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Net Display Systems Releases PADS4Airports

Thursday, July 22nd, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

Net Display Systems (NDS) this week introduced a number of out-of-the-box digital signage solutions generically called PADS Suites.

 

Each PADS Suite is a collection of components consisting of the PADS Professional software, plus a content management system (CMS) and a collection of screen templates especially designed for a particular business sector. The first PADS Suite release is […]

DSE Fall Industry Forum

Wednesday, July 21st, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

Digital Signage Expo are hosting an Industry Forum October 7-9, 2010 at Rancho Bernardo, San Diego, CA..

Bill Collins Joins Bulzī Media Advisory Board

Tuesday, July 20th, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

Bulzī Media, a Newport Beach firm focused on providing real-time audience measurement and metrics for the Out-Of-Home (OOH) advertising market this week appointed Bill Collins to their Advisory Board. Bill told us exclusively “I am happy to join the advisory board of Bulzi media. In my work in the Digital Place-based sector, I am always […]

‘Inception’ Tokyo Premiere Live Streaming

Tuesday, July 20th, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

Here we see live streaming of the ‘Inception‘ Tokyo Premiere on Shinjuku’s Yunika vision earlier this week – our local sources, who supplied pictures and video, tell us that Vanten probably had a big hand in making all of this happen. The Vanten system which we think runs on the sign does nifty stuff like […]

Futuramedia Raises 2M Euros

Tuesday, July 20th, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

France’s Futuramedia Group has just raised 2 million euros via a second round placing with OTC Partner and Promelys.

STRATACACHE To Invest $2M In New Facility

Monday, July 19th, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

The Dayton Business Journal late last week reported ‘Stratacache to invest $2M in new facility’ and went on to say that STRATACACHE Inc. plans to invest as much as $2 million to buy and renovate a former Kroger store in Huber Heights, where it would move production operations and hire more workers. Chris Riegel, president […]

10,000 Digital Menu Boards (And Counting)

Monday, July 19th, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

STRATACACHE announced today the successful installation of its 10,000th digital menu board within the quick service restaurant (QSR) industry. In addition to traditional static menu boards, four leading North American QSR operators are seemingly powering their digital menu board initiatives with STRATACACHE’s ActiVia for QSR digital signage software. As with other technology solutions on the […]

Minicom Launches DS Vision

Friday, July 16th, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

Ronni Guggenheim, CEO, Minicom Digital Signage Ltd. sent us these pics from his recent trip to India where, together with Emarson IT Solutions they launched their DS Vision Digital product. As we had witnessed a couple of years ago, India is (still) a buoyant market. There were 90 participants involved in this launch as shown […]

McDonald’s Worldwide Owner/Operator Convention

Thursday, July 15th, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

Digital Signage was presented as “an Innovative Growth Area for Advertising, Marketing and Motion Graphics” to 12,000 McDonald’s executives, suppliers, and franchise owners from around the world at their recent Worldwide Owner/Operator Convention held in Orlando, Florida Animation Dynamics Inc. was selected to help create a visual representation of McDonald’s history and vision of the […]

Richard Ruth Leaves Accent Health

Thursday, July 15th, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

We hear that Richard Ruth left Accent Health a few weeks ago. There are also rumours of a number of other management changes at the business also.