Annual Convention & EXPO in New York City, digital and mobile marketing solutions company OpenMotion has…

Self-service, online options driving customers to avoid salespeople

January 11, 2012

It's no big shock that many shoppers don't like to be continually asked if they need assistance from store associates, but an article in today's NY Times…