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Is This The Best Flagship Store Ever?

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

As mentioned last week, SFR, France’s second biggest mobile operator, has just opened its new flagship store in the centre of Paris (near the Opera) - in this post our Paris based contributor covers in a lot more detail one of the nicest flagship stores we have ever seen!!
The store has 50 square meters of […]

Russ Curry

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McDonalds TV: das neue Zeitalter Beginnt

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

The picture here shows the panoramic display by 3Sixty:TV who are currently running and rolling out McDonald’s TV in Germany.
Managing Director, Carsten Schneeweiss proudly explained that his company is concentrating all their efforts on making this a benchmark channel before taking on other clients.
They are currently at 270 McDonald outlets installed and aim to reach […]

Russ Curry

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Rock The Kiosk

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

..or did Fred Flintstone invent digital signage..?
One of the most unusual exhibits in Essen last week was in the Kiosk side of the event.
The model on show was red granite but you can have whatever stone you like. Apparently banks and insurance companies like to put them in their lobbies - either to show off […]

Russ Curry

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Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

Director General Antonio M. Ceballos Couñago personally twiddles the knobs as the Tardis prepares for lift-off in Essen.
Hergos was one of the sponsors of the Kiosk Expo /Digital Signage Expo in Essen last week.
They are investing heavily in world-wide patents for their (hydraulic?) height setting mechanism for raising or lowering the height of the keyboard […]

Russ Curry

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A Parisien’s View of DS Expo, Essen

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

It seems churlish to be criticising an ambitious event, but the standard for such exhibitions is getting ever higher (I’m thinking Screen Expo and ISE here) but visitors to shows these days tend to have incredibly high expectations.
I was at Digital Signage Expo in Essen the whole of last week and here’s my personal take […]

Russ Curry

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Who needs another CODEC?

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

Who needs another CODEC? Well, anyone who needs great quality video from a low power processor – just ask Nintendo, Nokia, Motorola, Sony Ericsson, Fisher-Price etc. etc.
They’re all using Mobiclip from a French company called Actimagine - its headquarters are in Paris but it already has offices in San Diego, Tokyo and Singapore.
The company was […]

Russ Curry

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