Nice article from Wall Street Jounal on self-service and the limitations of it that people see. Could be when they call in for the voice-recognition system for the airline reservation or just checking-in. Last week Target found itself on the...
TIOnetworks press release notes that with new deployment of 27 stations, they have surpassed the 1,000 mark. The TIO machine has core billpayment services such as Cricket and blends additional services into the machines depending on the client and location....
Coinstar introduces new Madison model to deploy within retail financial institutions (ie your bank on the corner). Those institutions have seen a lot of changes in their traffic/customers and this is reasonable attempt to provide additional services though hard to...
New post on steps to modify Windows XP so that you have a captive browser. It's pretty rudimentary and there are ton of things it does not address but at least twice a month someone asks. There are other ways...
The company eventually selected Kaseya's Enterprise mangement software, "which costs about $1,000 to start, [and] uses a combination of server software hosted on servers at redbox's data center and distributed agents on each managed kiosk....
MOD Systems signs a new retailer (identity undisclosed but not in Minneapolis) and has new method for downloading from kiosks to handhelds wirelessly (and still satisfy DRM). Secure DVD burning is now facilitated and they have a new incoming board...
Sticking to its word, Sprint has lit up its first EV-DO Revision A mobile broadband network today, covering San Diego to start with 20 additional markets set to launch before year's end. The upgraded Sprint Power Vision network boosts real-life...
A report due out Oct. 17 from the IHL Consulting Group sees grocers aggressively moving to upgrade to self-checkout systems, even before they replace or upgrade the aging point-of-sale systems they are based on. But another retail technology report—released Oct....
Jeep has recently launched a funky sales campaign, one that now includes digital jukeboxes created by San Francisco-based Ecast....
The online mmog/mpog gaming channel just took a new turn. Activision signs a deal to now distribute Call of Duty and others online via the Steam/Valve channel. Last year Valve had a deal with EA but that seems to have...
El TouchSystems released new set of drivers for touchscreens today including Linux and Mac. These include USB and Serial. Also XPe....
It was one of Stevens Creek's three "Giving Kiosks," a sleek, black pedestal topped with a computer screen, numeric keypad and magnetic-strip reader. Prompted by the on-screen instructions, Marshall performed a ritual more common in quickie marts than a...
VIA Technologies, Inc, a leading innovator and developer of silicon chip technologies and PC platform solutions, today announced the first ever solar-powered cyber community centre in the South Pacific. Developed with the Samoan ICT Secretariat, the centre is a...
Zebra Technologies announced today that it has purchased the kiosk printer manufacturer Swecoin AB....
A successful kiosk design isn’t only appealing and functional, but also reliable, secure, and easy to maintain. Nice writeup looking at it from an engineering perspective....
Would-be Windows-on-Linux gamers got a very early Christmas present Saturday, with the release by CodeWeavers of the first public beta of CrossOver 6.0, with support for World of Warcraft and other "steam-based" games such as Half Life 2 and Counterstrike....