Archive for October, 2010

Wayfinding At Al Barq Digital Mall Network

Sunday, October 31st, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

A unique wayfinding solution that lets consumers gather information on public touch screens and then push custom maps and directions to their smartphones has been added to the new Al Barq Digital display network rolling out in the MENA region. Al Barq’s parent company, Abu Dhabi Media Digital Out Of Home (or AD Media DOOH), […]

The 2010 DailyDOOH Travelogue

Saturday, October 30th, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Gail got back safely from NYC yesterday after covering what turned out to be an incredibly well attended and successful DPAA Summit – we have one more summary post up our sleeve which will be published Monday. Andrew and I are gearing up for our first sojourn to Frankfurt for #viscomffm (starting of course with […]

#AVtweeps – Let’s Be Careful Out There

Saturday, October 30th, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Messrs Caruso and Prodromou have long protested their innocence to us (phone calls, emails, cornering us at events) in any wrong doing with regard Vikay Thakrar and the likes of Ashingo / Eurowide Media / Business Information Transmission Systems / etc etc (all of those owed monies by the collapse of those ventures may think […]

Sticky: CEO Spotlight: Niko Drakoulis, Akoo International, Elmwood Park, Illinois

Friday, October 29th, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

This month, in the CEO Spotlight, we welcome Niko Drakoulis, Founding Chairman and CEO, Akoo International, Elmwood Park, Illinois First of all, you have the word International in your corporate name. Have you expanded beyond the U.S.? Do you plan to? When and where? We have aggressive international expansion plans in 2011-2012. This year, Akoo […]

Prysm LPD Demo At Ogilvy and Mather

Friday, October 29th, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Invitations have gone out to see a live demonstration of Prysm‘s new LPD display solution together with YCD Multimedia’s cutting edge MuVi Wall technology. Demos are available on November 3rd from 3pm–8pm and November 4th from 9am–5pm at Ogilvy and Mather (we guess their demo lab), 636 11th Ave, New York, NY 10036 To attend, […]

Amscreen Celebrates Hat Trick Of Awards

Friday, October 29th, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Amscreen, who we sometime forget was only established only two years ago, scooped its third award of the month last night, when it picked up the Retail Systems award for ‘Best use of in-store marketing technology in retail‘ at the Retail Systems Awards in London for the firm’s digital screen network in BP stores. The […]

Industry Award Ceremonies, List Of

Friday, October 29th, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Click here for an update of the original post ‘Industry Award Ceremonies, List Of‘

New Ad For Windows Phone 7

Friday, October 29th, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Is this a new advert for Windows Phone 7 we thought? Or perhaps an advert from Apple or HTC about the perils of Windows Phone 7? Nope, this is the good old BSOD back again on the London Underground; this time though courtesy of JCDecaux. Photograph taken at Euston station in London earlier this morning.

New Province Partners

Thursday, October 28th, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Hard to say enough good things about the PRN Upfront event – we are still taking calls and enquiries about it now. Simply superb and definitely one of the events of the year. Also very interesting though was that at the event there were three investors from New Province Partners and quite simply they were […]

~sedna touch T6.7

Thursday, October 28th, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

There are a couple of things that we are really looking forward to at next week’s viscom frankfurt 2010 (4th to 6th November); one of these is on booth G12 in Hall 3 which will see the ‘revolutionary’ ~sedna touch multitouch table T6.7 (shown here) and first Mac-based Digital Signage software suite ~sedna presenter. This […]