March 31, 2009

ADA Regulations - Changes in California

New resource information and links on ADA regulatory changes in California as result of senate bill becoming law January 1, 2009. Links and information are posted on the Kiosk Industry Group website....



March 30, 2009

Rixty Partners With Coinstar To Bring Online Payments To Teens

Today Rixty announced that it would partner with Coinstar in the May rollout of its new youth-oriented payment service intended to help unbanked teens pay for microtransactions more easily online. When Rixty launches, users will be able to feed coins...



DVD Kiosk - Redbox's $1 vending-machine video rentals worry movie studios

Anja Murphy returns videos to a Redbox kiosk in an Albertsons supermarket in Santa Monica. Consumers rent DVDs using their ATM cards...



Interactive kiosks expanding beyond patient check-ins

Adoption of patient kiosks, simply defined as an interactive computerized system designed for self-service tasks, are on the rise, according to a study released earlier this month by the California HealthCare Foundation....



Thinking of Going Blond? Consult the Kiosk First

More "wouldn't this be cool" factor from Intel being proposed. And those stodgy ones dispensing train tickets? Those are completely ADA and they are real-life. The intel kiosk is a rendering here and it unfortunately is a what-if that will...



March 25, 2009

Highlights from Thinclient.org

Recent highlights from thinclient.org include news report on IBM now partnering with Wyse on thin client offerings. This is major attack on HP and long awaited move by IBM. Other news includes Cloud Computing Resources, NComputing Disrupting, and Microsoft downplaying...



Highlights from Gokiosk.net

New entries on gokiosk.net include new report on check-in kiosks for healthcare and hospital registration kiosks, the skinny on Cloud Computing, status on Heartland after latest security breach, and the game-changing move by Wal-mart moving into digital healthcare system....



March 19, 2009

Customer Flow & Healthcare Kiosk Solutions

Managing customer flow situations is increasingly a great tool for businesses to utilize. That could mean managing patient and outpatient flow in medical and clinic environments, and extend to visitor flow, student flow, laboratory and pharmacy flow. There are solutions...



March 18, 2009

Hoteling - A better approach to managing facilities

Real estate is typically the second largest corporate expense after personnel, so why do so many organizations remain unchanged in the way they manage their facilities? Shouldn’t they, and you, start to look at alternative workspace solutions? This is 37...



March 10, 2009

Bike-Sharing in Minneapolis

The city's goal is to have 1,000 bikes at 75 self-service kiosks located around downtown, Uptown, and the university.Kiosks are solar-powered and equipped with RFID to track bikes....



Ingram Micro and Elo TouchSystems Partner

SANTA ANA, Calif., March 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Offering channel partners the industry's broadest and most complete selection of technology solutions, Ingram Micro Inc. (NYSE: IM) is pleased to announce it has expanded its business relationship with IT leader Elo TouchSystems,...



March 09, 2009

Music download to iPOD

Video: Bob French of Mix&Burn does a nice demo of the new FYE kiosk at PMA demonstrating download to iPOD at kiosk. Video link...



Electronic kiosk creates customized insoles

Kiosks for shoes just never end. Not sure but it seems there is a new one every year. This time the eSoles system uses an air pillow that inflates around the foot allowing a precise 3D scan to be done....



March 06, 2009

Video game rental kiosks

Students at Texas Tech University have an all-new way to get a quick video game fix, as GameFly installs their first G-Box video game rental kiosk....



March 05, 2009

Kiosk Mode under Firefox

Want to lockdown your browser but want to use Firefox? There are plugin's for that....



March 04, 2009

PMA Reports - Touchsmart Showing Up

Several companies were using HP's touch-screen desktop PC, the TouchSmart, loaded with their own software to let PMA attendees try out photo-printing solutions, and retail store kiosk software....



March 03, 2009

Self-Service Licensed Merchandise

NCR announces future SelfServ 60 deployment with R3 Omni....



March 02, 2009

Acquisitions - Noritsu picks up Lucidiom photo kiosks

Noritsu America Corporation to Acquire Lucidiom Inc., a Market Leader in Retail Photo Kiosks and Online Photo Services. Lucidiom bigger clients/footprints include Walgreens....