Spring 2009

ATM Advertising

Campaign Cash

At the latest EFMA Self-Service Banking Conference, held in Istanbul at the end of 2008, the central concern was how to ensure that ATMs remained viable and profitable.

ID Tech's Duo Magstripe

Double Header

ID Tech, a leading manufacturer of magstripe reading products, has delivered another product innovation to the kiosk marketplace.

Baggage Handling Kiosks

Best Case Scenario

The departure terminals of airports across Europe are already populated by check-in kiosks, but kiosks are also a solution well-suited to the arrivals hall as a tool for baggage handling, allowing customers to report, monitor, track and even reclaim their lost baggage through self-service.
 

Electronics Vending

Passenger Pilot

Best Buy, a leading American consumer electronics retailer, is installing twelve Best But Express kiosks in major airports across the USA, as part of a new pilot programme carried out in collaboration with ZoomSystems.

Ryanair Check-in Kiosks

A Flying Start

As of October 2008, Stansted Airport in the UK now boasts 80 new IBM checkin kiosks for Ryanair customers to grab up to 180 flights a day.
 

Mail-order Medication Kiosks

Preferential Treatment

By Udo Bonnet, Retail Store Solutions Manager, Polygon
 
Germany is a quickly growing market for pharmaceuticals – in 2006, its total market volume for the sector was approximately €35 billion, and this is growing at a rate of 4% per year.

Service & Maintenance

Healing Hands

Not only is it in the interests of anyone who has installed a kiosk that it should be up and running at all times, but it is also in the interests of CMS that uptime should be maximised.

Lottery Touch Terminal

The Midas Touch

Operators of national lotteries everywhere demand reliable, high speed technologies to manage games that involve millions of players and must always be seen to be fair, error-free and transparent.

New Uses for Kiosks in Banking

Bank on It

When you think of a banking kiosk, you generally think of a computer that gives clients bank account access. It may give clients the ability to transfer funds, check balances, sign-up for new bank services or deposit money into their account, but the concept of web-banking access is generally the same.
 

New Lottery Kiosk Trial

Numbers Game

Since September 2008, around 40 self-service terminals from Wincor Nixdorf have been rolled out to lottery outlets as an additional service for customers in Saxony.

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