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Wine kiosks to be added at 100 Pa. supermarkets

More than 100 Pennsylvania grocery stores are expected to be getting vending machines that sell wine.

Terminal case: Rethinking the ticket hall

With apologies to George Carlin, if airports are all about going places, why do you begin your trip in a terminal?

Best Buy to launch airport gadget vending machines

Best Buy Co. Inc. plans to add a dozen vending kiosks inside major airports across the country as part of a new pilot program called "Best Buy Express," company executives said.

Favoring Stores, Dell Closes Mall Kiosks

Dell Inc., which has been pushing its computers into more retail stores, said Wednesday it will close its 140 shopping mall kiosks in the United States.

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Wine Kiosks Coming To 100 Grocery Stores
Source: WGAL.com - Local News

HARRISBURG, Pa. -- More than 100 Pennsylvania grocery stores are expected to be getting vending machines that sell wine.

Report: Video games possibly coming to Redbox
Source: CNET.com

Redbox has made some major strides in the movie-rental business, offering consumers the opportunity to pick up newly released films from a kiosk around town for just $1 per day. It has even forced Blockbuster to try a similar strategy.

San Francisco Snags World's First Airport Carbon Kiosks
Source: Fast Company

San Francisco mayor and California gubernatorial candidate Gavin Newsom is attempting to jack up his eco-cred in a slightly controversial way by announcing the world's first airport carbon offset kiosk at San Francisco International Airport.

DVD kiosks like Redbox have rivals seeing red
Source: USA Today

We all know that DVDs are dying, and pretty soon people who want to watch movies at home will just stream or download them from the Internet, cable or satellite. Right?

GameStop's Used Game Biz Called 'Nearly Bullet-Proof' Despite Wal-Mart Pilot Program
Source: GameDaily

Todd Greenwald of Signal Hill Capital Group today waxed on the recent announcement that Wal-Mart is testing the used game waters. He believes that if the program is successful, they will eventually offer store credit and push the kiosks in their 3,600 store base in the U.S.

The Way We'll Watch Coming soon: DVDs that let you chat with friends watching the same movie.
Source: Wall Street Journal

Hollywood studios and tech companies are rolling out a host of innovations that will change the way we experience films at home and in theaters. They've already begun to serve up DVDs that let you chat with other people who are watching the same movie.

End of the line for the red phone kiosk.
Source: The Daily Express.

RED phone boxes, a familiar sight for almost a century, are to disappear from our street corners. Nearly 10,000 nonprofitable payphones could go as British Telecom cuts costs. It insists thousands of call boxes are hardly used in an age of home phones, mobiles and email.

Blockbuster mulls download stations to beat iTunes
Source: MacNN | The Macintosh News Network

Blockbuster is considering opening download stations as a way of shoring up its failing rental business, according to company chief Jim Keyes.

U.S. Biometrics Corporation Expands Its Partner Base by Licensing Its Technology to Real Time Data Management Systems For Use In Self-Service Kiosks at Credit Unions
Source: Business Wire

U.S. Biometrics is teaming up with Real Time Kiosks to provide a new solution for kiosk transactions in the financial market. The two companies will be combining their products to allow for a speedy and effective consumer experience.

Software manages Linux-based multi-headed kiosks
Source: linuxdevices.com

Userful has revised its Linux-based managed kiosk software aimed at enabling a single PC to support multiple touchscreen-based interfaces.

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