Phil Hunter, Managing Director of KioskCom Europe's Self Service Expo 2007, explains, 'Over the past few years, interest in self-service technologies has boomed, vastly improving customer service, increasing revenue and driving down costs - a fact that was clearly illustrated by the number of visitors to last year's inaugural show. We delivered a lot more attendees than we were expecting last year and the proof of just how good that audience was for the exhibitors is the fact that we are having to nearly double the size of the show for this year.'

KioskCom Europe draws upon an 11 year history of successful events in the USA. The two-day event will bring together Europe's premier showcase of Kiosk and Self Service professionals, industry icons, trusted brands and new innovations, to provide visitors with a comprehensive briefing on all of the issues facing deployment and illustrate how Interactive Self Service can work for them and their customers.

The event will raise and answer such questions as:

With the market for self-service technology continuing to grow at an astounding rate, what are the potential implications for organisations who fail to adopt it? What can organisations looking to deploy self-service kiosk technology learn from the experiences of their UK & European counterparts? How can European companies take advantage of self-service kiosk technology to increase profitability, create long-term revenue generating opportunities, and increase customer loyalty?

KioskCom Europe 2007, 7-8 November 2007, London Olympia

Making its US debut at the show is the Harmony™ Slant Top, an ergonomic cabinet design already enjoying great success in International markets. It provides players with maximum comfort and an enhanced playing experience. The Harmony™ Slant Top will be unveiled with a library of exciting new game titles, including Mystical Journey™, Sun Spirit™ and Jungle of Gold™.

Passion Slots™ will be shown with a bold new design and an interactive top screen that promises to take bonus rounds to a whole new level. Look for this cabinet to debut with a reel slot version of Deal or No Deal™ and The Game of Life™.

Building on the success of Deal or No Deal™, Atronic will unveil two new links under this brand umbrella. Deal or No Deal The Experience™ is a new linked gaming concept with three interactive bonus rounds and a multi-level progressive. Deal or No Deal Mega Deal™ is a Wide Area and Multi-Site progressive with two levels of jackpots. Both will feature the popular 'Briefcase Bonus' round that has become synonymous with the game.

In the Linked Gaming area, customers will find a wide array of King Kong Cash and The Game of Life™ titles to update their casino floor. All of these concepts have experienced great success since their debut and the additional titles will only further enhance their popularity!

eMillions™, Atronic's award winning Wide Area Progressive Link, will be shown with both a penny and nickel denomination. Atronic will feature fun game titles such as Himalayan Gold™, Money Magnet™ and Moonlight Mansion™.

The mystery driven Mystery Magic™ and symbol driven Hot Link™, will be shown with an extensive library of new game titles. All provide unique rapid hit progressive paytables, ensuring frequent wins of the progressive jackpot.

Alfastreet™ is the new multi-player roulette station manufactured and distributed by Atronic Americas and will be prominent at this year's show.

Atronic Systems is set to exhibit the tournament-style bonus concept Tournamania™ and flexible cashless solution Chip Cash™, in addition to Chain Reaction™, a unique multi-player mystery jackpot concept. Join us for our daily Tournamania™ tournaments and win some fun prizes.

Be on the lookout for the Atronic 'City Officers' as they are making their rounds on the show floor handing out entry tickets for daily prize drawings. And as always, the last hour of the show means Happy Hour in the Atronic booth. Join us for refreshing cocktails and great company before you leave the City of Games!

The entire Atronic Team is looking forward to welcoming you in booth # 1385!

The tests, conducted in August at the ECB's test facility, were in two parts: a counterfeit test, in which Ardac Elite detected every single counterfeit; and a recognition test, in which Ardac Elite accepted every genuine note, regardless of its condition. These results put Ardac Elite ahead of the equivalent bill acceptors from Money Controls' major competitors.

Erik van der Weide, whose team is responsible for creating the banknote data tables for Ardac Elite, was pleased but not surprised by the test results: 'Ardac Elite's exceptional performance is due to a combination of advanced technology, with over 200,000 data points recorded for each note inserted, and the experience and expertise of my team,' he explained.

'With Ardac Elite EP, our hand-held support tool, the note tables can be uploaded to an Ardac Elite in a matter of seconds. What's more, updated note tables, and firmware, can be downloaded from our website and uploaded to an Ardac Elite in its host machine,' concluded Erik.

The ECB tests follow on from a series of Ardac Elite trials conducted and independently monitored by casino operators worldwide. These trials also confirmed that Ardac Elite leads the way in bill validation and fraud rejection.

Lenzing, 2007. 15 million Germans are already playing casual games on the Internet. This makes casual games more than twice as popular among Germans as console games. This fact was announced during a press conference at this year's Games Convention.

PHOTO PLAY exactly counts on this trend with regard to its classical fun or party games 'Kick the Fish' and 'Bavarian Quarters' - games that are easy to operate and don't require any complex knowledge of games. Thus, entirely new target groups can be addressed by the touch-screen industry. 'Middle-aged women are getting particularly interested in these games', explains Norbert Langer, authorised officer and head of funworld's Marketing & Sales department. 'Almost half of all members registered in the system are female', says Langer, who is quite pleased about this fact. The most recent developments of PHOTO PLAY include enormous growth rates in this area, thus making funworld's future expectations quite optimistic: 'Given our new game genres we anticipate a giant increase in the number of PHOTO PLAY members this year. We are especially glad about the increasing number of older-generation members. Our oldest gamer is 80 years old and an enthusiastic 'Kick the Fish' gamer', says Josef Öhlinger, CEO of funworld ag.

Older gamers play PHOTO PLAY games in order to keep themselves mentally fit, to train their memory as well as to maintain and improve their reaction skills. 'But also the younger target group is open to this trend, with entertainment and relaxation being the key motivators', says Norbert Langer.

Another remarkable result of the field test prior to the introduction of the PHOTO PLAY System 2008: More than 60 percent of the women preferably play games in order to relax and to relieve stress, whereas only 42% of the men rated this factor as 'very important', says Langer.

Great expectations rely in particular on the new coin to note and note to coin change machines 2Change and 4Change. Further to the performances featured by all traditional change machines, Comestero Group's new series provides a wide selection of both coin and banknote change options, to satisfy the highest change requirements. Here safety performances are impeccable. Hoppers and note dispensers are protected by an excellent locking system, whereas the better improved anti-theft device Locky system grants total protection for both the change machine and the premises where it is installed. On show will be also the new Changeuro Easy Plus with discriminator, a unique hopper which allows to work simultaneously with up to three different types of coins.

An other innovation is GSM-GEST, the telemetry and remote control system for Comestero Group change machines. Especially devised to simplify the daily routines of all gaming operators, GSM-GEST ensures a constant control of the change machine via mobile phone, avoiding expensive interventions on site. It is now available with new functions. The cutting-edge is the possibility to set privileges according to the type of user - manager or operator - and up to eight different users. The management software is completely free of charge and will be shown as a preview in a special area of Comestero Group stand.

Interesting novelties enrich also the payment systems range, with two different solutions especially devised for newslots: the smart coin sorter Leonardo with Stop and the new Duo Hopper Suzo, their best value being the possibility to manage three different types of coins with a reduced equipment. Whereas all coin sorters in the market can only sort and drive coins to a certain destination, Leonardo with Stop can even discriminate in total autonomy one type of coin (i.e. 50c) and reject it, when needed. Besides, Duo Hopper is the ideal solution to dispense two different types of coin at the same time (i.e. 1€ and 2€) and form a winning combination together with a Cube Hopper dispensing 50c.