point-of-sale

VeriFone makes what are called point-of-sale terminals that stores across the country use to process credit-card payments.

Google, VeriFone in Talks on Mobile-Payment Partnership Amir Efrati 2011

That first computerized register, known as a point-of-sale, or POS, system, wasn't hooked into the Internet.

Hackers Shift Attacks to Small Firms Geoffrey A. Fowler 2011

So-called point-of-sale computers register the sale of a product, its price, and if desired, data on the person buying it.

Executive Economics SHLOMO MAITAL 1994

So-called point-of-sale computers register the sale of a product, its price, and if desired, data on the person buying it.

Executive Economics SHLOMO MAITAL 1994

Widgets are the point-of-sale gimmick that can help push products.

Sometimes a TV Should Just Be a TV 2009

From the analysis of point-of-sale data to genomics data, the opportunities for Hadoop are plentiful, Olson said.

Cloudera CEO: Hadoop Will Go Beyond Web Apps 2009

Merchants reluctant to update their point-of-sale equipment to read EMV will soon face the same economic incentive European businesses have known for years.

Curtis Arnold: Credit Cards With Chips: Are the Urban Legends True? Curtis Arnold 2011

While aimed primarily at PDAs and pre-netbook devices, it quickly spread to be included in additional devices, among them point-of-sale systems and medical equipment, and has become the core of many other Microsoft products as well.

Will Google’s Android Power the New Fourth Screen? 2009

Born to Run 10 — Christopher McDougall/Knopf Nielsen BookScan gathers point-of-sale book data from more than 11,000 locations across the U.S., representing about 75% of the nation's book sales.

Best-Selling Books, Week Ended Aug. 21 2011

The Justice Department said the two companies control more than 60% of the U.S. market for point-of-sale terminals used by the largest retailers.

Justice Sues to Stop VeriFone-Hypercom Deal Brent Kendall 2011