New announcement from Pay By Touch (aka Solidus) has ceased processing biometric transactions (ie shut down). Remains to be seen what IP held....
Interesting self-service application which doesn't get much airplay is "hoteling". Large companies are altering the way employees work at facilities and resource scheduling has a surprising (and significant) ROI for employers. More information follows....
TULSA, Okla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Alamo Rent A Car recently set a major industry milestone with one million self-service kiosk rental transactions....
Hard to not notice Andy Egan of MaxBox. He's been invited onto the British Olympic council and will work with them to raise the £18,000 needed for each athlete to compete in Beijing....
Being Green is something the thin client community uses as its primary weapon/argument for deployments. The old desktop came with 280 Watt power supply. That new ultra small form factor HP comes with high efficiency 135W. All the way down...
DIMA Photo Kiosk Shoot-Out Results -- The super bowl of photo kiosks was held recently at the PMA show in Las Vegas and Storefront achieved a blowout victory winning 6 of 8 categories....
TIO and new TIO Express ( at the counter) product activated its first 600 locations this year and is now generating revenue. This new channel is in addition to the web-enabled kiosks and hybrid ATMs it has installed. Congratulations to...
MaxBox Digital Retail Ltd announce another major distribution deal just months after being acquired from Felix Group plc and relaunching as a privately owned company....
New report from FTN for North American ATM market issued today. Duopoly of NCR and Diebold still in place though Wincor is beginning to edge in. New spending is expected to be flat. Interesting is that "operational CRM which refers...
Photo book at CVS works really well except for final construction by clerk of the album. Illustrates the entire process impacts the consumer and one flawed segment can negate the overall servicing of the customer....
Ski-Lift Ticketing Kiosks Allow Sports Authority to Reduce Shoppers' Lift Ticket Purchase Times From Half-Hour to Less Than a Minute...
Now that is one small PC... About the size of a typical RJ45 connector, the Picotux comes with 32-bit ARM processor. uClinux 2.4.27. See www.picotux.com for more information....
New check-in kiosks for Continental Airlines in Latin America. The kiosks utilize Common Use Self-Service (CUSS) technology, which allows different airline applications to run concurrently on a single self-service device. The kiosks also feature an integrated bar code imager, to...
A three restaurant pilot is underway that will test the level of guest adoption of the technology, improvement in speed of customer service, and lift in average check the franchisee can achieve. "The pilot period enables us to learn and...
Blast from the past: We were doing some research on the kiosk industry (specifically awards over the years at Kioskcom (& free pass)) and noticed a lot of old historical news has been lost (ie no longer indexed). We went...
Leap Year causes United Airlines check-in kiosks to go down. Officials say it was a software issue. Who does the software for UA kiosks anyway. I've been meaning to learn that......
Great article by Derek Fretheim on ADA and the actual definitions as they apply to self-service terminals....
PC over IP: The next wave in thin clients IBM, ClearCube employ Teradici chipset to transmit data, graphics over IP network. The benefits are ease of management and better security because no applications reside on the users’ clients, experts say....
Microsoft is working on turning USB-based flash drives into a “Windows companion” — a new product known as “StartKey” — that will allow users to carry their Windows and Windows Live settings with them....
The key to the service is a proprietary USB interface that transfers data at a faster average rate than standard USB devices. A standard-definition movie can be loaded onto a memory device in 8 to 60 seconds, depending on the...