Archive for June, 2009

What Button Did You Press?

Friday, June 19th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

A little surprised when we played with .advancedMethod’s unmanned booth at InfoComm… We stood under a clear plastic directional sound umbrella ‘thingy’, faced the camera and pressed the button to talk to ‘LIVE PR’ – lovely lady answered, her first words to us were a question “which button did you press?”, we reply “you should […]

Captivate Network Adds Thomson Reuters Content

Friday, June 19th, 2009

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Captivate Network, Chelmsford, Mass, has teamed up with Thomson Reuters to provide Captivate’s nearly 3 million viewers with international and business news, including text, photography and video. The deal puts Thomson Reuters’ world-class content on Captivate’s 8,900 screens in 19 major U.S. and five Canadian cities as well as online. “While traditional marketing tends to […]

Zoompass Revolutionary Mobile Payment Service

Friday, June 19th, 2009

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

EnStream LP, a mobile commerce joint venture company owned by Bell Mobility, Rogers and TELUS – Canada’s three leading wireless operators – has launched Zoompass, a breakthrough mobile money transfer and payment service. Zoompass gives Canadians a fast and convenient way to send and receive money securely using their mobile phone. The service is enabled […]

InfoComm 2009: Samsung’s Bus Shelter

Friday, June 19th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

The Samsung stand at InfoComm 2009 was huge and impressive!! There was lots we liked on the stand; including a series of three 2007, 2008 and 2009 dated 2 x 2 panels (not shown) that showed how bezels had reduced in size over the years! Our favourite though was how they had brought context to […]

InfoComm 2009: Orion MPDP

Friday, June 19th, 2009

Andrew Neale

The Orion tiled plasma stand at InfoComm 2009 was nice. We liked the interesting wall shape shown here with an L shaped corner made up of quite a few tiled Plasmas. The bezel was still an irritant but the content was quite good though had little context to anything.

Touch Of Brilliance

Thursday, June 18th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

I recognise that man in the middle. Spotted on the Samsung stand at InfoComm 2009, Orlando, Florida.

Dear Puzzled From North America

Thursday, June 18th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

We have had a hell of a response and traffic flow to our two stories on the FOR SALE sign going up above EK3 – we are usually very careful when publishing anonymous comments, we received this one earlier today which we think is worthwhile repeating below and replying to however… Author : Puzzled (IP: […]

George Greer Co. Selects GoGo Cast

Thursday, June 18th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

George Greer Co. (a 75 year old distributor of fine snack food to over 3,000 retail outlets) has selected GoGo Cast, Inc. as its exclusive vendor for the deployment, management and aggregation of a new digital media display network. The agreement which is expected to commence immediately will generate more than USD 10 million of […]

Netto Pontefract – Amscreen’s Trial Site

Thursday, June 18th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Please Sir Alan stop this now, this is truly awful!!! The screen is horrible, the scrolling LED does not work, the screen is placed too high – no one is going to look up there whilst they push their trolley or walk around the store with their shopping basket. FYI a shopping basket is a […]

Outcast And PumpTop TV Partner

Thursday, June 18th, 2009

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

California-based Outcast (formerly Fuelcast ) of Santa Monica and AdtekMedia (owner of PumpTop TV) of Irvine, have launched a joint venture to create the largest at-the-pump digital network in the U.S.. Both companies reach on-the-go consumers on digital screens while they fuel their vehicles. The consolidated venture between the two private companies creates a national […]