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Spb Software House Releases Kiosk Engine
Posted Wednesday, May 29, 2002 by PDA Center
Spb Software House Releases Kiosk Engine
May 29, 2002 - Spb Software House, a developer of custom Pocket PC
software, announced today the release of Kiosk Engine - a suite of
software that allows creating special information devices, or, kiosks
from Pocket PC devices.
There is a tendency of Pocket PCs being used as special devices in a
very limited way with many functions disabled and with only one
application executed. A lot of vertical market applications require a
kiosk mode. For example, it can disable all games and other
entertainment programs on Pocket PC.
Spb Kiosk Engine allows enterprise users creating kiosks based on
existing software or web-based solution and provides the following
features:
- Prevents switching from the target application;
- Provides a full screen mode;
- Automatically starts the target application after soft reset;
- Can be used with most enterprise applications;
- Admin mode can be entered by pressing the 'secret' hardware keys
sequence. In admin mode a device can be used without restrictions;
- Supports eMbedded Visual Basic applications;
- 2 predefined target applications: Pocket Internet Explorer and
Terminal Services Client;
- Replaces the home page with a custom one when used with Pocket
Internet Explorer.
Spb Kiosk Engine consists of 3 products, each of them providing a full screen kiosk mode for different types of applications:
- Spb Kiosk Explorer provides a full screen kiosk mode for Pocket
Internet Explorer. With Kiosk Explorer enterprises can create kiosk
solutions based on web-applications;
- Spb Kiosk Terminal is an application providing a full-screen kiosk
mode for Terminal Services Client. Kiosk Terminal allows creating
kiosks that run an application from a Windows NT/2000 Terminal Server;
- Spb Kiosk Engine is the third option that can run any custom Pocket PC application in a kiosk mode.
For more information on Spb Kiosk Engine visit its page at Spb Software House website at
http://www.softspb.com/products/kioskengine/index.html.
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