Monthly Archives: January 2015

Passport Kiosks – San Francisco border kiosks

Last Updated on March 10, 2025 by Craig Allen Keefner Automated Passport Kiosks The latest airport and airline news. In this section General News, everything about B2B aviation news Source: www.airport-world.com SAN FRANCISCO — the San Francisco International Airport (SFO) today unveiled 40 new Automated Passport Control kiosks to expedite the customs entry process for international arriving passengers. … Read More »

Self Service Trends – 10 Trends Super-Charging Self-Service

Last Updated on November 15, 2025 by Craig Allen Keefner Self Service Trends From integrated technologies and expanding payment options, to location awareness and personalization, we take a look at the top ten trends driving explosive growth in self-service. Source: vsr.edgl.com http://vsr.edgl.com/reseller-news/10-Trends-Super-Charging-Self-Service97765 10 Trends Super-Charging Self-Service Need Some Numbers? There are many reports with many numbers and most… Read More »

Why ATM Bombs Coming To the United States

Last Updated on July 1, 2022 by Craig Allen Keefner HughPickens.com writes Nick Summers has an interesting article at Bloomberg about the epidemic of 90 ATM bombings that has hit Britain since 2013. ATM machines are vulnerable because the strongbox inside an ATM has two essential holes: a small slot in front that spits out bills to customers… Read More »

EMV is Coming to Self-Service Kiosks in 2015

Last Updated on December 30, 2025 by Craig Allen Keefner Thanks to Andrew Savala of KioskSimple If you’ve been watching the news lately you’ve probably heard about the credit card security breach at Target and all the buzz around “Chip and PIN” or “EMV.”  In the case of Target, while hackers could have stolen the information from EMV… Read More »

PCI Kiosk vs EMV Kiosk

Last Updated on December 24, 2025 by Craig Allen Keefner PCI Compliance vs EMV Compliance What’s the difference between PCI compliance kiosk and EMV compliance kiosk?  The short answer is they’re both guidelines for protecting cardholder data for the purpose preventing fraud, but they focus on different elements of the credit card transaction. “To clarify it even further… Read More »

Prescription Safety Glasses Kiosk Network Grows

Last Updated on July 1, 2022 by Craig Allen Keefner Eyelation is a Chicago area prescription safety eyewear startup that services companies through its self-serve kiosk system. Its system incorporates benefit management, with proprietary measurement technology to fit people with eyewear and make it easy for company administrators to provide a cohesive program to every employee Source: www.pressreleaserocket.net Eyelation… Read More »

Kiosks to Send Your Fast Food Order Directly to the Cook

Last Updated on June 11, 2022 by Craig Allen Keefner Jan. 13 — CKE Restaurants CEO Andrew Puzder discusses the company’s self-service food kiosks running Microsoft software. He speaks on “Bloomberg West.” (Source: Bloomberg) (Video) Source: www.bizjournals.com The 2015 edition of CKE and food ordering. Let’s not forget the other two iterations. Posts 2026: 3,129

TGI Fridays test new tablet and kiosk technologies

Last Updated on June 11, 2022 by Craig Allen Keefner Casual-dining chain’s tests tablets; burger brand tests kiosks, supplier Microsoft says Source: nrn.com Fridays’ tablet test uses new “Fridays Service Style” technology based on Windows 8.1 with Oracle’s MICROS Restaurant Enterprise Solution (RES) 5.4 on the Dell Venue mTablet E-Series mobile point-of-sale devices, the Redmond, Wash.-based software company… Read More »

Immigration Kiosk Whitepaper by SITA Kiosk

Last Updated on December 3, 2025 by Craig Allen Keefner Good point of view (albeit dated) on immigration kiosks by an expert at SITA who just happens to do most of the immigration kiosks (aka Border Kiosks).  SITA also does the Amtrack ticketing kiosks and lots of airline check-in kiosks. Border Security Kiosks aka Immigation Kiosks Published on… Read More »

Hardee’s and Microsoft pilot customer self-order kiosks

Last Updated on December 7, 2025 by Craig Allen Keefner At the National Retail Federation’s Annual Convention & EXPO on Monday, Microsoft Corp. and CKE Restaurants Inc. showcase a self-order kiosk solution running on Windows 8 devices that enables Hardee’s customers to customize and place their own orders.  Source: www.prnewswire.com The Hardee’s pilot project is one of several Microsoft retail customer deployments… Read More »

Walmart takes on Target Clinics with “Self-Health” Centers

Last Updated on July 1, 2022 by Craig Allen Keefner Source: www.sandiegoreader.com “Almost factual news” courtesy of San Diego — One stop healthcare ala Walmart. Self-health center with computer kiosks.  Bit of an attitude running underneath the interview which is surprising. Automated drug dispensing.  Grocery supermarket mega market circa 2015. “Frankly, I don’t know what the competition was… Read More »

Interactive Healthcare Kiosk from Wellbeing

Last Updated on July 1, 2022 by Craig Allen Keefner The interactive health kiosk allows individuals to self test key indicators of their general health. Our interactive health kiosks performed over 80,000 health checks in communities, businesses and schools in 2012. Source: www.wellbeingpeople.com Posts 2026: 3,689

Flagler installs crime prevention kiosks

Last Updated on July 3, 2022 by Craig Allen Keefner The Flagler County Sheriff’s Office reported to Historic City News that the agency has made a recent investment in several electronic kiosks which Sheriff James L. Manfre says will attract the public’s attention and will help prevent crime. Source: historiccity.com Posts 2026: 2,882

Xpedient Self-Serve Solutions to C-Store

Last Updated on July 3, 2022 by Craig Allen Keefner LOUISVILLE, KY–(Marketwired – January 08, 2015) – Xpedient, a wholly owned subsidiary of Advanced Solutions, Inc., has partnered with QuickChek to provide self-serve kiosk software to their entire convenience store foodservice operation.A market leader in food services, QuickChek is a New Jersey-based convenience store chain, operating 137 retail… Read More »

Can Outerwall’s beauty kiosk offset declining Redbox sales?

Last Updated on July 3, 2022 by Craig Allen Keefner Bellevue-based Outerwall, which is best known for operating Redbox and Coinstar machines, is continuing to add new kiosks to its fleet. Source: www.bizjournals.com Writeup on latest from Coinstar and SampleIt. Also at CES 2015. There are more than 40,000 Redbox machines spread across the country, 20,000 Coinstars, 1,500… Read More »

Corrections kiosk case study – Jail Visitation

Last Updated on March 1, 2025 by Craig Allen Keefner The Meherrin River Regional Jail allows guests to schedule visits with inmates via the Renovo Scheduling App locked down with KioWare Kiosk System Software for Windows. Case Study by Kioware on corrections visitation software lockdown of Renovo out of Minnesota (recently purchased by GTL) Posts 2026: 2,967

Cash Dispensers for Kiosks

Last Updated on December 11, 2025 by Craig Allen Keefner   The ability to dispense cash from your kiosk can be invaluable for making change and reducing the need for human cashiers.  Traditional bill acceptors only accept cash, but bill recyclers have the ability to both accept and dispense cash like a human cashier Source: blog.kiosksimple.com Your customers will appreciate your kiosks… Read More »

ARCA Automation Software For Self Service Kiosk

Last Updated on July 3, 2022 by Craig Allen Keefner Envoy™ platform simplifies communication between transaction software and devices Mebane, NC (January 6, 2015) — ARCA, a global leader in cash and payment automation technology, announced today the release of its latest software solution, Envoy™ to help accelerate the integration of self-service transaction software with kiosk hardware. Source: www.arcatechsystems.com… Read More »

Kiosk Patent RTC Litigation

Last Updated on December 7, 2025 by Craig Allen Keefner Kiosk Patent  “449” & RTC The information here is regarding legal actions related to patent “449” for equipping a kiosk with WiFi basically. Actions began in July of 2014 and still in progress. A total of 14 actions. Update: 3/12/2015 For reference as of today here are the… Read More »

Chris Gilliland YVR on Passport Kiosks

Last Updated on March 25, 2026 by Craig Allen Keefner Passport kiosks APC and more Self-service Industry Group (Selfservice.io) was fortunate to get some time with Christopher Gilliland who is the manager of Innovative Travel Solutions at Vancouver Airport Authority. Airlines terminals and ATMs and Photo Kiosks (Kodak) were the Big Three to kick off Self-Service and the american… Read More »