Archive for September, 2010

Amnesty Says ‘We’re Watching You’

Saturday, September 25th, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

This Monday will see a dramatic and sobering video go up on a digital screen at Dundas Square, in amongst the flashy fashion, entertainment and other ads that dominate an area considered Toronto’s ‘Times Square’. Created pro bono by Toronto ad agency Agency 59, the ad on behalf of Amnesty International is meant to interrupt […]

David Gothard Says “Minkus Is Mincemeat”

Saturday, September 25th, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Minkus Electronic Display Systems and those behind it who are claiming patent infringement are getting desperate: They have a short fuse, because the patent will be running out in a few months – that’s the firm opinion of David Gothard, president of Activision.TV, who, to his ironic amusement, now finds himself (AND two of the […]

Cartman Says “Screw You”

Saturday, September 25th, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

News reached us late Friday that the following lucky companies have, we believe, just been added to the Minkus lawsuit… 3M Company 3M Digital Signage Activision TV, Inc. CS Software Holdings, LLC ENQII Holdings Inc. ENQII (US) Inc. Nanonation Inc. Remote Media Group Richardson Electronics, Ltd. Ryarc Media Systems Tek Panel, Inc. Zoom Media Inc. […]

Digitaler Leuchtpult / Lightbox

Friday, September 24th, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Nice in so many ways… Here we see a Digital Lightbox powered by ~sedna touch T6.7 and ~sedna touch image software at Photokina, the world’s leading fair for photography and imaging held recently in Cologne. Photo copyright Koelnmesse and reproduced with kind permission

Outcast Expands Reach With Gilbarco

Friday, September 24th, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Gilbarco Veeder-Root, Greensboro, North Carolina, and Outcast Media, Santa Monica, California, have announced an exclusive partnership, pairing the fuel dispenser manufacturer with the digital TV network at the pump. With this partnership, Outcast is believed to be the first digital media company to partner with a major pump manufacturer to offer content and advertising on […]

#DSInvestor – Show Me The Money

Friday, September 24th, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

One of the speakers we’re really looking forward to hearing at the Strategy Institute’s Digital Signage Investor Conference is Garry Maguire, CEO of RMG, who will lead off right after the opening remarks by Day One Chairman Stuart Armstrong, president of Enqii North America. With a topic entitled Securing Marketplace Dominance and Network Growth Through […]

Times Square 3D Advertising First Pics

Thursday, September 23rd, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Thursday, September 23rd saw Honda take over Times Square to launch its national, multiplatform campaign introducing the new CR-Z Sport Hybrid coupe and using Clear Channel Spectacolor’s SpectacolorHD digital billboard as an integral element of the campaign. Here are the first pics… As you can see from the picture above, onlookers received special 3D eyewear […]

#DSinvestor – Mobile United

Thursday, September 23rd, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

We have three panel discussions on Day 2 of The Strategy Institute’s Digital Signage Investor Conference coming up in New York City 5th – 6th October. The second of these on day 2 sees Dan Olschwang (President & CEO, Jumptap), Stephen Randall (CEO, LocaModa), Gary Schwartz (President & Founder, Impact Mobile) and Matt Welton (Vice […]

#ibc2010 – I Fell In The Bloody Canal

Thursday, September 23rd, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Regular readers will know that one of the services we offer is twitter hashtag reporting. We trap every tweet for industry shows (not as easy as it seems as Twitter only shows search results for 5 days worth of archives), store them in a database and then analyse them all (not manually we might add […]

#DOOHBizKonf – The Real SMIL Shady

Thursday, September 23rd, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Do you want to know about the convergence of Digital Signage and other output devices and what kind of opportunities or threats derive from this? You do? Of course you do as this is likely to be one of biggest trends in the next couple of years. Jason Cremins, Chief Executive Officer, signagelive and co-founder […]