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BrainTrust Query: 2012 Predictions for Retail Technology
January 4, 2012
FROM RETAILWIRE:
In past years we've seen the rise of Apple, Google, Facebook and Amazon, lots of new alternative payment types, more engineered systems, better social analytics, more 2-D barcodes, greater adoption of cloud services and improved f-commerce. Which technologies mentioned in the article do you see gaining significant ground at retail in 2012?
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I'm voting for a fifth technology -- mobile device management. Once retailers have tools to control versioning and security on mobile devices, and track them adequately, watch the deployment of IOS and Android devices shoot through the roof....
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