Archive for June, 2008
Thursday, June 26th, 2008
Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
Launched last week by New York based The University Network (TUN) – BeFree’s first 10 segments will hit TUN screens as students return to class. Future episodes in development highlight established and upcoming artists, music critics, music professors and college students. BeFree is described by TUN “as the antithesis of the materialistic pop music and […]
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
We see that Integrated Systems Events (ISE) has beaten Screen Expo to set exact dates for an event in the Middle East – in this case ISE has launched a new show in Abu Dhabi. ISE’s new show, Integrated Systems Middle East Africa (ISMEA) is to run at the Abu Dhabi Exhibition Centre from 23rd […]
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
Interesting press release from Prime Digital Media (PDM) about their use of QR Codes*… A QR Code is a matrix code (or two-dimensional bar code) created by Japanese corporation Denso-Wave in 1994. The “QR” is derived from “Quick Response”, as the creator intended the code to allow its contents to be decoded at high speed. […]
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
Always nice to see digital signage companies recognised, here we see UK Business ONELAN given an award. The Oxfordshire Business Awards recognise ONELAN’s achievements June 2008…Digital Signage Specialist, ONELAN, became the proud owners of ‘The Darby Small Business Award’. The award was presented at the Oxfordshire Business Awards ceremony in Sandford-on-Thames, 20th June with around […]
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
These folks, Fogscreen Inc, were at Infocomm (which seems like such a long time now) last week working with GestureTek. FogScreen, Inc. featured GestureTek’s technology on a pair of FogScreen One (one meter) projection screens and a standalone FogScreen Inia (two meter) projection screen. Both screens we are told utilise patented technology to create a […]
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
Gail Chiasson, North American Editor
Quebec City has gone big, big, big, with the world’s largest multimedia projection, created by Robert Lepage and Ex Machina. Since June 20, The Image Mill has been lighting up Quebec City’s Old Port grain silos to celebrate the city’s 400th anniversary. This stunning multimedia experience tells the story of Quebec City’s history in four […]
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
“No certainty of a sale of assets” says Avanti as it prepares to issue 100 million new shares in preparation for, in their words “an urgent need for further short term funding” So that’s them seriously running out of money then and we guess also, VMG, who we think are currently negotiating to purchase Avanti’s […]
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
When our researchers first came upon this, we looked at in in the office and were convinced it was from Eastern Europe (see our story “Prague Vodafone Store Needs Help” before you judge us on that comment) but it turns out it’s in Orlando airport in Florida! Steve Portigal from Portigal Consulting firmly hits the […]
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
We are told that Remote Media, the folks behind signagelive are looking for .NET developers Remote media are looking for experienced programmers to join our small team in developing our multi award winning digital signage product signagelive. signagelive is a software as a service digital signage application. Remote media was established in 1994 and works […]
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
87,000 video clips in a week is a pretty good number for any Bluetooth service – let’s forget our personal misgvings about Bluetooth for a second, Ed The UK’s Channel 4 has been promoting its ‘Catch-Up service’ (similar to the BBC’s iPlayer service that you know we also have ‘reservations about’) with a Breeze Tech […]
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