Alaska Airlines, eKiosk bring high-speed Internet stations to boardrooms

SEATTLE - EKiosk Corporation and Alaska Airlines are partnering to deploy high-speed, eKiosk Internet workstations in the airline's boardrooms. Five boardrooms in Anchorage, Alaska, Seattle, Portland, Ore., San Francisco and Los Angeles are scheduled to receive multiple kiosks. ActionFax, an eKiosk division, will also install public touchscreen fax kiosks into all of the airline's boardrooms.

EKiosks feature wireless, high-speed broadband connectivity. Users can connect laptops, notebooks, palmtops and other handheld devices to the Internet through an eKiosk's USB, RJ-11 modem, RJ-45 data or infrared port.

EKiosk terminals offer other services for nominal fees including Microsoft Office applications, extended browsing, video email, text email, text to any fax number and eKiosk's exclusive KioskMail. Each unit is fully equipped with a telephone handset, audio headphone jack, speakers, video camera, microphone, a floppy disc drive and a FlashCard drive that reads IBM Microdrive discs.