Archive for January, 2008
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
This advertisement for the British Franchise Exhibition started running today on City Gateway Media’s giant outdoor LED in Manchester. Creative was done by Amigo Digital, who are fast making a name for themselves in content production for individual high profile outdoor media screens. The visual has been described to me as being “like clouds in […]
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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
We love the innovation here and getting a video wall into an airport (in this case the 3rd largest in India) is no mean feat. We also love the simplicity of the web site (it works well) BUT tiling consumer grade 40 inch Samsung LCDs, seems to be a waste of such nice screens and […]
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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
C-nario yesterday issued a press release entitled “C-NARIO BREAKING BOUNDARIES OF SCALABILITY” – we say it should have read “C-nario breaking boundaries of BELIEVABILITY” with some mighty claims and lots of “Only C-nario tests and certifies …” etc. It might only be the beginning of the year but it is going to take some doing […]
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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
A couple of LED manufacturers have told us they will be attending this and so we thought it might be of interest to a few others also. Primarily outdoor media of course. It’s the 15th China Sign Expo 2008 / 4Nshow and will be held 5th June 2008 at the China International Exhibition Center, Beijing. […]
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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
Late breaking news which requires some analysis tomorrow (Weds), for now just the press release below… Two leaders of shopping center media in Canada merge operations to create Neo – Traffic MONTREAL, Jan. 22 /CNW Telbec/ – Two significant players in mall advertising in Canada, the group Neo Advertising and the company Traffic, are joining […]
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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
A little birdy tells us that Motomedia are a late entrant to Screen Expo Europe (why so late making up their mind? and hey! lucky they found some space) and will be exhibiting on Stand: L15 up on the 2nd level with all the content folks. The folks who represent Motomedia in Australia tell us […]
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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
We have translated into English a lot of press releases for clients (Swedish, Spanish, German, Dutch) and written and helped write many, many more. It irks us then, perhaps more than most (you tell us?), with the number of vendors who claim to be ‘world leader’. If everyone is a leader or a world leader […]
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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
Two unintentional themes this week it seems – digital menu boards and taxi advertising systems – Screenatize have just come to our attention… Screenatize Ltd is the brainchild of two of Manchester’s most exciting entrepreneurs. Kashef Ahmad and James Hill bring together diverse but complimentary skills and experience to bring about a revolution in interactive […]
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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
Pixmen get everywhere, or are they Unidenmen? Uniden is a home electronics company and these “Unidenmen” were unleashed on the unwary streets of Shimokitazawa, Japan. Are the Unidenmen wearing (albeit oversized) Pixman wearable mobile solutions? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shimokitazawa Our Head of R&D said “it would be awesome it they were showing footage of internal organs” – indeed, […]
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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
We are not sure why this story about the gesture based interaction screen for Orange has suddenly made a number of blogs and signage sites cos’ it’s old news, with the video itself being up on YouTube since 20th December 2007… About This Video Christmas shoppers are getting a treat in Central London as Orange […]
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