Company launches Web app, rental kiosks for self-service storage

March 6, 2012

Akiba by Rental Payment Solutions has launched its web application allowing self-storage customers to reserve and lease storage units in real time on stores…

2 key factors in kiosk software development: Part 2

by Natsumi Nakamura — Marketing, PFU Systems

There are two key factors in kiosk software development that maximize the return on an organization's kiosk and IT investment – an effective user interface and…

Cachet Financial Solutions partners with FI-MOBILE to provide mobile deposit

March 6, 2012

Cachet Financial Solutions, a provider of remote deposit capture solutions, has entered a partnership with FI-MOBILE, provider of the mobile banking…

TabbedOut now lets you pay your bill using PayPal

March 6, 2012

Tabbedout is making it even easier to pay a restaurant or bar tap. The app, which lets restaurant and bar patrons open and pay their tabs with their phones, is…

Commentary: Prospects for cash

by Mike Lee — CEO of the ATM Industry Association, ATM Industry Association

ATMIA's Mike Lee weighs in on why the instinctive human reliance on cash shows no signs of abating.

US retailers getting closer to mobile payments with Ingenico's new POS system

March 6, 2012

POS-maker Ingenico has launched a first in NFC payments: The first contactless payment system that allows users to pay with their phones across card brands.

Kiosk helps retailers create link between stores, social media (video)

Retailers can have more control over their social media presence.

Isis announces support of major POS vendors

by James Wester

Isis Mobile Wallet to be enabled at the point of sale on equipment from VeriFone, ViVoTech, Ingenico and Equinox.

Research identifies massive self-service billpay market

March 5, 2012

Self-service kiosk provider Genkiosk is offering a free download of an independently produced white paper that gauges the market potential for self-service…

Are kiosks still relevant in a mobile world? Part 2

by Michael Ionescu — President, Ionescu Technologies

There were some good responses to my last blog that explored the question of whether kiosks still have a place in a world that is becoming inundated with the…

Americans rent 2 billionth disc from redbox

March 5, 2012

Redbox has crossed the two billion mark for movie and game rentals. The two billionth disc, "Drive," was rented at a McDonald's restaurant in Philomath…

Square rethinks the register

by James Wester

POS company introduces new app for brick-and-mortar retailers to accept credit cards, mobile payments.

Digital signage companies teaming up for self-storage kiosk

March 2, 2012

According to The Clackamas (Ore.) Review, turnkey digital signage firm BrightSign and digital signage content house Flixio are teaming up to develop a…

Kiosk to help visit the dead

March 2, 2012

According to The Gothenburg (Neb.) Times, the city is about to equip a local cemetery with a touchscreen information kiosk that will also print out maps of…

Global Axcess inks 5-year renewal for c-store self-service

March 1, 2012

Global Axcess Corp., an independent provider of self-service kiosk solutions, today announced that it has signed a five-year renewal agreement with its…

Universal, redbox renew 28-day-later vows

March 1, 2012

Universal Studios Home Entertainment and redbox, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Coinstar Inc., today announced the signing of a multi-year agreement that will…

U of Memphis deploys self-order kiosk at FedEx Institute of Technology

February 29, 2012

According to The Daily Helmsman, the student newspaper at the University of Memphis in Memphis, Tenn., the school's dining services has deployed a new…

Alabama med center kiosk eases child health insurance enrollment

February 29, 2012

According to The Daily Sentinel in Scottsboro, Ala., A Scottsboro medical center has deployed an ALL Kids Insurance and Medicaid enrollment kiosk in its…

Tennessee mulling self-checkout beer ban

February 28, 2012

According to WBIR TV-10 in Knoxville, Tenn., the Tennessee legislature is considering a ban on beer sales at self-checkout terminals:

Indian group to launch Web-access 'Playground Kiosks' in Bhutan

February 28, 2012

According to the Hindu Business Line, IT training and education agency NIIT has launched a new Web access kiosk initiative called "Playground Kiosks" in…