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Apple Stores POS Outage

Last week Apple stores suffered thru POS outage and were reduced to old style credit card machines according to Techcrunch. Similar outage supposedly hit NCR Silver.
Each month, Business Solutions collects and sorts through all the relevant channel news so you don't have to. This month in Point Of Sale And Payment Processing, companies announce new products, new solutions, new collaborations -- and the PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) announces a preview of version 3.0 standards changes.
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AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 30, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- ShipStation the leading web-based shipping solution for online retailers, today announced an enhancement to the company's Shopify integration, allowing customers to import orders from Shopify POS. Business owners can now import retail orders directly into ShipStation from Shopify POS, just as they do with their Shopify web store orders.
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Snap up a pint in Britain's first Bitcoin pub

Bitcoin Accepted Here [by freeborn]
Bitcoin has its first British boozer. The Pembury Tavern in Hackney, east London - as well as its sister pubs in Cambridge, Norwich and Peterborough - are now accepting the virtual currency.
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OAKLAND (KPIX 5) -- Vending machines are commonly known for dispensing snacks and sodas, but machines dispensing medical marijuana have created a buzz among California dispensaries. Over 800 items per Autospense machines.  For sale or lease. San Diego is next. $60K per machine.

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NEW YORK CITY -- Intel Corp. showed a few of the developments in its "intelligent vending" initiative during this year's National Retail Federation trade show here. Also on display were concepts that might be as applicable to micromarket operators as to any other sort of retailer.  Intel's work with international coffeehouse titan Costa Coffee (Dunstable, UK) was a center of attention at the show, which took place Jan. 13-16.
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Griffin Unveils new kiosk retail POS solutions for iPad

New iPad solutions for POS and Retail have a nice look.griffin-ipad.jpg

BOONE, N.C., June 6, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- ECR Software Corporation (ECRS) has again been recognized with the Vity Award for Best Computerized Point of Sale System. Vity Awards are given annually by Vitamin Retailer magazine to the top products and services in the Natural Products/Health industry as selected directly by retailers. ECRS is the leading supplier of retail automation to merchants in this vibrant, growing industry.
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 legacy IT systems are hindering and preventing JC Penney from making strategic changes,
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eas the majority of EMV hardware demand will be driven by the April 2015 deadline, when merchants must upgrade their payment solutions and card issuers will move to EMV-capable cards, VDC expects the preceding 2013 directive--which affects only acquiring banks, not merchants or card issuers--to have relatively little impact on the EMV hardware market. 
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Square Vs. NCR: Disruptive Innovation In Action

Interview by Fast Company of NCR on Square. Play nice...
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Toshiba gobbles IBM's POS biz for $850m.

Big Blue sheds another hardware biz (while keeping 20% stake). Toshiba becomes the new dominant player.
Approximately 425 wired, wireless and touchscreen point-of-sale terminals by NCR are expected to be installed throughout the stadium by the 2012-2013 season. 

Office Depot tests PayPal's new point-of-sale system

(Reuters) - Office Depot Inc, the second-largest U.S. office supply retailer, is testing PayPal's new point-of-sale system in a few stores, a top executive told Reuters.

POS Terminals: On the Cusp of Change

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rcator's new report, POS Terminals: On the Cusp of Change, examines the POS terminal industry by providing an overview of recent major events and the current landscape and analyzing economic, geographic and technologic developments. In addition, the report forecasts anticipated developments for the POS terminal itself, both for the near term and further into the future. The report then compares the most advanced, currently available terminals on the market to Mercator's concept of an ideal terminal to meet all merchant needs in the next three to five years, labeled the "Canonical POS Terminal."
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Android Is About To Truly Kill The POS Business Model

Nice article on impact of low cost devices on the POS Retail market (which is already experimenting with these devices mind you...)

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