Home furnishing retailer IKEA has installed in-store kiosks in six Belgian stores for customers to join the IKEA family loyalty scheme. [picture]...
Wal-Mart, E-Play and NCR get called to explain by StorefrontBacktalk and Fred Aun article. Gist is trial of 77 stores running trial of used video buyback kiosks that take card data and drivers license info, and then talk about linking...
Hard drive fails in Virginia and knocks out national database for 66 national cemeteries. Fallback for assistance was the local staff....
New proof-of-concept going on Tim Horton's in Canada. Sounds like application still needs some tuning. Note the credit card terminal appended to the unit as well. ...
Mozilla Labs continues to turn out interesting projects. Prism, a single-serving browser for web apps, extends and protects your online applications....
MAY 20 | PHYSICAL: Redbox is adding more kiosks in Circle K convenience stores as part of its plan to boost its machine count by at least a third within the next eight months, the largest U.S. operator of movie-rental...
Netflix bucks the trend of the DVD price war.Comment on Netflix, Coinstar, Redbox and the bloody balance sheet....
Wal-Mart might be considering a challenge to specialty videogame retailer GameStop, if a new test of self-service kiosks that allow for videogame rentals and trade-ins as well as DVD rentals is any indication....
HP decides to take another angle with the TouchSmart pc and try selling to corporate America. Consumer sales have lagged with only about 400,000 being sold. Wolcott with IBM weighs in with IBM response....
U.S. District Court Judge D. Brock Hornby on Tuesday (May 12) became the latest jurist to rule in favor of data-breached retailers, telling Hannaford consumers that because they were compensated by their banks, they have no basis to sue civilly...
Here are couple of nice videos from KioskCom including Francie M. getting interviewed by Arcatech. Show sounds like attendance was down....
Cleveland case study on 165 kiosks intended to fund themselves (and the city) via ad dollars. Several negative factors have combined to prevent the kiosks from hitting those numbers but also when advertising like this will prove a viable business...
Apple files patent for download kiosk. Just as the digital music and movie kiosk business appears poised to launch, it looks like startup companies in the space could face some heavyweight competition from Apple....
Dubai - The next time you apply for an immigration-related transaction in Dubai, you may head to the nearest mall. This is made possible by a self-service and mobile visa (m-visa) machines unveiled by the Dubai Naturalisation and Residency Department...
In Canada -- the legislature is set to debate the use of "telepharmacy": machines that fill prescriptions, with the patient scanning a written prescription, speaking to a pharmacist through a video link and having the drugs dispensed....
Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) presented the first functioning prototype of its new Instant Issuance Kiosk for payment cards at the Visa Europe Member Days in Berlin....
Kiosk Exp in Essen, Germany begins today and runs for 3 days. They have 140 exhibitors and Wincor issued news release . And of course tomorrow in Vegas is the start of KioskCom at Mandelay. It's the big show here...
DVD Kiosks don't go away, they just continue to haunt you...One minute it's Blockbuster doing this, or it's Redbox doing that, or Netflix is busy with what, and finally NCR is buying who? The only other company that generates this...
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) unveils a prototype of its proposed information kiosks at a Waldorf, MD, shopping mall. The kiosk is the first of 24 to be set up by the VA nationwide to provide veterans with a...
The tutorial looks at various options that affect power, from attempting to run on batteries or Power-over-Ethernet (PoE), neither of which is feasible for most kiosks, to using traditional CRT monitors, which can be cheaper, but which add considerably to...
PNI providing business update today in conference call. Background includes news about Fred Meyer and KingSoopers for new photo sites and over 700 software deployments....
Concerns about the recent hybrid influenza outbreak affecting countries around the globe prompted the Food Marketing Institute (FMI) to temporarily pull the plug on its Future Connect and MARKETECHNICS events scheduled to take place next week, May 6 through May...
Fujitsu, partnering with Allscripts, recently introduced the Allscripts Patient Kiosk, a revolutionary way for health care patients to confirm their identities. The kiosk allows individuals to rest their palm above a reader where an infrared light scans their palm and...