September 30, 2009

ATM ISOs look to kiosks for deployment, transactional growth

ATM ISOs and DVD Vending Kiosks. Global Axcess interviews with ATM Marketplace/Tracy Kitten and explains the benefits to ISOs. Notes that kiosk market has more nuances than most ATM deployers appreciate....



Self-service kiosks boom, saving time for shoppers and costs for stores

Great writeup on Dallas News complete with data on self-service kiosks. The writer emphasizes the deli and dining market as emerging (another way of saying disappointing so far...)....



September 29, 2009

VISA mobile contactless trials expand

Mobile contactless pilot gets started in Italy with VISA. Nokia mobile phone is payment means....



Digital Signage and Hospital Wait Times

Novel use of digital signage is electronic billboard in Florida which updates every 30 minutes the average wait time in the Emergency Room. Picture....



September 25, 2009

Starbucks goes iPhone mobile in Seattle and California

Starbucks announces trial of loyalty card holder pay with iPhone....



September 23, 2009

News from around the Net

More news from around the net: Follow us on Twitter From Thinclient: TabletKiosk announcements Thinclient - ACPA tradeshow Thinclient - Faster Video from VXL units Thinclient - Setting up a PXE server Thinclient - POS, the Cloud and 4G. What...



Food Order Kiosk - Casino Buffet deployment

Casino Queen in East St. Louis, IL and The Rivers in Pittsburg, PA are the latest casinos to implement NEXTEP's Casino Express™ touch screen automated buffet entry solution....



Healthcare Kiosk - Eye Diagnostic kiosks planned

Schnucks Markets, Inc., a regional grocery and pharmacy retailer based in St. Louis, plans to install vision-screening kiosks at 30 of its stores. [kiosk image included]...



September 22, 2009

Blackhawk Network Announces Personalized Open Network Rewards Visa® Gift Card

Incentive & Rewards Program now offers both closed and open loop card options, Customized for individual company programs. PLEASANTON, CALIF.,– September 21, 2009 – Blackhawk Network, the largest third-party provider of prepaid gift-cards, announced today that their Rewards Visa Gift...



New driver license legislation proposed

New legislation on drivers licenses being considered/rproposed by US government. Opponents argue that it is relaxing the standards set forth in REAL ID. Article on gokiosk.net...



September 21, 2009

Airport Check-In: Global Entry Deployed at McCarran

Story by Las Vegas Channel 8 on new kiosks for Global Entry put in McCarran. Includes a two minute video of the actual deployed kiosks and customers using them....



September 18, 2009

Blockbuster Raises Money To Push On

Story on Reuters reporting Blockbuster has successfully raised additional capital and now has the cash needed to reposition. Sounds a bit like General Motors in many ways but then again they had to do this and they have done it....



NCR Corporation partners with US Airways to extend self-service check-in convenience to the curb

US Airways is deploying 54 kiosks in 15 U.S. cities and St. Thomas, USVI to provide another curbside check-in option for passengers who choose to serve themselves....



Kiosks at SFO Selling Carbon Offsets

On Thursday, the Bay Area's largest airport unveiled three Climate Passport kiosks with touch screens that determine how many pounds of carbon dioxide a trip will produce, calculate the sum an environmentally conscious traveler should contribute to projects in San...



September 02, 2009

KIOSK Malone Inducted in Hall of Fame

Self-Service World does article on Rick Malone induction to the Kiosk Hall of Fame....



Linux on public computer

New post on forum gives some information on best practice for using redhat or ubuntu as public kiosk. Seems to be a big fan of Clonezilla....