Archive for March, 2012

PRN Lay Off Staff

Saturday, March 31st, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

News just in that PRN laid off, as many as 12, staff on Friday.

InfoComm Middle East & Africa, Dubai

Friday, March 30th, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

InfoComm Middle East & Africa takes place this year 14-18 October 2012. It’s the region’s definitive pro-AV and systems integration technology platform for the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia markets. Co-located alongside GITEX Technology Week, InfoComm MEA takes place at the Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre.

ONELAN Enjoys Continued Sales Growth

Friday, March 30th, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

ONELAN Digital Signage has once again achieved profitable sales growth for the seventh year in a row with increased NTB sales volumes up 13% from 2010. Continued export success has been largely responsible, with units shipped remaining strong at 45% of the company’s total as ONELAN continues to extend its global reach. R&D expenditure has […]

Absolute Beginners (1986)

Friday, March 30th, 2012

Andrew Neale

With many starting to dip their toes in the OpenSplash project recently, we’re working on some better documentation to help people get started with it. We’re aiming initially for a simple guide to developers wanting to download their own version of the source software, to build it and get it running. Once they can do […]

CEO Spotlight: Felipe Forjaz, Elemidia Group, São Paulo

Friday, March 30th, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

This month we welcome Felipe Forjaz who is the founder and CEO of Elemidia Group, based in São Paulo, Brazil. You have 7,000 screens in eight different sectors. Where do you see the greatest growth potential? In Brazil, as cities are growing and getting more vertical, corporate buildings are still an interesting opportunity for growth, […]

Ubiquitous Research Points To A Competitor’s Solution

Friday, March 30th, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

This is not the first poorly thought out piece of PR we have received from Ubiquitous Taxi Advertising – the last was a fine statement from their MD Andrew Barnett, we quote “If other businesses are planning to do well out of the Olympics, London’s taxi driver community is totally justified to do so as […]

Project Manager Wanted, New York

Friday, March 30th, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Whitlock is a global leader in AV integration, videoconferencing solutions and managed services. They help clients maximize, standardize and protect the value of their audiovisual technology investments. Whitlock has 25 locations across the U.S. and is a founder and partner in the Global Presence Alliance, which provides systems integration, standards, quality control and support for […]

Ingo kehrt nach Hause zurück

Friday, March 30th, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Since the acquisition of ECE flatmedia by Ströer Digital it’s long been an open secret that joint Managing Director Ingo Graf (ECE flatmedia) would leave and return to the ECE parent (and that has just been announced). Ingo will also be stepping down as Treasurer of OVAB Europe, a position he has served MAGNIFICENTLY since […]

#InfoComm12 Preps For Record Breaking Show

Friday, March 30th, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Like Extron we will be missing from this year’s #InfoComm12 in Lost Wages as we will be doing @DSignageJapan (which is happening the exact same week) though Danny Kaye’s Loose Women need fear not as we will be returning to InfoComm en masse in 2013 to stay at the DailyDOOH Villa once again. InfoComm International, […]

French Digital Media Market Worth €124M in 2011

Friday, March 30th, 2012

Russ Curry, Ministry of New Media

The French trade association, the Digital Media Association France has just published the results of its survey of the French Digital Media market in 2011, which was carried out by Digital Media Village. Overall turnover for the French Digital Media market last year was €124 M – an increase of 11% over 2010. Technology and equipment […]