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Man Sized Through-Glass Floating Touch Screen

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Billed as the world’s largest 116’’ (2.5 x 1.4M, 50 micron thick) Projected Capacitance touch screen foil it’s going to see use at the Inovatec Innovation and Technology Exhibition in Brazil. The ViP Interactive Foil has, we are told, a unique ability to work through up to 25mm of solid glass/acrylic and make it “the […]

Waiting For Godot

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Net Display Systems B.V. seem rather proud of this judging by their latest press release – it even has a catchy title ‘abate the wait’ whereas we think it sums up quite well much of what is still bad about digital signage at the moment. In an obviously posed photograph we have a lot of […]

Only 1 Week Left. Register Now!

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Early bird pricing ended a few weeks ago for the Strategy Institute’s 5th ANNUAL “Building Your Digital Signage Business Conference” being held next week at Downtown Chicago, IL., 18th and 19th November but there are still a few places left. Our very own Manolo Almagro will be speaking and covering the event for ourself but […]

Congrats Chris O’Donnell, CEO Asia-Pacific

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Congratulations must go to Chris O’Donnell at Kinetic who will take over the role of Chief Executive Officer Asia-Pacific effective January 1st, 2010. Chris was a great friend to digital out of home in the early days and worked tirelessly with Ivan Clark to help promote the UK sector. Kinetic also announced that Alex Thompson, […]

Arbitron Chairman Joins Aerva, Inc

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

In something of a coup for small digital signage company Aerva, Inc they announced on Monday that Philip Guarascio has joined their board as chairman. Sanjay Manandhar, CEO of Aerva told us “Phil’s addition to the Aerva Board validates the tremendous progress the company has made. Phil sees the importance of augmenting digital media with […]

Neo Advertising Indonesia

Monday, November 9th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Neo Media Group announced Monday that it is expanding its presence in Asia as it opens an office in Jakarta, Indonesia and starts its first project in the country with the Mall of Indonesia (MOI. The MOI is built on 17 Ha land and surrounded with 4,500 apartments and shops, it is the largest Multi […]

Coming To A Train Near You

Monday, November 9th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

(RAM.L) RAM Investment Group PLC who we revealed last week picked up the assets of now-in-administration-ASG Media are in the news again, this time with a mention in the UK’s Independent newspaper this morning… TrainFX, which is owned by the Aim-listed outfit RAM Investment Group, will announce this week it is set to sign a […]

Telekom wildert bei Aussenwerbern

Thursday, November 5th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Nice story in today’s German issue of the Financial Times and we see that Dirk Huelsermann with his OVAB Europe President’s hat on is quoted… The article basically says that a business unit of Deutsche Telekom AG is expanding and looking at entering the OOH and DOOH space. Dirk was asked about the business climate […]

We’ll Be Back Say Neo

Thursday, November 5th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Neo Media Group finally got round to publishing a press release with regard the demise, earlier this week, of ASG Media. The upbeat statement focuses very much on the fact that Neo’s expansion plans remain firmly on target for growth, despite cutting its commitment to ASG Media. Christian Vaglio-Giors, CEO of the Neo Media Group […]

Real Time Ad Management

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

YCD Multimedia today launched RAMP – a real time ad management platform (hence the acronym). It’s been developed we are told to address the real needs and challenges of retailers and marketers. YCD|RAMP as it is known introduces a “unique, simple and seamless platform for the production, distribution and optimization of in-store digital media campaigns” […]