AT&T customers have a new way to find out about the company's mobile phones, thanks to some new technology from Microsoft. At the company's San Bruno store Thursday - and at four other stores around the nation - AT&T...
KioskCom Self Service Expo Celebrates Record Attendance, Break-Through Deployments During 12th Annual Show in Las Vegas. Awards announced....
Overall winner -- VingCard -- By securely sending a text message to the guest's NFC-enabled mobile phone with the encrypted key, together with the hotel information and room number, it allows guests to go straight to their rooms without having...
Software as a service...cloud computing...MS apps run anywhere on anything...The things we've always wished for seem to be on the horizon with Amazon S3, Google Apps, and now Microsoft Mesh trying to grab the real estate. Click here for understandable...
The US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has announced a pilot program that is designed to expedite the screening and processing of low-risk, frequent international “trusted” travelers entering the United States. The Global entry programme is scheduled to launch this...
New version Kioware 6.3.0 released today. We saw integrated VoIP demo in Vegas and it worked very well. Ability to support up to 10 additional monitors is new feature. Release notes follow....
Interview with Jens Schindler of Digital Signage Expo of Europe + press release describing the upcoming show. Looks like 170 exhibitors....
HP used the last KioskCom in Vegas in April to announce its intent to aggressively pursue the kiosk market. Part of their marketing initiative is the new redesigned website they have for kiosks which includes information on different application segments...
ID continues to grow in importance and this time it involves photo ID requirements. DHS just last week trumpeted that fingerprints were about to be mandated. Hard to imagine that stepped up identification processes are just going to become more...
New figures from analyst firm Juniper Research estimate that almost 3 billion mobile coupons will be issued to Mobile Users by 2011, with just under $7 billion of discounts redeemed....
Tradeshow in Düsseldorf next week for Kiosks and Digital Signage europe-style......
Adding to a growing portfolio of successful pay-for-use Internet, Gaming, and Office kiosk products, ZOOX Stations has announced the NETZOOX Self-Service Internet Cafe at the recent Self-Service Expo in Las Vegas. [photo]...
Global Software Applications/SurferQuest has installed secure, self maintained and privacy protected internet kiosk center software into Celebrity Resorts' business centers. SurferQuest will allow the resort guests to have access to the desktop and applications such as Microsoft Office, Instant messangers...
April 25, 2008 -- LOUISVILLE - Kiosk Information Systems Inc., a designer and manufacturer of indoor and outdoor kiosks, public Internet stations and other electronic self-service informational terminals, has tripled the number of its international distributors....
Borders Inc., the troubled bookstore chain based in Ann Arbor, is introducing 15 so-called "concept stores" this year - an effort to integrate technology into the store and generate interest as revenue evaporates....
Using debit cards at a self-service terminal means that you'll be sending encypted pin data somewhere to be decoded/transacted. At that server enpoint will sit the HSM which will do that. ATM people know it well. Kiosk people are just...
On Tuesday, the Department of Homeland Security unveiled a plan to make meaningful exit controls at airports a reality. The administration is proposing that airlines collect fingerprints from departing aliens. DHS would match the records against prints taken when aliens...
Nice usability analysis from perspective of customer on various types of real self-service kiosks and their usability factor. Categories include banking kiosks, grocery checkout, deli order and airline kiosks....
New checkreader ID imager from CTS. Dual check and ID card scanner color matching. Typical applications include retail kiosks for bill payment or check cashing, targeting unbanked users....
ViVOtech is extending its ViVOpay line of contactless readers into the kiosk market by introducing the ViVOpay Kiosk contactless payment module. The new technology is certified to work with all major contactless payment programs and allow third-party Kiosk host systems...
ATLANTA--SoloHealth, a hi-tech health services company developing vision-testing kiosks,has secured $1.8 million in financing from private investors, including the Atlanta Technology Angels (ATA) investment group. This unit won Best of Show at the recent KioskCom in Las Vegas. [photo]...
Press release - Kiosk*PASS(TM) from Infonox Reduces Operational Cost and Increases Fee-Based Revenue from Self-Service Kiosks...
News out of Las Vegas -- HP has decided to enter the self service kiosk market. The company is extending retail point-of-purchase presence to self-service kiosks....
Nice perspective commentary on kiosks, self-service and digital signage by Jim Kruper of Kioware....
Newsletter from KIOSK on new "stuff". Nice photos of new modular kiosk cafe for cybercafes as well as NEMA4 rated outdoor ticketing kiosk for Fujitsu. Digital signage and wayfinding 42" touchscreen project shown. Very nice three monitor EyeSite kiosk. For...
Application profile for four winds interactive. Four Winds does digital signage such as non-interactive and interactive large LCD (touchscreen or none). Recommended....
Rite Aid Stores Nationwide To Launch Expanded, State-of-the-Art Photo Services Starting This Summer. “Our agreement sets the stage for creating a ‘Best in Class’ photo solution for our more than 5,000 Rite Aid stores nationwide,” said John Pollock, Rite Aid...
Nice writeup on configuring Linux browser lockdown under Ubuntu with Blackbox window manager. This install also sets up Apache,PHP and MySQL locally so app can be web-based but not necessarily connected to the Internet. Firefox is the browser engine and...
SCM Microsystems has announced the release of its new “NFC dongle.” This is a USB device that connects users’ NFC-enabled mobile devices to their PCs. The new SCM device hopes to bridge the gap between the Web and NFC mobile...
Product information for the Epson EUT-400 kiosk printers. Highly recommended for robust self-service application these printers handle 58mm to 114mm. Worth noting that in the retail space these printers support the latest javapos implementation....