April 26, 2006

Middle East Vending & Kiosks Expo set to bring together top industry majors

Top industry majors from the vending and kiosks sectors will make their presence felt at the two-day Middle East vending and kiosks exhibitions scheduled to be held in Dubai later next month....



DVD Burn on Demand Kiosk

Nero, leaders in digital media technology, announced today that Polar Frog Digital, a leader in retail DVD manufacturing, has chosen the Nero 7 Software Development Kit (NeroSDK) as the video burning solution for its MediaIgloo line of freestanding on demand...



April 21, 2006

Software Brief: Microsoft Vista too late?

Much has been made of Vista being delayed and now we have Boot Camp from Apple so we can run XP on imacs. Vista will come in 6 different flavors though not sure if that includes all of the embedded...



April 16, 2006

Technology Brief: Power Over Ethernet

New motherboards such as the EPIA EN are drawing, during playback, no more than 14.3 watts of power. New transformers for POE are providing up to 25W. That means not only video cameras, access points and voip options start to...



April 06, 2006

Case Study: Kiosks and Customer Service

Through the use of innovative technology (kiosks) and public-private partnerships, service time has been drastically improved. In the Las Vegas area alone, even though DMV has experienced an increase of nearly 20 percent more customers a month since 2000, the...



Middle East Kiosk Vending Tradeshow

The Middle East Kiosks Expo 2006, to be held alongside the Vending Expo, will showcase procurement solutions that include hardware, software and other network applications required to upgrade machines and make them user-friendly and fully automated. May 20 and 21st...



Technology: Windows XP on your Mac

You knew it was coming and its now true. Apple will soon offer Windows XP support on Macintosh systems, a strategy designed to attract new converts. The option, called Boot Camp, is currently in beta form, and allows Windows XP...



April 03, 2006

Profile: Infonox president and financial service kiosks

Safwan Shah does financial service kiosks and gaming kiosk right. Nice interview....



Case Study: Financial Service Kiosks in Convenience Stores

Would you like some financial services with that coffee? Convenience stores, best known to weary motorists as sources for drinks and snack chips, are starting to gain a reputation as good places to pay bills, cash checks, send money and...



April 01, 2006

Get your TV anywhere

Technology : book-size device plugs into PC and converts TV signals into MPEG4 so you can watch TV wherever you are. By Sony. Now that's cool!...