Archive for July, 2011

Nice Mention For Mood Media…

Monday, July 25th, 2011

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

A nice mention for Mood Media and not a bad article as well, entitled ‘At the point of sale is… the last great marketing opportunity‘ in Monday’s edition of the Evening Standard.

MicroStrategy’s London Symposium

Monday, July 25th, 2011

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Want to learn about Big Data, Mobile Business Itelligence and Monetizing Social Media? Attend MicroStrategy’s London Symposium 27 Oct

27 QRBoards For 313@somerset Mall

Monday, July 25th, 2011

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

MOSAIC QRBoard is a 3-in-1 integrated media solution that mixes Digital Out-Of-Home (DOOH) advertising with Mobile and Web Marketing to deliver cross-platform capabilities and, it is claimed, benefit advertisers and consumers alike. Singapore based MOSAIC MediaHouse have just launched their first 
QRBoard digital advertising network 
at the 313@somerset Mall. MOSAIC MediaHouse will operate 27 QRBoards™ […]

Increased Mobile And Social Spending Forecasts

Monday, July 25th, 2011

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

We’re seeing a lot of surveys regarding spending in the mobile and social sectors these days. JP Morgan, the financial services provider, has forecast that US mobile ad spending should double the $600 million of last year to $1.2 billion in 2011. Douglas Anmuth, JP Morgan analyst, forecast that mobile would be the biggest contributor […]

Google Buys Facial Recognion Company PittPatt

Sunday, July 24th, 2011

Giuseppe Andrianò

AVA is becoming more and more interesting for a lot of big players. After Intel with Cognovision now also Google bought PittPatt who produces a very good SDK about facial recognition. Here is the news from the media Google has acquired Pittsburgh Pattern Recognition, known as PittPatt, a company that develops technology for recognizing faces […]

WIRED 2011 Speaker Line Up

Sunday, July 24th, 2011

Geny Caloisi

WIRED Magazine who are holding their inaugural conference in London on the 13th – 14th October 2011 have announced some of their speakers. Big names include Joanna Shields (Vice President of Europe, the Middle East & Africa, Facebook) and Werner Vogels (Chief Technology Officer & Vice President of Amazon.com) along with one of Israel’s first […]

Digital Installation For Leroy Merlin

Sunday, July 24th, 2011

Russ Curry, Ministry of New Media

ViewOn has created a digital signage installation for the Leroy Merlin DIY Store in Lorient, Brittany – which it claims is a totally new concept for the chain. Three screens were installed in the kitchen department, in the bathroom department and in the rest area. They are controlled by Leroy Merlin using a software solution […]

The Future By Airbus Comes From The Cloud

Saturday, July 23rd, 2011

Geny Caloisi

KIT digital, a Czech Republic headquartered company that provides cloud-based digital signage solutions, is delivering Digital Signage video to Airbus. Airbus currently uses the KIT digital video management platform to communicate with its employees on a regular basis. Recently, it expanded its usage to deliver a powerful vision of the future of flight to the […]

Beer, Bretzen And More At The Airbräu

Friday, July 22nd, 2011

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

The invidis guys have been working hard on pulling everything together for the 5th Digital Signage Conference being held over 3 days between 14-16 September 2011 in Munich and now (thanks to them) we have a much clearer picture of what is going on during those three days. The event, subtitled ‘Managing Growth beyond the […]

NFC ‘Mobile Gratification’ First Pics

Friday, July 22nd, 2011

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

We have the first pictures we believe of the Near Field Communications technology trial that arrived on the streets of New York and Los Angeles this week. The goal of the US test is to illustrate the potential of NFC, testing the usability of the technology and confirming that it is suitable for use in […]