Category Archives: Kiosk picks

Picks areย the most newsworthy of articles posts on the site.

Kiosk Industry is the news engine for the Kiosk Manufacturer Association or KMA which is a global, cause-based, not-for-profit organization focused on better self-service for customers and employees through kiosks and information technology (IT). Kiosk Industry Association leads efforts to optimize self-service engagements and engagement outcomes using information technology such as kiosks.

Kiosk Financing – ZIVELO Introduces Financing Options For Clients

Kiosk Financing – ZIVELO Introduces Financing Options For Clients SCOTTSDALE, AZ | SAN FRANCISCO, CA | SEATTLE, WA (August 10, 2018) โ€“ย ZIVELO has partnered with Ascentium Capital, the nationโ€™s largest private, independent finance company, to provide financing options to clients. Key benefits include payments as low as $29/month for the first 3 months, 100% financing, no down paymentโ€ฆ Read More »

Peerless-AVยฎย Announces New Smart City Kiosk

Peerless-AVยฎย Announces New Smart City Kiosk AV solutions designer and manufacturerย creates city center hub with all weather-rated solution Featuring an Xtreme™ High Bright Outdoor Display, the Smart City Kiosk is an all weather-rated solution ideal for sharing community information, travel, and weather details, as well as wayfinding, advertising, entertainment, and more. AURORA, Ill. โ€“ August 15, 2018 โ€“ย Peerless-AVยฎ, anโ€ฆ Read More »

Airport Kiosk – FTE Trade Show In Vegas

Storm Interface & Future Travel Experience (FTE) By Craig Keefner — See Stormโ€™s entire range of Assistive Technology Products (ATP) and find out more about exciting new product launches scheduled for later this year. These ATP devices are ADA compliant and RNIB Accredited, designed to offer menu navigation by means of audible content description. They allow users withโ€ฆ Read More »

Resource – Sunlight Readable High Bright Displays & panelbrite

Sunlight Readable Displays (High Bright) Sunlight-readable displays (or high bright)ย  are a core component of outdoor kiosks and self-service.ย  Along with the enclosure and typically the PC, the high bright display is a main economic component and reliability is paramount. And that means in some very challenging environments. A parking lot unprotected in Dallas Texas in the summertimeโ€ฆ Read More »

Touchscreen News – US TDS Touch Introduces Fanless PCAP Touchscreen

Touchscreen News – US TDS Touch Introduces Fanless PCAP Touchscreen US TDS Touch introducing a 700-1500 NIT fanless series of open PCAP touchscreen display modules with ultra-low power consumption and automatic ambientย light. Sizes range from 10.1 inches to 32 inches. The overall module isย highly integrated with modular design, high resolution, high contrast, highย brightness, and greatly enhances the layeringโ€ฆ Read More »

Self-Service Kiosk Cleanliness – Considerations Before and After Deployment

Left unattended, interactive kiosks can get dirty, inadvertently turning off potential users. Read about best practices for keeping a kiosk clean.

Source: www.olea.com

One takeaway —ย A best practice example would be to adopt the same cleaning schedule as your customer counter. ย In the morning wipe the kiosk touchscreen with something likeย Easy Screenย and ideally at the end of business wipe it again. ย Every day. Also any contact points, and while you are at it, do your mobile phone too!

Restaurant News – Global Payments Acquires SICOM

Global Payments to Acquire SICOM Systems, a Leading Provider of Enterprise Technology Solutions to Restaurants September 27, 2018 04:05 PM Eastern Daylight Time ATLANTA–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Global Payments Inc. (NYSE: GPN), a leading worldwide provider of payment technology and software solutions, announced today an agreement to acquire SICOM Systems, Inc. from LLR Partners. SICOM provides enterprise, cloud-based software as aโ€ฆ Read More »

Facial Recognition Kiosk Software for Windows Released

Facial Recognition Kiosk Software KioWare for Windows version 8.16 is now available with support for Omronโ€™s Facial Recognition Device. It also now allows for the transferring files from connected phones or tablets to the kiosk. Facial recognition is becoming commonplace and being used in multiple scenarios.ย  Recently Hertz announced facial recognition being used now in renting a carโ€ฆ Read More »

Kiosk Lawsuit Litigation – KT Intellectual Property and NCR Self-Serv

KT Terminals Wins Judgment Against NCR Jury Verdict Against NCR For Misappropriation of Confidential Information January 7, 2019 โ€“ KT Group a Hong Kong based kiosk manufacturer obtained jury verdicts in the Southern District of New York in its nearly 4-year quest for vindication against NCR Corporation, a publicly traded Fortune 500 company, with assistance of its Newโ€ฆ Read More »

Kiosk Whitepaper Retail Zivelo

Preface –ย Weโ€™re at an inflection point in physical retail experiences: 2019 may very well be marked as a turning point. For theย first time in five years same-store sales are stable (versusย declining), break-out e-commerce brands continue solidify their positions of growth by opening physical stores, andย as retailers turn to their previously under-capitalized fleetย of stores (after-all, they were investing inโ€ฆ Read More »

LED video wall Epic Sports Bar Samsung

Colossal Direct View LED Display For Bar Northern Quest Resort & Casino, located in Spokane, Washington, offers luxuriousย accommodations, Vegas-style gambling, a spa, and over one dozen restaurants,ย bars, and lounges. One of the most popular spots in the resort is EPIC Sports Bar, a comfortable sports bar featuring upscale pub fare. Open daily at 7 am, EPICโ€™s guestsย can enjoyโ€ฆ Read More »

Emergency Kiosk – Taylor Swift Facial Recognition Solved

Full story as reported byย Gizmodo 2/15/2019 Mystery Facial Recognition and Taylor Swift Solved Brian Becker, head of marketing at ISM Connect, told Gizmodo in an email on Friday that Swiftโ€™s tour used the companyโ€™s tech. When asked if ISM Connect had supplied its kiosk to Swiftโ€™s Rose Bowl show, Becker responded: โ€œYes, Taylor Swiftโ€™s tour used ISM Connectโ€ฆ Read More »

Check-In Kiosks Security – The Overlooked Security Threat by IBM and Wired

Originally published on Wired March 4, 2019 Overlooked Security in Sign-In Kiosks – Visitor Management Systemsย  (note: all are “mostly” patched) Wired published story of IBM interns infiltrating some systems (later patched). Typically there are USB ports exposed and sure enough in this case they found some.ย  We’re surprised that HID Global was the noted offender. They knowโ€ฆ Read More »

Simon Property Groupโ€™s CBD Kiosk Deal Is Smart

Article published March 7, 2019 on National Real Estate Investor.ย ย Excerpt follows. Simon Property Group Announces CBD kiosks for malls The kiosksโ€™ novelty might serve as an added attraction for shoppers, while short-term kiosk leases are low risk. Liz Wolfย |ย Mar 07, 2019 Simon Property Group is introducing a new line-up of mall kiosks, which many might agree is notโ€ฆ Read More »

ADA – DOJ Accessibility Analysis

DOJ Accessibility Analysis March 2022 Announcement In March 2022 the DOJ formally issued a statement regarding accessibility and websites.ย  While that would seem to be confined to websites it is easy to assume that other public communication mechanisms such as kiosks, or mobile phones will be impacted in some way.ย  In particular, transactions performed by the public. Youโ€ฆ Read More »

Face Verification – PopID Seeking $50 million Pay By Face

Pay By Face News Noted on PaymentsDive March 2022 – for more information contact [email protected] In Brief Company looking to raise $50M (already has 25M) Caliburger and Cali Group is parent company Up to 85,000 users in California Reduces merchant payment fees Internationally Wendy’s First Kitchen locations in Tokyo Facial payment ala Alipay popular in China Consumer interestโ€ฆ Read More »

IDmission – Empowering Identity Solutions

IDmission – Weโ€™re more than an identity company. For more information contact [email protected] IDmission was founded in 2011 to develop world-class biometric and onboarding solutions. After just 2 years, IDM landed its first global customer serving the money transfer business. With this customer processing over 750,000 customer images every month from 130 countries, IDmission was well on itsโ€ฆ Read More »

ADA Website Accessibility Lawsuits – How To Prevent

ADA Website Accessibility Lawsuits Editor Updates March 2022 — We track legal suits on our Legal News page.ย  From March 2022 — ADA lawsuit filings at all-time highย โ€”ย here is the blog post analysisย โ€”ย  Excerpt โ€“ laintiffsโ€™ lawyers also filed hundreds of lawsuits on a new theory that hotels violated the ADA by failing to disclose sufficient information aboutโ€ฆ Read More »

Lexmark – New Sponsor for KMA

Lexmark Becomes Sponsor for KMA We welcome Lexmark as one of our newest sponsors. Laser printers in unattended self-service are a significant segment especially in the Print Services such as offered at Universities and other public institutions. About Us Learn more about Lexmark through the content areas below. Company Overview Lexmark is a provider of printing and imagingโ€ฆ Read More »

Peerless-AV Contracted By Minor League Baseball as Display Partner

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. and AURORA, Ill., Feb. 26, 2019 โ€”ย Minor League Baseball™ย (MiLB™) today announced thatย Peerless-AVยฎย โ€” a leading manufacturer and provider of audio-visual products โ€” will be the โ€œOfficial Digital Display Partner of MiLB.โ€ Among the many extensions of the strategic partnership, Peerless-AV will be integrated into MiLBโ€™s existing partnerships with Allegiant Air and ISM Connect to establish itโ€ฆ Read More »

Smart City Whitepaper & Connected Cities – LG MRI

Excerpt from 28 page White Paper covering Connected Cities and Smart Kiosks and their growing acceptance. Smart Cities can be characterized in many ways, but at the conceptโ€™s core are efforts by municipalities to use information and communication technologies to collect and disseminate information, improve the ways cities work, and bridge a digital divide in urban centers. Inโ€ฆ Read More »

Vista Cinema and Veezi Approve Olea for Self-Service Ticketing Kiosks

March 25, 2019 Los Angeles, Calif. March 25, 2019 โ€“ Vista Entertainment Solutions Ltd (โ€˜Vista Cinemaโ€™), the leading provider of cinema management software for global cinema exhibition, and Veezi, Vistaโ€™s SaaS cinema management solution for Independent Cinemas, have approved Olea Kiosks (โ€˜Oleaโ€™), to support Vista with self-service kiosk hardware. Since May 2018 Vista has been deploying Olea kiosksโ€ฆ Read More »

Drive Thru Ordering – McDonalds Goes For Dynamic Menus in Drive-Thru

Published March 25th Yahoo News [April 1st update — McDonalds makes a second purchase. This time it is mobile software. The burger giant is making a $3.7 million minority investment in the New Zealand-based company Plexure] Excerpt The Golden Arches revealed Monday its biggest acquisition in more than 20 years, acquiring privately held tech platform Dynamic Yield. McDonaldโ€™sโ€ฆ Read More »

Android Kiosk Software – KioWare for Android version 3.18.

KioWare Android Kiosk Software O/S new release 3.18 Here are some of the highlights: Customization of kiosk behavior such as time-limited sessions Custom URL before session end Customized options for Navigation blocking Also added to this release is support for the Wattbox IP Power Conditioner for power management. (Basic & Full) Weโ€™ve updated KioWare Server to version 4.10.0โ€ฆ Read More »

Digital Wayfinding Kiosk – Qwick Media Announces QwickWay

April 10, 2019 QwickWayTM is your leading digital 3D Interactive Wayfinding The most cost effective, versatile, rapid 3D wayfinding with outstanding details and simplicity. โ€ข Simplistic in design and use โ€ข Easily manageable in real time โ€ข A part of the complete integrated package or a stand alone product. โ€ข Applicable in endless isle in stores for retail.โ€ฆ Read More »