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To: Pierre-X who wrote (344)	5/11/1998 11:42:00 AM
From: Yogi - Paul	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2025

PX, thread, Interesting. biz.yahoo.com Frost & Sullivan: The Information Age Provides Tremendous Opportunities For World Interactive Kiosk Companies MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., May 11 /PRNewswire/ -- As life becomes more hectic, people continue to search for ways to save time and energy throughout their daily lives. For this reason, interactive kiosks are quickly becoming the vending machine of the Information Age. They not only provide users access to a wide variety of products and information, but do so through the ease of a touch-screen display or the sound of a human voice. According to recent strategic research by Frost & Sullivan (www.frost.com), World Interactive Kiosk Markets generated $980.9 million in revenues in 1997, up 37 percent from 1996. Factors expected to boost revenues even further in future years include the drive to increase customer service, a reduction in labor costs, technological advances in hardware and software coupled with declining prices, and continued Internet growth. Analyzed by major segment, this study takes an in-depth look at the retail market, finance and banking market, tourism and entertainment market, government market, and other markets within the overall interactive kiosk market. All segments include a detailed examination of both the point-of-purchase (POP) and point-of-information (POI) aspects of the specific market, as well as market drivers and restraints. While the government segment represents one of the newest markets to emerge, the market for tourism kiosks has existed for a number of years. Regardless of specific market affiliation, all companies participating in the interactive kiosk market must equip themselves with the most reliable, up-to-date market information available in order to succeed. ''End-user acceptance is vital to the success of kiosks. However, once users become familiar with a kiosk, they often prefer using it to standing in line to meet with a customer service representative,'' says information technology research analyst Robert Chomentowski. ''A recent trend is the increased demand to automate redundant services that demand the time and effort of personnel, enabling concentration on more complex services.'' The widespread prevalence of automated teller machines (ATMs) should help make end-user acceptance of kiosks relatively easy. This marketing consulting report offers suggestions for smaller kiosk companies who should seek niches in the retail, and tourism and entertainment markets, capitalizing on their abilities to offer customized solutions with unique multimedia content. The study also provides kiosk vendors and potential vendors, large and small, with invaluable information on pricing, marketing, distribution strategy, specialized applications, and opportunities for strategic partnerships and alliances. You cannot afford to overlook this detailed analysis of a fairly new market which carries tremendous potential. Technologies covered in this study include: interactive kiosks, desktop computer, hard drive, keyboard, compact disk read only memory (CD-ROM) drive, color monitor, audio card, video card, speakers, Apple Macintosh, UNIX workstations, resistive touch screens, capacitive touch screens, surface acoustic wave (SAW) touch screens, infrared touch screens, force vector touch screens, magnetic card readers, pointing devices, microphones, cameras, microphones, proximity detectors, speakers, sound cards, printers, storage devices, optical jukeboxes, uninterruptible power supply (UPS), point of sale software (POS), graphical user interface (GUI), Microsoft Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator browser, network interface card (NIC), local area network (LAN), metropolitan area network (MAN), wide area network (WAN), wireless LAN, circuit switched telephone connections, and packet switched networks. Companies participating in this market include: Active Frame Productions, Advanced Media, Inc., Adroit Innovations, AG Industries (AGI), Atcom/Info, ATI Advertising Technologies, Inc., Barcreast Multimedia, Big Hand, Inc., Breakaway Presentations, Inc., Bull Systems, Broad Knowledge System Ltd, ComArt, Compass Technologies, Compustar Network, DCI Marketing, Diebold, Inc., Dolphin Works Corporation, Dunn Systems, Inc., Dynatouch Corporation, Ecotek Technology Solutions, EDR Systems, Electronic Data Systems Corporation (NYSE:EDS - news), EMF Corp., Exhibitgroup/Giltspur (Exhibit Masters), First Wave, Inc., Fugitsu Ltd Japan, Golden Screens America, Inc., Goldtron Interactive, Greenway Engineering, GS Interactive, Hasting & Baio, Haukom Associates, Hitachi, Horizons Technology, Inc., HSI Computer Systems, IBM Kiosk Solutions, IBM Japan, ICL Retail Systems, ICL-United Kingdom United Kingdom, Interactive Ideas, Inc., Ivid Communications, King Products, Inc., Kiosk Information Systems (KIS), The Kiosk Software Company, Lexitech, Logica, Inc., LGC Associates, Micro Rent, Midi, Inc., MPO Videotronics, MSA, Multimedia Resources, Inc., Muze, Inc., NCR Corporation [NYSE:NCR - news], NCR Financial Systems Ltd, NCR Singapore, NEC Japan, NEO, NetAccess Inc., North Communications, North Communications Australia, N-Vision Systems, Inc., Olivetti, ObjectSoft Corporation [Nasdaq:OSFT - news], Panasonic, Pearlson Development, Pen-Tech Associates, Pixel Touch, Red Dot Interactive, Rocky Mountain Multimedia, RTC & Associates, Sony Corporation [NYSE:SNE - news], Southwest Business/Financial Data, St. Clair Interactive Communications, Inc., Siemans-Nixdorf, TouchMedia Sysyems Pte. Ltd, TouchNet Information Systems, Inc., Touchscreen Promotions, Triadigm Technology, Trident Computer Systems, Troll Touch, and Unisys Corporation [NYSE:UIS - news]. Related Companies include: Acoustics Development Corporation, Dynapro TF Products, Elo Touchsystems, Factura Composites, Inc., Gibco, GS Interactive, Magnetec Corporation, MicroTouch Systems, Inc., Open Domain Inc., Pacific Rim Network Systems, Redfield Company, Ross Roy Advertising Co., Sequoia Wood Products, Signature Marketing, Touchsource, Inc., Ultimate Technologies, and United States Technologies. Industry Organizations include: Interactive Multimedia Association (IMA), International Interactive and Communications Society. more followed Yogi

To: Pierre-X who wrote (344)	5/13/1998 3:19:00 PM
From: Mark Oliver	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2025

Here's an interesting link to a new data storage technology for hand held computers. Message 4442924 And here's a story about computer sales in Japan. Is this good for US companies. or bad? Intel chief says Japan's IT cuts 'dangerous' TOKYO, May 13 (Reuters) - The chief of the world's largest chip maker, Intel Corp , warned on Wednesday that spending cuts on information technology had dangerous ramifications for Japan's economic health. The comments from Intel's chief executive officer Andrew Grove came as Japan suffered an unexpected decline in personal computer sales in the 1997/98 business year. ''A longer-term cutback or a slowdown even in relative terms in information technology spending has very dangerous ramifications,'' Grove told a news conference. ''Economic health and growth of the country will be equally, if not more, determined by health and welfare of electronic infrastructure,'' he said. A trade group of Japan's major PC makers announced on Wednesday that domestic PC shipments in the last business year fell five percent to 6.85 million units, the first decline in five years. Domestic sales decreased a steep nine percent in the January-March period of this year from the corresponding period one year ago, but the group said it expected sales to recover in the 1998/99 business year, and to grow by around five percent. Grove said a study by research company Dataquest showed that Japan's investment in information technology in 1997 was only about half that of the United States in terms of its ratio to gross domestic product. Grove attacked costly fees for using Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp local call networks as a reason for Japan's low connectivity to the Internet. ''Communications costs are emerging as the biggest limitation in consumer access to the Internet in Japan and in other countries,'' he said. Asked about PC business conditions in the U.S. market, Grove said he thought Intel's second-quarter profits would stay at or below the level of its first-quarter results. ''We felt considerable inventory accumulation among our large customers. Any recovery we anticipated would only happen...in the second half of the year,'' Grove said. Intel's microprocessor business has stumbled recently due to weak demand from PC makers such as COMPAQ Computer Corp . During a seminar titled, ''The future of Business Computing,'' before the news conference, Grove also sketched out a roadmap for Intel chips that he said he hoped would capture a larger portion of the high-powered server and work-station markets.