We have known about this for some time but were VERY SURPRISED today on the manner of the announcement - an email from Minicom before the agreed press embargo deadline.
Anyway, caught unawares so to speak, see www.ovab.eu

Today, consumers are spending more and more time away from their homes. Subsequently, advertisers are spending more and more [...]

Here’s the press release from, literally a few minutes ago on Bally Technologies acquisition of Planar’s gaming portion of Coolsign…
BALLY TECHNOLOGIES ACQUIRES PLANAR’S COOLSIGN® DIGITAL SIGNAGE SOLUTIONS BUSINESS FOR THE GAMING INDUSTRY
Company integrates CoolSign media-management system into Networked Floor of the Future™ technology suite
LAS VEGAS, November 17, 2008 – Bally Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: BYI), a [...]

We haven’t really written about PRN since we were the first to announce ‘Now PRN Is Up For Sale‘ and a day later when we detailed ‘Understanding Thomson’s Disposal Of PRN‘
We guess that the main piece of news is the price. PRN could be yours for a cool USD 80 Million. That’s a [...]

Quividi continue to announce license and embedded deals for VidiReports their live audience measurement solution. Here we see integration into Supertec’s smart in-store fixture, called iPresentoir® and better still, it’s a branded fixture that will be deployed in over 750 stores of one of France’s largest cell phone operators.
Supertec manufactures and sells a number [...]

We noticed this at the National Exhibition Centre (NEC), Birmingham recently. A little bit of research yielded that it is Motomedia’s first ever permanent installation.
It’s a 7 metres by 2 metres projection system installed by Paradigm and running Working Solution’s Acquire solution.
Screen content will be split between advertising and infomercials for events at the [...]

If only we had time (and a better travel expense account) we could spend our lives hitting the shows and conferences around the world.
GestureTek Inc. pointed out to us that next week in Orlando sees the International Association for Amusement Parks and Attractions (IAAPA) Expo being held 18th to 21st November at the Orange County [...]

This installation was one of the finalists in Viscom Franfurt’s Best Practice Awards (by the way no one has told us yet who or what won).
SCREEN. New Technologies were responsible for the hardware and the installation and you can see their 42” SUNLIGHT LCDs in the picture gallery above.
This is a Scala installation we believe.

It has taken them a hell of a long time to do this disposal and for a short time even, we thought they might be stupid enough to hold onto it BUT we are pretty much certain that FINALLY Vision Media Group (VMG) International have disposed of said business unit.
More will be made clear in [...]

Yesterday we believe, Imagesound called all of its employees together in their Chesterfield head office, only to tell them that there were going to be a number of redundancies within the company.
We also believe that Mood Media has, perhaps more quietly, started shedding some staff as well.
The retail and leisure music sector has always been [...]

Maurizio G Caruso whom many of you in Europe may well know from his days at Hughes Network Systems, told us yesterday that since April 2008 he has been Chief Operating Officer at Business Information Transmission Systems (BITS) based at their offices in Aldermaston, Berkshire.
BITS is likely owned by the same parents as the Ashingo [...]