PARIS : Generations of dead in a cemetery in southern France have joined the information age, thanks to a new computerised system that maps the way to graves and enables people to leave electronic condolence messages...
This electronic fingerprint scanner is shown as part of the steps that the Department of Homeland Security would use to verify the identity of international visitors. story link...
Those self-serve scanning machines found at the side of many lottery counters are almost perfect, but.........
The Homeland Security Department today displayed the first iteration of technologies that it is fielding for the U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator System....
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security today unveiled the capability it will have in place at airports and seaports on December 31, 2003, to process visitors holding visas as they enter the United States....
Excerpt -- Kiosk Information Systems and TouchPoint Solutions Inc. have paired up on another c-store deployment: the new QPIX-2000 Digital Photo and Film Processing Center, a self-contained, photo-finishing station....
Circuit City Inc. and Sears, Roebuck and Co. stood out among the other surveyed retailers due to their personalized service, it says....
While training can make a difference in any business, it can be especially crucial in the restaurant field, where the employees who are the company's public face tend to change jobs often....
The method could speed the development of wall-size TVs and new forms of flexible screens...
Financial experts gathered at the Omni Interlocken Resort this week to address various aspects of the green stuff in your wallet -- including getting rid of it altogether....
Credit Union Approves over $43 Million in Member Loans Using Speech-Enabled Instant Loan Application...
Special kiosk system for viewing and ordering of tabletop and specialty collectible items from china to crystal...
Department of Homeland Security announced plans for a high-tech system...
All the thieves needed was his license plate number. They then headed to a self-serve kiosk set up by the Ontario government...
As ubiquitous as email seems to be in our world today, a new study shows that 45 percent of corporate workers do not have email access on the job....
FS-TEC Show -- Walk Up Systems, Codespear and Vultron Display Technologies have partnered to produce an innovative walk-up touch screen kiosk application providing comprehensive nutritional information and optional interactive ordering for fast food restaurants....
Practical Automation offers the ITK, cLTx, ATX38 printers for kiosks....
ParTech, Inc., Quick Kiosk Partner to Offer Pioneering Self-Service Solutions for Fast-Food Market...
Home Depot is taking steps to streamline the checkout process at its stores....
With a larger hiring pool, job seekers should not expect the same bonuses and flexible scheduling retailers offered during the late 1990s, Challenger said. The lean staffing could lead to poorer customer service as stores rely on computerized kiosks to...
The new tool will be available starting Sunday, October 26th at more than 400 Best Buy retail locations....
The South African kiosk market has its own unique challenges that are a direct result of the diversity of the demographics of the region...
The new $20 bill is having trouble at some checkouts, doing fine at others....
According to IHL Consulting Group's study, "Self-Service Kiosks in North America," the North American market will spend more than $155 billion at self-service kiosks in 2003....
Worldwide WiFi revenues are expected to grow from $7 billion in 2003 to over $44 billion by 2008...
At first glance, it might not make sense for profit-making businesses to give away, rather than charge for, wireless Internet access....
You could already get airline tickets, cash and groceries from a machine instead of a counter clerk. Now you can get a Big Mac....
Diebold, Incorporated today reported record third quarter 2003 net income of $48,289,000, an increase of 9.5 percent over third quarter 2002 net income of $44,080,000....
The company had a litany of positive results to back up the point. Kodak reported a 117% increase in consumer digital camera sales, a 43% increase in online photofinishing sales, a 33% increase in inkjet paper sales, and a 14%...
Lawmakers gave the agency $2 million to set up self-service kiosks in as many as 20 DMV offices....
America is becoming a self-serve society, with consumers taking on tasks that used to be performed for them by businesses. I...
Circle K First to Give Customers Self-Serve Lottery Through In-Store Kiosks in California...
Frost & Sullivan has presented Wincor Nixdorf with award for leadership in European market....
ATMs did not fare well in the third annual Community Bank Technology Survey recently conducted by the Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA) and by InFinet Resources....
Northwest Airlines (Nasdaq: NWAC) today announced that its nwa.com Web site outperformed all other U.S. airline sites in the Summer 2003 Online Customer Respect Study of Airline, Travel and Hotel/Resort/Casino firms that rank among the largest 1,000 companies in the...
MusiKube, a leading developer of music recognition and discovery solutions, and Virgin Megastores, the world's leading entertainment retailer, today announced plans to deploy MusiKube's Personal Music Guide (PMG), a portable in-store wireless music discovery solution, at Virgin Megastore, Union Square....
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE: HOT) is testing self-service kiosk applications at the 1,215-room Sheraton Boston Hotel and the 509-room W New York - Times Square. Located in each of the hotels' lobbies, and similar to airline kiosks,...
Although airline check-ins via the Web are available for almost all carriers, passengers have been slow to use the service. Most passengers still need education about the benefits of using Web boarding passes....
Both have developed a group of young, bright, eager and talented middle managers who are being allowed, even encouraged, to think in ways that chain drug retailing often discouraged in the past. As a result they have come up with...
US Airways has added new features to its Self-Service Check-In kiosks today, which now enable customers to choose either English or Spanish for their kiosk transaction, as well as reroute and reissue tickets if their scheduled flight is cancelled....
Having already publicly distributed approximately 10 million of its �Target Visa� credit cards containing �smart chip� technology, Minneapolis-based Target will seriously begin leveraging the payment solution this fall by launching........
From their beds, patients can access the Internet, concierge services, health-related education programming, television and movies, as well as their own medical records and billing info. There is also a Web cam for friends and family who can't make it...
Starbucks now offers its customers wireless access to the Internet in most of its U.S. stores and expects to have the service in some 2,700 locations by the end of this year....
Joint Marketing Agreement; Collaboration Leverages Best-of-Breed Technologies and Solutions into Retail, Vending and Fast Food Markets...
KIS has added new pages to corporate website. The Internet Kiosk and also Interactive Kiosks....
International Automated Systems, Inc. (IAUS.OB) ("IAS") announced today the successful debut of its automated technology at Chefplex, the world's first completely self-service order and pay restaurant....
Syncrude Deploys Plumtree Enterprise Web Suite, Assembling 150 Enterprise Web Applications for Over 5,000 Employees, Partners and Contractors...
Info Touch Technologies Partners with EWI Prepaid to Deliver PIN-Based Products across North American Retail Kiosk Networks...
Forty-four Kroger stores in West Virginia, Ohio and Kentucky were scheduled to close at midnight Monday regardless of whether employees vote to strike, a company official said Monday....
Visit KIS in Long Beach at the FS/TEC Foodservice Technology show. Booth 1263. show website...
Be sure and visit KIS at NACS in Chicago, Booth 2899 See our online booth on the NACS Online Buyers Guide...
Compuware Corporation (NASDAQ: CPWR), the software and services provider, has chosen NetShift as one of its strategic partners for a project with Torfaen Borough Council. The �1.1M contract, won by the software and services provider.........
What is a reasonable guess for total photokiosk deployments by Kodak by end of 2003?...
Automating admissions, registration, accounting and course enrolment for univeristy students (UK)....
ICUs. Families with loved one in hospital intensive care units....
Memory cards and Digital imaging processing in the small shops of the photo industry...
Wireless technology makes food shopping easier Stop & Shop and CueSol, a Massachusetts-based technology consultant, have teamed up to create a "shopping buddy," a cart-based wireless shopping aide that aims to speed and simplify the food-shopping experience. Available in three...
McDonalds in Colorado Springs employing several innovative ways to provide more efficient customer service including internet kiosks....
Nifty ROI calculator for lost productivity due to non-business surfing/emal (ie justification for lockdown software)...
LOUISVILLE, Colo., Oct. 8 -- Kiosk Information Systems (KIS), a leading global provider of self-service technology, today announced it has has partnered with DSL.net to provide connectivity. DSL.net, Inc. (NASDAQ: DSLN), is a direct national provider of high-speed data communications...
Dell receives top ranking in reliability and customer satisfactor in July 2003 analyst report....
WorkForce Technologies and Nuance Team to Deliver Packaged Speech Applications...
workforce recruiting, selection and hiring solution e...
LOUISVILLE, Colo., July 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Kiosk Information Systems (KIS) has been selected as the kiosk system provider for the U.S. Postal Service's "Personnel Central Kiosk (PCK)" initiative, which will offer human resources information to postal workers without computer access...
Baptist Hospital, operated by Baptist Health South Florida, is a 551-bed facility in Miami conducting a pilot program that may well presage a transformation in patient care....
Industry Veteran Joins Self-Service Leader Netkey...
KNO - KioskNews.Org: Digital Photography Kiosk Report Now Available!...
The ISO 9000 and ISO 14000 families are among ISO's most widely known and successful standards ever. ISO 9000 has become an international reference for quality requirements in business to business dealings, and ISO 14000 looks set to achieve at...
UL Certification is a very important standard for public use self-service terminals and kiosks....
Growing numbers of retailers are scoping out Java-based point-of-sale (POS) systems as one option to replace their aging cash registers....