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Ergotron is now offering restaurants and hotels two new wall-mounting options for menu boards and other in-store messaging display systems.

Touch Dynamic has expanded its Intel Atom Processor-based product line with a new all-in-one model called the Saturn AIO.

Epson's TM-T70 space-saving thermal receipt printer has been tested and is certified to work with Restaurant Pro Express and Cash Register Express software from pcAmerica.

At the end of last year, Hospitality Technology spoke with restaurant operators and POS vendors to identify what the top trends and technologies would be for 2009. Twelve months later, a review of HT's most read POS headlines reveals that while many of those predictions held true, there were also a number of surprises.

Experimentation nation, umami, and food with benefits are just three of the top 10 trends to watch in 2010, according to the experts at The Food Channel.

2009 has been a tumultuous year for hospitality operators. With the U.S. Federal Reserve declaring the recession's end, business owners are eager to set their sights on 2010 and move forward with their recovery efforts. In an exclusive reader survey, HT taps its audience of IT pros to learn how their companies are faring in the recovery period, as well as the specific business initiatives that they are focusing on for 2010.

For the past year, most businesses have been forced to operate in survival mode by focusing on internal operations while significantly reducing, if not altogether abandoning, external marketing and customer engagement efforts. But according to a Hospitality Technology readership poll, this tide is turning.

According to a blog posted by Google product marketing managers Ryan Hayward and David Kim, Google's new window decal initiative centers on a unique bar code, known as a QR code, that enables users to go up to a storefront and immediately find reviews, coupons and more through their mobile phones.