Interview - January 31, 2012
Interview with Martin Schurig, Head of Financial Services Products, Telefónica Germany
Many consumers carry their cell phone in their pockets just like they carry their wallet. If it’s up to cellular phone companies, the cell phone is even meant to replace the wallet. The Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone from Great Britain and Spain’s Telefónica with its O2 brand already offer a joint payment procedure for online retailers. It is called “mpass“.
Report - January 18, 2012
The EHI Technology Days in Cologne, Germany, delivered a taste of the upcoming EuroCIS. One important topic in Düsseldorf is going to be cashless payment. For a long time, its share in German retail has stagnated at just over 40 percent. Now “mobile money” is hitting stores. But retailers are spoilt for choice: cards and cell phones with a wireless chip competing against cell phones that also turn into wallets without a chip.
Report - June 1, 2011
Discount stores and grocery stores have them. Electronics stores and home improvement stores have them, too. Shopping carts are a part of shopping just as much as store shelves and the checkout counter. But often they are confusingly similar to each other. For the layman they mostly just differ by the logo on the handle.
Interview - February 26, 2011
iXtenso talked to Rick Chavie, Vice President Marketing of NCR. He explained a new way of business between consumers and retailers. Rick Chavie also pointed out the benefits consumers and retailers can receive with this new way of 'converged retailing'. The new solution NCR offers to realize is called 'c-tailing'.
feature-startseite - February 23, 2011
EuroShop 2011 – as highly demanded as ever! See some impressions and visitor voices of the first trade fair day. We also talked to a head of a brazilian delegation and asked him about the expectations for the first trade fair visit.