Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) is the largest mobile phone operator in Russia, servicing more than 91.33 million subscribers and providing mobile communications in Russia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Armenia and Belarus, with a total population of more than 230 million.

Vertigo designs, manufactures and delivers integrated media systems for ruggedized, digital signage solutions deployed in a variety of environmental conditions, including advanced display enclosures, as well as world-class street furniture, transit shelters and digital information kiosks. (Ed. See our Feb. 18, 2010 article.) With screens exposed to the effects of extreme cold and heat, direct sunlight, precipitation and vandalism, Vertigo’s remote management capabilities offer its customers a solution tailored to the unique requirements of out-of-home digital signage.

As an Esprida-powered platform, secure, role-based access can be granted to partners, clients, service companies and program management. The net result is a highly adaptive digital signage network that optimizes operational overhead and provides customers with a complete centralized view of its operations.

“With Esprida-integration, Vertigo will reduce maintenance costs and provide feedback to stakeholders about all aspects of the solution, further demonstrating Vertigo’s commitment to innovation and customer satisfaction,” says Anila Jobanputra, president and founder of Esprida Corporation. (Esprida software supports some of the largest self-service deployments in the world, including Kodak and Aisle7.)

Brad Gleeson, CEO of Vertigo Digital Displays, says that the Esprida Remote Management Business Solution extends Vertigo’s industry leading capabilities, allowing it to offer a more adaptable, scalable and comprehensive solution than ever before.

The folks we spoke to have all been scratching their heads trying to figure out which company is damaged most by their association with the other?

WE THINK IT’S A TIE!!!

On another note we came across a RNIN reseller today looking for a new solution; he told us that the RNIN tools are so hard to use that RNIN throws in their own manual labour to do it, but their people are so inept that nothing ever works.

ProAV has just reported ‘Polycom Wades into Digital Signage‘

LiveView, so we are told, combines interactivity and an eye-catching 3D experience that captures viewer’s attention and aims to deliver content in an even more powerful manner.

The features of Moxie 6.05 received an enthusiastic response from visitors at the recent Integrated Systems Europe show in Amsterdam and the Digital Signage Expo in Las Vegas.

• Large video walls have become increasingly popular in all types of digital signage deployments. Hardware manufacturers have developed flat screen displays with much thinner bezels than ever before so it is relatively easy to tile screens together to form one large display.
• With the magnitude of the video wall and sheer number of displays, combined with the often intricate configuration of screens coupled with complex multimedia content, it is often no longer practical to manage such video walls with a single PC.
• Omnivex Moxie 6.05 has the functionality to manage video walls driven by any number of PCs to form single or multiple images through the Video Wall Synchronization feature. A video can span multiple PCs, be displayed on multiple screens and remain in frame synchronization, even in the event of one or more Player PCs restarting. The end result is one perfectly unified, visually stunning video wall that is capable of managing the most elaborate content imaginable.
• There are numerous upgrades and modified features in Moxie 6.05 to streamline workflow and extend functionality. Users of Moxie 6.05 can set up multiple tasks to synchronize remote files, playlists, schedules, etc. to the Data Server folder. Users can then simply drop content files into a synchronized folder on their network and Moxie will retrieve them.
• With Moxie’s Data Proxy capability, multiple Players can connect through a single node, dramatically reducing network traffic and improving efficiencies

Already known for making significant advancements in the digital signage market place, Moxie has been recognized with many awards. Introduced to the market only 12 months ago, it was honored by industry experts as the ‘Best New Premise Based Content Management Software’ at the 2009 DIGI Awards. Additionally, two Moxie customers were recognized with 2010 APEX Awards: Portland’s Rose Garden Arena won an award in the Hospitality category for its 250 screen deployment of Moxie powered digital menuboards, while Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment won an award in the Stadiums & Arenas category for its 320 screen Moxie digital signage network throughout Toronto’s Air Canada Centre.

Founded in 1991, Omnivex Corporation is a leader in software development for digital signage networks and electronic displays. Omnivex software is used by over 2,000 customers, including many Fortune 500 companies, to manage all aspects of digital signage networks, including content management, real-time data acquisition and distribution, and remote device monitoring and management.

During the DSE in February, the company was named to DailyDOOH’s Top 10 Digital Signage Vendors 2010.

The Smile Company, seen here, is bringing a breakthrough in teeth whitening to the UK – in 20 minutes and for GBP 125 you too can achieve a perfect smile!

The Smile Company employs registered dentists for its procedure and its unique delivery system combined with an LED light achieves optimal results incredibly fast and with complete safety so we are told.

The Smile Company can be found in Manchester Airport’s Terminal 1 departures lounge, just after the duty free retail area.

Journalists interested in a complimentary teeth whitening treatment at the airport, can register their interest at info@smiledentaltherapy.com.

Turk Telekom is Turkey’s largest telecommunications provider, Europe’s 5th and the world’s 13th largest fixed telephone operator.

The storefront display is part of a large project implemented by Dreambox, a multi-disciplinary design and production company based in Istanbul.

The showroom serves three companies of the Turk Telekom Group: Turk Telekom, GSM wireless operator Avea, and Internet service provider TTNet.

C-nario’s platform enables TTGaleri to display advertisements on a huge screen, while projecting the video seamlessly both horizontally and vertically using six projectors in two rows (3X2).

Ece Sancak, Marketing Strategy Director, Dreambox told us “The unique content, custom sofware and designs produced for Turk Telekom Group by Dreambox enables TTGaleri to provide visitors with information about Turk Telekom Group, its products and services, in an entertaining way, while promoting and enhancing the brand”

The showroom includes a variety of attractions, designed and implemented by Dreambox, including multi-touch multi-user game tables, gesture-controlled wall projection games, a soccer game floor, multi-touch and single-touch infotainment kiosks and others.

A custom-designed interactive digital assistant welcomes visitors.

About Dreambox

Dreambox is a multi-disciplinary visual design and production company specializing in screen media. Founded in 2001, Dreambox provides a wide range of services, from broadcast branding and motion design to new media, and from production to digital signage and technology, using the synergy of multiple screen discipline. Dreambox’s creativity and innovation in design and technology has won prestigious awards from the international industry. Dreambox won Best in Class in the Real Estate category at IMA (Interactive Media Awards) with the İstanbul Sapphire Web Site and took silver in the Best News & Factual Programme Title Sequence category at Promax/BDA (Broadcast Designers Association) in 2007. In 2008, the ATV project won gold in the Best Sting category, and TVNet News won silver in the Best News & Factual Programme Title Sequence category at Promax/BDA. Success in broadcast design continued in 2009, with İddaalı Bakiş winning silver for Best Programme Packaging. Dreambox’s latest digital signage and technology project, TTGaleri, was awarded silver at DSE 2010 APEX Awards.

First of all, a new study conducted by Chetan Sharma Consulting, Issaquah, Washington, on behalf of mobile applications download service GetJar, San Mateo, California, states that mobile apps will outsell CDs by 2012

The study forecasts that app downloads will increase from current annual levels of more than 7 billion to nearly 50 billion by 2012 – when their US$17.5 billion revenue would overtake that of the $13.8 billion of CDs.

And San Francisco-based Flurry, which offers, deployment and monetization tools for mobile application developers, and tracks over 20,000 live applications and over 2 billion user sessions each month, notes that, since the App Store launched in July, 2008, 35,000 unique companies have released applications, which translates to 58 new companies launching apps each day.

Flurry has been tracking apps for the iPhone compared to apps for Facebook since each were launched, making comparisons in the same time frames (eg. in the first nine months, etc., for each). In January, 2010, in terms of growth, the number of iPhone apps was reported to have exceeded 140,000 compared to the 60,000 it estimated Facebook had reached over its first 18 months.

As well, through applications using Flurry for analytics reporting, Flurry can detect and count unique devices in the market such as Google Nexus One and Motorola Droids. Because applications embedded with Flurry have been downloaded to over 80% of all iPhone OS and Android devices, Flurry is able to make reliable estimates about total handset sales.

Its finding: despite that fact that the Google Nexus One is the most advanced Android handset to date and enjoyed heavy marketing, its sales are much lower than expected. Based on the first 74 days of sales of each from their launch, the Droid had 1.05 million sales; the iPhone had 1 million; and the Nexus One, only 0.135 million. (The Droid was launched during the holiday period, one of several reasons believed to account for its fast high sales.)

And Apple announced this week that it will include a dedicated ‘iPad’ app category in the App Store.

But while not everyone will win prizes, all will be able to learn about new gadgets invented just for their driving convenience from Today Show’s Steve Greenberg.

Greenberg has produced a series of exclusive 30-second editorials where he introduces handy gadgets that many need, but never realized were invented.

They’re being shown on PumpTop TV screens to be seen by drivers filling their gas tanks. For instance, he will introduce the Auto Tray Table that hooks onto the steering wheel and serves as a workspace or a surface to lay out meals and snacks – handy for sales people and others who practically live in their cars.

“All of the gadgets that we show on PumpTop TV were invented just for the automobile, yet most people don’t even know these products exist,” says Greenberg, who is also the author of Gadget Nation, a coffee table book about America’s most interesting gadgets and the inventors behind them.

Motorists have the opportunity to win Auto-Tray Tables and other cool gadgets by sending an email to the address provided exclusively at the pump.