Archive for June, 2012

No Goodbyes From @AOpenEurope’s @GOffringa1

Saturday, June 30th, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

The end of June was the last day in the Amsterdam office for the lovely Gabriëlle Offringa and last day in her job as Marketing Manager Europe for AOpen Computer B.V. Gabriëlle is off travelling while still young enough to enjoy it and will shortly be making her way to Australia. Aussie men can calm […]

Jason Litt Gone Too Soon

Friday, June 29th, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

In five years of writing about our industry, we have only had to bring you news of a death once before. Unfortunately, today is a sad occasion also, as we bring you news that Jason Litt, vice-president of sales, North America, at Prysm, Inc. was killed in a motorcycle accident in San Jose early on […]

Amscreen Help Search For GBP 63.8M Lottery Winner

Friday, June 29th, 2012

Maddie Cotterill

Have you won a GBP 63.8m lottery jackpot? Well, to be more exact, have you won a GBP 63.8m lottery jackpot and NOT claimed it? In the UK at the moment there is a an unclaimed win for that amount and Amscreen has teamed up with Camelot to help find the lucky winner. They (Amscreen) […]

CEO Spotlight: Chris Lanman, DigiCast Networks, SFX

Friday, June 29th, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

This month we welcome Chris Lanman, Senior Vice-President, DigiCast Networks, San Francisco. What is your personal background? How did you get into digital out-of-home and, especially, Digicast? After graduating from university, I moved out west to pursue a career in the high tech industry and spent the first nine years of my career working for […]

Portwell’s Controller System For Large Video Walls

Friday, June 29th, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Matrox Graphics Inc., Dorval, Quebec, has partnered with American Portwell Technology Inc., Fremont, California-based innovator in the embedded computing market, to launch the new Portwell M9020B 4U rackmount system for large-scale, highly-functional video walls. The Portwell system conveniently enables OEMs and system builders to create high-density video wall solutions for various markets including digital signage, […]

Ken Mallon Takes Global Leadership Role with Ipsos ASI|digital

Friday, June 29th, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Ken Mallon, recently vice-president and head of Yahoo! AdLabs, is joining Ipsos as global president of Ipsos ASI|digital, Ipsos’ practice focused on advertising research in digital and social spaces. “Ipsos ASI|digital partners with clients to pursue best practices that leverage the power of digital and social spaces, and how to integrate them with the overall […]

Android 4.0 The First 4 Advantech (And Industry First)

Friday, June 29th, 2012

Andrew Neale

Advantech has announced its Hospitality Infotainment Terminal, the HIT-W181, now comes with Android 4.0 support. Interestingly the unit is in a range of products originally described as Healthcare Infotainment Terminals, but the release now refers to Hospitality rather than just Healthcare, which looks like Advantech is expanding their intended applications for this unit to other verticals […]

YouTube/DailyDOOH Vlog 29 June 2012 06:54 @329

Friday, June 29th, 2012

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Gareth Willmer Leaves @VisualplanetLtd

Friday, June 29th, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Gareth Willmer, marketing manager at visualplanet, Trumpington, Cambridge, will be leaving the company as of this Friday. Willmar has spent five years with the manufacturers of VIP interactive touch foil and interactive touch screens for retail, education and public information. He’ll be moving out of the world of digital signage, becoming the online manager at […]

Acentic Media Opens Doors To Advertisers

Thursday, June 28th, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Acentic, one of Europe’s leading providers of hotel in-room entertainment systems, announced this week that it had opened the doors of its media division, Acentic Media, to advertisers. Acentic Media’s UK media sales will be handled by Hub Digital Networks – you may remember we met James Thornton, formerly Head of Agency Sales at Amscreen […]