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RSS online retailThe Customer Speaks: 3,300 Internet Users Tell What They Want from Retail Financial Services
White Paper Online financial services customers surf by brand, buy for price and stay for convenience, and they want to do it all from one site. Customer adoption of online financial services is mapped through a four-stage model that companies can use to... [03 Jul 2008]
The Holidays Online: Emails and e-Greetings Outpace e-Commerce
White Paper While most analysts and commentators anxiously charted the daily ups and downs of the online retail sector during this season, the bigger story about the Internet during the holidays was a social one. [03 Jul 2008]
Dot-gov Goes Retail
White Paper The federal government has become one of the biggest online retailers in America> While private-sector dot-coms are staggering under a market slowdown, online sales at the federal government’s Web sites are thriving. [03 Jul 2008]
Barclays gives online users free security software
News The bank has signed up for two years with the antivirus company, giving the deal a retail value of more than £200m. Barclays Bank is to offer its two million online customers free security software. Barclays already offers its online banking... [01 Jul 2008]
Sainsbury's to pay out £300k for online outage
News Between 20,000 to 30,000 customers were affected by the outage and the supermarket agreed to hand out £10 e-vouchers in compensation.silicon.com Retail & Leisure Get the latest retail and leisure news straight to your inbox. [20 Jun 2008]
Euro 2008 blues dents online booze and TV sales
News The IMRG Capgemini e-Retail Sales Index shows that UK shoppers spent £4.5bn in May, the equivalent of £73 per person in the country. In a statement, Capgemini VP UK consumer products and retail team said: "The premiere of Sex and the City provided... [20 Jun 2008]
Corporations riddled with security holes
News Finance, government, legal, retail and utilities sectors have all seen an increase in the number of overall vulnerabilities according to NTA, with government being the only sector to suffer from all of the top 10 high risk flaws. [19 Jun 2008]
Glitch takes Sainsbury's shopping offline
News The site takes about 90,000 orders per week and the number of customers affected is said to be in the "low thousands".silicon.com Retail & Leisure Get the latest retail and leisure news straight to your inbox. [18 Jun 2008]
BSM Approach Delivers Cost Savings and Higher Efficiency at Coldwater Creek
White Paper Coldwater Creek operates nearly 250 retail stores, as well as online and catalog retail operations. The company wanted to architect the delivery of IT service to the point where it is highly automated and unobtrusive, and facilitates work processes... [18 Jun 2008]
Microsoft takes embedded OS in new direction
News Adopting Windows Embedded NavReady 2009 today will allow device makers and solution providers to focus on innovation while bringing smart, connected, service-oriented portable navigation devices to market in time for the 2008 holiday retail season... [17 Jun 2008]
Latest Asus Eees announced
News The Eee 901 will come with a recommended retail price of £319 - £10 less than the Eee 900 cost at launch. Both models come with 20GB of free, encrypted online storage. The latest versions of the Eee PC will become available in the UK on 1 July... [16 Jun 2008]
IBM Case Study: Mitsukoshi
White Paper Founded in 1673, Mitsukoshi is the oldest and one of the most prestigious retail stores in Japan. To raise Internet sales and meet the requests of many older customers or those with visual impairments, Mitsukoshi needed to deploy a more accessible... [11 Jun 2008]
When is a supplier gift/junket inappropriate?
News Venn Luscombe-Mahoney, head of IT at online retailer White Stuff, said free gifts and junkets are still especially prevalent in the retail arena. Free junkets, gifts, trips to big sporting events and free gifts are all still tools of the trade used... [06 Jun 2008]
Photos: Welcome to futuristic shopping
Photo silicon.com visited Fujitsu's Customer Experience Centre in Middlesex to see the Japanese company's vision for the future of retail. Fujitsu retail technology serves around 80 retailers and 16,000 stores across Europe, the Middle East and Africa... [04 Jun 2008]
Next-Generation Mobility Tool for Retail: CA50 VoIP-Enabled Bar Code Scanner for Simple Voice and Data Tasks
White Paper With an ever-rising number of players - from online to super-centers, Do-It-yourself (DIy) stores, catalogs, discount chains and specialty stores - competition in retail is intense. Brick and mortar retailers struggle to find ways to create a... [31 May 2008]
