High street retailer Boots is using Amatica’s kiosk expertise and services to pilot in-store internet kiosks, enabling access to the retailers website www.boots.com. The Boots self-service kiosks were launched this month....
Blockbuster tries $1 DVD rental machines in Papa John pizza stores. How effective or impact for the company bottomline these machines will be installed in rural areas is tough to see. Now if we could get that pizza delivered like...
Nice expose by TV station in Oregon that figured out that United Airlines kiosks are only parsing first initial and last name name on the credit card that is swiped and then calling up all names that match. I've Been...
Numbers from kiosk show in London/Europe released today. A little over 1300 attendees and primary interest was Retail Kiosks. Internet kiosks, ticketing kiosks and information kiosks rounded out the top four. By all accounts it was a very improved show...
Nice article on selfservice.org on USPS and plan to incentify people to use them more. Interesting stats such as 2500 out of 5000 deployed, $400/day quota on income, customers complain they cannot use cash, etc. Francie Mendelsohn makes a lot...
Back on Nov 5th it was termed a "reevaluation of organization focus" at the same time Shell began its trial in Chicago. Now it seems to escalated into including Board Fight and Possible Bankruptcy...
ChipPC which makes the Jack (PoE) or Power-Over-Ethernet thin client and the Xtreme thin client is deploying 20,000 thin clients for RSZ in Germany. Units have vdi for VMware, also run Microsoft Terminal or Citrix. Remote management software by Xcalibur....
Must be the weather.. First we have Abu Dhabi buying 8% stake in AMD and now Dell buys Everdream. The purchase of Everdream seems to signal direction to truly provide remote management for their products. You have to wonder who...
Funny YouTube piece on the Microsoft Surface Touch Table and how it solves a variety of user dilemmas. Another way of putting it is that it is a slight twisted look at the marketing mind and what it is capable...
Press Release -- SUNNYVALE, Calif., Nov. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- A study by Aberdeen Group reveals how Best-In-Class Companies are leveraging self-service to improve their costs to sales, enhance customer conversion and provide differentiated services. Infonox, the leading provider of on-demand...
Technology: We've heard people talk about burning DVDs in 2 minutes (yeah yeah yeah...) but how about transferring entire DVD in seconds. 15 Gb/sec at distance of 1 meter? That's the promise of 60 Ghz, multi-gigabit technology....
Legal news: US Attorney charges six with BizOp scams. Prepaid debit cards, DVD Rental and internet KIosks were the products being offered. Some of the more notable are Pantheon and Transnet. And no surprise they were all based in Florida....
Test by Shell is going on in Chicago with 10 statiosn there. Customers scan fingerprints at kiosk and literally pay by touch...In unrelated news it appears "Pay By Touch" is re-evaluating its focus and may turn to targeted marketing services...
KIOSK Information Systems announces bundled wireless broadband services in conjunction with Sprint and Teranova. More and more customers are looking to use wireless broadband data networks and are finding that it is not as simple as connecting the wireless usb...
Nice article on WSJ. Explains how across the U.S., utilities have shut down scores of customer-service centers in recent years and turned to retail outlets to take payments, in order to save money. Many of these locations are check-cashing...
Nov 2: Eastman Kodak Co. swung to third-quarter profit on a 1% sales decline, in another sign its transition from high-profit film to digital photography and printing is creating a viable business. Revenue in the consumer digital business increased 1.3%...
We are historians of sorts and it's interesting to see how information on the internet is now being manipulated. In the history of the traditional kiosk for example the key players were companies such as Factura (original driver) along with...