Monthly Archives: March 2015

McDonald’s Create Your Taste Menu Well Received

One of just 20 nationwide, this McDonald’s employs 15 more people than the previous Downers Grove location. Source: patch.com McDonald’s has announced it will expand Create Your Taste to 2,000 restaurants nationwide by the end of 2015. But for now, Downers Grove is one of 20 locations in the U.S. with build-your-own-burger-via-kiosk capabilities.   The Create Your Taste… Read More »

Your Value Proposition Is Irrelevant To Me!

You probably get a lot of the same prospecting emails that I get.  Whether it’s someone trolling groups in LinkedIn, or somehow they’ve gotten your email Source: partnersinexcellenceblog.com Importance of tailoring message to a specific prospect type is a particular context .  Having said that the math and the levels & segments of that prospect base may not… Read More »

Screens go Google at the Digital Signage Expo

Since last year’s Digital Signage Expo and the introduction of Chrome’s single app kiosk mode, many customers and developers have built digital signage applications on Chromeboxes. Chromeboxes are secure, easy to manage and cost effective, making them ideal to display content and engage customers in any location. Chicos chose Chrome to manage and display content on over 5000 screens across… Read More »

NCR Latest Technology Solutions for Airports

NCR’s TP100 airport check-in kiosk that can run a variety of software, allowing passengers to check-in, change seats, add/update frequent flyer information, check in bags and more. Source: www.marketwatch.com “From check-in to shopping to boarding, NCR is making travel easier by helping airports and airlines around the world enhance the passenger experience, drive more ancillary revenue through all channels of… Read More »

Digi International® Joins Peerless-AV® Kiosk Partner Program

Source: money.cnn.com “Although kiosks have been around for decades, Peerless kiosks fit with 4G LTE connections and Wi-Fi, enable Peerless-AV to serve dynamic content and an interactive experience not previously available.” The Digi TransPort family of programmable 3G/4G cellular routers provide flexible, enterprise level cellular connectivity and uptime for hundreds of thousands of ATMs, lottery terminals, payment kiosks,… Read More »

GCA Expands Business Relationship With Las Vegas Sands

The contract extends existing cash access services and expands the business relationship to include the deployment of integrated kiosks across the full gaming floors at the Venetian and Palazzo resorts in Las Vegas, as well as Sands Bethlehem in Pennsylvania Source: money.cnn.com GCA’s integrated kiosk platform is a full-service solution for ticket redemption, bill breaking and cash access… Read More »

Wayfinding kiosk software at St David’s Hospital

RedyRef, a turn-key self-service kiosk solution provider announced that they have launched the enGAGE™ line of standard kiosks features over a dozen different styles for kiosk deployers to utilize as the basic platform of their kiosk requirement. Source: www.kioskmarketplace.com KMC press release for new kiosk wayfinding software but then talks about new enGAGE line of standard kiosks. Interesting… Read More »

Point-of-Sale Vendor NEXTEP Probes Breach — Krebs

NEXTEP Systems, a Troy, Mich.-based vendor of point-of-sale solutions for restaurants, corporate cafeterias, casinos, airports and other food service venues, was recently notified by law enforcement that some of its customer locations have been compromised in a potentially wide-ranging credit card breach, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. Source: krebsonsecurity.com In an emailed statement, NEXTEP President Tommy Woycik confirmed Ersher’s account, but emphasized… Read More »

retailcloud Selects PowaPOS T25 for Zero POS Rollout

Powa Technologies’ PowaPOS T25 is now available with retailcloud’s Zero POS software, providing a bundled, full-featured POS platform for Source: www.businesswire.com PowaPOS is the first point of sale platform purpose built for tablet-based payments. It is the only fully integrated design to incorporate all common retail peripherals and support all POS software across all operating systems. The PowaPOS platform features… Read More »

Director of Build-A-Bear Workshop Inc Discloses Insider Trading

Build-A-Bear Workshop Build-A-Bear Workshop, Inc. (NYSE:BBW), Clark Maxine, Director of Build-A-Bear Workshop Inc, unloaded 65,000 shares at an average price of $20.96 on March 4, 2015. The total amount of the transaction was worth $1,362,400, according to the disclosed information with the Securities and Exchange Commission in a Form 4 filing. Source: wallstreetpulse.org http://wallstreetpulse.org/director-of-build-a-bear-workshop-inc-discloses-insider-trading/339859/ PostCounter: 110

Cubic Taps MasterPass For Mobile Travel Ticketing App

MasterCard is partnering with mobile ticketing and “intelligent travel solutions” provider Cubic Transportation Systems to stitch payments and retail offers Source: www.pymnts.com MasterCard is partnering with mobile ticketing and “intelligent travel solutions” provider Cubic Transportation Systems to stitch payments and retail offers into Cubic’s public transit ticketing and trip-planning app, the companies announced at Mobile World Congress. The deal,… Read More »

Payment kiosk – ACI, LD Systems partner on solution

The strategic partnership will offer US consumers quick, easy and safe bill pay options at kiosks nationwide, the companies say. Source: www.kioskmarketplace.com LD Systems offers highly customizable kiosks with electronic payment functionality for myriad options including: self-serve banking transactions, utility payments, court fines & fees (civil, family, criminal), property tax, toll tags, DMV motor vehicle tag renewals, parking… Read More »

Slabb, Inc. Undergoes a Rebrand and now SlabbKiosks

Las Vegas, Nevada (PRWEB) March 02, 2015 — The change comes after the company completed a major rebranding exercise earlier this week. The initiative included an updated logo as well as a new and improved website www.slabbkiosks.com. Source: www.prweb.com New logo and website for Slabb, now SlabbKiosks. Peter te Linetel Hekkert of Public Computing Netherlands still running it. And the… Read More »

Texas advocate helped mold Americans with Disabilities Act

Houston professor Lex Frieden played a key role in the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act. On the law’s 25th anniversary, Frieden, who has used a wheelchair for decades, reflects on sweeping changes in accessibility – and challenges that remain. Source: www.kgns.tv A 1967 head-on car crash left Frieden paralyzed from the shoulders down. An 18-year-old freshman at Oklahoma… Read More »

“Connected” Vending Machines Grew 18% In 2014

Berg Insight, a dedicated M2M/IoT market research firm based in Sweden, has found that the global installed base of connected vending machines grew by 18.4 percent to 1.16 million units in 2014. Around 0.56 million of these machines have been installed in… Source: www.vendingmarketwatch.com The connected vending market has gained momentum as vending operators have started to deploy… Read More »

TGI Fridays partners with Microsoft on tablet kiosks

TGI Fridays has completed a six-city pilot in Texas and Minnesota, and it will deploy the tablets in 80 additional restaurants, with more than 2,000 tablets by March Source: news.microsoft.com The devices use Windows 8.1, running Oracle’s MICROS Restaurant Enterprise Solution (RES) 5.4 on Oracle’s MICROS mTablet E-Series mobile point of sale devices.  PostCounter: 114