Zebra Plastic Card Printers.

Zebra Plastic Card Printers come in a variety of styles and price ranges, including single-sided printers, dual sided printers, and security printers

Healthy Solutions for Healthcare.

The healthcare industry benefits from barcoding. Barcoding enhances patient safety and operational efficiency.

Seagull Scientific Products

Seagull Scientific BarTender is an industry-leading label design and barcode software. Seagull Scientific also develops true Windows printer drivers for bar code and thermal printers.

MC 9190G

The Ability To Satisfy Your Company Software Requirements.

Wireless Broadband

The unrivalled Motorola portfolio of Point-to-Point (PTP), Point-to-Multipoint (PMP), and Mesh Wide Area Network (MWAN), WLAN and VoWLAN solutions make governments, enterprises, and service providers more agile by helping them deploy voice, video, and data applications right where they need them.

Thursday, 4 December 2008

New Book Release


One Step Retail Solutions has released a new eBook, "Succeeding in the Retail Business during Economic Stress" by Kevin McAdam which offers insight and strategies for retailers suffering at the hands of a struggling economy.

Looking at trends in retailing and current industry news spouting doom and gloom, Kevin McAdam gets to the bottom line with survival strategies that help retailers adapt to changing technologies and the new realities of the marketplace.

“This book is very timely because of the current economic conditions, and Kevin really gets into the necessities of what retailers should do during challenging times,” says Scott Kreisberg, CEO of One Step Retail Solutions. “His strategies point out how retailers can not only survive, but thrive during these conditions. I can personally vouch for the validity of his strategies, since I passed on these strategies to him and have watched my clients remain profitable during three economic recessions over the past 20 years as a result.”

This book is a compilation of articles from Kevin's column in a newsletter published by One Step Retail Solutions, advising its retail customers how to get through the economic climate of decreased sales numbers.

Alicia Kreisberg, Chief Operating Officer at One Step claims, “Retailers will find this book very insightful, particularly because the approach and principles outlined in Kevin’s book are taken from the same practices we use at One Step with our clients. No matter what the economic climate is, we make sure that our clients have the tools to succeed.”

Retailers will find in-depth methodologies for such matters as weathering a storm in the retail business, increasing sales through channels of retailing, having the right product at the right place at the right time, how retailers should focus on their core strengths, and adjusting a retail business to changing economic times.

The eBook version is now available as a free download at www.onestepretail.com/retail/ebook.php.

Saturday, 22 November 2008

RssHugger Review

It turned out that registering this blog is essential to get visitors. While browsing the net for free rss submission services (overviews are provided by RSStop55 or www.toprankblog.com). I also stumbled over RssHugger.com. It sounds like a fair deal, they are listing this blog - and I write a few lines regarding their service.

RssHugger.com provides two ways to get listed. Paying a small amount of money or getting listed for free - if you write a small review like this. Because I don't know what I'll receive for my money I prefer option 2 in this case. ;-). So - let's see what happens.

Tuesday, 11 November 2008

Generic Survey Widget

Just for fun a colleague of mine implemented a generic widget for simple and minimalistic web-based surveys. Chck out www.widgetbox.com for the Online Survey Widget made by TEC-IT.

At the moment this widget just sends GET requests to a pre-specified URL (the URL is adjustable). The results of the survey are thus only visible in the web-logs of the respective web-server. We know - this is not state-of-the art ;-). But if time allows an email notification service will be implemented. So everyone can use this online survey widget without any local software installation.

Monday, 10 November 2008

Online Barcode Generator Updated

TEC-IT updated the Online Barcode Generator recently. Behind the scenes the barcode software TBarCode 9 is working - which now supports Micro QR Code and more than 100 other barcode symbologies.

Check out unlimited Online Barcode Creation today!

Saturday, 8 November 2008

Software Wedge - Data Acquisition Software

Beside barcode, labeling and reporting software TEC-IT offers software tools for data acquisition. One of these tools is named TWedge - a software wedge.

The main purpose of such a software wedge (also named keyboard wedge) is to transform data read from an external device (connected via RS232, RS485, serial, COM, USB, Bluetooth or TCP/IP) into keyboard strokes. These keyboard strokes are then be forwarded to arbitrary applications. Using such middleware it is possible to automate data acquisition tasks - even with software applications which are not able to communicate with devices directly (e.g. like using a serial barcode scanner with Microsoft Excel).

The existing version of TWedge fulfills its main purpose perfectly. Serial data is captured and forwarded to applications. But customers often require powerful possibilities for adjusting and modifying data prior it is forwarded to a target application.

The solution to this problem? Scripting!

The new version of TWedge supports JavaScript(tm). Thus customers are able to do more or less everything with TWedge. Received data can be transformed, modified, checked and adjusted. But the most interesting point is, that TEC-IT extended JavaScript with direct database and file access. In other words: the upcoming version of TWedge enables users to store data directly into ODBC databases and files. It is also possible to implement complex application logic in JavaScript.

If interested just contact TEC-IT. A release candidate is available for testing!

Thursday, 6 November 2008

ESpeedPost uses TEC-ITs Online Barcode Generator

EspeedPost demonstrates how to connect web-services in a successful way: EspeedPost uses TEC-IT's online barcode generator for generating shipping labels.

Founded in 1995, Espeed is a logistics partner for eBay sellers who sell worldwide. They have a tight cooperation with Hongkong Post, EMS, DHL, UPS, Fedex etc., and can provide various services to customers according to their demands.

More information about ESpeedPost is available here.

Tuesday, 4 November 2008

Barcode Generator with extensive Symbology Support

As already announced in a previous post, TEC-IT released the new version of the barcode generator software component TBarCode (Version 9).

TBarCode V9 introduces support for Micro QR-Code, a full Aztec barcode implementation and the support for HIBC bar-codes (linear and 2D barcode variants for LIC and PAS encoding). In total TBarCode generates now more than 100 different barcode symbologies!

More details are available here. The demo version of TBarCode can be downloaded for free from www.tec-it.com.

Try it - and let us know if there are some features missing!

Sunday, 26 October 2008

Google Docs and Barcodes

TEC-IT offers an Online Barcode Generator for creating dynamic bar-codes online. This barcode generator can be easily integrated in web-applications and online documents like Google Docs.

The link below explains how to integrate dynamic bar-codes into arbitrary Google documents. You do not need additional software or locally stored barcodes images!

Using Barcodes in Google Docs

Monday, 20 October 2008

Free Webinar for Retailers

Announcing...The Roll-up Your Sleeves, Time for the Cold Hard Facts, Make Sure You Survive the Economic Downturn FREE WEBINAR.

"How to Adjust Your Retail Business to The Changing Economic Times"

Date: November 12, 2008
Time: 11:00 AM (PT)
For: Retail business owners and managers

With our hand on the pulse of retail, we told you back in March what you needed to do then to thrive in the coming economic downturn. Many retailers took this to heart and are growing and expanding. What can you do now that the economic bad times are here? Adjust. Find out how in this hard-hitting, no holds barred, confront the facts, 1-hour webinar.

Join Kevin McAdam, author, speaker, Vice President of One Step Retail Solutions and co-founder of the Retail Technology Resources Group for this new retail-business-owner specific, 1-hour time investment, survival course.

In this webinar you'll find out about:
  • How you can increase your bottom line, even while sales are decreasing.
  • The 5 things that you must have going for you to ensure your staying power.
  • The 2 most important assets that retailers have and how to make them work for you.
  • The 14 biggest obstacles to retail store survival.
  • Real life examples of how some retailers are able to expand during hard economic times while others go under.
This will be the best hour you could invest to ensure your business survives! You will learn why 87% of retail businesses fail and how you can avoid being one of them!

Be quick! RSVP now...Go to www.onestepretail.com/webinar
Registration is free, but required. Limited space- only 200 spots available!

Tuesday, 7 October 2008

Retail Pro Business Partner Award

Retail Pro, Inc. announced its awards for Global Business Partner of the Year and Global Top Sales Award at its annual Business Partners Conference in San Diego, California. The winner of both awards was One Step Retail Solutions.

“Once again, One Step Retail Solutions has proven itself to be an outstanding business partner and brings to its clients, some of the leading specialty retailers in the world, the benefit of excellent advice, service and support,” said Retail Pro’s Ken Sapp, Senior Vice President for Global Sales.

In accepting these awards, One Step COO Alicia Kreisberg stated, “This is definitely a team effort and we think our team is the best around. We also know that our success is based on the fact that our purpose is to improve how retailers run their business by using technology to boost efficiencies and collect valuable information that can help them make the right business decisions. We give each retailer personalized attention and ensure the technology they chose fits their individual business needs."

One Step Retail Solutions has been Retail Pro’s Global Business Partner of the Year for the last two years and was also awarded the Inc 5000 award for 2007, as one of the 5000 fastest growing companies in the US.