Legislation introduced by Senate Judiciary Committee that seeks to protect retailers and other businesses from overly litigious patent trolls.
Source: www.ada-kiosk.com
The National Retail Federation today welcomed bipartisan patent reform legislation introduced by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck E. Grassley, R-Iowa, and Ranking Member Patrick J. Leahy, D-Vt., that seeks to protect retailers and other businesses from overly litigious patent trolls.
Not often, I take 2 hours out to sit thru a webinar but today I caught the Google Live with the rollout of Google for Work (and also Business).
Source: www.digitalscreenmedia.org
How thin clients and zero clients from Google are invading the world of digital signs and kiosks.
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Hewlett-Packard Co. said it would sell its Snapfish photo-sharing site toDistrict Photo, part of the computer maker’s plan to refocus operations as it splits in two.
Source: www.bloomberg.com
Snapfish works with retailers to help consumers store, share and print photos online. District Photo, which is based in Beltsville, Maryland, handles digital printing for business and other customers. Terms of the deal, which was announced Tuesday, weren’t disclosed.
KioWare kiosk software – kiosk browser software that secures windows in a lockdown kiosk mode. Free trial available.
Source: www.kioware.com
New offering from KioWare is Remote Management Services. You can either host your own server in your network, or use KioWare cloud services. Android and Windows clients supported. Cool!
Chrome browser. Chromebooks. Chromeboxes. Chrome has evolved to offer secure, customizable, and easily manageable devices and apps for today’s business. Join us online to learn how web-based solutions can help maximize your company’s productivity.
Source: atmosphere.withgoogle.com
Press Release today from NCR announcing new cloud-based platform Kalpana
NCR’s Kalpana™ software transforms the ATM channel, introducing ground-breaking security designed to eliminate malware and reduce total cost of ownership by up to 40%
DULUTH, Ga., April 15, 2015 — NCR today introduced the biggest change to the way an ATM operates since the self-service banking channel was invented nearly 50 years ago. NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR), the global leader in consumer transaction technologies, has launched Kalpana software, an enterprise software platform that moves ATM software and operations to the cloud.
Kalpana software runs ATMs remotely, initially through a thin-client ATM including an Android operating system, and is designed to eliminate malware, enable rapid deployment of new devices and ATM services, reduce costs by up to 40 percent, and create amazing customer experiences. Kalpana software also seamlessly blends into existing banking and IT infrastructure, connecting to existing ATM networks and other consumer-facing channels to allow transactions and services to be shared and re-used elsewhere. This dynamic allows financial institutions and independent ATM deployers to run a combination of conventional ATMs and ATMs driven by Kalpana software.
“NCR’s Kalpana software is the most disruptive change to the ATM ecosystem in decades. Business and consumer applications are increasingly turning to enterprise or cloud-based solutions that reshape security and enable fast, nimble and dynamic customer experiences,” said Andy Heyman, president, NCR Financial Services. “Kalpana software is ideal for financial institutions and independent ATM deployers looking to improve security, quickly advance service delivery through technology, and reshape their cost to serve.”
Cardtronics – the world’s largest retail ATM owner/operator – has plans to pilot the Kalpana software and thin-client Android ATM at locations in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, beginning later this spring.
Traditionally, ATMs have run on thick-client, PC-based software and hardware technologies physically found in the ATM. When compared to other consumer channels, such as online and mobile, this legacy PC architecture is more inefficient, expensive and complex. These challenges have become heightened following recent industry issues related to security and compliance. Kalpana software is more secure than traditional ATM software because all software updates are originated and controlled at the server level.
NCR estimates that Kalpana software can reduce the cost of running an ATM network by up to 40 percent. For a bank or ATM operator running a network of 100 ATMs, Kalpana software could reduce the total cost of ownership by $540,000 to $800,000 a year by breaking free from the constraints, expenses and security procedures of existing ATM technology. Kalpana software greatly improves agility, helping bring new ATM services to market twice as fast as before, while also significantly decreasing the cost of:
Thin-client ATMs
The Kalpana software is part of an enterprise platform that can deliver transactions and services to traditional ATMs with Windows™operating systems, as well as new thin-client ATMs. These ATMs can be either NCR or non-NCR branded. In order to maximize the value of the software, NCR is simultaneously launching a new thin-client solution: the NCR Cx110 ATM. The ATM looks dramatically different than a traditional ATM, with a sleek, curved interface on a thin bezel. Its 10-inch touchscreen replaces the traditional pinpad, and integrated biometrics and cameras provide ATM operators and consumers with the latest in security and user experiences.
Cardtronics will use the Kalpana software to drive Cx110 ATMs in its network.
“We look forward to learning a great deal from our pilot program deployment of NCR’s Kalpana software,” said David Dove, president, North American Business Group, Cardtronics. “As Cardtronics continues to innovate on behalf of its customers, we’re intrigued by Kalpana’s proposed benefits around product development, security and cost.”
The Cx110 ATM uses tablet technology in combination with cloud technology to move control and security of ATM transactions to the deployer’s enterprise infrastructure. The NCR Cx110 ATM includes minimal client software to run the ATM. The vast majority of the bank or ATM operator’s software stack is located on enterprise servers. This new approach will reduce the cost of operating ATMs, by allowing software maintenance and upgrades to be controlled in a centralized location and providing secure automatic updates, avoiding costly visits to each ATM.
The Kalpana software also will lead to the type of innovation found in mobile devices. Currently, new services can take months or years to bring to market as operators navigate through a myriad of vendors, including processors, switches, ATM vendors, regulators and software makers. By operating as an enterprise services hub that integrates with an ATM operator’s transactional and information systems, the Kalpana software can introduce new services at twice the speed of today at a much lower cost.
About Cardtronics (Nasdaq:CATM)
Making ATM cash access convenient where people shop, work and live, Cardtronics is at the convergence of retailers, financial institutions, prepaid card programs and the customers they share. Cardtronics owns/operates more than 110,200 retail ATMs in U.S. and international locales. Whether Cardtronics is driving foot traffic for America’s most relevant retailers, enhancing ATM brand presence for card issuers or expanding card holders’ surcharge-free cash access on the local, national or global scene, Cardtronics is convenient access to cash, when and where consumers need it. Cardtronics is where cash meets commerce.
About NCR Corporation
NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR) is the global leader in consumer transaction technologies, turning everyday interactions with businesses into exceptional experiences. With its software, hardware, and portfolio of services, NCR enables nearly 550 million transactions daily across retail, financial, travel, hospitality, telecom and technology, and small business. NCR solutions run the everyday transactions that make your life easier.
NCR is headquartered in Duluth, Georgia with approximately 29,000 employees and does business in 180 countries. NCR is a trademark of NCR Corporation in the United States and other countries.
Web sites: www.ncr.com, www.ncrsilver.com
Twitter: @NCRCorporation
Facebook: www.facebook.com/ncrcorp
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/ncr-corporation
YouTube: www.youtube.com/user/ncrcorporation
Kiosk Printer Kiosk printers present challenges and opportunities. As a point of maintenance and of failure paper prints are the most demanding. Jammed printers mean someone has to unjam (or there…
Source: kioskindustry.org
Updated comparison of print technology including cost for thermal versus laser printer.
Automated passport control is just one of the technologies airports are implementing to make international travel easier for passengers.
Source: www.burnsmcdblog.com
Commuters and pleasure-seekers alike will soon gain a new way to travel around Pittsburgh when biking advocates and local officials in May open a new bike-sharing system called Healthy Ride. The project by Pittsburgh Bike Share, which was sponsored by Highmark and by Allegheny Health Network, not only will help relieve traffic congestion and reduce pollution, but also will improve riders’ health by giving them an active way to commute to work and explore other parts of the city, according to loc
Source: www.post-gazette.com
500 bikes and 50 locations. Each kiosk, which looks like a modern parking meter, has 20 docking stations where returning riders can lock up bikes and where a computer will register the return.
Each kiosk, which looks like a modern parking meter, has 20 docking stations where returning riders can lock up bikes and where a computer will register the return.
A marketing stunt by Uber’s Toronto-based team appears to be going down well with the folk there, but hey, it involves free rides, so what’s not to like? The company’s marketing team clearly enjoys coming up with novel ideas to grab the headlines – in 2013 it teamed up with Home Depot to deliver Christmas trees direct to homes, and before that it offered on-demand ice cream trucks in several cities.
Source: www.yahoo.com
Morpho (Safran) and Infinisource have announced what the vendors call the market’s “most advanced biometrically-enabled time clock”.
Source: findbiometrics.com
The NXG is intended for the small and mid-size employer, allowing for the collection of time and attendance data. Thanks to Morpho’s MorphoSmart CBM sensors, the time clocks address the common practice of time fraud (known colloquially as ‘buddy punching’), ensuring that any given employee can only check herself in to work and not a truant or absent friend.
The state’s first vehicle-registration self-service kiosk is proving quite a draw at a Westerville grocery store. Merritt Kimball of Worthington recently drove to Marc’s supermarket, 111 Huber Village Blvd., to sample the machine.
Source: www.dispatch.com
Kiosk users just swipe their driver’s license and credit card. The machine then provides registration stickers.
A total of nine self-service kiosks are planned as part of a statewide one-year pilot program allowing motorists to renew vehicle registrations and obtain license-plate stickers without having to stand in line at BMV offices.
47 percent of Apple Pay users were denied by a participating merchant, study says.
Source: arstechnica.com
One piece to the puzzle that might keep banks paying into Apple’s platform is that customers seem to use credit cards more often on Apple Pay. According to Phoenix, 82 percent of Apple Pay users linked a credit card to their accounts, and 53 percent linked a debit card. “Among those that linked both a credit and a debit card to Apple Pay, 67 percent reported that the credit card was the first-card—thus becoming the default card.” Phoenix wrote. “56 percent rarely or never change the default when making a purchase.”
That behavior is interesting on a number of levels, not least because when a credit card is used, banks get higher interchange fees and consumers are better protected from fraud by federal credit card regulations. The only party losing out is the retailers. (Well, until they pass the costs back on to the customer). “Banks always prefer cardholders utilize credit for the higher interchange the banks receive,” Sloane wrote to Ars. “Consumers often pick credit over debit for higher risk transactions since credit has greater protections under [Regulation] Z. Mercator consumer data indicates that many smartphone owners are not confident that the smartphone is safe for payments, which may incline them to enable credit cards before debit cards (or maybe it’s for the rewards!).”
Clear will launch its security clearance services, which verify travelers’ identities through fingerprint and iris scans, at BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport.
Source: www.biometricupdate.com
CLEAR coming to Baltimore
Customers at a McDonald’s in Wesley Chapel can order their food at a self-service kiosk.
Wesley Chapel, Florida — In the ever-changing world of fast food, McDonald’s is now trying something totally new and it’s right here in our backyard.The Wesley Chapel McDonald’s on State Road 54 is the only location in the state with the new Create Your Taste menu and self-ordering kiosks. The store is one of only 12 nationwide with both options.“Crazier the better right,” said David Fettner, while trying the new kiosks at the Wesley Chapel McDonald’s for the first time and creating his own burger.“It’s going pretty well,” said Fettner.
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When computer science meets business, it can produce tiny green dragons. At least, that is one of the outcomes at Piecemaker, a 3-D printing company …
Source: triblive.com
TapSnap is excited to be unveiling its new Photo Marketing Kiosks at the Nightclub & Bar Convention & Trade Show in Las Vegas from March 31 to April 1.
Source: www.nightclub.com
Amazon has filed several patents recently that show that the e-commerce giant continues to be interested in the world of physical retail. Over the past few months, the company has experimented with a number of different… Read More
Source: www.geekwire.com
The first patent, outlining a kiosk management system, was filed by Neil Ackerman, who conducts product management and strategic invention at Amazon,according to LinkedIn. In 2014, Ackerman received the highly coveted “Just Do It” Award, presented by Jeff Bezos. Only a couple of dozen people have received this recognition, according to his biography.
The second patent, regarding retail check-out systems, lists multiple inventors, including Steve Kessel, an Amazon SVP, who we reported last month had returned from a long sabbatical to work on a super secret project. It still isn’t known what Kessel, who is known for developing the company’s first e-reader, is doing, but perhaps this filing sheds some light on it.
The machines, produced by DraftServ Technologies and set up at 10 locations throughout the stadiums, allow fans to purchase cards in $20 and $100 increments to buy Anheuser-Busch products by the ounce.
Outside the ballpark, the stored-value cards will be sold at retail stores in Greater Cincinnati and can be used throughout the season, said Don Dierig, Sportservice’s district manager.
Sportservice tested the DraftServ system by setting up two kiosks during the 2014 MLB All-Star Game at Target Field in Minnesota. The Cincinnati installation is the largest rollout of DraftServ products, according to that company’s officials.
Source: www.sportingnews.com
In addition, Sportservice has set up four kiosks along the third-base side of the main concourse that allow fans to order and pay for food items for express pickup at six themed concession stands, including the region’s famous Skyline Chili dogs. Those machines will be operational by the Reds’ second homestand, starting April 24 against the Cubs.
SkoolLive showcased a kiosk for the Maricopa Unified School District Governing Board in their meeting on Wednesday.
Source: www.inmaricopa.com
The kiosk would be provided to Maricopa High School at no charge. The company then checks with local businesses to see if anyone would like to advertise products. The advertisement money pays SkoolLive, but a portion of the profits go to the school as well (calculated to be between $200 and $500 per month, per kiosk).
“We take full responsible for the advertising,” Warren said, “We hope local businesses will be interested and hear about us through their kids, but the responsibility is all on us. Even if we can’t get a single advertiser, we still honor the life of the contract (three years).”
The school would be able to control each kiosk separately. They would have complete control over 50 percent of the screen on each individual kiosk. The top and bottom 25 percent of the screen are reserved for advertisements. The advertisements have to be approved by the school before they are displayed on the kiosk.
Germany’s second-largest cinema chain deploys new omni-channel strategy. Customers benefit from new features, quick check-out process and an improved service concept.
Source: www.avinteractive.com
Armodilo Display Solutions has introduced its newest addition, LITE™, a wall mountable back-lit tablet kiosk at ExhibitorLive in Las Vegas.
Source: blog.armodilo.com
Henry County Tax Commissioner David Curry has just made it even more convenient for residents to renew car registrations with a kiosk to be placed in the Kroger Store in Ellenwood.
Source: www.henryherald.com
Come see CTS in Chicago at HIMSS demonstrate entire line of patient check-in kiosk services as well as new antimicrobial and antibacterial finishes.
Source: www.kioskcts.com
Read about new features to be shown in Chicago. We’ll have booth in North Hall as well as South Hall. CTS is a Platinum Sponsor for HIMSS. Schedule a demo thru our form.
TAMPA—A McDonald’s Corp. restaurant in Wesley Chapel is among a select few nationwide to test a distinctly new way for McDonald’s customers to order food: Via a digital kiosk.
Source: tbo.com
Kiosk History timeline and events Having worked in kiosk industry longer than most, and been an archivist one task I took to heart was keeping a chronology of kiosk history. For more history and hi…
Source: kioskindustry.org
New events added to Kiosk industry history timeline (thanks to Dave McCracken of Livewire Digital). EMV liability shift, Networld tradegroup, RTC 449 patent and the last CETW show and Lawrence Dvorchik (nice job Lawrence).
Mail Services is excited to introduce the mail&goTM Postal Kiosk from Pitney Bowes. This self-serviced automated system is a one-stop location that allows customers to weigh packages, purchase stamps, and send mail.
Source: www.montclair.edu
Some of its features include:
With Google tools, you can create, publish, and deploy apps that make Chrome OS devices do even less. That’s a good thing. Andy Wolber explains.
Source: www.techrepublic.com
The process takes three steps: create the app, upload it to the Chrome Web Store, then deploy the app to managed Chrome devices. (Even if you don’t have managed Chrome devices, you can complete the first two steps to learn how the process works. Use Chrome while logged in to your Google Account for the following steps.)
