Kiosks will provide information about businesses, services and attractions. Source: www.norwalkreflector.com James said the goal was to place kiosks where visitors are most likely to stop. Chamber and bureau officials plan to add a couple more kiosks each year at different locations, also funded through bed taxes. Those taxes are part of a hotel guest’s bill. James estimated… Read More »
Frank Mayer & Associates has engaged Excentus, owner and operator of the Fuel Rewards program, to design and produce tablet-based kiosks to support its loyalty program. Source: www.cspnet.com Features of the kiosk include magstripe readers that allow customers to swipe and activate their rewards cards and changeable graphics and brochure holders to advertise seasonal promotions. The tablet-based… Read More »
“Before [the recent spate of breaches], “It was ya I get it security, blah, blah, but I don’t have outrun the bear, I just have to outrun you,’” says David Cowan, a partner at Bessemer Venture Partners. “Now you have to outrun the bear. It is coming after you.” Source: techcrunch.com When it comes to data breaches, retailers… Read More »
Domino’s Pizza’s virtual ordering assistant Dom, which lets consumers dictate orders via mobile devices while on-the-go, has reached a half-million orders since its 2014 launch, suggesting that more food brands should consider investing in voice ordering technology Source: www.mobilecommercedaily.com
NCR will provide European discount retailer, TEDi with innovative point-of-sale (POS) solutions to improve customer service and drive sales. Source: www.ncr.com NCR RealPOS™ 50 systems will be deployed at TEDi’s approximately 1,400 stores across Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Slovakia and The Netherlands in the next two years. Four hundred units have already been delivered to TEDi stores.
Japan is facing an aging population in the coming decades and that means more people requiring care, and less people to provide it. In an effort to meet the shortfall, RIKEN and Sumitomo Riko Comp… Source: www.gizmag.com
Source: www.sixteen-nine.net DSE coming up quick in Vegas. Nice preview of Convergent.
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 »
The investments were listed as $3.1 million, $6 million and $11.6 million in three separate U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filings since November. Source: www.bizjournals.com ATM of health care’ HealthSpot expanding amid investments from Cox, other
Fitness On Demand announced plans to unveil its latest virtual group fitness kiosk at the International Health Racquet and Sports Association trade show on March 12th in Los Angeles, California. MI Source: www.prcarbon.com
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 »
$40 Firefox-Powered Orange Klif Also Includes Voice, Text, Data BARCELONA—Before you get too excited, you should know that the Firefox OS-powered Orange Klif smartphone is primarily geared towards Africa. That said, $40 for a smartphone that includes calls, text, and data for six months is still something to get excited about. I got a chance to check it… Read More »
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 »
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 »
Android Pay, GOOG’s new payment API, takes on Apple Pay & AAPL. But what IS Android Pay, how does it threaten Apple, and where does Google Wallet fit in? Source: investorplace.com Last week, Google bought Softcard for an undisclosed sum. The biggest plus for GOOG? All three major carriers will pre-install Google Wallet on their Android devices. With google wallet all… Read More »
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 »
Detroit plans to roll out a parking system that uses technology tied to license plates in an effort to improve enforcement efficiency and increase options for payment. Source: www.newsobserver.com The technology allows drivers to access a kiosk, enter in their license plate number and park in any space within a specific zone. Coins, credit cards or debit cards… Read More »
SALT LAKE CITY (ABC 4 Utah) – The next time you pay for parking in Salt Lake City it could be a lot easier. On Tuesday the City announced it’s revamping the entire system. Source: www.good4utah.com
Last year, one survey had the remarkable response of shoppers admitting they had stolen an average of £15 worth of goods every month from self-service tills. Source: www.dailymail.co.uk
The model is changing irrevocably, driven by the growing threat of online retailers like Amazon.comwho are forcing retailers to provide better service in stores, worker advocacy groups lobbying for change, and public sentiment from adverse publicity. And so we have come to 2015: the Year of the Retail Store Employee. Source: www.rsrresearch.com The role of the employee in retail… Read More »
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 »
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 »
Imagine having a doctor housed in your office, a place you could swing by on your lunch break without having to leave the building. Source: www.columbiatribune.com Employees at MBS Textbook Exchange recently got what the company’s CEO and Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield hope is the next best thing. Through a pilot program with the insurance company,… Read More »
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 »
Gigaom, the influential technology website founded by Om Malik nearly a decade ago, is no more. Although Monday saw a lot of new content on the site, including a flood of news and analysis from… Source: www.theverge.com
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 »
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 »
Saline County jailers credit a new kiosk with helping detainees stay in touch with families and improving safety and morale. Source: www.arkansasmatters.com
If Google has its way, Chromeboxes will become a typical sight in offices. Source: venturebeat.com Also today, Google is announcing monitoring tool to track the health of kiosks and signs that are running on Chromeboxes. “You’ll get alerts from Chrome device management if a screen goes down, and can remotely reboot the device to get it back online without… Read More »
Facial recognition cameras have been installed at several entrances of St. Mary’s High School in St. Louis for security reasons. Source: findbiometrics.com
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 »
McDonalds isn’t the first fast food chain to consider giving customers more control over their orders using technology (though there’s a fair amount of debate about whether customization is really the best way forward for the struggling company). Many of its competitors have been experimenting with self-service apps and kiosks, finding that when customers use them, they tend to… Read More »
Scala RFID Lift & Learn Retail Wall Demo: Retail digital signage solution powered by Scala digital signage software. Transform your in-store experience right… Source: www.youtube.com
Scala RFID Lift & Learn Retail Wall Demo: Retail digital signage solution powered by Scala digital signage software. Transform your in-store experience right… Source: www.youtube.com Cool demo next week at Globalshop
HP Easy Shell — Windows-based application for HP Thin Client users to control, customize, & protect Windows user experience with easy to deploy settings. Source: thinclient.org New HP Easy Shell for Windows Thin Client and more
