Archive for February, 2009

Packed DOOH Conference Puts Customer First

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Once we get back from Amsterdam we will write up our thoughts on the ISE’s DOOH Business Conference (briefly; day 1 was great but there was still one awful presentation, event very well attended, lots of senior industry figures were there, day 2 flagged a bit, our opinion is that ‘panel sessions’ never work, organisers […]

What’s Chinese For Glasses Free 3D?

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Alioscopy was one of the 3D systems that we actually quite liked when we saw it last year in Paris and now we see it again at a couple of Chinese airports. Alioscopy recently signed an agreement with TCL Multimedia – the largest TV manufacturer in China – to equip a number of Chinese airports […]

LG’s Streeeeeetched LCDs

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

This is one of LG’s stretched LCDs shown here at ISE. We loved the content – it had relevance and context.

Screen Technology At ISE

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Screen Technolology were showing off their Litemax LiTile on their booth at ISE. It looks about half the width of ITrans (it’s the unit on the table that Dr Paul Bayley and visitor are looking at) and runs on less power and not so hot or noisy.

Nielsen Say “Average Sales Increase Per Shown Product 14%”

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Since the launch of POSTV’s Supermarket TV launched back in March 2008, dozens of top brands have advertised on the 1,200 or so screens that make up the network. The GREAT news though, applicable most probably across the retail sectors is that research from Nielsen indicates that the average sales increase for advertisers is 14% […]

C-nario And T-Systems Join Forces

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

C-nario yesterday announced a ‘a service and support agreement with T-Systems, Deutsche Telekom’s corporate customer division’ T-Systems will effectively support C-nario’s digital signage projects with project design, installation and ongoing network operations services. Michael Lenk, T-Systems´ Head of Global Competence Center Retail told us “The collaboration combines the necessary core competencies in the area of […]

Live Tweets from ISE 2009, Amsterdam (Tuesday)

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009

Jorge Garcia de Bustos

We were tweeting live from the ISE DOOH Business Conference… James Davies is up next b ut there is a coffee break now during the Tuesday session just thinking how this conference can be improved. (a) the best presenters refer back to other presenters …. during the Tuesday session best of both worlds equation during […]

Minicom Launches International Digital Signage Division

Monday, February 2nd, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

As usual, we manage to bring you all the news before it’s actually announced – here is Monday’s official press release from Minicom, on the story we broke last week ‘Minicom To Announce Spin-Off Business‘ There’s little in it that we didn’t tell you; Ronni to be CEO, business based in Zurich – the name […]

ISE DOOH Business Conference Presentation

Monday, February 2nd, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Here is our presentation from Monday’s ISE DOOH Business Conference in Amsterdam, officially entitled ‘Content Management Systems / Technologies – An Overview Of…‘ but which also contains our Top 10 Digital Signage Vendors for 2009. Ostensibly taking a look at some of the technology behind digital out of home and digital signage the main thrust […]

Goodbye Mr Engels

Monday, February 2nd, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

We were of course the first to break the news early on Sunday ‘BroadSign Lets Go Of Its CEO and CFO‘ and it seems BroadSign have reacted well, and brought their (we believe planned for Tuesday this week) press release forward and here it is, in its entirety. No real surprises. It’s goodbye Mr Engels […]