IBM has secured a multi-million dollar deal to develop a complete cross-channel retail platform for Australia’s longest-standing department store group, David Jones, which IBM says will allow consumers to buy on their terms, according to their preferences.

The well known hands-free and unified comms company has crafted a new “education and sales program” to offer “greater support” for its 300 partners across the Aust and NZ region.

Although Ruslan Kogan has taken his surname and turned it into a brand name, there’s clearly plenty o’ cash to be made from selling existing top brands at competitively low prices, with Kogan promising “up to 46% off” retail pricing on brands like Apple, HP and Dr Dre.

Sony in the US has dropped its Android 3.x Honeycomb-powered Tablet S prices by US $100, but haven’t committed to doing so in Australia - despite next week’s CES and a plethora of new Android 4.0 tablets to come.

While a record number of shoppers headed online for Christmas bargains this year, Australians are now left with over 16.7 million unwanted gifts that were received by disappointed friends and family, valued at over $500 million dollars.

Retailer Kmart is replacing its existing network switches with Juniper hardware.

Ruslan Kogan today announced that his online business is "undergoing tremendous growth" and told big retailers to "move on."

Google says searches for terms related to Christmas shopping are up this year, and is advising retailers to review their advertising focus and budget to reflect consumer behaviour.

Despite one of the weakest retail markets for many years, sales of digital radios in Australia recorded their biggest quarterly jump since Christmas last year, with close to 100,000 of the radios sold in the third quarter this year alone.

  Microsoft has secured $50,000 damages from a NSW retailer selling unlicensed copies of Windows on PCs. The company had reused certificate of authenticity stickers from old hardware.