Archive for January, 2010

Omnivex At The Olympics

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

While our Jan. 25th article on DOOH in British Columbia during the upcoming 2010 Vancouver Olympic and Paralympic Games focused on screens, we’re aware of others working in other sectors of the DOOH industry in relation to the Games. One of these is Omnivex, whose software is being used in various digital signage installations in […]

Hey Google, What the ####?

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

Manolo Almagro, Q Division Managing Partner

Have you heard about this one? It’s been all over the internet by now. Google’s sexy Nexus One’s built-in voice to text functionality has an automated censorship filter. If you try to talk dirty to this phone it “bleeps” out the suspected crass comment using the “#” sign. This robo-censorship filter doesn’t just omit the […]

Christie An Award Winner in China

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Congratulations to Christie who received awards during the ‘Large Screen Projection Display Industry’ Awards Ceremony organized by ty360, China Electronic Display Industry Association and Large Screen Projection Display Equipment Chapter in Beijing on Jan 20, 2010. Christie won both the 2009 Innovative Enterprise Award and the 2009 Best Video Projector Brand Award.

Haitian Relief Via Mobile

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

We’ve seen millions of dollars being donated to Haitian relief from television shows, media companies, numerous other companies, organizations and individuals, but this one caught our eye: The Mobile Giving Foundation would like to thank MTV and the entertainment industry for their support in raising tens of millions of dollars during the ‘Hope For Haiti’ […]

#ISE2010 – Scala Booth 12D89

Monday, January 25th, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

As you would expect, Scala will be exhibiting at Integrated Systems Europe 2010 next week (February 2-4) in Amsterdam and will be on booth 12D89. Scala have announced they they will exhibit at the event its new Scala Release 5.1 software that supports Windows® 7. There will also be several of Scala’s technology partners on […]

#dse2010 – Digital Signage Mixer, Las Vegas

Monday, January 25th, 2010

Guest Contributor, Dave Haynes, The Preset Group

Members of the digital signage community who live and work in the Toronto area have for a few years now been getting together on a regular basis for an informal mixer at an area bar. These ‘meet-up’ sessions are purely intended as a chance to get people with common business interests together to swap cards […]

Christie’s Path to World Expo Tour

Monday, January 25th, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

We’ve just received some nice photos of Christie’s recently completed three-year tour of the successful ‘The Path to World Expo – Introduction to Expo 2010 Shanghai China and the Retrospection of the World Expo History’ exhibition in China that we wrote about Jan. 17th. Since 2007, Christie has been on the road with the popular […]

PSAs For Haiti Relief Available

Monday, January 25th, 2010

Guest Contributor, Dave Haynes, The Preset Group

We want to let people in the digital signage and digital out of home community know that we’ve prepared a series of very simple hi-rez video spots that network operators can use to help direct funds to Red Cross groups in the US and internationally. Landscape and portrait versions are available, and we did a […]

Dynamax To Announce SaaS Platform

Monday, January 25th, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

Dynamax Technologies will this week announce a new digital signage application using the Windows Azure Platform. Set to be called digitalsignage.NET (the URL is there for sure), it is we guess Dynamax’s foray into some form of a SaaS solution – allowing as it does secure customer access to their digital signage system from anywhere […]

#DOOHBizConf – Speaker Picks

Monday, January 25th, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

There are lots of good and interesting speakers lined up for the ISE DOOH Business conference on the Monday and Tuesday of next week and it would be unfair of us to pick out those that we are MOST looking forward to but you just know that we are going to don’t you? Here’s our […]