Archive for June, 2009

Six Skools Shotrlisted For TES Awwards

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Nice to see that six schools with The Life Channel’s in-school television network are among those shortlisted for the prestigious Times Educational Supplement (TES) Awards. According to TES Editor, Gerard Kelly, the TES Awards are the first to celebrate and reward the professionalism and flair of teams making an outstanding contribution to primary and secondary […]

Measuring The DOOH Business Climate

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Just how exactly do you measure the business climate of the Digital Out Of Home industry? On our last trip to Munich a week or so ago we met some nice German folks who have come up with an interesting solution – invidis consulting GmbH actually came up with the idea over a year ago […]

Imperative Group’s Ambition

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

There are rumours of some sort of associate / affiliate program that Chris Heap’s Imperative Group have been putting together these last few months. No names yet as to who else involved but it’s likely to be entrepreneurs and senior execs who have worked for some of the more well known / more successful businesses […]

Scala Set To Support Ultra Low-Cost PCs

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

It’s still a PC and it still runs Windows but Scala we believe are set to launch Release 5 of its software at InfoComm next week and with it support, for the very first time, for best use of ultra low-cost PCs. Release 5 is also likely to support more media playback devices and audio-only […]

Peroni’s Virtual Stage In Harrods Window

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

These images in one of the large windows at Harrods in London are really stunning. On the left side of the CityScape Media Ltd. virtual models, you can see a 42” large CityTouch panel with interactivity – you can click on more information about the designer, more information about the clothes itself and you can […]

Amscreen Appoints Digicom

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Digicom, officially launched in London 1st January this year and run by Tom Goddard, previously International CEO for CBS Outdoor has just announced that they have been selected by Amscreen to drive national digital media sales for the latters new BP contract and future users of Amscreen. Simon Sugar told us ‘We believe the team […]

You Will Buy Me…

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

“You will buy me” screamed the cover of this month’s UK Wired magazine, no we won’t we inwardly said to ourselves as we skimmed through the magazine at the newsagents without buying it!! We looked forward to the launch issue but after buying and reading that, vowed we wouldn’t again but bought the second issue […]

‘Instant Expert’ On Sale After InfoComm

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

That interactive kiosk/video conference experience being used at InfoComm, mentioned in our June 5 article about Seattle-based .advancedMethod’s ‘booth redefined’, was first seen at Infocomm 2006 as a concept, but has since undergone many improvements and is now ready for market. It’s made possible by a partnership with Tandberg and its world class video conferencing […]

Sticky: The Bloody Apprentice

Monday, June 8th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

The Bloody Apprentice deserves as much attention as a dead dog but unfortunately a lot of news media will be reporting it today as the final was broadcast Sunday evening. It seems also that the UK winner (picture shown to the left here) will be joining Amscreen – in particular the Amscreen Health division which […]

TargetCast Grows And Its Device Gets A Patent

Monday, June 8th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

TargetCast Networks, Inc. (TCN) whose tag line is ‘America’s Away From Home Television Network!’ announced Monday the receipt of a U.S. Patent and the signing of strategic partner agreements with OnSite Sports LLC and Rivals Media LLC in order to develop SportScape – a network for independent sports bars and restaurants. The business methods patent […]