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Stewart Chen’s Specular.TV

Monday, August 23rd, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

Another rumour from Malaysia is that Stewart Chen, previously at award winning communications agency for in-store digital and interactive media, Kreateevee is moving on in September to start up his own business offering bespoke display solutions including the likes of ‘mirror tv’.

Intel® Visual Adrenaline

Monday, August 23rd, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

Whilst (at the moment at least) slightly more focused on the gaming community than what we would typically expect in our industry we get a lot out of reading Intel® Visual Adrenaline – Intel’s magazine about graphics and 3D animation in relation to video games and various digital media products. The seventh issue of Intel® […]

Anthony Royal Joins Headland Media

Friday, August 20th, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

Headland Media who lost Phil Atkinson to Imagesound Arabia back in January have finally got round to replacing him. News reaches us that Anthony Royal, previously at PHAudio (a sort of music-on-hold company in Manchester) has been recruited to replace Phil. Headland Media are providers of high quality and cost-effective media content in text, audio […]

RAM Vision Win Capital Shopping Centres

Thursday, August 19th, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

Last week we wrote, exclusively as usual, ‘More Deployments For RAM Vision?‘ and now, even though we haven’t studied it in detail there is an RNS detailing a contract with Capital Shopping Centres. The portfolio includes: – Lakeside, Metro Centre Gateshead (Mall of The Year we believe and one of the largest, if not the […]

Come Find Us On Skype

Thursday, August 19th, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

What do Messrs Cremins, Dusho, Gerba, Goldberg, Michaels, Riegel, Vartian, Emerson, Witherspoon, Guggenheim, Koolen, Villafane, Nix, Armstrong and Chowdhury all have in common? The answer is that they are all CEOs, Senior Managers or Owners of businesses in our industry AND they are all available to us via Skype. We don’t need to tell you […]

Kreateevee Signs Up Big Tree

Wednesday, August 18th, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

Rumour in Malaysia is that award winning communications agency for in-store digital and interactive media, Kreateevee has signed up Big Tree, the leading outdoor advertising business in Malaysia, as a customer.

The Harbucks Company

Wednesday, August 18th, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

News reaches us of more harm being done to industry software vendors with RFPs AND folks let’s not take this lying down, it’s a serious problem when supposed-potential customers (perhaps just like Dunkin’ Donuts RFP Number 4 but who knows) waste prospective-or-not vendors’ time with RFPs, pilots and showcases that may never happen or even […]

Minicom Buy One Get One Free

Tuesday, August 17th, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

Okay not quite buy one get one free but we quite like the idea from Minicom here which is basically ‘buy any MDS Broadcaster and get one signagelive license FREE for one year!‘ It’s a nice joint promotion that goes a long way in demonstrating how confident these folks are of their products and sales […]

Panasonic’s Uniglo Install, Paris

Tuesday, August 17th, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

We’ve never heard of MediaVue Systems LLC (they seem to make ‘cute’ hardware / playback systems though) and further more we don’t know if Jean Claude van Damme was involved in anyway in this deal since his move from likely terminally ill MediaTile to Panasonic but (yes we will get to the point in a […]

Non Lethal DigiBikes

Monday, August 16th, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

Strangely enough, these DigiBikes from UK based Media Displays seem to be gaining a lot of interest, last week West Midlands Police launched a crack down on robbery, using the DigiBikes to communicate with people around the West Midlands area in, what will be, a year long campaign. Looking more like something from Wacky Races […]