Cyphermint's AAA/CAA Customer Service Kiosk Nominated in Three Categories in KioskCom's Interactive Kiosk Excellence Awards
April 4, 2005, Marlborough, Massachusetts — Cyphermint, Inc., a leading provider of global electronic payment, integration and eCommerce infrastructure solutions, announced today that they are finalists in three categories for KioskCom's Interactive Kiosk Excellence Awards Contest. The announcement of Cyphermint's achievement in providing best-in-class self-service solutions came from KioskCom LLC, organizers of KioskCom.com™ 2005.
The AAA/CAA Customer Service Kiosk, the interactive kiosk project Cyphermint designed, created and deployed for the American and Canadian Automobile Associations, has been nominated as a finalist in the following categories: Best Kiosk Deployment for Travel, Hospitality or Entertainment; Best Content in a Kiosk Deployment and Best Hardware/Enclosure Design for a Kiosk Deployment.
Via a touch screen desktop, the AAA/CAA Customer Service Kiosk enables members to access services similar to those found on www.aaa.com and www.caa.ca. Some of the features of kiosk include reservations for hotel, air and car rental. Members also can obtain driving directions, find information on account status, join, renew membership and conduct an array of financial services as well as access many other benefits available to members and non-members.
Written applications were reviewed by an independent panel of judges to determine the finalists. All finalists will participate in a final usability testing on April 18, 2005, at KioskCom.com 2005 at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, NV. Winners of the awards will be announced at the KioskCom.com's Interactive Kiosk Excellence Awards Dinner and Ceremony at 7:30 pm on Tuesday April 19, 2005 at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino.
Cyphermint, as a platinum sponsor at this year's KioskCom 2005, will eagerly await the judges' decision.
"Cyphermint prides itself on its kiosk innovation and to be recognized as a finalist in the Interactive Kiosk Excellence Awards validates what we are striving for as a contender in the future of self-serve," said Joe Barboza, President and CEO of Cyphermint. "We are excited to be exhibiting again this year at KioskCom 2005 and anticipate establishing more kiosk relationships as a result of a successful exhibition and award announcement".
For more information on Cyphermint's kiosk services, contact Cyphermint Sales at 508-787-4800 or email sales@cyphermint.com.
About Cyphermint
Headquartered in Marlborough, Mass., Cyphermint is a provider of Global Electronic Cash Payment and eCommerce infrastructure/integration solutions. Our core technology, PayCash™ is used in three major areas: Card (1) Kiosk Solutions - delivering Web-enabled highly secure self-service B2C merchandising systems, (2) Internet Cash Payment Systems, for secure eCommerce services for the un-banked and emerging consumer market, featuring the PayCash NOW ™ Visa® Debit and (3) The PayCash Retail System featuring our Touch-Screen POS System. Cyphermint's kiosk software solutions provide retailers with secure end-to-end integration to kiosk networks and provides existing kiosk networks with eCommerce capabilities. Cyphermint's core technology, the PayCash System provides un-banked consumers access to financial services such as Internet shopping, bill payment, and debit cards. Cyphermint software solutions provide complete turnkey solutions that deliver secure web-enabled transactional, financial self-service and merchandising services to merchants and consumers.
About KioskCom.com's Interactive Kiosk Excellence Awards
KioskCom.com's Interactive Kiosk Excellence Awards (www.kioskawards.com) are the premier awards for interactive self-service technology worldwide. Established in 2002, these awards continue to honor, recognize and promote the very best interactive self-service kiosk deployments, and the successes of those organizations implementing self-service technology. The awards are intended to showcase the best kiosk applications and designs for the many industries that currently use interactive, self-service kiosks. The winners will set the standards of excellence for future kiosk implementations. KioskCom.com's Interactive Kiosk Excellence Awards are announced each year at KioskCom.com's Annual April Conference and Exhibition. Judges for the awards have been selected from leading publications, consultants and analysts, both inside and outside of the kiosk industry and include representatives from the following organizations: KioskCom.com, Euro Kiosks Network, NRF, Frost & Sullivan, Kiosk Business Magazine, Summit Research Associates, Automated Retail Partners, Gartner Dataquest, Delphi International, LakeWest Group, Pre-Paid Press, and EXPO Magazine. For more information about KioskCom.com 2005, please call 800-882-8684 or visit www.kioskcom.com.
