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Will Amscreen Win BPTV?

Monday, December 22nd, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

We believe that there are only two vendors left in the race to win BPTV, see ‘Blighted RFP Sighted Over UK and US‘ One of the contenders we can definitely confirm is Amscreen – a rumour we talked about back in August when the company first came into being (when Sir Alan Sugar purchased a […]

Comtech M2M Goes To Sir Alan Sugar

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

Chris Sheldrake

There have been a number of inaccurate reports in the press on what Sir Alan Sugar has been up to with UK company, Comtech M2M so here to set the record straight we have the OFFICIAL statement from Amshold’s press representatives… Amshold statement Amshold, the holding company of Sir Alan Sugar, has acquired a controlling […]

Nintendo Branded Fixtures

Friday, July 25th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Nintendo are using over 500 digital signage branded fixtures to promote their recently launched Wii Fit product. Here we see them working with Comtech M2M and retail specialist Henley and Henley to (quite rightly) promote a “Greener Solution to In- Store Promotion” Comtech M2M have quietly been doing some great things with branded fixtures and […]

The 21st Century Newspaper Billboard

Friday, May 30th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Comtech M2M Ltd tell us that they have won three new contracts to supply regional newspaper groups with their digital signs at newsagents and retail outlets across the country. North Wales Newspapers, Cornwall & Devon Media and the Bolton News and Bury Times will all be taking systems.

Review Of The Times Digital Signage Supplement

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

We thought that it would be worthwhile doing quite a detailed review of the 12 page Digital Signage supplement from Media Planet that appeared in the UK edition of The Times newspaper earlier this week on Wednesday 30th April 2008 (it may also appear in some other guise we believe at Digital Signage Expo next […]

Digital Under Umbrella

Monday, April 14th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

I need to double check with Bill Gerba and David Haynes but I think we all attended a conference last week (jadn.tv) that made no mention of Minority Report!! BTW there’s a picture of all three of us on stage at the event here Anyway, we keep seeing these screens in London. I think the […]

Elton Takes David Up The Aisle

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

We like to think we are usually the first to cover new networks and new initiatives – you heard it here first sort of thing!!! We covered this iCan innovation a fortnight ago but have just heard that they have cemented a deal with the UK’s Daily Mail newspaper. The device itself is not that […]

Nace en Barcelona el primer canal de comunicación interactivo urbano del mundo

Sunday, February 3rd, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

This is the second exclusive and the second start of quite a large network in Spain that we have reported on in the space of a week now. The Spanish market has looked like it was going to get quite interesting for some time now – we have the Wututut product launch this week at […]

Freddie Starr Ate My Hamster

Thursday, December 20th, 2007

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

What better way to announce to the world that “Freddie Starr Ate My Hamster”, “Elton Takes David Up The Aisle” or “Turnip 0 Swedes 1” than a wireless based Digital Signage system that delivers headlines for newspaper publishing groups at the point of sale (see picture above). In November, Newsquest, a regional newspaper publisher, completed […]