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Tesco tills go down in IT glitch
News Supermarket chain Tesco has been unable to take money at a number of its stores following technical problems affecting its tills. Tesco said that all types of payments, including credit and debit cards and cash via normal tills, had been affected.
[May 11, 2009, 13:47]
Matalan checks out Linux tills
News UK retailer Matalan has migrated 2,800 tills to Linux. The operating systems were run on 14 tills in a Matalan store over two months. Matalan's tills, which are IBM 4694 series machines, previously ran a proprietary operating system that was no...
[September 27, 2005, 13:40]
Matalan checks out Linux tills
Talkback I don't know if Matalan have done this, but a netboot environment will have the tills loading all software off a central server. No need to touch the tills at all, apart from changing hardware. So many business have special purpose machines, tills...
[September 28, 2005, 17:11]
Matalan checks out Linux tills
Talkback "In the retail environment it is fairly easy to go with Linux, but in the desktop it is harder in terms of features and functionality," said Menzel. Default installation of many Linux distros = Graphics programs, office suite(s), sound editors...
[September 28, 2005, 15:09]
Matalan checks out Linux tills
Talkback "Given enough money, you can buy as many "independent" reports supporting your product as you like. Steve.dont forget. Given enough money, you can even buy as many "independent" supporters aswell.not just reports.i too cannot believe that admission...
[September 28, 2005, 14:42]
Matalan checks out Linux tills
Talkback Andy, you beat me to it, but crikey! This is one hell of an admission surely? Microsoft have been singing and dancing on the rooftops of Newham for a long time. And since Microsoft funded the study, are they the "client" that Gunnar Menzel spoke of?
[September 28, 2005, 13:37]
Matalan checks out Linux tills
Talkback "Sometimes there are situations where you get together with the client and defend their data. How can Campgemini admit to this whilst at the same time claim to be 'independent'? Given Newham was such a massive story at the time, shouldn't a...
[September 28, 2005, 9:48]
Matalan checks out Linux tills
Talkback Sounds like partisanshiip to me. Face it, Windows has 97% market share. Maybe that implies that MOST businesses DO think Windows is easy to use and secure.
[October 3, 2005, 16:38]
Novell launches Linux for tills
News Novell has announced a new software package, based on the Linux operating system, aimed at high-tech cash registers. The Point of Service 9 package, released on Monday, aims to help lower costs for shops, the company said.
[April 12, 2005, 16:05]
Online tills ring with Christmas cheer
News Online holiday sales were up 25 percent this year, according to a new report. The report, from Goldman Sachs, Harris Interactive and Nielsen/NetRatings, said US holiday shoppers spent $23.2bn online, not including travel.
[January 4, 2005, 8:05]
E-tills ring out for Internet Shopping Day
News UK consumers are being encouraged to get their credit cards out and get online, to mark National Internet Shopping Day. The aim is to persuade shoppers to embrace the Web, with a raft of promotions and special offers.
[July 24, 2003, 16:14]
PS2 games get Electronics Boutique's tills ringing
News High street retailer Electronics Boutique (EB) has announced record-breaking sales figures for pre-Christmas trading in the UK -- thanks to strong demand for PlayStation2 (PS2) games. In the five weeks before Christmas, Electronics Boutique stores...
[January 8, 2002, 12:30]
Woolworths looks to the Net for salvation
News Woolworths is turning to Internet-linked tills to try and stem sales losses, according to The Guardian on Thursday. It has converted tills in all of its shops to allow staff to order directly from its Web site.
[September 22, 2005, 12:25]
N+I: Symbol adopts wireless VPN tech
News The announcement comes as retailers are becoming more wary of using wireless networks to link cash tills and other commerce equipment. On Wednesday, US retailer Best Buy switched off its wireless cash registers to prevent "war-drivers" (drive-by...
[May 6, 2002, 7:31]
and in supermarkets
Talkback I've seen this in use quite recently for sucking away tubes of excess cash (notes) in supermarket tills.
[November 27, 2008, 19:17]
Dixons Group Use indian outsourcing
Talkback The dixons group use india for branch computer support tills etc.try ringing for any assistance its terrible.
[January 14, 2008, 12:04]
NCR displays Bluetooth cashpoint
News NCR, best known for industrial-grade equipment such as cash tills and big database systems, is showing off a design for a cash dispenser that replaces keypads and display screens with a Bluetooth connection.
[May 22, 2001, 15:49]
Embedded computing to boom in Europe
News Industry group Artemis, whose members include Airbus, Ericsson, Nokia and Siemens, predicts that embedded computing — the technology that sees microprocessors arriving in everything from phones to cars to shop tills — will grow by around 10 per...
[July 5, 2005, 9:05]
Y2K bug strikes early for credit-card machines
News This has resulted in extended queues at the tills during a traditionally busy time for stores. Thousands of shops have reported problems with credit-card machines that have apparently malfunctioned when attempting to recognise the year 2000...
[December 29, 1999, 14:54]
Privacy activists demand Tesco boycott over RFID
News Tesco has been experimenting with RFID since 1992 and has discussed plans to integrate the technology into all the key points in its supply chain, in stores and, eventually, at all its tills. Consumer privacy advocates have launched a worldwide...
[January 26, 2005, 13:05]
