retail
RSS retail Tesco.com vans cut fuel bills with telematics tech
News The online arm of the UK's leading supermarket chain has a fleet of 2,000 vans operated by 6,000 drivers making more than 70,000 deliveries per day.silicon.com Retail & Leisure Get the latest retail and leisure news straight to your inbox. [25 Jul 2008]
Take stock for tough times
Comment Retail sales figures out today show the sharpest monthly decline for decades. Ged Keogh-Peters is head of the UK strategy team at specialist retail consultancy Kurt Salmon Associates History suggests those retailers that continue to focus on... [24 Jul 2008]
Contactless payments speeds up coffee drinkers
News The main advantage of contactless payments has been speeding up service by significantly decreasing the time taken per transaction, especially during peak retail hours. Earlier this year, Barclaycard Business announced more then 4,000 retail... [23 Jul 2008]
Flight booking checks into mobiles
News The company, owned and operated by Online Retail Travel Group (ORTG), offers consumers the ability to search, book and pay for flights through their mobile phone. The service is not entirely comprehensive though and not all airlines have signed up... [23 Jul 2008]
PCI Compliance
White Paper The new reality for European retail companies [23 Jul 2008]
Domino's online sales pass 20 per cent
News This outstripped the general growth trend for the company.silicon.com Retail & Leisure Get the latest retail and leisure news straight to your inbox. Fast food takeaway chain Domino's Pizza UK has broken the 20 per cent mark in online sales for the... [21 Jul 2008]
Photos: Waging war on the web's bad guys
Photo Businesses in retail and other sectors however tend to have more holes in their systems. Symantec's security operations centre analyses more than one billion logs per day, as part of a global network monitoring attacks on computer networks for 650... [21 Jul 2008]
Online retail takes 20p of the shopper's pound
News According to the IMRG Capgemini E-Retail Sales Index, UK shoppers spent more than £26.5bn online in the first six months of 2008, up 38 per cent from the same period last year. Based on the current growth trends online-shopper spend will peak at up... [18 Jul 2008]
End-to-End QoS Control Architectures From a Wholesale and Retail Perspective: Benefits and Challenges
White Paper Providing an equal or better grade of service compared to legacy networks is essential for an NGN operator as insufficient service quality severely reduces the value of the network. Also, cost-effectiveness and rapid service deployment are two... [18 Jul 2008]
Major Food Retail Chain Choose Allied Telesis for Network Expansion in Italy
White Paper Aligrup S.p.A.creates and promotes high-quality distribution systems predominantly geared towards meeting the demand for food products and services. As Aligrup S.p.A.expanded, they needed a network that was flexible and configured to handle the... [18 Jul 2008]
KnowledgeWorker Puts the Sparkle Back Into Beaverbrooks
White Paper Their retail sales teams prefer to spend time with customers, rather than paperwork and it seemed that much of their time was being taken up with phone calls and admin tasks. Beaverbrooks the jewellers is a family business that was established... [18 Jul 2008]
Riverbed Steelhead Appliances Deployed by a Global Retailer to Improve Employee Productivity, Centralize Applications, and Ease WAN-Based Backup
White Paper The company has a diverse portfolio of quality brands that are available domestically and internationally via wholesale and retail channels. Liz Claiborne Inc.designs and markets an extensive range of branded women's and men's apparel, accessories... [18 Jul 2008]
Finding an Effective Sustainable Model for a Wireless Metropolitan-Area Network: Analyzing the Case of Pittsburgh
White Paper This paper investigates the extent to which these goals can be met with four basic models: one citywide monopoly WiMAN provider, facilities-based competition from multiple citywide WiMAN providers, one citywide WiMAN offering wholesale services to... [18 Jul 2008]
Using PacketCable QoS to Deliver Carrier-Class Telephony Services
White Paper According to IDC, worldwide retail IP telephony services revenue is growing from $.4 billion in 2000 to $19.5 billion in 2005. Cable operators face tremendous opportunities to deliver residential and business-class telephony services, but this... [17 Jul 2008]
SMS roaming cuts 'could stifle competition'
News The Commission's proposals to single out yet another aspect of the mobile industry and apply retail price regulation, threatens to choke growth and stifle competition. Mobile operator industry body, the GSMA, has poured cold water on plans by... [16 Jul 2008]
