Archive for September, 2011

Monaghan Libraries Update Events On Screen

Tuesday, September 27th, 2011

Geny Caloisi

Ireland’s Monaghan Community Forum has implemented a Onelan digital signage system to get closer to its community promoting local events in libraries on digital noticeboards. Onelan 510P and 620P Century Net Top Boxes (NTBs) were installed in five locations driving 42” LCD flat screens. Several NTBs are networked and controlled centrally, allowing library staff to […]

Raffi Vartian Gone From CoolSign

Tuesday, September 27th, 2011

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

We’ve just learned that Raffi Vartian, one of the good guys, is no longer at CoolSign (Haivision Network Video), Beaverton, Oregon, and Montreal. “The position of business development at Haivision was eliminated and I’m currently looking for opportunities,” Vartian told us. “I have had the absolute pleasure of working with some of the finest people […]

Scala / DSE / ScreenmediaExpo

Monday, September 26th, 2011

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

The current floor plan for next year’s DSE has not been changed to reflect this yet we see but rumour is that Scala has taken the largest booth available at the show which is 50′ X 50′ (that’s something like 232 square metres). They obviously have big plans for the event in Las Vegas next […]

@nfcbootcamp How To Market With NFC

Monday, September 26th, 2011

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

If you are in New York tomorrow (Tuesday 27th September, or indeed Minneapolis, Chicago, Santa Clara, Atlanta or Dallas in the next six months) and have an interest in learning more about NFC then you should get along to the one day bootcamps organised by OTA Training†. The Agenda for each event is the same… […]

Will #viscomdus See DV Signage Europe Not DiME?

Monday, September 26th, 2011

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Bob Michaels, former CEO at Magenta Research, who was only appointed president of Digital View’s global digital signage division back in January of this year has continued to deliver on his promise (being) “responsible for driving Global expansion and managing and developing the company’s North American and international reseller channels.”. The latest rumour we heard […]

Yours For 19K, No, No. No 6K !!!

Monday, September 26th, 2011

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Whilst we understand that the likes of Sennheiser, Scala, Philips, Vidyo, Polycom, Spinetix, Teliris and Cable and Wireless have most probably parted with money to be part of the Lyonsdown produced AV Communications report (hopefully) being distributing in The Daily Telegraph on 22nd November 2011 we hear that the publisher is looking for a full […]

Garry McGuire’s Keynote

Monday, September 26th, 2011

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

We’re very much looking forward to the keynote speech by Garry McGuire on the first day of the Digital Signage Investor Conference in New York in October. McGuire, CEO of RMG Networks, always seems to give a great speech that touches off a lot of discussion in the industry (See our coverage of his speech […]

‘theBITE’ Emerging as Music Video Platform

Monday, September 26th, 2011

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Dallas-based indoorDIRECT, a national in-store television show that delivers short clips of sports, music, entertainment, and lifestyle content, has recently entered into agreements with several record labels and artists to air their music videos on indoorDIRECT’s in-store television show ‘theBITE’. The music industry is in the midst of change as traditional music mediums are reducing […]

X2O Launches Social Networking Pack for DS

Monday, September 26th, 2011

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Montreal-based X2O Media has introduced a new set of templates and objects specifically designed to display content from popular social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook on digital signage screens. The templates and objects can be personalized using X2O’s PowerPoint-based authoring tool and displayed in the highest image quality with the Xpresenter Player. Offering […]

When A Lighthouse Isn’t A Lighthouse

Monday, September 26th, 2011

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Durden Outdoor, a Dothan, Alabama-based outdoor advertising company, has created a three-sided billboard structure in Eufaula, Alabama, that resembles a lighthouse and is anchored by a 19mm 12‘x24’ digital billboard manufactured by Watchfire Digital Outdoor. Two static billboards flank the digital billboard on the adjacent sides. Located on Highway 431, this installation was specially designed […]