Archive for July, 2013

There’s No Place 4 European Sign Expo @FESPA / @Michael_E_Ryan

Wednesday, July 24th, 2013

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

I’m not sure how hand-on-heart FESPA’s exhibition mangler Michael E. Ryan has the audacity to ask our industry to exhibit at the next so-called European Sign Expo. The last one was nothing short of a no-show attendee disaster offering all those who exhibited, absolutely N.O.T.H.I.N.G of value in return, yet FESPA still have the gall […]

PiWall Makes Use of @Raspberry_Pi

Tuesday, July 23rd, 2013

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

It’s hardly an ‘innovative video wall system’ as described and newsworthy (somehow) only because it’s Raspberry Pi based but we note that two engineers at the Culham Centre for Science and Technology (CCFE) used Raspberry Pi to create a video wall, dubbed the ‘PiWall‘. Now, if said engineers had used an open source player (such […]

We Love @PaulFlanigan (He’s On The Move Again)

Tuesday, July 23rd, 2013

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

We love Paul Flanigan, he is one of the good guys in our industry and he talks an awful lot of sense based on real world experience but it seems like he cannot quite land in the right job, one that makes the most of what he has to offer, in a company needing said […]

Monaco Media Forum 2013 Postponed

Tuesday, July 23rd, 2013

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

News just in that Monaco Media Forum 2013 has been postponed. Last year (2012) was definitely not as good or as well attended as previous years so this probably doesn’t come as a surprise to many. In an email to ‘members’ who err pay for the privilege of invited membership the Monaco Media Forum Team […]

Susan Danaher, Adspace Networks’ Road Warrior

Tuesday, July 23rd, 2013

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

“We’re having a great year, a banner year,” says Susan Danaher, the former president of the Digital Place-based Advertising Association, who seems to have settled into her new role as executive vice-president and chief revenue officer of New York-based Adspace Networks quite nicely, thank you. “Dominick Porco, Chairman and CEO, and Bill Ketcham executive vice-president, […]

Meet Your Fellow Future Rulers Of The World

Tuesday, July 23rd, 2013

Andrew Neale

Undoubtedly there will be quite a few brands using the versatility of DOOH today to work a campaign about the royal birth. Shown above is the first we have seen, up on JCDecaux’s Transvision digital billboards at London overground stations. It’s for The Sun newspaper who we notice have self styled themselves as The Son […]

Luxion AG Partners With @Signagelive

Monday, July 22nd, 2013

Maddie Cotterill

Signagelive announced this week that Luxion AG, one of the largest AV suppliers in Germany and a Samsung distributor, has confirmed its partnership with Signagelive. It will be responsible for promoting Signagelive’s digital signage technology and applications in Germany and neighbouring countries. Luxion AG specializes in the distribution of business projectors and large format displays […]

It’s A Boy (Hence The Sort-Of Blue)

Monday, July 22nd, 2013

Andrew Neale

A number of the UK’s National Monuments were lit up blue Monday evening to celebrate the Royal birth (blue boy / pink girl one assumes). The poor old LED at the top of the BT Tower has certainly seen better days and couldn’t even get any blue, let alone a consistent shade of one colour. […]

Chilin Divests Its Display Business

Monday, July 22nd, 2013

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

A rumour we heard, the middle of last week, was that Chilin Solutions might be divesting all of their display business. We’ve heard subsequently that Vertigo Display Systems Inc., was actually sold a few weeks ago.

How NEC Display Solutions Launched VUKUNET

Monday, July 22nd, 2013

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

The most common question we have been getting from network owners these past few months is how we think VUKUNET is doing. From a PR perspective, NEC Display Solutions has been pretty quiet about it, either having nothing to say or much more likely, simply going about doing business – especially as we hear of […]