NEC intros retail POS solutions

NEC India has introduced a new range of point-of-sales (POS) solutions for the growing retail sector in India, says Images Food.

Twin POS3500G1, Twin POS5500Ui, Twin POS3500B1 and V-POS are the newly released retail solutions, designed with the flexibility and cost-effectiveness required within the retail industry in mind.

Rajiv Bhalla, country head, sales and marketing, at NEC India, said: “Modern day retail requires technology to operate efficiently and improve the overall satisfaction level of consumers. We at NEC understand this key aspect of the retail sector business and our innovative line of products and solutions offer the best fit to these requirements.”

Australia's games industry set new sales records last year, with total revenues coming in at AUD $2.05 billion (R14 billion), says MCV.

Data from market research group GfK Retail and Technology Australia showed this figure had increased by 4% when compared to the previous year.

Software sales rose by 6% year-on-year with family games accounting for 27% of all games sold. The genre proved to be a key sales driver for a second year in a row, up 11% when compared to 2008.

The case against former Woolworths chief information officer David Wills, accused of illegally accepting more than $3.7 million in commissions, will resume next month in Sydney, according to Australian IT.

Wills faces multiple counts of cheating or defrauding as a director, conspiring with others to cheat and defraud, money laundering, and corruptly receiving benefits for awarding IT contracts more than $37 million. The contracts were for Woolworths' APOS2000 project, an upgrade of its point-of-sale systems and servers for the millennium roll-over. In December 1997, the retailer began a $130-million overhaul of its systems.

Wills allegedly received $1.78 million between February 1997 and January 1999 in exchange for awarding an IT contract to Israeli software firm Az-Ben. He is accused of accepting a further $1.92 million from Az-Ben for giving advice to NCR that was likely to influence NCR to enter into a contract with Advance Retail Technology.