Indian mPOS Set to Revolutionize Retail Sector

Indian retail market is evolving at a rapid pace riding on technology innovations and customers' changing preferences for superior shopping experience.

A lot of changes had happened during the last decade at Point of Sale (POS) counters as customers increasingly prefer cash-less transactions, and businesses have readily adopted right payment system for faster check-outs and better payment management.

One of the best ways the brick-and-mortar retailers can handle faster check-outs at their stores is via mobile-POS devices. These devices are like hand-held smart phones that are capable of accepting payments through cards, providing instant receipts and storing data for managing inventory, sales and other back-end business functions.

India, with close to 500 million credit/debit card holders and 700 million smart phone users, set to trigger cash-less transactions through mobile POS devices and online transactions, say analysts.

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JusTransact plays Santa, brings in attractive POS bundles to customers

Chennai, December 24, 2015: JusTransact.com, the e-commerce market leader offering exclusive Point-of-Sale (POS) products and technology to Indian retail and non-retail B2B segment, has opened up Santa's bag of goodies to customers by introducing attracting bundle offers on various POS products.

Unfolding the bundle offers coinciding with the year end festival season, Bhaskar Venkatraman, the founder and Director of JusTransact.com, an e-commerce venture of Millennium Group, said: "We have come up with attractive combo offers on POS products to suit various business needs and applications. This will help traders to get complete POS solutions for their chosen business at one place. For example, we have hardware along with software in a bundle offer exclusively for F & B sector. While saving sizeable amount, buyers can get a ready-to-plug-in system for their new business initiatives without worrying about software part."

JusTransact has introduced five different bundles of POS machines in attractive combo offers to meet the needs of various retail and non-retail sectors. In combo and other individual offers, the discount varies from 10-20 per cent with the highest saving going up to Rs 13000.

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JusTransact Releases first Explainer Video on POS

Chennai, December 24, 2015: JusTransact.com, a B2B e-commerce market place exclusively for Point-of-sale (POS) products and technology, today unveiled an informative and educative video on POS products and technology in an effort to create awareness among the trading community on the advantages of automating their business.

Releasing the info-graphic video, the Founder and Director of JusTransact.com Mr Bhaskar Venkatraman, said:  “Indian retail sector has been evolving at a faster pace trying to match customers’ growing demands and technological advancement. Unfortunately, more than 90 per cent of the over 12 million retailers in India are yet to automate their businesses thereby denying the enhanced shopping experience to their customers. The video has been conceived to make them understand the importance of using POS technology to remain competitive in business while satisfying customers’ needs”

JusTransact Video

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DNA Barcoding can Prevent Disease Outbreaks

Once used exclusively to 'identify' products to ease business transactions and back-end operations, Barcodes have come a long way and have forayed into every consumer sector - be it health, hospitality, auto-mobile, retail or non-retail platforms.

But wherever it is, barcode's primary function as 'identity provider' has not changed. Seeing its vast advantage and potential, scientists are using barcodes for various purposes. While hospitals use barcodes on test tubes and patients to prevent mix-ups at labs and operation theatres, biologists found extensive use of barcodes in DNA labeling'.

Every single species, whether plants or animals, can be classified and coded for future references through an innovative identification technology known as DNA barcoding.

Recently zoology department of Calcutta University has joined hands with the International Barcode of Life (iBOL) project, which has 25 nations in its fold, to form a digital database of DNA signatures, which can identify any organism, plant or animal on earth in a jiffy. Undoubtedly, the University department would be eastern India's hub for iBOL. 

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Parliament Lockjam: Will Real Estate Regulatory Bill Ever See the Light?

The tall climes of steady upward growth are notwithstanding, the real estate sector in India, which is the second largest employment generator after agriculture, has been in doldrums for the last few years owing to economic downturn with developers looking for a ‘miracle’ which can turn the tide for the sector in 2016.

There have been a few positive developments in the recent past such as opening up of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), introduction of REITs and recently, the cabinet passing the much-awaited Real Estate Regulatory Bill which have created positive vibes among the real estate community.

Though the success of the first two initiatives can be gauged on the basis of investment scenario, which again depends on the economic growth, the enactment of real estate regulatory Bill as law is expected to add the much required impetus to the sector’s growth vehicle in the year 2016, feel real estate experts. 

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After Flood Havoc its Business as Usual for Chennai Realty

The recent unprecedented floods in Chennai has indeed put a spanner in the works of the real estate firms in the booming southern metropolis and its fledgling outskirts, albeit briefly.

After almost two weeks of hibernation and bright sun shine for almost ten days now, it is business as usual for real estate firms which are using innovative means to lure people to sell their projects.  While some draw people’s attention by claiming that the areas where their residential projects are coming up are safe as they have not been affected by floods, others are making indirect attempts to sell their projects in worst affected areas in and around Chennai by becoming good Samaritans.

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Move over blackboards, digital classrooms are here

K Ramanathan

No blackboards, no pen-paper tests, no chalk pollution and no more noisy dictations. Digital technology has indeed made sweeping changes in modern day classroom education system in India with teaching methodology witnessing a major makeover much to the benefits of students and teaching fraternity.

The traditional blackboards/glass boards or white boards are being replaced by digital boards, digital screens or smart boards which offer enhanced learning experience to students and facilitate tutors to plan their lesson in a better way incorporating more inputs and information beyond text-books and better organize their day-to-day responsibilities.

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How to Protect your POS from Malware Attacks

Cashless transactions, which were once considered to be safe and secured by millions of card holders around the world, are in danger of pilfering vital transaction data by unscrupulous hackers.

Over seven billion credit card holders globally are in risk of losing vital card data to fraudsters and cyber-criminals with 2016 going to be a challenging year for cyber security agencies to thwart the increasing attacks on POS installations.

It is estimated that about one billion data records had been compromised through 1,500 attacks in 2014 with more than half of them belonging to the retail industry involving point-of-sale (POS) systems.

India, with more than half a million POS installations for 600 million card holders (credit and debit cards put together) may find the vital card details compromised unless the retail businesses and banks take adequate security measures to make transactions fully secured, feels Bhaskar Venkatraman, founder and CEO of JusTransact.com, an e-commerce marketplace which sells Point of Sale (POS) hardware products to retail and non-retail businesses.

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Posiflex Strides to Digitalize Indian Retail Sector: Baskaramoorthy

Baskaramoorthy, 
Vice-President – Sales, 
Posiflex Technology (India) Pvt. Ltd.

An early entrant to the organized retail sector in India, Baskaramoorthy was instrumental in introducing a range of hardware products to the booming sector. As a co-founder of Protocol, he brought the barcode technology and POS machines as a distribution partner of Taiwan's Posiflex and developed the market in India. 

When Posiflex, a global leading brand in design and manufacture of POS solutions and peripherals, looked to consolidate Indian market in 2009, Protocol was the natural choice and they forged to form an Indian entity – Posiflex India.

Having close to two decades of industry exposure with deep understanding of the Indian retail industry in terms of quality, price points and service requirements, Baskar was instrumental in developing Industrial Automation products to help improve the Workforce Efficiency and Inventory Management using Barcode & RFID technologies in India.

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How Barcodes can Make your Supply Chain Management Simple and Efficient

Supply chain management is a complex business process under multi-store environment where one has to keep an eye on the movement of raw materials from suppliers till they became finished goods. Some time, one need to import raw materials and the complexities involved may delay the production which in turn will impact the turnover. With the invention of barcode technology, more businesses across the globe are using it for tracking purpose to make the supply chain efficient, organized and simplified.

For many years since the invention of barcodes, they were hardly used outside the retail point of sale (POS) systems. However, now-a-days barcode technology has become ubiquitous to any type of industry along the supply chains.

The vital business details stored on 1D (linear) or 2D (such as QR codes) barcodes immensely aids business establishments to identify/track inventory in an efficient and timely manner with errors going down considerably (about one error in every 3 million impressions) compared to manual system. Since all the businesses along the supply chain have access to barcode technology, details about products can be seamlessly monitored, checked passed-on and integrated throughout its passage till they reach the end users.

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New Year's Eve Dressup game from Dollygals

Sarah is planning to host a New Year party for her friends. She wants to look great and hence goes to a nearby salon. You are the beautician in the salon and take charge of dressing up Sarah. You have to change her hair style and apply appropriate colour to it. You should also take care of her eyes and skin. Choose from the variety of lipstick shades. You have to then select her top and bottom dress from the whole lot of choices. Read full game description here

Hungry Santa

Oh, no! Santa has become too skinny. He needs a Christmas Miracle. It's up to you to get him fat in time for Christmas! Can you help him get fatter? You have to try to feed him as much fat food as possible. The more you feed Santa, the more fatness you accumulate, so that he will be able to get fat in time for the Christmas Eve. Read full game description here.



Design Your Winter Boots

Annie wants to go out and play with her friends. But the weather is so cold outside that she wants to have a proper boots to go out and play. She doesn’t have one to wear. So she decides to design a pair of winter boots for herself. Will you help her to make a beautiful winter boots for Annie? Choose the materials carefully and decorate the boots. Select the colour of the boots and add decorate it using the available items in the room. Read full game description here.


Belle House Makeover

Our attractive Belle came home to see that her adorable Beast has made the house in complete mess. Nothing is perfect including the tables and chairs. She needs your help to keep the house in order. But you have to find the items hidden in the house to repair the broken things. You have to be really adventurous to help Belle to renovate the house. Choose from the options and give the house a good painting. Read full game description here.


Baby Barbie Manga Costumes

Baby Barbie is fond of Manga dress. But she is not able to get her dress and other make up items. All of them are hidden in her messy bedroom. You have an interesting job in hand to help Barbie to find her hidden dress items. After finding the required things, you have to dress up baby Barbie from the dozens of pretty manga costumes available for her. You have to match each fancy top with the right skirt to produce amazing style. Read full game description here.