Kiosks let travelers create postcards from digital photos, pay with cash

December 29, 2003

WEST CHESTER, Pa. -- MEI, developer of electronic payment systems, has integrated its AE2800 bill acceptor into Maida Automated Systems Inc.'s Memory Card…

Kiosks open up world of Web for Indian children

December 28, 2003

CALCUTTA, India -- Children in rural Bengal will get to experiment with computers through global IT provider NIIT's "hole-in-the-wall" project. The project…

Robotic Tarzan tracking changes in forest

December 28, 2003

LOS ANGELES -- A mobile robot is helping scientists monitor environmental changes in forests. The hi-tech, interactive unit, nicknamed Treebot, is the first of…

Holiday shoppers spending record amounts via technology

December 23, 2003

Hotels getting wireless Internet from Boingo, Arescom

December 23, 2003

FREMONT and SANTA MONICA, Calif. -- Arescom Inc. and Boingo Wireless Inc. will integrate Wi-Fi high-speed Internet access in guestrooms and public spaces at…

Satellite Enterprises buys global rights to news kiosks

December 22, 2003

NORTH HAVENS, Conn. -- Satellite Enterprises Corp. has agreed to acquire Satellite Newspapers Suisse. With this transaction, Satellite Enterprises Corp.

'`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…