Archive for August, 2009

He Shoots He Scores…

Wednesday, August 12th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

These are kind of stupid, with a totally impractical LCD screen far too low down on each table end but are also sort of cool at the same time. Go figure. The best thing about it we think is the cheat proof LED scoring system. We all figure that if we had a games room […]

Hook, Line And Sinker

Wednesday, August 12th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Only two days now to the supposed big, life changing announcement from Germany’s 42 Media Group and here we see another teaser (the last one was an email). This time a YouTube video clip… Whatever 42 Media Group do on Friday it better be good. BTW We have PURPOSELY turned off allowing comments on this […]

Street Lighting On Demand

Wednesday, August 12th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Our annual subscription to TIME Magazine brought this to our attention when we were catching up on the weekly issues we missed whilst we were away. Seriously, just how cool is it when you can turn your street lights on by using your mobile phone…. Every night at 11 p.m. the village of Dörentrup in […]

Mobile Campaign Features Pygmy Goats

Wednesday, August 12th, 2009

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

TELUS, one of Canada’s big three mobile companies, has launched a new multimedia mobility advertising campaign, titled ‘Get a jump on life with web to go’. The campaign, which features the first appearance of TELUS’ newest critter, the pygmy goat, shows Canadians the satisfaction of maximizing one’s time by using a TELUS smartphone or Mobile […]

Oohgle Falls Foul Of WikiPedia Thought Police

Wednesday, August 12th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Those folks who seemingly have nothing better to do in life apart from maintain and edit Wikipedia entries continue to do themselves no favours (in our eyes at least). ‘Oohgle’ which we think is well entitled to have entered the lexicon after all the good work that Posterscope put into it had a brief and […]

AccuWeather Mobile Web Site Now in 33 Dialects

Wednesday, August 12th, 2009

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

AccuWeather.com, out of State College, Pennsylvania, and which brands itself as the World’s Weather Authority, has launched new languages for its Global mobile Web site for a total of 33 translations, including three dialects of Chinese, three dialects of Spanish, two dialects of Portuguese, and two dialects of English. The mobile Web site provides a […]

Integrated Systems Europe 2010

Wednesday, August 12th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

The next Integrated Systems Europe will be held from 2–4 February 2010 at the Amsterdam RAI and of course, it’s important not to forget also that the DOOH Business Conference 2010 will start on Monday 1st February and run into the morning of the second day. We are also looking forward to the awards show […]

John Ryan Job Cuts

Wednesday, August 12th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

We heard rumours earlier this week of some quite big layoffs at John Ryan recently in both the US and Europe. A source close to the company confirmed the rumour and told us that 13 people were let go in North America including ALL of their salespeople. These cuts represent about 25% of their total […]

BMO Capital Markets Introduces 2D Barcode Ads

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Toronto-based BMO Capital Markets, the investment and corporate banking arm of BMO Financial Group, has introduced two-dimensional barcodes in select versions of its weekly advertisements. The first advertisements sporting the 2D bar codes have begun running in The Wall Street Journal. Using the camera on their mobile phone or PDA, readers of the newspaper can […]

Digital To Sell Well This Q4 In UK Malls

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Following on from last week when we told you ‘VMG Administrator Axes All Staff‘ we have learnt a little more about the administration process. First off it seems that VMG have been telling Clear Channel that they have extracted the ‘digital 6 sheet’ product from within the VMG business both the hardware and the media […]