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• Apple Store Handheld Payment Units Can Open Cash Drawers

  
  StorefrontBacktalk — Authority: 584
  The new portable POS units being introduced by Apple in its retail stores will accept cash by wirelessly popping open money drawers sprinkled throughout the establishment, according to Apple Insider , which has several wonderful close-up shots of the new devices. The units will allow Apple to (finally) toss out the ...
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• Heartland Filing Contradicts Its Own Statements About Abandoning Retail Customers

  
  StorefrontBacktalk — Authority: 584
  Proving that theres never anything so bizarre in payment security circles that some vendor cant upgrade it to surreal, Heartland Payment Systems and VeriFone this week issued dueling news releases. Each accused the other of either stealing intellectual property or trying to abandon Heartlands retail customers. That ...
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• Data Breaches: Reality Vs. Perception

  
  StorefrontBacktalk — Authority: 584
  In our ongoing saga of retail security “reality versus perception” discussions (Note: Always bet on perception. Reality is a nice guy who, in all fairness, is a loser), the question of whether data breaches are becoming less common keeps cropping up. The answer is straightforward: No, of course they’re not ...
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• Mobile Barcode Scans: Pushed By E-Commerce, But Only Helping In-Store?

  
  StorefrontBacktalk — Authority: 584
  E-Commerce sites have been pushing a series of mobile applets that can scan barcodes in-store. The idea is that consumers standing in a Target can scan the barcode of an item theyre interested in purchasing and instantly see a list of online sites offering that item, along with its respective prices. In theory, this ...
  6 days ago

• Amazon Plans On Bringing PayPhrase Into Brick-And-Mortars

  
  StorefrontBacktalk — Authority: 584
  What do Amazon execs have in store for their company’s new PayPhrase payment system ? Apparently, in-store itself. The service today is an interesting means of allowing consumers to, in effect, subdivide their payment authorization so that a child or an employee can make purchases, but with specific dollar limits ...
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• On Thursday, Walmart.com’s Check-Out Didn’t

  
  StorefrontBacktalk — Authority: 584
  Customers visiting the worlds largest retailers E-Commerce site last week were able to look but not buy, thanks to what Wal-Mart described as "some unexpected technical issues that resulted in intermittent availability of checkout." Wal-Marts statement confirming the incident was vague—even by Wal-Mart ...
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• Should Credit Card Transactions Be Free? There May Be A Way

  
  StorefrontBacktalk — Authority: 584
  Franchisee Columnist Todd Michaud wants you to envision a world where credit card transactions are free. How could such an outrageous feat be accomplished? Lots of things in tech are now given away for free. Why not transactions? Somehow, the system has evolved in a way that primarily protects the banks at the expense ...
  1 week ago

• Report: Data Breaches Hike Fraud Risk 400%

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 427
  By Doug Pollack , Chief Marketing Officer for ID Experts Because data breaches have become such commonplace incidents, there is concern that people have become desensitized to the potential harm they face upon receiving a notification letter from an organization informing them that sensitive information has been ...
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• What is a 12 months contract, when it’s actually indefinite?

  
  Travelwires.com — Authority: 438
  You’ll pardon me as this is not related to travel and tourism, however I’m interested to know your opinion in this regard.I signed a 12 months membership contract Virgin Active in Horizon View... Send your news worthy industry press releases for publication today to muzi at travelwires dot com.
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• November Coupons for Transparent Language

  
  Stealth Acquisitions — Authority: 118
  Did you know that November and December are HUGE months for Transparent.com?  Makes sense though doesn’t it?  A lot of people are thinking about taking trips abroad and are deperately trying to learn at least the basics of the local language before they go.  That’s where the quality language learning software ...
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• Amazon’s New PayPhrase Has Definite Shakeup Potential

  
  StorefrontBacktalk — Authority: 584
  Amazon on Thursday (Oct. 29) introduced Amazon PayPhrase, the first real acceleration of E-Commerce checkout in years, ever since one-click. But PayPhrase does one-click one better. Once set up, it allows shoppers to choose their own short phrase, which is then coupled with a password. After that, PayPhrase allows for ...
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• Everybody’s Coupling With Encryption Alliances

  
  StorefrontBacktalk — Authority: 584
  As the retail industry quickly moves to embrace some kind of tokenization, middle-to-middle encryption or a related scheme to reduce how long card data is lying around retail networks waiting to be stolen, vendor alliances are popping up like crabgrass. (By the way, dont say anything nasty about crabgrass. Its the ...
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• Mattel Stops Toying Around With Channel, Sells Direct

  
  StorefrontBacktalk — Authority: 584
  As major consumer goods manufacturers add more complexity to their Web sites, the temptation to abandon years of carefully orchestrated channel arrangements is intense. Despite futile resistance from retail partners, most of the largest CG manufacturers have started selling direct. This week, Mattel--the $6 billion ...
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• Are Judges Cracking Down On Data Breach Corporate Victims?

  
  StorefrontBacktalk — Authority: 584
  A second federal judge has, this week, pushed back against a settlement involving a major data breach, potentially signaling more dire times for retailers whose data gets snatched courtesy of inadequate security. Last month, it was a federal judge in Maine who started questioning whether Hannaford should get a walk ...
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• Editor’s Note: Very Sad News

  
  StorefrontBacktalk — Authority: 584
  We’re heartbroken to have to report to our readers that our esteemed PCI Columnist, David Taylor, passed away on Tuesday from a sudden heart attack. A private memorial service is being held in New York and Dave’s family is asking for donations to the American Heart Association. Dave spent much of his time ...
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• CVS Launches A Loyalty Card Program For Shopping Bags

  
  StorefrontBacktalk — Authority: 584
  Many retail chains today incentivize customers to use their own reusable shopping bags, often giving the customers immediate cash back for every bag used. But the $88 billion 7,000-store CVS pharmacy chain opted for a slightly more complicated approach, issuing special bag loyalty cards to customers who would attach ...
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• What Should You Do After The Breach?

  
  StorefrontBacktalk — Authority: 584
  There is no shortage of advice on ways to try and prevent a data breach. But if it happens to you, do you have a plan of precisely what to do after the fact? Very few retailers do. Lots of complicating factors exist, such as the probability that the breach will be discovered many months after it ended, plus the fact ...
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• Does “M-Commerce” Really Mean “iPhone” To eBay?

  
  StorefrontBacktalk — Authority: 584
  Efforts by eBay in the Mobile Commerce arena seem to illustrate a conundrum facing other retailers with M-Commerce yearnings: Should they focus their efforts (and money) on catering to the Apple iPhone or on mobile sites that can handle all mobile devices? Of course, many retailers are doing both. But recent comments ...
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• In E-Commerce, The European Union Is Far From United

  
  StorefrontBacktalk — Authority: 584
  Online shoppers in the European Union (EU) often find better prices from retailers across national borders but find themselves unable to place orders, according to the European Commission. “On average, 61 percent of orders placed online in another EU country failed, mainly because the trader refused to serve the ...
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• Free Cash Management Webinar for Businesses

  
  Free Webinar News — Authority: 137
  Mary Church and Angela Worsham are having a free webinar on ‘More Gain/Less Pain: Maximize Your Cash Flow/Minimize Your Effort’. According to Mary and Angela, this webinar will focus on the ongoing transformation of payment systems from traditional paper based methods to more streamlined, secure and convenient ...
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