Monthly Archives: April 2023

Kiosk People On The Move – Ed Crowley Lands with Cyntra

Last Updated on December 7, 2025 by Staff Writer QSR Software News Long-time kiosk veteran Ed Crowley has become Managing Director for Cyntra. Cyntra is software-centric and focused on QSRs.  We’ve included a picture of some Burger King “dashboard” reporting.  Ed started in the kiosk industry back in June 2000 when he joined Ed Caldwell at 5Point. TeamLinux… Read More »

Video ImageHOLDERS – Production Floor Showing Mass Product – See at Retail Tech & NRA

Last Updated on December 28, 2025 by Staff Writer Kiosk Video ImageHOLDERS Ltd This week imageHOLDERS is at Retail Technology in the UK.  Next month see ImageHOLDERS at NRA in booth 6475. To setup an appointment email [email protected] imageHOLDERS is very well-known in Europe and has opened offices and manufacturing capability in the U.S. Elevating your customers’ digital… Read More »

JAWS For Kiosks at NRA – Booth 6966

Last Updated on December 28, 2025 by Staff Writer JAWS For Kiosk News TPGi will demonstrate JAWS for Kiosk at the National Restaurant Association, Booth 6966, on May 20-23, 2023, in Chicago, Illinois.  Join us also for a webinar on May 2, 2023 with Matt Ater, Vice President at Vispero, about the process of developing an accessible smart payment experience. From Yahoo Finance 4/25… Read More »

Retail Technology Trade Show UK

Last Updated on December 7, 2025 by Staff Writer Kiosk Technology Tradeshow UK Date is 26 -27 April at Olympia in London is Retail Technology. Given the turnout this year the odds are pretty good that next year we make our once-a-year trip to London.  Rumor has it the pubs are open… If you want any assistance setting… Read More »

Technology Report on Restaurants Released by NRN 2023

Last Updated on December 28, 2025 by Staff Writer Restaurant Technology Report Just in time for NRA, Nation’s Restaurant News Intelligence releases new Market Leader Report.  Here is the signup link to get full report. For its newly released 2023 Restaurant Technology Outlook, Nation’s Restaurant News Intelligence surveyed nearly 400 restaurant operators about their current tech stacks, long-term strategies and biggest challenges. The… Read More »

Redbox Kiosks and Dollar General Stores

Last Updated on December 7, 2025 by Staff Writer Redbox Kiosks Expanding (2023) From NextTV Just when you think it might be safe to go outside you start seeing Blockbuster in the news transforming itself and now Redbox kiosk expanding to Dollar General Stores. Not surprising though. If you watch movies why pay $100/month for Comcast or Centurylink… Read More »

Aloha Outage – NCR Ransomware attack

Last Updated on December 24, 2025 by Staff Writer What Happened To Aloha? Editor Notes:  4/28 – Good writeup on CPO on BlackCat — From the NCR notices, it appears that DFW (assuming Dallas Fort Worth) data center is the core of the attack. However, since that serves many POS systems in the hospitality industry the impact is… Read More »

InfoComm 2023

Last Updated on December 7, 2025 by Staff Writer InfoComm 2023 Vibrant World of Digital Signage Sixteen:Nine Mixer Set for June 13 at Orlando. For InfoComm in general, once again, Kiosk Manufacturer Association is an official media sponsor.  Worth noting the “big” exhibitors that are KMA members includes Panasonic, LG Business and Samsung.  Peerless-AV has a 50×50 for… Read More »

HIMSS 2023 Self Service and Accessibility on Display in Booth 7431

Last Updated on December 7, 2025 by Staff Writer HIMSS 2023, Booth 7431 – Making Technology Accessible Storm Interface are pleased to announce their participation at this year’s HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition, the most influential health information technology event of the year. All self-service applications must be compliant with The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and… Read More »

Kiosks and people who are blind or partially sighted

Last Updated on January 3, 2026 by Staff Writer Kiosks and people who are blind or partially sighted As part of our continuing series on accessibility, we were fortunate to interview Sabine Croxford from Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB), one of the UK’s leading sight loss charities. By Evan Schuman — Computerworld Columnist,writer for TechCrunch, SCMedia, podcaster, blogger. The… Read More »

New Vision Screening Kiosks being deployed in >10,000 pharmacies throughout North America

Last Updated on February 4, 2026 by Staff Writer A Look Back at SoloHealth Nice April Fools poke by Bart Foster on LinkedIn proclaiming thousands of deployments of SoloHealth vision screening units.  Solohealth was (and still sort of is) a super major project, and there are lots of stories around  the project.  Included is one from the 2008 KioskCom… Read More »

Customer Engagement Strategy Works for Employees Too

Last Updated on November 15, 2025 by Staff Writer Solutions to Increase Employee Productivity and Satisfaction Report on the factors which serve to engage employees on a positive basis.  It would be pretty easy to substitute the word customer instead of employee.  Employees are just as valuable as customers in many ways. See the full article and download… Read More »

VCOM – Down History Lane and Convenience Stores & Mega Project in 2001

Last Updated on February 13, 2026 by Staff Writer VCOM History With all the talk about C-Stores and their potential functionality and customer expansion, we thought it made sense to look back at the seminal project for “complete financial services.”  Having a copy of the main 7-Eleven presentation made it a bit easier.  We’ve noted before how C-Stores… Read More »