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LG’s 2 for 1 – an update on LG’s shiny new VP Of Digital Signage

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009

Manolo Almagro, Q Division Managing Partner

The official news release has just been issued by LG, so I thought I’d do a quick follow up on the news I leaked a few weeks back about LG’s newest addition to their Digital Signage team. Jeff Dowell will be making his official debut as LG’s new VP of Digital Signage at this month’s […]

Breaking News – LG Snatches 3M’s Global Sales Manager

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

Manolo Almagro, Q Division Managing Partner

Big changes are afoot for 3M’s digital signage division.  A trusted source leaked information to me about LG’s latest new hire – Jeff Dowell – 3M’s Global Sales Manager is moving to the much leafier and greener pastures of LG’s digital signage group where he’ll be charged to further develop their digital signage business worldwide. […]

Adobe Opens the Pandora’s Box

Tuesday, May 12th, 2009

Manolo Almagro, Q Division Managing Partner

I have, on numerous occasions – had the dubious honor of being called an Adobe Fanboy, but what’s not to like? Check out these jaw dropping stats (from Adobe’s site) The graph below represents data from a survey concluded in Dec 2008. It shows how Flash is used by over 2 million professionals and is […]

MediaPost’s DOOH Forum & Expo

Friday, April 24th, 2009

Manolo Almagro, Q Division Managing Partner

Joe Mandese gave me the distinct honor to act as a DOOH awards judge in MediaPost’s ‘First Annual’ DOOH Forum & Expo 2009. I was able to solicit feedback from random attendees of the event AND with unanimous comments the event was a big success. From my perspective, I’d agree (aside from some problematic sight […]

Digital Signage Carbon Footprint Considerations

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

Manolo Almagro, Q Division Managing Partner

In celebration of Earth Day 2009 (April 22) I thought I’d follow up on recent post regarding the results of MediaZest’s carbon footprint study and CNN’s  report on the “green” OOH initiatives in Times Square. First of all, let’s face it- it would seem that the current generation of the DOOH industry as a whole […]

DailyDOOH Facebook Fanpage

Friday, April 10th, 2009

Manolo Almagro, Q Division Managing Partner

Attention all DailyDOOH readers & subscribers – to commemorate Facebook’s recent announcement of hitting a record 200 million users (which incredibly isn’t a lot of subscribers in the grand scheme of internet world domination) we have launched our own Facebook DailyDOOH fan page! Consider this our latest social media experiment and yet another addition to […]

My Visit to Soho’s Coolest Loft…

Thursday, April 9th, 2009

Manolo Almagro, Q Division Managing Partner

Say what you will about Twitter, – but I get THE most interesting event invites via direct tweets. Last week, I got “tweet-vited” by Bill Dulaney at Park Media to a reception hosted by XL Video – at THE coolest Loft in SoHo. (trust me, I’ve seen alot of lofts in Soho) – This one […]

Wirespring’s New Product Revealed (Yes, We Scooped Bill Gerba)

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

Manolo Almagro, Q Division Managing Partner

Introducing Wirespring’s “FireCast Digital Signage Easy Start” – a solution that takes 95% of the functionality currently found in the full-on enterprise class FireCast platform, bakes in a few new features, and rolls it all up in a nice, tasty little player package ,,, and admit it… we are that good – back in October […]

Ripple TV Raises Another $4M

Friday, March 27th, 2009

Manolo Almagro, Q Division Managing Partner

Looks like the execs at RippleTV were able to squeeze a little more cash out of some investors today, to the tune of about USD 4 million dollars – imagine I’m saying this like Dr. Evil in the Austin Powers Movie !!! RippleTV say they are doing pretty well, still growing and that 2008 was […]

Accident Prone Coke Vending Machine At DSE

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009

Manolo Almagro, Q Division Managing Partner

At DSE I got my own first hand look at Samsung’s touchscreen vending machine (that first debuted at CES earlier this year). The hardware is by Samsung and software by Sapient). The vending machine was cool and very sexy (when it worked) but methinks perhaps that Samsung has “jumped the shark” with this overall product […]