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  Minimizing Complexities In The Payments World

  Complete Solutions for Today and Tomorrow

• Keep it Simple, Technology Partners

  Earn More. Worry Less.

• Forging The Way For Resellers In Mobile POS And Payment Processing

  By 2016, the mobile enterprise rugged device market will be an estimated $6 billion according to Frost and Sullivan, putting mobility as a top priority in the industry. SYNNEX Corporation is forging the way with MOBILITYSolv, a recently launched initiative covering some of the hottest trends in mobility and focused on three pillars: connect, move, and control.

• Revamping The Customer Engagement Experience
• ShopKeep POS Grows To 6.5K+ Merchants
• Finding Your Way with Payment Solutions

EXECUTIVE COMMENTARY

• How To Build A Powerful, Budget-Friendly Surveillance System For SMB Retailers

  Today, there’s no doubt that video surveillance is moving to IP networks for a number of reasons such as superior image quality from IP cameras, ability to easily integrate video with other systems such as access control, the need for accessing video from remote locations and the added value from video analytics.

• IP Video In Retail: ROI Via Enhanced Productivity & Stronger Data

  Retail is a dynamic market, constantly changing and evolving due to the economic climate, buyer behavior, and the rise and fall of criminal activity. It's also a challenging market, where thin profit margins make cost control not just a useful strategy but a daily and constant requirement of doing business.

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  Beginner’s Guide To Selecting The Right IP Camera

  There are many advantages to choosing IP cameras over standard devices. Megapixel cameras provide high-resolution images, and the higher the resolution, the more accurate the detail of the image. Therefore, megapixel images are much more valuable from a forensic standpoint than lower-resolution images. With analog technology, a recorded image has around 0.3 megapixel, but a network camera with 3.1 megapixels records 10 times more detail.

• IP Video For SMBs

  Rapid growth using limited available resources presents plenty of challenges for small to medium-sized businesses (SMB), and the challenges extend to their choice of video surveillance systems. In contrast to large companies that can target personnel and resources to specialized areas, SMB customers often have to make do with less and call on their employees to wear “multiple hats.”

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  Remote Video Monitoring: 4 Factors That Can Kill Performance

  Viewing video on a smart phone is common today in the consumer market. Remote access to video — from anywhere to anywhere — is also an expectation among security end users. The security benefits are undeniable, including greater productivity for security officers, who no longer have to sit at a desk to view video. Easy availability of real-time video of remote locations can help protect a company's people, facilities and assets — and even offer operational benefits.

WHITE PAPERS & CASE STUDIES

• 10 Reasons To Switch To IP-based Video

  In this paper we’ll take a look at ten key motivators for switching from analog to IP-based cameras. Obtain a more reliable security system, reduce costs, and create value for your business.

• IP-Surveillance Design Guide

  This document is a guide to setting up an IP-Surveillance system in a small- to medium-sized security installation. It provides an overview of network video’s functionalities and benefits, and outlines considerations and recommendations for implementing such a system.

• In The Best Of Light: The Challenges Of Minimum Illumination

  Light is fundamental to the quality of an image. As a rule, provided it is not overexposed, the image will be better the more light that is available in the scene. If the amount of light is insufficient, the image will be noisy or dark. The amount of light that is required to produce a good-quality image depends on the camera and how sensitive to light it is. In other words, the darker the scene, the more sensitive to light the camera has to be.

• The Mobile Payment Revolution
• Choctaw Casinos Saves More Than $300,000 With IP Surveillance And Serverless Computing
• Rochester Police Department Cuts Crime By 80% With Help From Serverless Computing

POS & PAYMENT PROCESSING HEADLINES

• Alan D. Gartner Joins Executive Team At Sterling Payment Technologies
• Business Solutions Expands Educational Offering With Channel Transitions VAR/MSP Executive Conference
• Datalogic’s New QuickScan QD2400 2D Imager Offers The Value Of Cutting Edge Area Imaging Technology At An Affordable Price
• NuRol Partners With Sterling For Seamless Restaurant Payment Processing
• Merchant Warehouse Partners With Retail Pro International To Enhance Customer Experience

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• 02.04.13 -- Making Mobile POS Pay

MULTIMEDIA

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  Video Demo: SATO GL408e SATO America took some time at value-added distributor BlueStar's recent VARTECH Canada event in Montreal, Quebec to show off its GL408e desktop barcode printer. As seen in the below video, the printer's versatility with media, maintenance, emulations, and upgradeability all are addressed in the demo I had a chance to sit in on.
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  Panasonic Provides Command Center For Video Security During the ASIS 2010 conference and exhibition in Dallas, Business Solutions magazine Chief Editor Mike Monocello had the opportunity to learn more about Panasonic's video surveillance solutions. In the below video, a quick demonstration is given to show how Panasonic ties video security solutions together in the command center.
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  Panasonic Shows Off Its Line Of Video Cameras The below video was shot at the recently held ASIS 2010 conference and exhibition in Dallas. Mike Monocello, Business Solutions magazine's chief editor, was on hand to get a short overview of Panasonic's line of video security cameras.
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  Panasonic Talks Video Security For Retail At the recently held ASIS 2010 conference and exhibition in Dallas, Business Solutions magazine Chief Editor Mike Monocello had a chance to get a quick overview of Panasonic's video camera and DVR solutions for retail point of sale (POS).

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