Archive for June, 2008

Sydney Airport’s T2 Domestic Terminal Nearly All Digital

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

EYE announced last week that they had successfully bid to retain the advertising rights to Sydney Airport’s T2 Domestic Terminal – Mike Tyquin, CEO, Eye Media Australia and New Zealand told us exclusively that “T2 will be their first nearly fully digital terminal” EYE’s INNOVATION RECLAIMS SYDNEY’S T2 TERMINAL EYE’s innovation reclaims Sydney’s T2 Domestic […]

AT&T Digital Media Solutions

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Mirroring pretty much Cisco’s total solution offering and following on from what we always say in presentations – that digital out of home is a content-delivery play more than a digital signage play here’s the list of solutions that AT&T are saying are available today and go to make up their new AT&T Digital Media […]

AT&T Announces New Digital Media Solutions Portfolio

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Here’s the important parts of the AT&T Announcement with regard STRATACACHE and others. It was one of the longest press releases we have ever seen and have cut it down for brevity… AT&T Announces New Digital Media Solutions Portfolio to Deliver and Manage Multimedia Content for Businesses Worldwide SAN ANTONIO, June 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — AT&T […]

STRATACACHE Wins Global AT&T Deal

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Press Releases (we believe there may be several) are hitting the wire in the US as we type. Further to our post yesterday about a Global Telecom Major Announcement… We heard rumours in the US last week about a major deal announcement coming from one of the Global Telecoms suppliers! We have always been amazed […]

Blue And Green Shouldn’t Be Seen…

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

My mother always used to tell me that “Blue and green shouldn’t be seen without a colour in between” – the glaring green of this photo AND the interesting arrangement on a single pole of landscape screen at the top and portrait screen at the bottom caught our eye on the NeyKey stand at InfoComm. […]

100% Waterproof

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Nice demonstration on the Litemax stand of the IP68 rating of one of their screens. The screen was in a tank of water for the whole show! Definition of IP Codes (Ingress Protection) In the IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission) 60529 Standards document, it specifies an international classification system for the sealing effectiveness of enclosures of […]

Make Waiting In Line A Little Less Ordinary

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Interesting Webinar from the Platt Retail Institute later today – Tuesday 24th June at 2pm Eastern time to be precise. REGISTER TO ATTEND THE FREE PRESENTATION OF PRI’S WORKING PAPER DETAILING THE TEST RESULTS FROM A BANK BRANCH DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK Presenters include: – Steven Keith Platt, Platt Retail Institute Brian Anderson, Jyske Bank, Denmark […]

National Theatre Touch Screens

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Touch screens are not just appearing all over the place in retail – it seems to be ANY window at the moment! Here we see three x 42 inch LCD thru-glass touch screen systems at London’s National Theatre. First installed a couple of months ago, this is a good example of an information service provided […]

If You Are Going To Recruit A Salesman…

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

We always say that if you are going to recruit a salesman or setup an office to cover Europe (this is where US, Asian and Israeli companies so often get it wrong) then language skills is an important part of your mix. This guy is taken by the way – he has just been appointed […]

Digital Advertising On The Strip

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Back in March 2008 we were one of the first to cover the story “Digital Advertising On The Strip” – our take on it was that it was (a) great and (b) verification of one of our predictions for 2008 – that of ‘Street Furniture’ becoming a predominant force in the digital out of home […]