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Boys Will Be Boys, Even In Dresses

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

Chris Sheldrake

UK publisher HarperCollins is promoting the children’s book ‘The Boy in the Dress’ on CBS Outdoor’s Digital Escalator Panels (DEPs) for two weeks. The campaign broke at the beginning of this week, 17th November. David Walliams is a famous UK comedian and actor (best known perhaps for ‘Little Britain’ / ‘Little Britain USA’) has signed […]

Twitter Updates On Tomorrow’s Digital Signage Biz Summit

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

Chris Sheldrake

Don’t forget that as we did with the OVAB summit a few weeks back we will have contributors at TOMORROW’S ‘Building Your Digital Signage Business‘ Summit keeping up with events via Twitter. Our technical team have automated the Twitter feed to create a dynamic, self-update blog post, so all you need to is sit back […]

Esprit Digital @ Electronica 2008

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

Chris Sheldrake

Esprit Digital tell us that they had a good Electronica 2008 show in Munich last week. They were demonstrating their StreetBright product in the e-signage forum. This was the first time that the show had this kind of forum – let’s hope they rename it next year (e-signage is frankly a ridiculous term) Conrac were […]

Why Sell Coolsign’s Jewel In The Crown?

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

Chris Sheldrake

Late yesterday we wrote ‘Coolsign’s Gaming Portion Goes To Bally Technologies‘ and minutes before that ‘Coolsign SOLD – Well, Parts Of It Anyway!!!‘ and it’s worthwhile we feel taking another quick look at the deal. First it’s important to stress that what has been sold is NOT the whole of Coolsign. The piece that has […]

OVAB Europe Announced Today

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

Chris Sheldrake

We have known about this for some time but were VERY SURPRISED today on the manner of the announcement – an email from Minicom before the agreed press embargo deadline. Anyway, caught unawares so to speak, see www.ovab.eu Today, consumers are spending more and more time away from their homes. Subsequently, advertisers are spending more […]

Coolsign’s Gaming Portion Goes To Bally Technologies

Monday, November 17th, 2008

Chris Sheldrake

Here’s the press release from, literally a few minutes ago on Bally Technologies acquisition of Planar’s gaming portion of Coolsign… BALLY TECHNOLOGIES ACQUIRES PLANAR’S COOLSIGN® DIGITAL SIGNAGE SOLUTIONS BUSINESS FOR THE GAMING INDUSTRY Company integrates CoolSign media-management system into Networked Floor of the Future™ technology suite LAS VEGAS, November 17, 2008 – Bally Technologies, Inc. […]

PRN – Yours For USD 80 Million

Monday, November 17th, 2008

Chris Sheldrake

We haven’t really written about PRN since we were the first to announce ‘Now PRN Is Up For Sale‘ and a day later when we detailed ‘Understanding Thomson’s Disposal Of PRN‘ We guess that the main piece of news is the price. PRN could be yours for a cool USD 80 Million. That’s a steep […]

iPresentoir – Supertec’s Smart In-Store Fixture

Monday, November 17th, 2008

Chris Sheldrake

Quividi continue to announce license and embedded deals for VidiReports their live audience measurement solution. Here we see integration into Supertec’s smart in-store fixture, called iPresentoir® and better still, it’s a branded fixture that will be deployed in over 750 stores of one of France’s largest cell phone operators. Supertec manufactures and sells a number […]

National Exhibition Centre (NEC), Birmingham

Sunday, November 16th, 2008

Chris Sheldrake

We noticed this at the National Exhibition Centre (NEC), Birmingham recently. A little bit of research yielded that it is Motomedia’s first ever permanent installation. It’s a 7 metres by 2 metres projection system installed by Paradigm and running Working Solution’s Acquire solution. Screen content will be split between advertising and infomercials for events at […]

IAAPA Expo, Orlando, Florida

Saturday, November 15th, 2008

Chris Sheldrake

If only we had time (and a better travel expense account) we could spend our lives hitting the shows and conferences around the world. GestureTek Inc. pointed out to us that next week in Orlando sees the International Association for Amusement Parks and Attractions (IAAPA) Expo being held 18th to 21st November at the Orange […]