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Stratacache Expects Growth

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Nice article about Chris Riegel and STRATACACHE in the Dayton Daily News this week. Cornily entitled ‘(Digital) sign of the times: Stratacache expects growth‘ it’s well worth a read. It looks as though they may be ready to move into a new larger head office, either in Dayton or Texas (note that Boston, Montreal, Salt […]

Connecting With Online And Mobile Consumers

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Those clever chaps at never.no – one of our Ten Companies To Watch In 2009 have just sent us one of the most innovative PDF brochures we have seen for some time. Describing what they do as “connecting broadcasters, brands, outdoor media owners and digital screen networks with online and mobile consumers” this Norwegian company […]

NEXCOM At ISE

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

The marketing folks at NEXCOM are definitely missing a trick by not having this on their stand at ISE, Amsterdam. That’s a real shame as the industry (and more importantly of course its potential customers) needs to see much more of the innovative digital street furniture that is cropping up at the moment. Here we […]

Touchmedia In Shanghai Wins Red Herring Technology Award

Monday, January 26th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Congratulations must go to Micky Fung and his team at Touchmedia in Shanghai who have won the ‘Red Herring Global 100, World’s Leading Award for New Technology Companies’ and re-invigorate and give new meaning to the ‘Made in China’ stereotype. Touchmedia was founded in 2003 by Micky Fung to develop state-of-the-art touchscreen media technology in […]

Europe’s Largest Specialist AV Distributor Chooses signagelive

Saturday, January 24th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

If you are going to sign up distributors and resellers you may as well sign up big ones. It was announced last last week that Midwich, described as ‘Europe’s largest, award-winning, specialist AV distributor*’ has struck a distribution deal with signagelive. Lee Baker, business manager for large format displays at Midwich, told us “Software as […]

Two UK Networks Merge To Become GymslipTV

Friday, January 23rd, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

In what must rank as one of the weirdest ‘mergers’ for some time, news reaches us that SubTV and Gym ScreenMedia are to merge. The new business is to be called Media 42 Group (not GymslipTV then?, Ed) and will be led by Subtv’s founder Peter Miles as CEO. We don’t think that SubTV can […]

CAYIN Technology Stand At ISE

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Here’s the CAYIN Technology stand that they will be using at ISE, Amsterdam. CAYIN Technology can be found on Booth 5N90

All Aboard Wi-Fi Buses

Wednesday, January 21st, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

A 90-year old Irish bus fleet has joined forces with Vodafone and Fleet Connect to become the first in Ireland to deploy Wi-Fi on-board to keep passengers, from students to professionals, connected while on the move… See the full story http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/article/12135/

Clear Channel To Cut 1,850 Jobs

Wednesday, January 21st, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

The parent of Clear Channel Communications Inc. (CC Media Holdings (CCMO)) told workers earlier today that it was cutting 1,850 jobs – that’s about 9% of the company’s total workforce. The cuts will affect staff throughout the company, in radio, outdoor advertising and in corporate offices.

Good Or Bad For DS-IQ?

Wednesday, January 21st, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

We are big fans of what DS-IQ offer retailers and digital signage vendors alike but the news that Barnaby Page broke a few weeks back over on screens.tv ‘Wal-Mart quits in-store measurement project‘ could either be the MAKING or the BREAKING of them!! To remind you of the story; Wal-Mart in the U.S. is withdrawing […]