Archive for August, 2008

Manchester Airport Digital Signage Upgrade

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Pixel Inspiration tell us that they have just completed the final phase of their contract to provide dynamic signage throughout Manchester Airport’s check-in areas.

Harrods Retail Store, T5 London Heathrow

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

This Harrods retail store was unveiled at Heathrow Terminal 5 back in March 2008 but we have only just managed to get some photos sent through. For those of you who haven’t managed (or been willing) to travel through LHR Terminal 5 let us tell you that this 11,000 square foot travel concept store is […]

CBS 5th Avenue, New York

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

We noticed these screens at the exit to the subway on 5th Avenue, New York.

EHM WBCM ’08 Pictures

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Electronic Health Media, the screen network folks in local and regional GP Surgeries and Hospital waiting rooms sent us these photos of the WBCM ’08 content playing out in one of their surgeries.

VMG Announce Network Will Generate £3.7 Million

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

VMG yesterday claimed the “launch of world’s first combined advertising and touch-screen ‘Iconic Pod’” – we have covered these before and also been ‘first’ in publishing the first ever pictures (see here) – NOW we need to get some pictures ‘in situ’ so to speak! The most interesting thing in the announcement made to the […]

Nespresso Fixture, Selfridges, London

Monday, August 18th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

It’s not quite a Clover coffee machine but we just love the Nespresso capsule coffee machines we have at home and in the office. When in London we regularly stock up on capsules at Selfridges, Harrods or Nespresso’s very own brand store in Knightsbridge. In Selfridges on our visit on Friday last we noticed these […]

Bluetooth ‘Voicetones’ At US Movie Theatres

Monday, August 18th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

If you know us at all you can only imagine the sort of pain we go through in the office when we have to flick through the “Bluetooth SIG Magazine” for research purposes!!! Anyway here we see the Parachute Marketing Group (probably not an organisation that gets a lot of attention however we have been […]

Why Bluetooth A Football Stadium?

Saturday, August 16th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Today in the UK sees the start of the Premiership football season and those folks at Matchday Media will have been beavering away all summer to get their stadium screen networks in tip-top shape as they are every year – we love what MDM.tv have done with digital screens in stadiums. We are not sure […]

7 Language Support From ONELAN

Saturday, August 16th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

As ONELAN say in their press release on this “Many Digital Signage companies still rely just on their standard English interface and expect the user to adapt”, here we see their Net-Top-Box solution version 6.1 with the option of seven languages: English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Arabic and Japanese.. This new software release of course […]

Tuned In

Saturday, August 16th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Charlotte Hardie has written a very nice article in Retail Week (Published: 07 August 2008) “If you think music in stores is merely background pleasantry, think again. It affects the way shoppers move, think and spend” Imagesound and Immedia Broadcasting both feature heavily along with some of their retail clients. See http://www.retail-week.com/