5 reasons digital kiosks benefit the consumer and the owner

by Frank Olea

In an era when consumers are becoming increasingly reliant on technology, businesses today are turning to digital kiosks as a more effective way to deliver…

Kodak Q&A: 'We're a memory company'

A Kodak exec explains how their photo kiosks will go beyond images to become multipurpose content and media stations.

Gidophone kiosk hopes to crack US market after CES debut

January 14, 2013

The Gidophone charging station made its U.S. debut at last week's Consumer Electronics Show, giving the French company a much desired boost into the American…

MZero partners with AG for expanded services portfolio

January 11, 2013

A new self-service partnership was announced today with the pairing of MZero, the software division of Meridian, and Software AG. The two companies said they…

MokiManage intros cloud-based monitoring and alerts

December 12, 2012

MokiMobility announced new features to its MokiManage software that enables businesses to configure their tablet digital signage kiosks with tools like Apple…

NCR will provide periodic checkups for SoloHealth kiosks

November 14, 2012

The SoloHealth Station, the free health assessments and information kiosk, will now have its own checkups provided by NCR. The NCR services group has signed a…

Convenience is key in Walmart's plans to deploy more NCR self-checkouts

November 1, 2012

The world's largest retailer will ramp up its self-checkout offerings during 2013. According to an announcement from NCR, Walmart will be installing 10,00…

Four essential pre-deployment considerations

by Craig Martin — Client Contact, Reality Interactive, LLC

Deployment is the bridge between the final development phase and the remote monitoring and management phase of a digital merchandising project. It's the phase…

Walmart confirms self-checkout glitch

August 2, 2012

Updated: 5 p.m., Aug. 3

Getting the dirt 'off' kiosks

Kiosk deployers can take a few steps to protect users from germs.

Mumbai transportation kiosks collecting dust

July 10, 2012

Several kiosks in Mumbai's Regionial Transport Offices are doing nothing but gathering dust, according to the Hindustantimes.com. The site reported that the…

Why Penn's wine kiosk failed: Part 1

by Natsumi Nakamura — Marketing, PFU Systems

After reading fellow blogger Michael Ionescu's post "Bad execution: Why good kiosk ideas fail", I did some research to learn more about what was behind the…

Southwest check-in kiosks go down

June 20, 2012

According to an Associated Press report on USAToday.com, Southwest Airlines yesterday suffered an outage of its airport-technology systems that prevented…

Update: ServiceOntario kiosks out of order due to illegal card readers

June 12, 2012

All 72 ServiceOntario kiosks are still out of order after card skimming devices were found on four machines in the Greater Toronto Area, according to…

Ontario DMV kiosks closed over security concerns

June 7, 2012

LinkedIn isn't the only company with security woes this week. Kiosks that help citizens in Ontario to renew their drivers licenses and car registrations are…

Key Innovations to unveil payment solution for parking kiosks

June 6, 2012

Key Innovations will unveil its modular payment solutions for parking kiosks June 10-13 at the International Parking Industry Expo in Phoenix. The KSD600…

How to minimize the effect of kiosk errors

by Natsumi Nakamura — Marketing, PFU Systems

Let's examine the following scenario to find out how things could go wrong with an in-store kiosk that is not designed to handle errors properly.

Biometric kiosk to securely store medications

May 17, 2012

More than $100 million worth of prescription medicine is stolen each year, an issue that a new kiosk may curb. Medbox Inc. is developing a highly secure…

How to protect your kiosk

by Natsumi Nakamura — Marketing, PFU Systems

As we discussed in the previous post, kiosk security is one of the greatest challenges organizations need to deal with during kiosk application development.

RAMP: Software allows retailers to remotely manage all solutions (video)

Joseph Grove of Retail Customer Experience discussed the solution with Kaseya's Ray Barber.