Bringing financial services to the unbanked with self-service kiosks is quickly becoming big business in the United States. According to Chicago-based The Center for Financial Services Innovation (in its May 2005 research report, "Retailers as Financial Services Providers: The Potential...
A live test of e-passports that contain microchips with biographic and biometric information begins today at terminals 2, 4 and 7 of Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) and at Sydney Airport in Australia. The test will run from June 15th...
In Japan you can now take your re-writable GBA movie card to a vending machine kiosk to get new episodes of Pokemon....
With 75,000 photo kiosks installed and 121,000 estimated by 2008, photo kiosks are "hot" to say the least. The traditional outlets for consumers to get prints from their film cameras, such as drugstores and big box outlets like Wal-mart, are...
Supermarkets plan to increase spending on self-checkout systems and workforce management software in the next 12 months, according to a new report from IHL Consulting Group, a leading retail analyst and consultancy firm. Over 40 percent are planning new kiosk...
Most kiosks are not designed for access by disabled persons. Self-service kiosk check-in terminals at airlines are one example. California is considering legislation to change that....
ACG Identification Technologies announces the launch of its new high-speed, fully ISO 14443 A and B compatible RFID reader in a Compact FlashTM card form factor....
Microsoft Shared Computer Toolkit for Windows XP (Beta)released today. This toolkit is designed to help make it easier for anyone to set up, safeguard and manage reliable shared computers. That would include locations like libraries, internet cafe's, etc....
ViVOtech announced that its ViVOpay products have been certified by American Express(R) for use in its ExpressPay program. The certification guarantees the ViVOpay 3000 and 4000 readers conform to American Express' reliability, security and performance standards....
Noted : new information on the turnaround of the French photo company Photo-Me. The Independent out the UK issued the information and notes new manufacturing of kiosks in China. Competitors listed are Fujifilm and Noritsu. Read more...
Noted -- MARS and JCM in litigation. The two patents in question are in relation to the Cashflow SC bill acceptor. read more...
Shannon Litz/The R-C Department of Motor Vehicle Supervisor Cary Graves, right, shows Rachel Krueger of Topaz how to use the new DMV kiosk for registration renewals....
Oslo and Frankfurt to get the first ones. Air France and KLM are airlines involved. They predict that by 2010 65% of the 50 million passengers that go thru Frankfurt will use self-service....
City of Orlando has pulled the plug on their experiment in free Wi-Fi. According to The Register usage was 27 people a day. T-Mobile was losing $10 for every $1 in revenue. And in the July 5 Forbes one of...
Article on self-service kiosk awards at KioskCom 2005 where the Burn-A-Song kiosk designed/entered by Kiosk Information Systems and TouchNSurf took first place....
As the retail industry starts to embrace contactless payment in a big way�led by $41 billion retailer 7-Eleven and Chase, the nation's largest issuer of credit cards�arguments are renewing about just how safe and fraud-proof these cards will be....
ICICI Bank and Wyse team up to deliver financial banking services via thin client kiosks....
wKiosk Browser is intended to allow kiosk owners to design their user interface without custom programming. According to the company, the software can be used to develop Internet kiosks, survey kiosks, database kiosks, directory kiosks, shopping cart kiosks and/or multimedia-rich...
Francie Mendelsohn of Summit Research gives us the latest Kiosk Industry Buzz as she see's it. This month -- the photo kiosk is a complex equation. According to Francie Mendelsohn of Summit Research self-service photo kiosks are hot and will...
A German PC shop is shipping a tiny Geode-based thin client running Windows CE 5.0. Concept Distribution's "miniTC" measures 5.5 x 5.1 x 1.4 inches (13 x 14 x 3.5cm), and is also available as a "miniPC with a 40...
Doubts come to surface again on whether or not the Starbucks equation is working and/or will work for music download stations and kiosks....
Fairmont Hotel and Resorts in Canada is taking the kiosk check-in plunge. Hotel Check-In has been showing up in news quite a bit lately and unfortunately not in an favorable context. Still, providing service to your customers is paramount....
Chase Bank U.S.A., a division JPMorgan and Chase, announced today the Colorado rollout of its new Chase "contactless" credit card called "blink." These card will be accepted at over 400 locations (including some with kiosks). Makes you wonder when they...
Being able to charge different customers differently is one of those strategies that companies constantly explore implementing. Here is article from Techdirt that indicates one major retailer doing just that (lower price shows on internet browser outside the store compared...
Step by step configuration of KDE desktop to lockdown the desktop in kiosk mode. Includes desktop, context menus, icons and setting up custom system wide desktop icons. Kiosk mode lockdown admin tool for Linux is available for download....
American Express Begins Issuing Contactless Payment Cards Nationwide and Signs 7-Eleven, Inc. as Newest ExpressPay Merchant....
It has been nearly 25 years since the first minilab made its appearance and forever changed the face of retail photo processing. It�s still possible, however, to offer customers great service and high-quality prints without an in-store lab....
Nice piece on photo kiosk and digital music download kiosks. Writer uses the McDonalds in Germany proof-of-concept as part of the basis and then coordinates it with photo kiosk numbers from Pixel Magic...
Bill Gates speaking at the Mobile and Embedded Conference talks about their new embedded operating system and goes thru making a self-service kiosk application with Visual Studio. It's notable that Mr. Gates is using kiosks as example. In his...