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Internet kiosks help domestic violence victims
News A pilot scheme that allows victims of domestic violence to seek help through Internet kiosks is proving very successful among London women. Cityspace, the IT company that provides the i-plus network of kiosks for the Greater London Authority (GLA...
[December 5, 2001, 16:02]
Web kiosks help job hunters on the high street
News Jobseekers can now search for work while they shop, using government-introduced Internet kiosks that are appearing in high streets across the country. The stand-alone 'I+' kiosks use touch screen technology to connect to the government's worktrain...
[February 7, 2003, 10:08]
Westminster launches UK's largest Internet kiosk network
News Westminster City Council launched a network of 12 outdoor Internet kiosks today, as part of a growing scheme to close the digital divide in Britain. The kiosks are currently being visited by 100,000 users a month, with each point receiving an...
[July 25, 2001, 17:30]
Virgin Retail plans major technology upgrade
News According to Tony Johnson, Virgin Retail's IT director the company is moving away from its existing system of in-store kiosks for Internet shopping because they confused customers. Virgin will replace the kiosks with an Internet-based ordering...
[February 24, 2005, 16:20]
Government considering online crime reports
News The NHS kickstarted the trend of putting public services online by installing Internet kiosks around the UK last October. The kiosks give people direct access to health information via the NHS Direct Web site.
[January 12, 2001, 7:41]
BT to turn payphones into hot spots
News All 200 of these sites are BT Internet kiosks -- which let users surf the web and send text messages. We're in the process of rolling out 20,000 Internet kiosks and, unless a particular site is in a poor location, we could offer Wi-Fi from all of...
[September 15, 2003, 16:10]
Woolies' mammoth challenge
Leader Its decision to install Internet shopping kiosks in some of its stores makes sense on paper: customers can pick from a much wider range of products than can be held in-store and get them delivered to their homes a couple of days later.
[September 23, 2005, 13:45]
Wireless Web to soar at US airports
News Soon, laptop users with wireless 802.11b LAN PC Cards connecting to kiosks with Web access points, or those with wired connections to the kiosks, will be able to hop online from virtually anywhere in the airport.
[August 2, 2000, 9:45]
Free email kiosks hit the high street
News The kiosks will provide online shopping, Internet access and email. The UK's first outdoor email service, which will allow users to send free emails 24 hours a day from high street kiosks, launched on Thursday.
[March 10, 2000, 15:17]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog It turns out that there's a popular idea in government at the moment for the collecting together of various advice agencies and making a lot of knowledge available on the Internet and via kiosks. And then there's NACABS -- the National Association...
[June 11, 1999, 19:39]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News It turns out that there's a popular idea in government at the moment for the collecting together of various advice agencies and making a lot of knowledge available on the Internet and via kiosks. And then there's NACABS -- the National Association...
[June 11, 1999, 18:39]
Symbian smartphones get email, photo services
News Kodak and Nokia are also working on printing services such as kiosks that will allow smartphone users to instantly print their photos, a continuation of an earlier collaboration in the Asia-Pacific area.
[June 16, 2003, 15:39]
Internet innovation may be under threat
News New Internet access technologies such as more advanced mobile phones, wireless organisers, interactive television and Net kiosks will help open up as-yet unseen ways of making money online. Is the era of large-scale Internet innovation over?
[January 16, 2001, 10:49]
Internet voting gets the Oxford blues
News Advocates of digital democracy say that e-voting -- whether online, by mobile phone or at electronic kiosks in supermarkets and pubs -- will increase democratic participation by making it easier for citizens to make their electoral choice.
[June 25, 2003, 13:21]
ICL brings Net shopping to high streets
News The kiosks feature Netscape Navigator software and a touchscreen, allowing visitors to see product and service information and order goods through credit card and debit card transactions. ICL expects to see interest in areas such as ticketing...
[October 15, 1996, 16:44]
Avaya IP Telephony Solutions Enable Rakuten Inc. to Soar to New Heights in Business
White Papers Rakuten Inc.founded in 1997, has thrived by developing new business opportunities, based primarily on Internet kiosks. The challenge was to update and interoperate 12 office locations with disparate systems onto a single communications...
[January 30, 2009, 7:29]
Surface computing looks good
Talkback There are many internet kiosks around that provide limited functionality without a keyboard, such as topping up your account, but this is more like a fully featured device. Personally, the biggest change I see here is the HCI (human computer...
[June 3, 2007, 14:58]
iShell
Downloads iShell is the most effective way to develop cross-platform interactive CD-ROM's.iShell's object oriented authoring environment is a powerful visual programming solution to develop and deploy multimedia applications without wasting...
[April 16, 2007, 8:00]
Local elections to pilot mobile and Internet voting
News Parts of Crewe and Nantwich, St Albans and Swindon will be piloting Internet voting from home, local libraries and council-run information kiosks. In response to the e-envoy's push for Internet democracy last October, the non-governmental...
[February 7, 2002, 15:45]
Flaw leaves work PCs and Internet cafes open
News However, many corporations only allow employees to have limited user accounts, while kiosks, libraries and Internet cafes usually don't allow users to modify the system. A class of attacks that allows a user to take control of any PC or server...
[July 14, 2003, 7:36]
