Archive for November, 2007

Titan Outdoor trial an Esprit Digital 65″digital poster at Brent Cross

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

The new owners of aka.tv own part of Esprit Digital so it is not surprising that this was reported here on aka.tv first. Titan Outdoor are continuing their trial(s) of all things digital and have installed another one of Esprit Digital’s nice 65″ Double Sided LCD panels – this time in the Brent Cross shopping […]

Are JC Decaux about to make a global deal announcement?

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

There are strong rumours that JC Decaux are close to making an announcement about having selected a global digital signage partner. I know of three software suppliers and one solutions provider that were short-listed. Who will win? Can it be true? Can one provider win all that business?

Screen Media Group a new name for some old hands in the industry…

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

The original management team behind IQ, one of the early pioneers in the digital media network sector announced this week the launch of a larger group of related businesses under the umbrella name of Screen Media Group Limited. I am told that the launch is the “culmination of restructuring and acquisition activity leading to the […]

HOUSEKEEPING – IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Folks, our technology team have been testing a new automated email subscription system that allows us to choose which post categories get sent out via email on a daily basis AND is a system that allows you to subscribe / unsubscribe if you wish. We have been doing some testing over the last 36 hours, […]

Bill Gerba’s webinar on the POPAI digital signage contest

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

This is US focused but would be well worth attending wherever you are in the world. Bill Gerba and his Wirespring team are hosting a webinar on the POPAI digital signage contest later today. If you cannot attend due to the time difference then copies of the presentation are also available. Pop over to Bill’s […]

Digital signage opportunities in education

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Dynamax get a nice mention in VNU’s newspaper CRN (26 Nov 2007) in an article entitled “Digital signage opportunities in education” http://www.vnunet.com/crn/analysis/2204301/digital-signage-opportunities 3M, ONELAN and Screen Fusion (not sure if the latter is still about) have had all the focus and the wins in the UK education market to date.

WindowGain opens office in the UK

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

WindowGain, a US-based out-of-home media company have recently opened an office in the UK and has also just installed its first two UK screens in Nottingham’s city centre. They are using 3M’s Vikuiti Rear Projection Film to transform entire store fronts into large format high definition video screens. “Empty shop windows become giant advertising screens” […]

i-vu starts spending its money…

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Following on from the terrific fund raising round that i-vu announced a few months ago, we have all been waiting with baited breath as to when, how and where they would spend it. Well as usual you hear it her first. In a US filing of unaudited financial results for the three and nine months […]

YCD awarded US patent for Dynamic Volume Normalizing™

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Different companies obviously have different strategies when it comes to staying in contact with customers, possible future customers and the business world generally. Scala have criticised me in the past for making fun at the amount of press releases that they send out (sometimes I feel a press release about nothing) but hey that is […]

Screen Expo Europe 2008 Media Calendar

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Screen Expo has announced its Media Calendar line up. There’s a couple of companies in the list that I have not come across before (the ones I don’t know in the list below are in italics) and as always with Screen Expo Europe (errr as the name implies) the usual fantastic turn out of companies […]