Archive for the 'Scuttlebut' Category

Ethan Jameson Joins Industry Weapon

Saturday, February 11th, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

After a lengthy and thorough search, Industry Weapon, a technology developer for devices such as digital signage, mobile devices and IP telephony, announced last week that they have hired international award-winning marcom writer Ethan Jameson. Jameson, an opinionated South African national joins Industry Weapon with over a decade’s copywriting and branding experience at some of [...]

@ramvision Lakeside Screens Off (Friday)

Saturday, February 11th, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

The same day we wrote ‘Biggest Screen To Date For @ramvision‘ one of our regular stringers sent us this picture of the Ram Vision network in Lakeside… Apparently it had been off all day. As it happens of course RAM Vision use BroadSign which is good at proof of play so the logs should be [...]

Visix – Visual Electronics Partnership

Friday, February 10th, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Atlanta-based Visix Inc., digital signage software company, has made a strategic partnership with Visual Electronics Ltd., Denver-based real-time data integration and messaging provider, with the goal of developing cooperative sales, marketing, and technology initiatives for the digital signage market. “Visix is very excited to partner with VEL,” says Trey Hicks, vice-president of sales, Visix. “They [...]

#CES @intlces Hashtag Analysis

Friday, February 10th, 2012

Andrew Neale

The servers got a bit warm during the 2012 International CES show, and with good reason – the figures for Twitter hashtag activity around the show turned out rather large indeed. At some points we saw 2 tweets a second arriving from the huge level of chatter around the show. In the end, just short of [...]

#dse2012 Mitsubishi / IAdea / CyberTouch / @displaynote

Thursday, February 9th, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Mitsubishi tell us they will be at #dse2012 booth #731 and that they’re exhibiting their latest commercial-grade flat panel displays together with IAdea’s newest media players and advanced multi-touch screen capabilities from CyberTouch. They’re also showcasing collaborative software for group display applications powered by DisplayNote and Anacore’s Synthesis on 42- to 46-inch, 55-inch, and 65-inch [...]

Omnivex At Norway’s Rail Stations

Thursday, February 9th, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

The newly renovated Lillehammer train station, opened recently and expected to be the model for all 400 existing stations in Norway, features 16 LCD displays, powered by Concord, Ontario’s Omnivex Moxie Software. Omnivex Moxie provides users with a powerful and flexible software platform for managing their digital signage needs. The Norwegian displays provide bus and [...]

The SeeSaw Is Gone

Wednesday, February 8th, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Back in November we wrote ‘SeeSaw Margery Daw, Teeter-Totter’ and it now looks like SeeSaw Networks is definitely toast. Their web site url http://www.seesawnetworks.com no longer resolves. We know that there were a couple of people sniffing around the IP that they had but we don’t believe that there were any bidders for the company [...]

#dse2012 Salitek / Hiperwall / Saddle Ranch

Wednesday, February 8th, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Salitek had a number of REALLY good video walls on display at #ise2012 and for those who didn’t get to see any of them and who are heading off to Lost Wages for #dse2012 there’s a second chance to see at least one sample of what they put together in Amsterdam… Salitek will be demonstrating [...]

Damian Griffith Joins Immedia Plc

Wednesday, February 8th, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Immedia Broadcast Ltd tell us that Damian Griffith has just joined them as Senior Vice President of New Business starting with immediate effect. Immediately before joining Immedia, Damian lived (for the past three years) in Singapore, where as Asia Pacific Managing Director of The Affinity House, was responsible for putting together strategic partnerships between some [...]

Time Warner Cable Staten Island Store

Wednesday, February 8th, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Prysm announced Wednesday that the company’s Laser Phosphor Display (LPD) technology was selected by Time Warner Cable to create an engaging customer experience for the company’s new Staten Island, New York, retail store. A 16.6 ft x 6.25 ft Prysm display is to create a unique, captivating in-store brand experience for Time Warner Cable by [...]