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And Now The End Is Near

Thursday, April 30th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

We don’t get it right all the time and Screen Technology, a Cambridgeshire based company that we were particularly fond of back in early 2008 is absolutely on the brink of collapse now. Yesterday its shares on AIM were suspended at the request of the company “pending clarification of the company’s financial position” As we […]

Careful With That Axe

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Always interesting where folks known in the industry end up. Eugene Cuyler previously at Broadsign and before that at TELentice has ended up at One Digital Media

Open Mouth, Say AAAAH

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Well, it’s ‘captive audience’ that’s for sure… Swedish company Procast Media AB have been rolling out a dentist channel called DENTVISION Here we see specialist digital signage content provider BlueFox provide some of the content; a relaxing programme that shows parent-child relationships in the animal kingdom and a second programme allowing the viewer to travel […]

ABC’s First Digital Out Of Home Media Audit

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Inlink Media & Technology have been continuing to do a great job (rather too quietly) down under – we last wrote about them in February discussing the ‘office tower media’ market and their 200 installations but last week they raised their heads a bit (more) above the parapet with an interesting release on ABC‘s first […]

Steven Justman Joins IndoorDIRECT

Monday, April 27th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

IndoorDIRECT announced today that Steven Justman has joined the company as President of Entertainment, Marketing & Sales. In this new position at indoorDIRECT, Justman will oversee and manage marketing and advertising partnerships, content relationships and marketing strategy for the Dallas-based company which produces theBITE Network, programming that serves up entertainment, sports, news and lifestyle content […]

Imagesound Wins Big At Waterstones

Monday, April 27th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Rumour is that Imagesound have won a big music contract on the UK high street with bookseller Waterstones

Digital Signage For Supermarkets (Exactly)

Monday, April 27th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

If you want to be known primarily as a technology led digital signage provider then please go ahead and let your clients keep calling retail network deployments ‘xyzTV’. Here we see a very generation 1.0 looking ‘masymasTV’ channel for Spanish retailer Supermercados masymas. Developed by Altabox the channel is, in their words, designed to entertain […]

Primesight To Acquire Streetbroadcast?

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Regular readers will know that Streetbroadcast went Tango Uniform February / March this year and that the administrators were looking for a new buyer. Looks like this wasn’t a ripping off creditors style ‘pre-pack’ deal and word reaches us that Primesight have been looking at doing an acquisition of Streetbroadcast for the princely sum of […]

Take One Media’s Leaflet Stand

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Take One Media, a 25 year veteran in the leaflet display stand business has given one of its products a modern look and feel with the inclusion of a portrait digital screen. The stand shown here is not available until July 2009 but we liked the pre-production versions that we have seen to date. There […]

BP Appoints Amscreen

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

STOP PRESS news just in that BP has appointed Amscreen as exclusive digital signage partner in the UK.