As you know, some of us are in Paris this weekend and early part of next (before heading off to Amsterdam) so it is only fitting that we report on Quividi, one of the Paris based startups that we tipped as ‘one to watch’ in 2008.
Quividi have a completely new web site - see www.quividi.com
It [...]

Cisco are only at ISE this year (they are a Silver sponsor) and not at Screen Expo Europe. I’m not sure why that is but if you are going to ISE then you should pop over to their stand to take a look. The stand itself is not the usual “Cisco Corporate’ style [...]

Mike Anstey, founder and chief executive of i-vu, was quoted in yesterday’s FT (26th January 2008) in an article entitled ‘Climbdown fails to appease’…
Mike Anstey, founder and chief executive of I-Vu, which installs television screens in hair salons for advertising and staff training, says he is more likely to expand his US operation at the [...]

Marketing Week chose this excellent letter from Gerry McKenna at Matchday Media - over mine !!!!
Dear Sir
I read in astonishment the letter from Rosie Plunton (Marketing Week, 16 Jan 2008), which seemed to imply that the digital outdoor sector was on its last legs.
As MD of a specialist digital outdoor network, I’m afraid [...]

We liked this when we saw it briefly in the Netherlands and you can see it for yourselves on Opalio Media BV’s Stand: C41 at Screen Expo Europe.
The spinnXS™ is effectively a mobile, rotating digital billboard with thin double sided displays that offer 360˚ visibility.
Opalio say that the product is ideal for indoor use, such [...]

We have covered Pixman in the UK (via Kommando) and met and covered Pixman Turkey when we were in Athens late last year. These are the folks who (we think)) look like Giraffe’s if you remember?
Yesterday Pixman Nomadic Media (in Canada) announced that it had setup a VAR business model in India.
The deal was [...]

We have been given a sneak preview of Vision Media Group (formerly ScreenFX)’s Iconic Pod.
It’s for use indoors and is effectively a doubled sided 65″ Samsung screen in portrait mode (with all the ‘gubbins’ that allows it to work effectively in portrait mode) and has a playout engine in the base.
We have seen indoor units [...]

Adscreens has just launched a rather large 17inch front worn screen as shown above. Press release below…
Adscreens Limited Release 25th Jan 2008
In response to customer demand Adscreens has launched the largest front worn screen in the World!
A 17 inch high-brightness screen has been developed to fit comfortably on the person [...]

Not another trade show!!! We are not sure yet how much of this trade show will be put over to Digital Signage, if it is anything like the UK’s SIGN show (and it sounds similar) it might be one to miss even though it is being sold on the “the Middle East economic boom” [...]

Sony are the first large supplier that we have seen that has shown commitment to the “Digital Signage Plaza” at Euroshop 2008, which we wrote about 10 days ago here