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How 5G Could Be Rocket Fuel To Retail

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The race to 5G retail is on. Recent news out of Asia serves as solid foreshadowing of how 5G could enhance retail in the coming few years. 5G Retail Plans. South Korea’s SK Telecom and retail conglomerate Shinsegae Group have joined forces on 5G retail, for instance.

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How Headless Commerce Can Level The eCommerce Playing Field

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Aside from the funny name, technically it’s a digital architecture that separates the back end and front end of a retail website to optimize search results, customer experience and the purchase journey. The search page would be populated with retailers. The retail list is specific to that type of apparel.

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Surprises from the Consumer Financial Decision Making Conference (Behavioral Economics)

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A highlight of my year is the Boulder Summer Conference on Consumer Financial Decision Making put on by the Leeds Business School’s Center for Research on Consumer Financial Decision Making. Why consumers make illogical (or even harmful) financial decisions is the general theme of the conference.

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5G Finds A Friend In Facial Recognition Biometrics

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As 5G deployments start, retailers and other companies and organizations around the world are striving to find what works. The 5G-enabled facial recognition process reportedly will take “less than a second, while the tech itself can be deployed in virtually any retail environment. A recent report also says the U.S.

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Wearable devices and the future of authentication

Celent Banking

However, I believe that there is a great opportunity for certain wearable devices to provide strong authentication and enhance the user experience ( see this blog entry ). When the user performs a certain function, an alert is sent to the smartwatch (the demo was shown to me on a Moto360 ). Sounds pretty cool to me!

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Verizon, Microsoft Partner To Accelerate 5G Technology

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Verizon and Microsoft have teamed up to accelerate the delivery of private 5G networks for businesses, announcing a collaboration they said will transform the retail, transportation, logistics, manufacturing and healthcare industries. Samsung’s View. The race to build out the next-gen network is also accelerating, as seen in the recent $6.6

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Samsung Eyes Second Smart Speaker

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While pricing for the Bixby-powered Galaxy Home has yet to be revealed, the fact that it will boast such features as AKG audio, eight microphones, and the ability to direct sound towards the user’s position, means it will probably compete with the Apple HomePod, which costs $349.

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