Archive for April, 2008

La Senza Sees Double

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

We have stood up at Retail events many times over last 12 months and said that one of the easiest ways to add screens to a retail store is to simply add an extra display (or two) onto the EPOS system. DigiPoS Store Solutions have done exactly that with lingerie retailer La Senza across all […]

EMS 2008 – Best Of Exhibit Floor

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Rob Everton, Creative Technology Director at marketing agency Cramer writes on A Wider Net about the Experiential Marketing Summit (EMS2008) and goes through his Best of Exhibit Floor. Three of his favourites include: – KAON Interactive’s unique kiosk solution, called the v-OSK that allows exhibitors to showcase products that cannot be on the show floor […]

CrookedBrains’ Walking Billboards

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

The folks over at CrookedBrains have a nice selection of photos of ‘walking billboards”, apart from the cute Japanese girls, err sorry the small Japanese screens, Pixman and Adwalker are the other two digital solutions shown. CrookedBrains is a mish-mash of stuff and we find it hard to describe exactly what it is? Anyway, it’s […]

Turkey Grand Prix Preview

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Catch sight of our latest Formula 1 content for the Turkish Grand Prix at http://www.dailydooh.net/player.php The ‘Preview” includes the latest updates to the Driver and Constructor standings after last weekend’s Barcelona Grand Prix. Networks such as Neo Advertising started playing this out this morning

New Wututu Product

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Rumour is of a new Wututu product and a couple of deals with two big customers.

Cost Ramifications Of Player Placement

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

In slight contrast to the TCO paper we published a few weeks ago from EnQii it’s worthwhile looking at this perspective from Minicom. The “last mile” approach is Minicom’s business so it is no surprise what they suggest and recommend. Jerusalem, Israel – Minicom Advanced Systems, a world leader in the Digital Signage “last mile”, […]

Global Market for Digital Signage Report

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

NSR’s Global Market for Digital Signage report is now available at a cost of USD 2,995 (Standard License) or USD 5,995 (Enterprise License). I am sure that many large corporates will end up buying this – as they do other reports but we always question the way in which they are compiled (everyone and his […]

Video Ezy / Blockbuster In-Store Kiosks

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

At the NAB digital TV trade show in Las Vegas recently, Cork, Ireland based DigiSoft revealed that one of the biggest video retailers in Australia and New Zealand; the Video Ezy / Blockbuster chain will be deploying 1,200 in-store Kiosks using its IPTV solution. The deal includes the provision of an in-store kiosk with movie […]

Heavenly XTP

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

We are not yet convinced by the quality of XTP (Cross-track Projection) though have yet to see much content running and indeed, hard to find XTP systems that are operational daily rather than just installed and sitting there (in the UK at least). Anyway, CBS Outdoor announced today an exclusive XTP deal with branding agency […]

Free Tibet!

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

One of the LED suppliers we spent time with at last week’s Sign And Digital UK show was Absen, a Chinese manufacturer. Many companies we have dealt with could learn a thing or two about business card follow-up as we received this charming email this morning… Dear Ms. Adrian J Cotterill, Nice to having met […]