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Panasonic And Haivision Partner For Signage

Friday, December 17th, 2010

Geny Caloisi

Panasonic Solutions announced a new partnership with Haivision to create a complete digital signage solution for businesses that is easy to purchase, install and operate. The idea is to combine Haivision’s CoolSign digital signage software platform, pre-configured on a powerful media player PC, and Panasonic’s professional LCD displays. The software will initially be bundled with […]

Haivision Adds To Team

Thursday, December 16th, 2010

Geny Caloisi

Haivision, a provider of end-to-end IP video and digital signage solutions, announced the appointment of Andy Vaughan as vice president of US federal sales. In addition, Haivision has doubled its federal team recently to address the growing demands for performance video with metadata encoding technology, IP video distribution systems, and digital signage solutions. Haivision US […]

JCDecaux Wins 10-year Ad Deal with Dubai Airports

Thursday, December 16th, 2010

Geny Caloisi

JCDecaux’s subsidiary JCDecaux Dicon, has inked a 10-year contract with Dubai Airports for the exclusive advertising concession at Dubai World Central-Al Maktoum International (DWC), the brand new airport facility in Dubai (United Arab Emirates). Paul Griffiths, CEO of Dubai Airports, said, “Dubai is a prominent global aviation hub and DWC is a milestone project that […]

Instore-TV-Concept Xplace Best Practice Award

Wednesday, December 15th, 2010

Geny Caloisi

The Instore-TV-Concept of xplace which won the ‘Special Prize’ at the 4th Digital Signage Best Practice Awards at #viscomffm was given out this week. In front of about 500 industry colleagues, Michael Volland, Managing Director of xplace, received the award on December 10 in the historic Ratskeller of the Frankfurt Town Hall. The unique complexity […]

AMX TCO Calcuator

Tuesday, December 14th, 2010

Geny Caloisi

AMX, the control panels company that acquired Inspired Signage almost four years ago, has launched a new tool, a total cost of ownership (TCO) calculator for digital signage installations. AMX is making the TCO calculator available free for any organization who wishes to upload it to their Website. TCO calculator lets buyers compare digital signage […]

Italy’s Digital Signage Association

Tuesday, December 14th, 2010

Geny Caloisi

Italian companies looking into entering the Digital Signage sector, can join AssoDS (Associazione Digital Signage) for EUR 150 a year. “Rather than a traditional confederation of companies homogeneous, AssoDS wants to represent a community of individuals with the specific intent to create a system and lay down guidelines and best practices on specific business models […]

Ireland’s Post Gets In The Mood

Tuesday, December 14th, 2010

Geny Caloisi

Mood Media Corporation has won a nationwide contract to provide An Post, Ireland’s national postal service provider, with dynamic in-store visual and audio solutions to entertain its customers and promote its range of services. Mood Media UK & Ireland was selected from other European providers who also pitched for the tender to supply An Post […]

Ram Vision To Expand Offering In 2011

Monday, December 13th, 2010

Geny Caloisi

Last week I went to the Ram Vision conference held in central London, at the Courthouse Doubletree Hotel in Great Malbourough Street. The hotel’s apple-green seats, at its cinema style conference room, were practically all occupied. Late comers stood on the side stairs not to bother people intently following the presentations, run on a tight […]

Glam And Glitz On The Underground

Friday, December 10th, 2010

Geny Caloisi

CBS Outdoor UK has partnered with the British Fashion Council to promote the British Fashion Awards to Londoners, which took place on 7th December at the Savoy Theatre. Until December 14th, CBS Outdoor’s digital cross track projector (XTP) screens on tube platforms across London will announce all the winners from the ceremony, and show an […]

Minicom To Run DS Showcase

Thursday, December 9th, 2010

Geny Caloisi

Minicom Digital Signage has been appointed by ISE to run the Digital Signage Showcase at #ISEUROPE in Amsterdam for a second year in a row.   The digital signage industry is fragmented by several different technology and solution providers, each of them supply one piece of the puzzle in the digital signage eco-system. The DS […]