========================================================= ------- eWEEK.com RETAIL INDUSTRY UPDATE -------- ========================================================= August 26, 2004
========================================================= Sponsored by Best Buy Find your freedom. Lose the wires. Your own wireless network lets you roam all over your home, surf from the sofa, print from the patio. Now save $150 by mail-in rebate* on select notebooks and desktop packages. http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1036-19-40-6723-117757-1 ========================================================= ========================================================= In This Edition ========================================================= 1. News: Will Cell Phones, PDAs Become Retailers' Promo Tools? 2. News: Discover To Use Biometrics To Combat Rivals 3. News: Discover CIO: Retail Technology Ready for Major Changes 4. Data Management: Getting Clean 5. News: Black Hats Salivating Over RFID 6. Put Your Finger on the Pulse ========================================================= Retail Industry Update ========================================================= 1. News: Will Cell Phones, PDAs Become Retailers' Promo Tools? With PDAs and cell phones getting more advanced, one retail transaction vendor wants to turn those consumer gadgets into two-way, advertisement-friendly checkout devices. Will it fly with consumers? http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1036-19-40-6723-117760-1 Self-Checkout Technology http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1036-19-40-6723-117763-1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 2. News: Discover To Use Biometrics To Combat Rivals Discover has announced a deal with Pay By Touch, a San Francisco-based biometric payment vendor, to actively support their systems. The Pay By Touch system allows consumers to scan a finger instead of swiping a credit card. Will it boost Discover's lagging business? http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1036-19-40-6723-117766-1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 3. News: Discover CIO: Retail Technology Ready for Major Changes Today's retail payment space is ripe for radical change, says the CIO for Morgan Stanley's Discover Financial Services unit. And when radical change happens, it can shake up an industry, and market leaders can find themselves in a market that is much less friendly than before. http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1036-19-40-6723-117769-1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 4. Data Management: Getting Clean Sophisticated business intelligence tools give executives greater "visibility" into a company's operations than ever before, but they're useless--and even self-defeating--if the underlying data's not clean. Here's a guide for washing up. http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1036-19-40-6723-117772-1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 5. News: Black Hats Salivating Over RFID RFID security was a hot topic at the recent Black Hat 2004 conference. Lukas Grunwald, a senior consultant with DN-Systems Enterprise Solutions GmbH, showed the audience a program he developed called "RFDump," which can read, and potentially modify, the data on an RFID tag. Read up on the possibilities. http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1036-19-40-6723-117775-1 RFID http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1036-19-40-6723-117778-1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 6. Put Your Finger on the Pulse Software that measures application performance doesn't live up to the most spectacular vendor promises--and it's harder to set up than most people realize. 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