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Airport Partners Choose signagelive

Monday, May 17th, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

signagelive the Software as a Service (SaaS) digital signage platform, has been selected by Airport Partners to power their Digital Screen advertising network across 9 UK regional airports. Airport Partners spent 6 months evaluating a number of digital signage software platforms before deciding that signagelive offered them the best solution for their current and future […]

What Has 252 MicroTiles And 4 ECUs?

Monday, May 17th, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

Pop quiz hotshot* “What has 252 MicroTiles and 4 ECUs?” The answer is rumoured to be a giant new video wall (shown to the left of the picture above) in the USD195 million Nascar Hall of Fame which opened the week before last in Charlotte, N.C. *Howard Payne, Speed (1994) **http://www.autoblog.com

TrainFX Secures Major Contract

Monday, May 17th, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

TrainFX, acting as a subcontractor, has been awarded a contract for the provision of a real-time passenger information system for the Eversholt Rail Group owned/Southern operated Class 313 (EMU) fleet. TrainFX Managing Director Phil Campbell told “This is another important Contract success for TrainFX in the UK and one which allows us to further demonstrate […]

Digital Signage Best Practice Award 2010 Jury

Monday, May 17th, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

The Jury for the Digital Signage Best Practice Award 2010 has just been announced and comprises some prominent industry commentators… Morgan Angrove – International Development Manager dagobert Paris Silvia Talmon – THE STORE DESIGNERS® Köln Jochen C. Gutzeit – Managing Director Fachverband Aussenwerbung e. V. Helga Rouyer-Lüdecke – Redaktion professional systems Marcus-Michael Mueller – Business […]

A New ‘Signage Solutions’ Magazine

Friday, May 14th, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

Making any magazine work in this day and age is a difficult one but some of our favourite magazines like Monocle show what can be done if you use the inherent qualities of print as opposed to compete with the instant news story world of online – doing the same, and making the numbers add […]

#InfoComm2010 – GestureTek N1870

Friday, May 14th, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

At this year’s #InfoComm2010 GestureTek will be announcing a new 42” LCD multi-touch table, a 70” freestanding multi-touch display, and a couple of multi-touch applications.

#ScreenMediaExpo – Man With Clock

Friday, May 14th, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

Many wondered what these (seemingly) daft French people were doing on their stand at #ScreenMediaExpo a week or so ago. It appears it was not so daft: it being a cross between a piece of ‘performance art’ and truly great exhibition stand theatre and better still, all resulting in a piece of content – a […]

Hair Salon TV Car Promotion For Women

Friday, May 14th, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

Peugeot recently become the first car advertiser to run a campaign on digital outdoor media sales house Digicom’s Salon Media network – the sales contract for the Salon Media network was of course awarded to Digicom in January 2010 (the network of more than 3,700 screens reaches more than 360,000 adults every two weeks). Peugeot […]

#ScreenMediaExpo – Saturn F3

Thursday, May 13th, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

Saturn was back at #ScreenMediaExpo last week with a new brand identity which overarched its established Connectvision offerings. We were told that “whilst other exhibitors tend to specialise in supplying individual bits of kit and technologies – screens, networks or necessary software – we can deliver on every part of the process, both pre and […]

CoolSign And JB&A Sign National Distribution Deal

Thursday, May 13th, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

CoolSign (formerly CS Software Holdings, LLC) has signed a master reseller agreement with Jeff Burgess &Associates, known as JB&A, for the US and Canada.