December 26, 2007

Games Changing this year

Is it any surprise the after years of more complex controllers and complex games that more simple motion control "joysticks" such as Wii and Guitar Hero are the real smash hits of the holiday season? The Wii, Guitar Hero and...



December 21, 2007

New Marketing Tactics in Traditional Retail

Story today on WSJ --- Customer Testimonials: It is one of a number of strategies that retailers are borrowing from the Internet these days. For example, alternative payment services such as eBay Inc.'s PayPal and Bill Me Later Inc. have...



December 20, 2007

Breaking Into Hotel Kiosks

Employee of service company breaks into check-in internet kiosks at hotels and installs skimmer to collect credit card information. Only $35K in 3 days but illustrates lengths people will go. Just the other day the DVD Play kiosks were getting...



December 11, 2007

KIOSK adds design and integration services for IBM AnyPlace Kiosk

Worth noting that KIOSK in Colorado has added new section to website for design and integration services for the IBM AnyPlace Kiosk. KIOSK has been doing projects as a certified business partner of IBM for years but this is first...



Another music download machine concept bites the dust?

Article in Manchester Evening News in U.K. lays out scenarios for Andy Egan and Felix now that they are re-evaluating business model and Egan has stepped down....



December 06, 2007

DVD Kiosks - Blockbuster shares slide

Nice story on Bloomberg on how $1 rentals from grocery stores are beginning to impact Blockbuster (which tries to rent the same movie for $3 more next door). Revenue to fall from $5.5B to $4.9B as a result (ouch...). Share...



December 04, 2007

Clear Registered Traveler in Denver

The kiosk at the Hyatt allows customers to complete the Clear enrollment process, as it takes a scan of a customer's finger and iris. The images — along with an application filled out online prior to the scans — are...



December 03, 2007

GM Kiosks Shown at Tradeshow

MxN Middle East announced that it has just completed the supply of self service Kiosks to General Motors Middle East that were launched at the 9th Middle East International Motorshow held in Dubai. Photo of units provided....



Mergers - Activision and Vivendi

Pretty big deal with World of Warcraft, Guitar Hero and Call of Duty all now under one company. New company is Activision Blizzard and the transaction is valued at close to $19B. Net to Electronic Arts this is now the...