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IPTV World Forum 2009

Thursday, March 12th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

This year’s IPTV World Forum is being held in Olympia, London on 25th to 27th March 2009 See http://www.iptv-forum.com/ for more details

Advertisers Get Trove Of Clues In Smartphones

Thursday, March 12th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Raffi Vartian, Co-Founder/VP, ContinuumMobile, LLC will tell you that with his technology your phones don’t need to be that ‘smart’ to do a lot of this, but very interesting article nonetheless over on IHT entitled ‘Advertisers get a trove of clues in smartphones‘ which is well worth a read.

UK Fund To Help Technology / Media Firms

Thursday, March 12th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Andrew and Robert Rickman, well known in our local area of Oxford (and indeed Wiltshire) have recently launched a Euro 100 million technology fund wishing to invest in UK businesses with the potential for international expansion. The Rockley Follow-on Fund is aimed at established technology companies and is looking at… Energy Sustainability Media Data Management […]

White Stuff’s (Retail) Cinema

Wednesday, March 11th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

A couple of UK weekend newspapers made mention of this small 12 seat Cinema. Not that newsworthy you would have thought – apart perhaps from its size except that this Cinema is in UK retailer White Stuff‘s store in York… Pride of place … must go to the cinema. This is an area at the […]

Think Long Queues In Spanish Sun

Wednesday, March 11th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

In Spain Inspección Técnica de Vehículos (ITV) is very similar to the UK’s MOT, basically a vehicle / automobile check carried out in a test center that has a concession from the regional government. Here we see Altabox having deployed a communication channel in the inspection stations for ITV. The channel’s main purpose is to […]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_signage

Wednesday, March 11th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

We salute http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_signage which (currently, cos’ it is always open to change) starts… Digital signage is a form of electronic display that is installed in public spaces. Advertising using Digital signage is a form of out-of-home advertising in which content and messages are displayed on digital signs (such as LCD, LED or Plasma), with a […]

Avanti Screenmedia Supports Comic Relief

Tuesday, March 10th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Avanti Screenmedia have been great supporters of charitable causes and it’s fantastic to see them promoting the single ‘Barry’ Islands in the Stream (let’s just say that this is a ‘version’ of the Bee Gees written classic) for the UK’s Comic Relief this Friday. The 20 second advert which was first broadcast early on Tuesday […]

Is SubPostMasterTV Up For Sale?

Tuesday, March 10th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Rumour in the UK at the moment is that MIS owned SubPosteMasterTV (more accurately called The Community Network since they renamed / re-branded back in July 2007) is up for sale.

Music Software From EnQii

Tuesday, March 10th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Seems like EnQii is not finished with its EnGage software announcements just yet as (literally) we have heard – wait for it, there’s a pun coming, Ed of a new in-store audio add on module. Probably called something like Tempo we believe that it will allows users to produce custom music profiles to compliment their […]

Winding Up Order Against VMG

Monday, March 9th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

If you are on the UK’s Alternative Investment Market (AIM), have a reputation in being slow paying people, have a history of litigation then it’s no surprise AND seems to mean very little these days but here we see a winding up order having been issued against Vision Media Group International last week… Publication Date: […]