Drivers to pay by fingerprint at Chicago gas pumps

November 4, 2007

Daytona (Fla.) Business-Journal: Drivers soon may be able to pay for gas with a simple fingerprint scan. Ten Shell stations in Chicago are testing biometric…

Hotels add touchscreen telephones in guest rooms

November 4, 2007

Detroit Free Press: Hotels nationwide have been slow to adopt technology, compared with the people who stay in them. But they're making up for lost time…

MediaMouth to expand kiosk offerings

November 4, 2007

The Indianapolis Star: Until a few weeks ago, MediaMouth was known as Digital Kiosk Technologies, a company that installs CD-burning kiosks in retail stores…

Voting out e-voting touchscreens

November 4, 2007

Time: It is hard to believe now what a darling touchscreen voting was seven years ago. After the Florida presidential vote-recount debacle, electronic-voting…

Expo showcases new tech

by Tracy Kitten — Editor, AMC

Exhibitors showcase new tech, products during Self Service Expo.

Self-service postal facility to open in Indiana

November 1, 2007

The Indianapolis Star: A U.S. self-service postal facility has broken ground \in Fishers, Indiana. The 600-square-foot free-standing facility will be the…

Pay By Touch giving up on biometric POS?

November 1, 2007

StorefrontBackTalk.com: Pay By Touch, which has made a major push in POS biometric payments, is backing off that business, according to The Nilson Report, a…

Coinstar's 3Q profit surges 72% on coin machines, movie rentals

November 1, 2007

CNNMoney.com: Coinstar Inc. said its third-quarter profit surged 72 percent as the company's coin-counting machines and movie-rental kiosks collected more…

Carts Blanche intros mobile kiosk carrying vending machines

November 1, 2007

AMOnline.com: Carts Blanche LLC has launched a mobile vending kiosk into the vending, concession and convenience-retailing industries. VendaCarts is a mobile…

NCR announces 2007 3Q results

October 31, 2007

DAYTON, Ohio — NCR Corp. reported a 17 percent sales increase in its financial self-service unit, growth the comany attributes to greater demand in Europe…

Self-Service Networks launches new retail kiosks

October 31, 2007

PORTSMOUTH, R.I. — Self-Service Networks, provider of turnkey self-service solutions, has announced the release of its TIPP, the Thule Interactive Point of…

Remote kiosk monitoring offers control, security

by Tracy Kitten — Editor, AMC

October 31, 2007

KioWare Full allows an airport to remotely monitor and push content out to its network of terminals.

Touchscreen voting continues slide

U.S. states turn back to optical scanning machines.

SoloHealth seeks backing for vision-testing kiosks

October 30, 2007

Tech Journal South: Bart Foster came up with the idea for automated self-service vision-testing kiosks in malls and other public places while at CIBA Vision…

Retail store launches first UK self-service kiosks for all goods

October 30, 2007

Scotsman.com: Marks & Spencer is piloting self-service checkouts at its two flagship stores. If it is judged to be a success, the checkouts could be…

Express mail kiosk reaches sixth airport

October 30, 2007

Government Technology: The Portland International Airport in Oregon recently became the sixth airport in the country to offer Mailsafe Express kiosks that…

Jail kiosks sentenced to Indiana prison

October 29, 2007

Kokomo Tribune: Inmates at the Howard County Criminal Justice Center have seen an increase in the commissary items they are able to purchase. Keefe Commissary…

U-Scan kiosks tread outside grocery stores

October 29, 2007

FRISCO, Texas — Fujitsu Transaction Solutions Inc. has announced that Canadian Tire will install Fujitsu's U-Scan Genesis self-checkout system at more than…

Wincor Nixdorf expands to Russia

October 29, 2007

PADERBORN, Germany — Wincor Nixdorf has established its own subsidiary in the Russian market, the company announced this week.   "We want to strengthen our…

Turnkey solutions steal focus at expo

by Tracy Kitten — Editor, AMC

First fall expo features digital signage, and other tech.