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• 7-Eleven’s Mobile Coupon Trial Improves Scan Accuracy, Raises Marketing Ethics Questions

  
  StorefrontBacktalk — Authority: 515
  Still in its infancy, the mobile coupon is struggling to prove its value to retail. But these coupons have found a powerful ally in the $54 billion, 37,100-store 7-Eleven chain. The global convenience merchant is most of the way through a two-month trial of mobile coupons in some 200 7-Elevens in San Diego, with ...
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• Gonzalez Attorney: He May Not Have Known Right From Wrong

  
  StorefrontBacktalk — Authority: 515
  Accused cyberthief ringleader Albert Gonzalez may not have had the "capacity to knowingly evaluate the wrongfulness of his actions and consciously behave lawfully and avoid crime" and his criminal "behavior was consistent with the description of Aspergers disorder," according to a government filing on Tuesday (Dec. ...
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• Heartland Lawsuit Dismissed, “Insufficient Evidence” Of Weak Security

  
  StorefrontBacktalk — Authority: 515
  A federal judge dismissed a data breach-related lawsuit against Heartland Payment Systems on Monday (Dec. 7), saying that the plaintiffs hadnt proved any of their allegations that Heartland knew it had inadequate security and lied about it to shareholders. The judges detailed ruling sheds light on the environment data ...
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• Instant Credit Income Verification: A Retail IT Migraine On The Horizon?

  
  StorefrontBacktalk — Authority: 515
  A U.S. Federal Reserve Board proposal being fought by retailers would have store clerks asking customers for proof of their salaries before issuing instant credit. But the Credit Card Act proposal raises many troubling questions for retail IT execs. To be able to later prove its compliance with the federal rule, will ...
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• Gonzalez’s Mystery Merchant Asks To Stay That Way

  
  StorefrontBacktalk — Authority: 515
  Albert Gonzalez—who has already pleaded guilty to masterminding a cyberthief ring that stole data from TJX, BJs Wholesale Club, Boston Market and Sports Authority , among other major chains—signed papers this month agreeing to plead guilty to the remaining federal charges against him. But one of the retail chain ...
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• Google Pushes 2D Barcodes With Mass Mailing Of Storefront Stickers

  
  StorefrontBacktalk — Authority: 515
  It’s been almost two years since Sears become the first U.S. retailer to embrace 2D barcodes , a move that launched a tidal wave of, well, pretty much nothing. This week, Google said it was trying to breathe life into these barcodes by mailing 200,000 2D barcode stickers to small businesses throughout the country. ...
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• Blackberry NFC Trial Getting Pushy

  
  StorefrontBacktalk — Authority: 515
  As contactless-payment advocates wait (and wait and wait) for widespread public acceptance of cell phones that can take the place of payment cards, vendors and credit card companies keep launching trials. One of the latest, by MasterCard Canada, BMO Bank of Montreal and Research In Motion, involves what appears to be ...
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• Windows File Deletion: Going, Going, Still There

  
  StorefrontBacktalk — Authority: 515
  Absence may make the heart grow fonder, but its becoming much more difficult to achieve in Windows 7 and Windows Vista thanks to volume shadow copy. And that refusal to go away is becoming a real problem for IT security. Deleting a file—even using top security procedures—doesnt make it go away; another copy is ...
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• The New Franchisee IT Sherriff In Town

  
  StorefrontBacktalk — Authority: 515
  Billions of dollars are lost each year to employee theft and it is only getting worse. The National Restaurant Association (NRA) estimates that the restaurant industry alone may be losing more than 3 percent of sales each year due to employee theft. This figure is very scary to be sure, especially for franchisees who ...
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• Tuesday’s Tip: 2010 Apps Strategies Should Start With Business Value

  
  A Software Insider's Point of View — Authority: 522
  Begin Apps Strategy Projects With Bite-Sized Entry Points Complexity often plagues today’s apps strategies.  With tight budgets, limited resources, and little time, organizations need to find bite sized entry points. The need to meet ever changing complex business requirements requires a four-step, basic ...
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• The Corporate Travel Card PCI Challenge

  
  StorefrontBacktalk — Authority: 515
  When PCI Columnist Walter Conway played high school football, the coach once said to him, “Son, there are three ways you can do things: the right way; the wrong way; and the coach’s way. Which way are you going to do things?” To which he replied, “the coach’s way, sir.” PCI can sometimes get like that ...
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• Real SMB IT: On Vendor Relationships

  
  A Dime a Dozen Small Business, Tech and Talk — Authority: 120
  Even in smaller organizations I have always believed in working with a few trusted vendors. And maintaining regular communications, plans and goals with them. To me, it seems counter productive to attempt to hold a fist full of vendors where you bounce back and forth squeezing a nickel or dime out of each quote until ...
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• Tesco To Build More Customer-Free “Stores” For Web-Order Fulfillment

  
  StorefrontBacktalk — Authority: 515
  Buying items on Tesco.com, the E-Commerce site of the $84 billion, U.K.-based supermarket chain, is a bit like being a virtual marionette operator. When a Web shopper places an order, Tesco employees actually grab shopping carts and pluck items from shelves as they stroll up and down aisles in Tesco stores. Most of ...
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• Pegasystems Announces New Additions to Cloud Computing Offering – SmartPaaS

  
  Business Process Management (BPM) - InSights — Authority: 103
  Pegasystems has announced that they have released new offerings on their Cloud based SmartPaaS platform – Instance Manager™ and Instant Edition™. The according to the write up in their press release : SmartPaaS Instance Manager automates the entire life cycle of requesting, approving, creating and ...
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• MBS Major Network Revamp

  
  Ministry IT — Authority: 103
  The Sunday afternoon before Thanksgiving we began a 2.5 day project to completely revamp our network. Though our staff is small, we serve and provide services to church and ministry clients nationwide, so our network needs are much larger than they might be for a company our size. Heres what we did: After ...
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• Retailers Suing POS Vendor, Questions Raised As To Where PCI Duties Stop

  
  StorefrontBacktalk — Authority: 515
  Now that a PCI lawsuit brought by four restaurants against a POS vendor and a systems integrator has been given class-action status, the case will survive and force a very interesting debate about exactly where a retailers PCI liability should start. The case involves four Louisiana restaurant groups—doing business ...
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• The Best Way To Stop Marketing From Getting Around IT: Teach ‘Em

  
  StorefrontBacktalk — Authority: 515
  In the past, the relationship between marketing and IT was often strained by marketers seemingly innate attraction to the “shiny new toy” and IT’s needs to follow structure, process and sometimes even a project plan (Gasp!). This tension, pens Franchisee Columnist Todd Michaud, was only made worse as marketing ...
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• Tech Standards? Or The Wild, Wild, West Of IT?

  
  A Dime a Dozen Small Business, Tech and Talk — Authority: 120
  Gary Hamel writing on the Wall Street Journal blog blasts corporate IT departments for enforcing technology standards with a post titled; Why Don’t IT Departments Give Employees More Freedom? The premise is that if the best tool for the job is something that an employee provides themselves, or downloads from the ...
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• An NRF StorefrontBacktalk Reader Get-Together?

  
  StorefrontBacktalk — Authority: 515
  By any chance, are you planning to attend the NRF Bigshow (New York City, January 10-13, 2010)? StorefrontBacktalk would love to arrange a casual get-together with our readers at or near the show, so were trying to determine how many readers are both attending the show and might be interested in connecting with us ...
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• Domino’s Gets E-Commerce Creative

  
  StorefrontBacktalk — Authority: 515
  Domino’s is seeing a huge increase in online sales—a critical and fiercely competitive arena for national pizza chains today—after it allowed consumers to see a real-time interactive graphic that depicts their pizza order, adding or subtracting toppings and the corresponding price adjustments. It also throws in ...
  2 weeks ago

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