HR tech conference set for October

April 28, 2003

PHILADELPHIA -- The sixth annual Human Resources Technology Conference will be held at the Pennsylvania Convention center Oct. 8-10.

Australian businesses explore payroll kiosks

April 28, 2003

SYDNEY, Australia -- The Association for Payroll Specialists said one in 10 Australian workplaces has a self-service payroll kiosk for staff to view and change…

Australia latest to get newspaper kiosks

April 28, 2003

SYDNEY, Australia -- Australia will offer the International Newspaper Kiosk from PEPC Worldwide, a global distributor of digitally transmitted newspapers from…

Personal touch helps promo new transactions

Banks used tellers to help introduce ATMs to their customers in the late 1960s and early '70s. Now, several companies that are introducing new self-service…

NetShift brings UK community online

April 27, 2003

NEWBURY, England -- The United Kingdom is falling behind its European peers in the delivery of e-government, according to analyst firm IDC. That has prompted…

Prepaid-services kiosk goes nationwide

April 27, 2003

DALLAS -- NACStech 2003 here this week is the home of new technology for the convenience-store industry. Pre-paid card vendor Blackstone announced at the show…

AirTran, Kinetics pair on airport check-in kiosk

April 24, 2003

ORLANDO -- Kinetics Inc. announced it will supply self-service check-in kiosks and related software to AirTran Airways, as reported earlier this week by…

FSV launches payroll debit card through Coinstar

April 24, 2003

HOUSTON--Financial Stored Value Payment Systems Ltd. (FSV) will partner with Coinstar Inc. to make available the first nationwide network of employee…

Experts disagree on state of European kiosk market

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Frost & Sullivan has issued a report that's critical of European kiosk vendors, but not everyone agrees.

Office Depot rolls out Ink Depot with kiosks

April 23, 2003

DELRAY BEACH, Fla.--Office Depot Inc. announced a new feature designed to make shopping easier for customers who buy ink, toner and fax supplies. The launch…

U.K. voters back e-elections, poll shows

April 23, 2003

LONDON--Voters here might be more willing to turn out in elections if they could cast their votes electronically, according to a poll reported by Sky News.

Jupiter: Kiosk-aided foreign drug sales threat to U.S. pharmacies

April 22, 2003

NEW YORK--Analyst firm Jupiter Research estimated that U.S. consumers spent $700 million online to purchase prescription drugs from foreign online pharmacies…

AirTran expected to announce airport kiosks

April 22, 2003

ORLANDO--AirTran Airways plans to announce tomorrow that it will add self-service kiosks to some airports, a spokesman told KIOSKmarketplace.

Pharmacy partners aim to inform customers

April 21, 2003

PORTLAND, Ore.--Online beauty and pharmacy company drugstore.com will integrate healthcare content from Healthnotes Inc. onto its Web site. Healthnotes is a…

Printer vendor stays strong course

April 21, 2003

LEXINGTON, Ky. --Lexmark International Inc. today announced record financial results for the first quarter of 2003. First-quarter revenue was $1.108 billion…

Marconi breaks into interactive payphone market in Spain

April 21, 2003

London--Marconi announced that Telefonica Telecomunicaciones Publicas SA, the public payphone division of Telefonica Spain, has placed a "significant" order…

Intermec offers rebate on bar-code printers

April 21, 2003

EVERETT, Wash.--Intermec Technologies Corp. announced a $150 trade-in rebate program for its EasyCoder printers.

Memo to Chris: Fasten your Seatbelt

April 20, 2003

There's a new editor in kiosk-land, and we've given her the keys to the kiosk news kingdom. But first, here's a few first-week hints.

Foodservice company awards tech contract

April 20, 2003

BUFFALO, N.Y.--Barrister Global Systems Network Inc. announced it has been awarded a three-year, multi-million-dollar contract to provide point-of-sale…

Microcontrollers on stage at Embedded Systems Conference

April 20, 2003

SAN FRANCISCO -- ZiLOG will demonstrate its latest flash microcontrollers, the Z28 Encore family, at the Embedded Systems Conference here April 23-25. One…