All Technology articles – Page 273
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OpinionRetail Surgery: How can I avoid a NatWest-style IT disaster?
We plan to upgrade our IT systems shortly, but how can I protect my company against a NatWest-style disaster?
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Opinion
Blog: A place to read about the cutting edge
The Retail Week eFashion blog - a place where people from the fashion retail ecosystem can break the news about the newest, coolest, most interesting things that they’re doing online.
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AnalysisInfographic: iPhone 5 to double time spent shopping
New research, conducted by Conlumino for eBay, has shown that rather than speeding up the shopping process, new technologies will result in UK consumers spending nearly twice as long browsing, researching and comparing prices of items.
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NewsTopshop teams up with Facebook to offer catwalk "customisation"
Topshop has partnered up with Facebook, enabling customers to capture key looks from live streams of London Fashion Week to customise and share them with friends.
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AnalysisAnalysis: Keeping up with the evolution of ecommerce
Ahead of next month’s Retail Week Ecommerce Summit, we speak to some of the event’s key speakers for an early insight into where their online focus lies.
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OpinionBlog: Etailers must emulate Vogue to keep site visits up
Etail giant Asos launched a weekly magazine via its iPhone app last week as it seeks to further advance its fashion credentials.
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OpinionComment: Walmart is quietly becoming quite the mobile hipster
Despite a staggering $444 billion in annual revenue, Walmart has generally been sluggish and conservative, allowing tech innovations to be toyed with by rivals such as Amazon.
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OpinionComment: Property’s change of pace
In terms of retail property, 2012 has been a year of extremes.
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AnalysisAnalysis: How can shopping centres embrace technology?
Shopping centres and technology at first seemed like adversaries, then uneasy bedfellows, but now they are positively united – or at least they should be.
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GalleryStore gallery: Marks & Spencer’s Cheshire Oaks new concept store
Marks & Spencer said today that its new concept store at Cheshire Oaks has delivered a sales performance that is 30% ahead of plan. John Ryan took a trip to the store shortly after it opened in August.
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AnalysisAnalysis: Kindle Fire vs the iPad
Two updated versions of Amazon’s Kindle Fire are set to launch in the UK in a bid to rival Apple’s iPad. Is the Kindle Fire a serious threat to the iPad’s dominance?
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Opinion
Blog: SaaS and ERP - indestructible force meets immovable object
It has always been one of the unsolved mysteries of the universe, something that our minds can’t grasp, the intellectual challenge that relates to the question: “What would happen if the indestructible force met the immovable object?”
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OpinionRetail Surgery: Does SEO for mobile sites differ from desktop sites?
Does SEO for mobile sites differ from that of desktop sites?
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OpinionRetail Surgery: How can we get our CEOs interested in digital?
How can we get our chief executive and board to engage with digital?
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News
Peapod launches click-and-collect service
Online grocer Peapod has launched a click-and-collect service in partnership with Ahold’s Stop & Shop chain.Shoppers can order groceries online through Peapod and then go to stores for collection. They must live within 10 miles of the store to use the service and payment is made online. Customers can shop ...
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OpinionBlog: HMV uses FourSquare to promote Hunger Games release
Entertainment retailer HMV used location-based social media platform FourSquare at events over the weekend to mark today’s DVD release of The Hunger Games.
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OpinionBlog: Ann Summers performs a BlippTease
Ann Summers is the latest retailer to use augmented reality app Blippar to help bring its catalogues and in-store marketing to life with its new BlippTease campaign.
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OpinionComment: Why in-store wi-fi matters and QR codes do not
Trust, transparency and trade are all benefits of the true deployment of wi-fi as part of a store blueprint, so why have so few retailers rolled this out?
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AnalysisAnalysis: Why are mobile conversion rates so low?
Mobile conversion rates can be much lower than websites, so why aren’t shoppers buying on their phones?
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NewsMobile transactions set to boom in run-up to Christmas
One in five online purchases could be through a mobile devices by Christmas, new research has forecast.