Archive for December, 2012

BlueFox B.V. Sets Up In Utrecht

Monday, December 31st, 2012

Maddie Cotterill

Utrecht, the fourth largest city of the Netherlands, is now also home to BlueFox B.V., a 100% daughter company of BlueFox in France. Guillaume de La Tour, president and chairman of BlueFox and BlueFox B.V. told us “The Netherlands has a strong, internationally focused economy and business community and offer a favorite climate for R&D […]

‘Touring Version’ Bloomberg’s Award-Winning Link Display

Monday, December 31st, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

There’s a real treat in store for visitors to the Scala booth at #dse2013 as Bloomberg’s Lisa Cohen tells us that the ‘touring version’ of Bloomberg’s award-winning Link Display will be on show. Lisa’s work at Bloomberg (not forgetting James Fine and team at Téléciné Multimedia of course) won ‘Best Stadium/Office Building/Corporate/Hotel, Hospitality or Leisure […]

#ISE2013 @ScalaInc Hall 10 Stand N129

Monday, December 31st, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Scala always do pretty good stands for ISE and once again they have taken one of the most prominent positions in the #ISE2013 Digital Signage Zone… The renders we receive look mightily similar to last year’s booth, click here to see them in Amsterdam last year, but why necessarily change a good thing. It looks […]

#ISE2013 @DynaScan Hall 11 Stand F53

Sunday, December 30th, 2012

Andrew Neale

DynaScan Technology will be exhibiting its entire line of ultra-high brightness LCDs and video wall solutions, as well as its award-winning 360° LED video displays at #ISE2013. Company President, Alan Kaufman told us “There is a reason why ISE is the most important yearly event for our company. It is when we introduce new models […]

An Unloved Windoze Sign

Sunday, December 30th, 2012

VlogRobot

Here’s a very unloved digital sign at Reading, UK Railway Station… The Passenger Information message is constantly interrupted by a Windows dialog box alerting users to an Adobe Flash install problem. YouTube/DailyDOOH Vlog 30 December 2012 11:14 @510 http://www.youtube.com/DailyDOOH

Not Wanted By The Irish / Russians (Or Anyone Else For That Matter)

Saturday, December 29th, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

You have to wonder just how worse it can get for Wireless Ronin Technologies Inc. (RNIN). Despite the 1-for-5 reverse stock split in order to meet the minimum bid requirement to stay listed on NASDAQ, made at the tail end of November, the stock has continued to tumble. On 17th December when the new share […]

Times Square Mac Software Crash

Friday, December 28th, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

John Brownlee over on Cult of Mac posted, a couple of days ago, this picture “taken by Instagram user and MTV Geek contributor Alexander Zalben” in a post ‘Times Square Billboard Crashes To Desktop… On A Mac‘ (6:42 am PDT, 26th Dec 2012)… It shows the Mac OSX desktop (we assume) that should be running […]

Is This How Goldman Sachs Do Market Research?

Friday, December 28th, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

If you pay Goldman Sachs huge amounts of money for their research into the digital signage market then be aware that they, like many others wanting to get a quick understanding of the market, end up trying to do it on the cheap… Hi, I work with Goldman Sachs and read your post Top 30 […]

#ISE2013 News And Product Announcements

Friday, December 28th, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

It used to be that digital signage vendors introduced new products and made industry announcements at #ScreenMediaExpo but that unwritten ‘arrangement’ seems to have firmly swung to #ISE2013 now and we hear of a number of vendors planning announcements in Amsterdam at the end of January. IAdea are introducing a new line of digital signage […]

Could Broadcast International Soon Be Toast?

Friday, December 28th, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

One of the perils of being public. We noticed this Form 8-K for BROADCAST INTERNATIONAL INC where they have had to state that back on December 7, 2012, they were informed by their largest customer, that its contract to provide digital signage services that had previously been extended to February 1, 2013, would be extended […]