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Changes At Reflect Systems

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

A weird piece of PR from Reflect Systems this week which announced several new hires in the roles of business development, sales and solutions management but no mention that nice guy Steve Nesbit had left at the top of the organisation.
We reached out to Steve and he was kind enough to tell us exclusively “Reflect [...]

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WSJ DS / DOOH Supplement, April 9th

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Lyle Bunn tells us that The Wall Street Jounal will include a special supplement on Digital Signage / Digital Out-of-Home in its April 9th, 2010 east coast edition.

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RAMP Becomes RAMP

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

At #dse2010 Josh Kampel, Vice President, Business Development & Client Services at YCD Multimedia gave us an in-depth demo of their RAMP solution.
We liked the sound of this before and liked the look of it even more. Remember when it was launched though? we could never get our heads around the name ‘Real-time [...]

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BT Business To Run The Life Channel

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

The phone, broadband and video on demand provider, BT, announced this week that its business division will be taking over the operation of one of the largest private television networks (their words not ours) in the UK.
BT Business will be taking over the day to day running of the Life Channel – owned of course [...]

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SunBriteTV Launches Its Portrait Digital Display

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Tailoring its commercial product line for the digital signage market, Moorpark, California-based SunBriteTV, innovator of all-weather outdoor television technology, has launched its new 46” all-weather portrait-mode digital display targeted for permanent outdoor commercial installations.
The new display, Model 4650EST, has a corrosion-resistant, powder-coated aluminum exterior that protects the internal LCD components from rain, dirt, insects and [...]

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Gabelli 2nd Annual Digital Cinema & Movie Conference

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

IMAX Corporation’s Richard Gelfond, CEO, is presenting at the Gabelli 2nd Annual Digital Cinema & Movie Conference today, March 11, at 11:30 am ET at The Harvard Club in New York.
The presentation is being webcast live and can be accessed by visiting the Investor Relations section of the Company’s website, www.imax.com. The presentation will [...]

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Communitech Hub Signs Lease

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

When we wrote on Nov. 26/09 about the the Communitech Hub: Digital Media and Mobile Accelerator, being set up as an offshoot of Communitech Technology Association, Waterloo, Ont., it was still in the planning stages, having just received a given $26 million by the Ontario government to help get the ‘club-house’ of innovation [...]

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NanoLumens Dealer Agreement With Video Visions

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

NanoLumens who manufacture thin, flexible, lightweight digital video displays, announced its first Dealer Agreement this week with Video Visions to assist in marketing, sales and distribution.
NanoLumens of course recently introduced the world’s first 112” flexible video display, weighing less than 90 pounds and only 1” thin – see the picture taken at #dse2010 here
Video [...]

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Francois Hechme Joins TruMedia

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Rumour is that Francois Hechme who we reported leaving BroadSign a few weeks back has actually also gone and joined TruMedia – i.e alongside old colleague Jeff Liberman who also left BroadSign and also joined TruMedia.
It’s likely that Francois’s role will be Director, Product Management.

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Nestle Aero Ads Include Vinyl Wrap

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

The new Nestle Aero digital adverts (that’s a chocolate bar and we mean a proper Chocolate bar to our non UK readers) on the CBS Outdoor digital 6-sheets on the London underground…

Include a nice vinyl wrap that take the ‘bubbles’ to the screen and beyond. Very nice.

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