Kiosks

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• Turning travel into a non-contact sport

  
  All World News - PakMahfil.com — Authority: 162
  Airlines are trying to shrug off a financially-plagued decade by promising passengers more low fares as well as a seamless, paperless and even ‘contact-less’ travel experiences, industry executives said. After electronic ticketing and check-in booths, Dutch carrier KLM is trying out automated bag drop machines, ...
  17 hours ago

• Nintendo: Nintendo Brings State Of The Art Kiosks To Japan

  
  Sickr — Authority: 128
  Nintendo have implemented some extremely impressive retail kiosks in Japan which are equipped with state of the art touch screens and cameras enabling users to find more information about DS and Wii products. Source Posted in Nintendo Tagged: japan, retail kiosks, touch screen
  2 days ago

• Best Buy Getting Into DVD Rental Kiosk Game

  
  CyberTheater — Authority: 519
  Oh man, who’s next?  McDonald’s?  Movie Gallery?  Eventually you’re not going to be able to leave your house without tripping over a DVD kiosk.But all those names aside, apparently, Best Buy has launched a couple of kiosks for dollar a day DVD rentals, as well as sales of games and videos.This approach ...
  3 days ago

• Redbox Wont Take Readers Money, Bans Credit Card Forever

  
  Consumerist — Authority: 772
  What can you do when a company bans not you, but your only credit card? John explains that he returned some Redbox movies before his vacation. Then his vacation got really exciting, and his credit card was briefly and accidentally reported stolen. He straightened things out with the credit card company, but Redbox was ...
  5 days ago

• Nokia Growth Partners co-invests in Swype

  
  Cell Phone News and Cell Phone Reviews: HotCellularPhone.com — Authority: 148
  Swype Swype’s patented technology provides a faster and more intuitive way to input text on touch-screens because it has built-in intelligence that doesn’t require users to hit each letter accurately. With one continuous finger or stylus motion across the keyboard, users can enter text at over 30 words per ...
  5 days ago

• Holding Up

  
  Beth Kephart Books — Authority: 473
  As I walked the Penn campus on Monday I was struck by images of endings. This is a close-up of a campus information kiosk—all the advertisements, slogans, promises, queries snatched out from the rust-grip of staples. Come January, it will all be new again. Here, in between corporate projects and Christmas ...
  1 week ago

• Deputy Mayor of London Leads Crackdown on City’s Vice Trade

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 450
  Deputy Mayor for Policing, Kit Malthouse, has called on Londoners to join the fight to end violence against women and to give prostitution adverts the red card. Kit Malthouse was joined by the Met Police, and partner agencies including the White Ribbon Campaign, Eaves, Object, and the Salvation Army to highlight the ...
  1 week ago

• Redbox Testing Higher Prices In Some Markets

  
  Consumerist — Authority: 772
  Renting a DVD for $1 per day is a simple, easy-to-understand pricing scheme. But in some markets, Redbox kiosks are testing some new pricing plans. They will charge either $2 or $1.50 for the first night, and $1 for subsequent nights. According to Adam at Your Money Relationship , a few weeks ago, the $2 price ...
  2 weeks ago

• Northampton Blockbuster store to close in January

  
  Courier Times Now — Authority: 151
  The Blockbuster Inc. movie and game rental store in Northampton will close by early January, according to company officials. A “Store Closing” flag flies across the Blockbuster sign at the store off Second Street Pike and Almshouse Road in the Richboro area of the township. Store staff declined today to discuss ...
  2 weeks ago

• Come See the New Make Magazine MakerSheds at Frys Electronics

  
  San Francisco Citizen — Authority: 141
  Well, here it is , just in time for Christmas, Make Magazine MakerSheds  at your local Fry’s Electronics , which is most likely the one in Palo Alto. Click to expand So that’s something new under the Sun. Read all the deets, and a pitch for “TripGlasses,” right here: “We’re ecstatic about ...
  2 weeks ago

• Kiosk retail: RedBox, BestBuy,

  
  Customer Experience Crossroads — Authority: 112
  Kiosk retail is starting to really change things. The photos above are of a Sony kiosk in an airport (this one is at LAX). When you buy something, such as the headphones we picked up prior to boarding, a wonderful servo mechanism goes across and down to collect your selection, then drop it into the chute. [It was so ...
  2 weeks ago

• Coming Soon to Duane Reade: Blockbuster Video

  
  NYConvergence - A digest of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut digital media technology news — Authority: 560
  NCR Corp , a company that develops retail DVD kiosks,  will soon be installing Blockbuster Video movie rental kiosks in more than 200 Duane Reade drug stores in New York.  A majority of the kiosks will be located in Manhattan Duane Reade locations. Home Media Magazine
  2 weeks ago

• Redbox Says Studios Interfering with DVD Retail Purchases

  
  NewTeeVee — Authority: 738
  Redbox claims that 20th Century Fox and Warner Home Video are inhibiting the DVD rental kiosk company from purchasing DVDs from retailers like Walmart and Target. Watch live streaming video from gigaomtv at livestream.com Video Business reports that Redbox, which is embroiled in lawsuits with both studios ...
  2 weeks ago

• HP Targets Movie-buffs For Their New TouchSmart Web Printers Campaign

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 594
  HP launched its new Photosmart Premium with TouchSmart Web Printer sometime in September with usual TV, print and online campaign but now it is following it up with huge campaign targeting movie audiences. Right from kiosks in movie lobbies to screening of spots HP is using all available space to make an imprint on ...
  2 weeks ago

• Virtual Makeup is not ready for Prime Time yet

  
  Games Alfresco — Authority: 466
  Following video presents a cooperation between Korea’s drugstore Oliveyoung and Samsung (if Google Translate serves me right). Never mind it’s not applied in real time and requires user interaction, but does it increase your sales, making your customers look like clowns? Well I guess it’s a step in the ...
  3 weeks ago

• A La Cart

  
  The Big Money — Authority: 694
  "Excuse me, sir. How old is your daughter? Shes adorable." The speaker, a young woman wearing blacks and grays and no perfume, has to raise her voice by the end, as her target scurries away. Employees at mall kiosks find themselves in a tough spot, and this woman is no exception. According to her kiosk’s gaudy ...
  3 weeks ago

• Does United’s new “LaneBuster” idea have a ghost of a chance?

  
  Consumer Traveler — Authority: 143
  With all the customer service "enhancements" the airlines like to trot out, one would think more customers would enjoy the travel experience.
  3 weeks ago

• Soft drinks banned in Bangkok government schools

  
  PCT Thailand's Free Expatriates Blog — Authority: 148
  Soft drinks to be banned in government schools in BangkokBANGKOK, Nov 24 The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) plans to ban carbonated drinks in schools under its umbrella, part of a four-measure strategy to strengthen the health of Thai youth and to prevent obesity among Thai children.The BMA plans to ban ...
  3 weeks ago

• Blockbuster pilots movie rentals via SD cards

  
  The CITE — Authority: 128
  An article from Fast Company says that Blockbuster is piloting new movie rental kiosks that will allow users to rent movies via SD cards. The SD cards can be used with mobile phones, computers, TV’s, or other devices that include SD readers. The movie must be viewed within 30 days of purchase and once a consumer ...
  5 weeks ago

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