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Reports Differ on Self-Checkout Value
A report due out Oct. 17 from the IHL Consulting Group sees grocers aggressively moving to upgrade to self-checkout systems, even before they replace or upgrade the aging point-of-sale systems they are based on. But another retail technology report—released Oct. 16 by the Aberdeen Group—has a very different self-checkout take, calling retail self-checkout “an absolute…
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Understanding the Basics of EPCglobal
LOS ANGELES—About 200 people left home a day early to attended a pre-conference event held here in the western wing of the LA Convention Center on Oct. 11 with one goal in mind: figure out what EPCglobal is all about. Questions from audience members were so basic that attendees likely could have gone to the…
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Avnet to Deliver JD Edwards-Microsoft Integration
Distributor Avnet Technology Solutions and Microsoft announced a partnership Oct. 16 to deliver an integrated enterprise resource planning solution for midmarket customers of Oracle’s JD Edwards on Microsoft’s Windows/SQL Server platforms. The partnership allows VARs, many of which are already hitching the application to the platform, to benefit from the Avnet delivery model—building and integrating…
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Microsoft Removes Obstacle to Adoption of Its VHD Spec
Microsoft has decided to make its Virtual Hard Disk image format specification available to users at no cost and with the guarantee that it will never take legal action against them. The VHD format will now be available to anybody wanting to use it under Microsoft’s Open Specification Promise, which the Redmond, Wash.-based software maker…
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EMC Revenue Growing, but Margins Falling
EMC, the world leader in several data storage markets and the world’s sixth-largest software company, is being forced to tighten its belt and lose some weight—in the form of extra employees—after 36 months of digesting other companies in order to fill out its product offerings. The Hopkinton, Mass., company reported its third-quarter financials Oct. 17,…
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Medicare Explores How to Pay Doctors for More Effective Care
Under a new program from the Centers of Medicaid and Medicare, doctors in solo and small medical practices will soon be eligible for up to $10,000 more a year—if they can demonstrate that their performance is up to snuff. Among other criteria, doctors will be evaluated for the percentage of diabetic patients whose glucose is…
