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Credit crunch prompts the great cash comeback

News Get the latest retail and leisure news straight to your inbox. In terms of value, cash is used for 34 per cent of retail purchases, up from 32 per cent a year ago.silicon.com Retail & Leisure The consortium puts the cost to retailers of processing...

Tags: cash, brc, credit card, leisure

[21 Apr 2008]

Card fraud up by a quarter to £535m

News Get the latest retail and leisure news straight to your inbox. Apacs said £535.2m was lost to card fraud overall last year, due mainly to stolen UK card details used in countries yet to upgrade to chip and PIN - a 77 per cent rise on the year...

Tags: chip and pin, fraud, apacs, card

[12 Mar 2008]

Mobile phone payments set to rocket by 2011

News Get the latest retail and leisure news straight to your inbox. According to a report from Juniper research, near field communications (NFC) applications built into mobiles will be used to pay for everyday goods and services - driving the global...

Tags: mobile payments, nfc, credit card, payment

[30 Oct 2007]

Online cash payments on the cards?

News Get the latest retail and leisure news straight to your inbox. A spokesman at HMV explains: "We could not understand why it did not fly and then we realised that they weren't able to buy online as they were too young.silicon.com Retail & Leisure

Tags: retail, online, cash, credit card

[22 Oct 2007]

TalkTalk Direct gets faster on its feet

Case Study Get the latest retail and leisure news straight to your inbox. Since installing the new servers, the company has seen an 88 per cent reduction in the time needed to generate information on customer billing.silicon.com Retail & Leisure

Tags: carbon, speed, energy, fujitsu siemens

[11 Oct 2007]

Chip and PIN security warning for retailers

News Get the latest retail and leisure news straight to your inbox. Criminals can exploit chip and PIN readers by using bugging equipment or software to capture data or by installing fake equipment by posing as engineers, according to Apacs.silicon.com...

Tags: security, fraud, retailers, apacs

[06 Sep 2007]

Domino's Pizza delivers SMS ordering

News Get the latest retail and leisure news straight to your inbox. She said: "It's about matching our offer to customers' lifestyles.silicon.com Retail & Leisure Customers can opt to register payment card details or they can pay cash at the door.

Tags: customer satisfaction, mobile commerce, sms, domino's

[17 Aug 2007]

Holiday company steps up data security

Case Study Get the latest retail and leisure news straight to your inbox. Attraction World sells holiday packages and travel tickets on behalf of numerous travel agents - as well as directly to the public - and its database is central to the business.silicon...

Tags: hackers, information, security, travel

[17 Aug 2007]

Co-op Group polls customers at the till

News It is built on an application integration tool from Smart Technology Solutions and runs on top of its IBM Storepay payment technology at the till.silicon.com Retail & Leisure Get the latest retail and leisure news straight to your inbox.

Tags: chip and pin, customer satisfaction, epos, co-op

[10 Aug 2007]

Tesco.com takes stock with Windows Vista

Case Study A major consideration was security, of both customer information - such as payment details and addresses - and source code for the website.silicon.com Retail & Leisure Get the latest retail and leisure news straight to your inbox.

Tags: security, migration, tesco.com, microsoft

[31 May 2007]

Retailers fear contactless payments

News And it is on the back of this success that card payment market leaders MasterCard and Visa are soon to launch similar propositions to encourage consumers to switch from using cash - for transactions of less than £10 - to contactless cards.silicon...

[24 Apr 2007]

Google wants your money

News Get the latest retail and leisure news straight to your inbox. Additionally, Google is offering free processing of transactions until the end of 2007.silicon.com Retail & Leisure The site, which has big name brands such as Halfords and Jessops as...

Tags: google

[13 Apr 2007]

Online fraud up but card fraud down

News Get the latest retail and leisure news straight to your inbox. But card-not-present fraud continued to increase - by 16 per cent to £212.6m - making up nearly 50 per cent of all card fraud losses.silicon.com Retail & Leisure

Tags: card fraud, id fraud, apacs, online fraud

[15 Mar 2007]

Leader: Why cash will be weighing us down for years

Leader Get the latest retail and leisure news straight to your inbox. silicon.com Retail & Leisure And sure, in the last decade alternatives to cash have made big leaps forward - with the broad adoption of credit and debit cards and other payment methods...

Tags: credit card, cyber criminals, cash, cash machine

[12 Mar 2007]

Death of cash? Not yet, say retailers...

News Get the latest retail and leisure news straight to your inbox. Cash represents a very substantial part of total revenue for retailers - the second biggest after debit cards - and the BRC spokesman said: "I can't see that changing a huge amount in...

Tags: visa, visa cards, credit cards, cash

[12 Mar 2007]

Chip and PIN takes off with BA

News The payment technology will be used for all in-flight purchases, including food, drinks and duty-free goods.silicon.com Retail & Leisure Get the latest retail and leisure news straight to your inbox. BA is the first UK airline to achieve 'end to...

Tags: british airways, chip and pin, ba

[05 Feb 2007]

Everton FC gets a kick out of IT

Everton FC gets a kick out of IT

Case Study Get the latest retail and leisure news straight to your inbox. Davies said: "It saves the hassle of having to train new staff, looking after hardware and so on.silicon.com Retail & Leisure Everton FC has upgraded its entire IT network and fully...

Tags: football, payment, outsourcing

[11 Jan 2007]

Online shoppers still paying with cash and cheques

News Of the web shoppers buying products and services online in the past three months, 24 per cent used offline payment methods, 64 per cent used only online payment methods, and the remainder used a mix, according to a survey by Forrester Research...

Tags: online shopping

[04 Jan 2007]

Re:Viewing 2006: The year in <strong>retail</strong> and <strong>leisure</strong>

Re:Viewing 2006: The year in retail and leisure

News The retail and leisure space was rife with new technologies in 2006 - not to mention a supermarket becoming Microsoft's new software rival. Allowing customers to stay connected while on the move became a big priority for retail and leisure...

Tags: 2006, chip and pin, rfid, tesco

[18 Dec 2006]

Ikea furnishes customers with online shopping

News Get the latest retail and leisure news straight to your inbox. The flat-pack behemoth expects to see only around five or six per cent of sales coming through the internet, according to a report in The Times.silicon.com Retail & Leisure

Tags: shopping, online, online shopping

[10 Oct 2006]

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