All Technology articles – Page 341
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Opinion
Plenty to do in retail IT
Retail IT departments can pay for themselves many times over, so a recession is the worst time to try and save money by making IT staff cuts.
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News
Tie Rack takes its stocktaking system mobile
Tie Rack has introduced mobile computers to its stores to assist with stocktaking.
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News
T-Mobile gathers customer feedback by text message
T-Mobile is polling hundreds of thousands of its customers each week using SMS after introducing a system from Fizzback.
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Figleaves rethinks website infrastructure for relaunch
Figleaves has set up a second data centre and created a virtualised server and storage infrastructure to support the launch of its new web platform.
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News
Sainsbury's trials in-store mobile phone charging service
Sainsbury’s is to trial a mobile phone charging service in its stores.
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John Lewis beta tests Cisco green networking system
John Lewis has participated in a beta testing phase for Cisco networking technology that can help cut power consumption of IT.
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News
Marks & Spencer to roll out SAP Retail with help from IBM
Marks & Spencer is to introduce a set of applications from SAP Retail to its business to reduce costs and improve operating efficiencies.
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Analysis
NRF: Brave New World
After a year of financial turmoil a more humble and socially aware retail industry was on show at this year’s National Retail Federation convention last week. Joanna Perry reports from New York
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Opinion
Retail event cancellation a blow for IT
In some bad news for the retail technology industry, it has been announced that next week’s Retail Business Show exhibition will not be taking place.
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News
New Look refines IT to back growth plan
New Look is poised to go live with the final stages of a project to improve the business processes within its buying and merchandising department.
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News
Marks & Spencer extends services tie-up for EPoS roll-out
Marks & Spencer is working with Computacenter to improve the time it takes to get new IT systems up and running.
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El Corte Ingles optimises its merchandising
Spain’s largest retailer El Corte Ingl s is in the process of implementing Oracle Retail’s assortment execution system, after going live with merchandise financial planning and price optimisation systems.
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News
Toys R Us online revamp eases site navigation
Toys R Us has launched the fourth version of its UK website, which has been designed to make it easier for customers to browse and find products.
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News
Poundland installs laptop data protection
Poundland has installed encryption and back-up software on all of its company laptops to secure the data they contain should they be lost or stolen.
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News
System change takes shape at Harvey Nichols
Harvey Nichols expects to finish a business intelligence consolidation project it has been working on throughout 2008 by the end of the present financial year.
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Opinion
NRF: Recession creates new rules of retailing
National Retail Federation president and chief executive Tracy Mullin opened the organisation's 98th convention in New York on Sunday with a blunt message to businesses trying to ride out the recession: they need to get real to the new rules of retailing.
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AnalysisDigital strategy: Online advantage
Web discounts have grabbed customer attention over Christmas but exploiting the online world to its fullest could prove make or break in this tough economic climate. Joanna Perry reports
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News
Carphone Warehouse staff support tool given the thumbs-up
Carphone Warehouse has declared the roll-out of an application to support its branch managers a success.
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Theory introduces store sales data dashboard
International fashion brand Theory is using a sales dashboard called SkyPAD to view product sales performance across its international chain at store level.
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News
Barclays to issue contactless debit cards
Barclays will begin issuing debit cards with contactless payment technology, and predicts that more than 3 million consumers will be using them by the end of the year.