'`Personal exploration rovers' let kids explore the red planet

December 22, 2003

PITTSBURGH -- As NASA's twin robot geologists Spirit and Opportunity prepare to land on Mars in January, a cadre of 20 smart robots developed by researchers at…

New provider oversees IT rollouts

December 21, 2003

GREENVILLE, S.C. -- ScanSource Inc., value-added distributor of specialty technology products, has enhanced its services offering with the addition of Rollouts…

Vendor releases stamp-printing kiosk in India

December 21, 2003

BANGALORE, India -- Tata Infotech has developed a secure stamp-paper printing kiosk. According to an article in the Hindustan Times, the vendor already has a…

Most Americans have used self-serve this year, study shows

December 18, 2003

BELLEVUE, Wash. -- From paying at the pump, to price checkers, to pre-paid products, Americans are using self-service kiosks to simplify shopping and everyday…

Miss. driving centers will use testing kiosks

December 18, 2003

JACKSON, Miss. -- Twenty driver testing centers across Mississippi by mid-January will have new touchscreen computers with which to test drivers on the rules…

Digital camera boom boosts business for photo kiosks

December 17, 2003

NEW YORK-Despite booming sales of digital camera and home-office photo-printing equipment, a USA Today report claims that photo developers-who have lost…

ICOA to buy Internet kiosk vendor Internet Media Group

December 17, 2003

CITY OF INDUSTRY, Calif.-ICOA Inc. (OTCBB: ICOA), announced a Letter of Intent to purchase Internet Media Group Inc. (IMG), a privately held…

Lessons from Europe: apps are king

Details of deployments from retail to health insurance closed out the final day of KioskEurope 2003.

Vendors team up on remote access in Japan

December 16, 2003

TORONTO -- 01 Communique Laboratory Inc., provider of integrated communications and remote access services, announced that strategic business partner Hitachi…

Singapore companies develop digital-imaging kiosk

December 16, 2003

SINGAPORE -- Fuji Singapore has collaborated with Pictureworks, a wholly owned Singapore company, to develop a digital-imaging self-service kiosk.

Computer retailer using kiosks to sell software

December 15, 2003

DALLAS -- Computer retail giant CompUSA has begun offering an ATM-like service that dispenses software like candy from a vending machine.

Queen Mary 2 to set sail with self-serve technology

December 15, 2003

BEDFORD, Mass. -- The Progress Company, an operating unit of Progress Software Corp., is providing self-serve travel applications to Cunard Line's $780-million…

Survey: Shoppers at Tesco store in UK like self-checkout

December 14, 2003

LEAMINGTON SPA, England -- Self-checkout at a Tesco store has helped significantly to speed up customers' shopping trips, according to research by Tesco.

UK police set up interactive kiosks for holiday shoppers

December 14, 2003

LONDON -- Unfortunately with the holidays can comes an increase in crime and traffic accidents. Christmas shoppers in two of this region's largest centers are…

Radiant to acquire vendor of POS systems for hospitality

December 14, 2003

ATLANTA -- Radiant Systems Inc. has entered into an agreement to acquire Aloha Technologies, a provider of point-of-sale systems for the hospitality industry…

Watch kiosks running Win 98 as support ends

December 11, 2003

REDMOND, Wash. -- Companies still running Windows 98 risk facing unpatched Internet threats as Microsoft puts the operating system out to pasture early next…

Kiosk trouble after hours? Bluewire has help

December 11, 2003

PORTLAND, Ore. -- Bluewire Technologies, nationwide provider of phone and field technical support services to the kiosk and ATM industries, has a new service…

Hotel self-service gains momentum

December 11, 2003

HACKENSACK, N.J. -- Time is precious to business travelers, which explains why major hotel chains around the nation are testing ways to speed customers from…

Alaska Air unveils check-in kiosks at LAX

December 10, 2003

SEATTLE -- Alaska Airlines opened a high-tech check-in counter at Los Angeles International Airport.

Utilities select self-serve software for bill payment, inquiries

December 10, 2003

WELLESLEY, Mass. -- Nexus Energy Software Inc. has added five new utilities in the northeast United States to its client base over the past several months, and…