Discussion of ticketmaster project. Notes on entry page....
Immersion settles with Microsoft on monies due from Sony settlement. Immersion is the inventor of "haptic" or tactile touchscreens which simulate a sensation of push-down when you touch the screen. In theory it sounds pretty nice but it has turned...
nternet companies including Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft are planning to use this year's political conventions to show off their technology and products--and, of course, host massive parties for employees, celebrities, and politicians....
Nice followup article on US Bank purchase of Palm Desert by Tracey Kitten at ATMmarketplace.com. Includes quotes from Hamed at TIO basically saying this is another very positive step for the ATM industry and how vault cash is no longer...
Minneapolis-based U.S. Bank, a U.S. Bancorp (NYSE:USB) subsidiary, said it will buy the ATM and kiosk terminal management services, cash management and vault cash operations from Palm Desert, Calif.-based Palm Desert National Bank’s electronic banking solutions division....
Always good to see what Andy Egan and Maxbox are up to, and here is latest release from them -- The MaxBox push for international expansion continues apace as they sign up Advanced Integrated Systems in Jamaica as exclusive distributors...
New WSJ article from Walt Mossberg (one of our favorite writers) on his test of new internet-video adapters from Sony and from Rokulabs. He likes both and both have limitations. We suspect playing/viewing content is the mechanism the studios will...
Nice case study on LogMeIn site covering recent deployment of Crown Mailing kiosks and their experience with the remote monitoring services needed and used for their self-service terminals....
AP Newswire is reporting this morning that CLEAR has found a laptop (also see CLEAR Press Release) that had gone missing for over a week from one of its kiosk locations that contained the “personal data” of over 30,000 enrolled...
Another point of view from Washington Post as they relate article from videobusiness on how video burning is slowing down. You might not think that with all the stories about 10,000 kiosks to be installed in Blockbusters. Reminds us of...
From 9,300 DVD rental kiosks at end of 2007 to more than 22,400 by end of 2010 is the latest forecast. Release today by NCR and Blockbuster on latest buzz. Still not sure how Blockbuster survives....
With all the recent hoopla on dispensing dvd's and related, another participant but one with dynamic content delivery onsite is Polar Frog and Todd Rosenbaum. He comes to closest to the Netflix paradigm albeit he provides consumer a hard asset...