Pulling a Madeoff -- Internet scam goes down -- The participation of these defendants in the kiosk scam has landed two key principals, Edward Bevilacqua and Charles Castro, in California state prison. Surprise here is that for once the scam...
The banking crisis has done huge damage to many major bank brands and left consumers unsure who to trust. But could that create opportunities for new entrants to break into the retail banking market?...
By Thomas Frank, USA TODAY -- WASHINGTON — For the first time, U.S. travelers flying overseas may avoid customs lines at a foreign airport by swiping a digital ID card....
Officials of the United States and the Netherlands today formally launched a new initiative to open membership in their expedited air travel programs to citizens of both countries in an effort to streamline entry processes for pre-screened fliers. Global Entry...
Nice article on Microsoft. For the first time ever Microsoft has recorded a drop in quarterly revenues and according to PC-Week (oops make the E-Week) Microsoft seems reluctant to embrace netbooks as a potential business strategy.MS stock is up today....
Even as he announced another quarter of soaring revenues for the booming movies-by-mail company, CEO Reed Hastings warned that Netflix might be facing a new—and formidable—competitor by the end of the year: A growing army of rental kiosks that offer...
Kiosk software hit the news wire the other day with the announcement that Meridian was purchasing King. King has (or had) it's own software application platform. Worth noting that King began as a hardware enclosure manufacturer (and was one of...
Requirement 1 listed in PCI DSS is concerning firewalls. In real life with self-service kiosk terminals what is the practical effect of that. Here is an example. link...
NCR and Blockbuster issue a new announcement of 10,000 kiosks to be installed by end of next year. Last year around this time we had a brief barrage of news of similar thread. Maybe this time......
Mall Giant Declares Chapter 11, Vendors Ponder Implications. General operates 200 malls in 44 states and is second-largest right behind Simon. Maybe with the advent of social networking over mobile devices like Twitter, the physical hangout of the mall...
News that NCR has accelerated its purchase of TNR with the intent of getting to market quicker with Blockbuster. Seems like a week doesn't go by without a story in the news that has "Blockbuster" and "survival" in the same...
Army National Guard officials began rectifying this situation last year by installing thousands of CAC-enabled kiosks at armories and reserve centers in all 54 states and territories. Article says "More than $3.5 million has been allocated for about 8,400...
Imagine downloading your calendar down to your "pager". That was high tech back in 1994. Fifteen years ago. And the dangerous prediction that one day email will be a must-have tool (like answering machines...). Thank goodness for regular libraries......
Todd Ablowitz, a leader with deep electronic payments experience, today announced the launch of global payments industry consulting firm, Double Diamond Group with a category-leading client roster including, POS Portal Inc., Apriva and Identigraphix Inc. Independent experts fill critical need...
News from HIMSS -- Jim Hewitt, CIO, Springfield Clinic, demos the new Allscripts Patient Kiosk in under 2 minutes. Demo Video...
Microsoft Corp. is taking an unusual approach with its new Windows 7 operating system: Customers buying many of the least-expensive laptops with the software are likely to be limited to running three applications at a time and miss out on...
Latest iteration of touchscreen on top a gas pump. Customers can watch ad's if they want (and sun doesn't wash out screen) and can also interact with terminal. After all these years it is still amazing to us that someone...
NEXTEP SYSTEMS continues making inroads into the quick-serve restaurant market. Integration with POS backend systems are critical and NEXTEP continues to distinguish itself in that regard....
The SoloHealth people develop new partnerships for their customized vision screening/test kiosk. Established in late 2007, SoloHealth has placed EyeSite kiosks throughout its home base of Atlanta in retail locations such as Walgreens, Kroger, Walmart and regional malls. Since September...
ABERDEEN, N.C. — Meridian Kiosks LLC announced that it is certified to the ISO 9001:2008 standard....
KIng Products which went out of business a few months ago has shown up again with Meridian agreeing to purchase their assets....
Visa Inc. has announced the launch of the world's first commercial Visa mobile payments service for point-of-sale transactions using Near Field Communications (NFC) technology....
Kiosk Incorporates State-of-the-Art Fujitsu PalmSecure(TM) Biometric Authentication, Self-Service Check In, Credit Card Scanning and Patient Information Updating to Revolutionize Patient Registration Process for Physician Practices...
New tourism kiosks in O'Hare featuring the TouchSmart AIOs from HP. Also incorporate content from pretty wild technology from Gigapan. One of the links is 1400 pixel zoomable (is such a word?) image of the Obama inauguration. Yo Yo Ma...