BURNABY, British Columbia - Info Touch Technologies Corp. announced a test market deployment of self-service automated touchscreen kiosks in 26 Speedway SuperAmerica LLC store locations in Dayton, Ohio.  

Equipped with Info Touch's Premiere software powered by Surfnet, the terminals will initially provide customers with convenient access to a wide variety of services including: bill payment, Wi-Fi, maps and directions, and auto insurance. Applications planned for release at a later date include money order and money transfer, and prepaid products and services.

 "This project is consistent with our vision of expanding the nationwide coverage of our financial-services applications. The initiative reaffirms our position as the leading solution provider for unattended financial services within the convenience retail industry," explained Hamed Shahbazi, chairman and chief executive officer of Info Touch Technologies.  "With our retail partners, we are creating the most accessible, functional and pervasive network of automated kiosk terminals providing financial services in the United States."

Speedway SuperAmerica LLC, headquartered in Enon, Ohio, is the nation's third-largest company-owned-and-operated convenience store chain with more than 1,600 stores located in nine states. Most of the stores are operated under the Speedway and SuperAmerica brand names.

[Editor's note: Info Touch Technologies became Tio Networks in April 2006.]