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MasterCard Pursues No-Touch Retail
MasterCard International Inc. Vice President Oliver Steeley is working to make contactless payment available to millions of Americans. Contactless…
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No Web Tax Yet
Like a Java version of the sword of Damocles, the threat of a Web tax has loomed over e-Commerce…
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Move to Silicon to Make Bar Codes More Accurate
On Wednesday, bar code pioneer and scanner manufacturer Intermec Technologies Corp. plans to unveil a new generation of bar…
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Banks Get Their Bearings Online
Given that it’s a business where almost everything comes down to moving numbers from one column to another, one…
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When Safe Devices Become Smart And Dangerous
One key part of a CIO’s job is to protect company information. That forces a healthy amount of paranoia,…
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CyberSource to Take Over CardSystems
In what might signal the closing chapter in the CardSystem credit-card security breach saga, CyberSource Friday announced its intent…
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From Gooey Designs to GUI, IT Helps Ice Cream Chain Deliver
The managers at one of the nation’s fastest-growing ice cream chains pride themselves on customers who know exactly what…
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SAP Acquisition Adds to Its Retail Tool Set
SAP AG officially made its countermove to Oracle Corp.’s retail efforts on Monday with the announced purchase of Canadian…
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When Is VaporWare Not VaporWare? Hardly Ever
The software industry has for years had a proud tradition of announcing product long before an actual product existed—vaporware,…
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Do Falling RFID Prices Mean Item-Level Tracking Is Practical?
When leading RFID chip manufacturer Alien Technology announced this week that it was cutting the price of its 96-bit…