Archive for February, 2009

The Virtual Book And The X-Desk

Friday, February 20th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

This Virtual book is currently installed at Christies (the auctioneer) in both London and New York It was put together by the Engage folks in London and Caroline Kay, Sales and Marketing Manager told us “Here at Engage we have the ability to create alluring zones of discovery which can reach audiences using the latest […]

Simple Interface To Menu Board Systems

Friday, February 20th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Robin Critchley of Signature Digital Menus Ltd kindly sent us through a note with regard video on their website showing their new web-based menu board tool called Autograph. The video is actually a nice short demo of some of the basic functions of the tool and how it works and is well worth a quick […]

Partly Cloudy. Why Banks Get Signage Wrong

Thursday, February 19th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Here’s another fine example of 3M Vikuiti being used to great effect to create large format screens but dare we open up again the can-of-worms that is ‘the debate on what is good content’? First of all, why do retail banks seem to continuously get it so wrong? There is a wealth of expertise out […]

South Wales Police Use City Centre Emergency Screens

Thursday, February 19th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

In the UK, the South Wales Police are now using real-time technology to broadcast high priority emergency messaging in the city centre using the advertising system previously deployed by Streetbroadcast – basically local police forces are able to overwrite city centre advertising screens at a moments notice, upload photographs, add missing persons and evacuation and […]

Digital Signage Contest Of The Year

Thursday, February 19th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Bill Gerba kindly presented us with this award yesterday. Well in fact he presented it to us and everyone else in the industry!! As he says on his blog “I decided to … name all of you winners!”

Death Cab For Cutie

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Here’s a fun way where having a mobile device is an advantage. Rogers Wireless, Canada’s largest wireless carrier, has launched a new marketing campaign aimed at Canadian university students on Facebook to promote the benefits of being a Rogers customer. Campus Battle 09, developed for Rogers by Toronto-based marketing and branding agency The Hive, has […]

IT Expert To Lead Titan’s Digital Expansion

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Rob Marlow effectively steps into Lou Giacalone Jr’s role, albeit this time around in a newly created position of Senior Vice President and Worldwide Chief Information Officer. Lou Giacalone Jr., Titan’s current Senior Vice President of Digital as reported by us last weekend will be leaving to re-join CoolSign, the company he founded after successfully […]

aka.tv Ctrl+C / Ctrl+V

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Is there any hope for accurate industry reporting when the likes of aka.tv quite blatantly copy word for word the work of others (in this case a GLOBE NEWSWIRE story). Check out the story ‘Wireless Ronin Reports 2008 Fourth Quarter and Full Year Results‘ on http://finance.yahoo.com/ and aka.tv’s same story, errrr especially cos’ IT IS […]

Intuition Capital and Litelogic

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Here’s the official press release from Intuition Capital about having acquired the assets of Litelogic Limited… Leading Venture Capital company Intuition Capital announced yesterday that it had acquired the assets of Litelogic Limited, the outdoors digital media firm. Intuition – previously a significant shareholder in Litelogic Limited – has injected the intellectual property into a […]

LiteLogic UK Ltd In And Out Of Administration

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

LiteLogic confirmed early on Tuesday morning that they went into administration on 11th February BUT later that same day another spokesperson for LiteLogic told us that they were brought out of administration on Monday 16th Feb by (new owners) London based private equity investment business Intuition Capital Poor old LiteLogic seem to be on the […]