January 27, 2007

Kiosks Resources -- Consulting group

New venture by ex-ProTech founder Pete Kasycki which is consulting firm to aid customers in navigating the selection and implementation process. Link...



January 26, 2007

Kiosks Case Study - Sportsbook Betting Kiosk in Vegas

Okay, at first glance this might not strike you as a serious kiosk application but it is. In Vegas it is very transaction oriented, and presentation does count. If you are interested in seeing a better view of the unit...



January 23, 2007

Trade Show Events -- Screens, LCDs and Digital Signage at Earls Court

Tradeshow -- January 31 thru February 1st is the Screen Expo Europe at Earls Court in London. It's the big Digital Signage Networks show in UK. See http://www.screenevents.co.uk/ for more information. The UK now has a industry association dedicated to...



January 22, 2007

Kiosks Case Studies - Biometric Kiosks

L-1 Identity Solutions Creates Fixed and Mobile Kiosks to Enable Fast, Secure and Simple Self-Enrollment for Biometric-Enabled Credentials...



Kiosks Case Study : Betting Kiosks in Gaming

Well if you were betting on New Orleans or the Patriots you probably lost some money. Worth noting is you could've placed those bets on a betting kiosk. The alternative description for these units are ATMs on Steroids. Bill Stearns...



January 19, 2007

Kiosk Case Study : Personalized Retail offers

Pay By Touch announced their Smart Shop this week. It generates offers personalized to the consumer. Oldtimers to the industry will perhaps think of Sainsbury and Catalina. We saw it noted out on Interactive Kiosk News first. It's unusual in...



Google getting into kiosks?

Posting on clickz with some pictures of google application for kiosks. It would make sense for Google at some point to branch out from the pure internet into the clicks & mortar space (gee, how long has it been since...



January 17, 2007

Kiosks Case Studies: O/S is important

We couldn't help but notice the blog on the Kodak photo kiosks. Always interested in the composition it's worth noting that these Kodak kiosks are still running Windows 2000. W2K was a nice system actually but it passed over the...



Kiosk Case Study -- Hackers Find A Way

Nice report by on Zoom vending kiosks being "tricked". We've looked at the unit in Flatirons in Colorado and were unable to find that weakness so this could be a new version being deployed (without sufficient testing perhaps)....



January 16, 2007

Kiosks Case Study: Ferry ticket machines

News1130 - ALL NEWS RADIO VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) - Foot passengers at BC Ferries terminals in Horseshoe Bay, Departure Bay and Duke Point will soon be able to buy their tickets from a machine. The Ferry corporation has been experimenting with...



NRF Announcements -- Circuit City and Kiosks

At NRF show this week one of the Circuit City VPs talks about building 200-300 more stores and showed a video clip of kiosk that is installed in 50 stores now and assists the customer in his buying decision....



Kiosk Case Study: Nevada DMV

More locations announced for the Nevada DMV self-service kiosks. Interesting stat is that the kiosks have completed over 500,000 transactions since they have been introduced (spring 2004)....



January 13, 2007

Next version of 7402 terminal to be released

Sounds like NCR will be showing next version of 740x at NRF coming up. This unit which came out of the RealPOS division will no doubt compete with the anyplace terminal from IBM (born out of SurePOS). The more common...



January 05, 2007

Airport & Check-In Kiosks -- Intellicheck Announces Orders in PR

Intelli-Check announces new deployment of drivers license devices being used by Alamo and National in their self check-in kiosks for car rental kiosks. The order reflects another 200 kiosks being deployed to these particular customers....