Archive for August, 2009

Dell Joining The Smart Phone Club

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Looks like we’ll soon be writing about campaigns involving a Dell smart phone. Dell, the Round Rock, Texas-based computer firm and the world’s second-largest PC producer, is apparently joining the rush to produce smartphones, partnering with China Mobile, China’s biggest telecom operator, to produce a model running Google‘s Android system. It appears that the smartphone […]

Blue Bite Plans Moves Outside U.S.

Monday, August 24th, 2009

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Blue Bite, which recently completed a successful nationwide rollout with Danoo (now known as Reach Media Group) (see Manolo Almagro’s June 11 article), is beginning to look beyond the U.S. borders. “All of our campaigns and projects have been within the U.S. to-date,” says Mikhail Damiani, Blue Bite’s CEO. “However, we have some plans for […]

Independent Coffee Network Expands

Monday, August 24th, 2009

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

The Independent Coffee Network (which had screens in six stores when we wrote about it on July 29/09) has added two small coffee franchises to its network. They are Java Jones, based in San Diego with five California locations (ICN is in three) and Zizzo’s, a high end espresso coffee house based in Capitola, in […]

UK AV Magazine Awards

Monday, August 24th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Those with long memories will remember that we predicted with 100% accuracy last year the winner of each digital signage related category at the UK’s AV Awards. The short list of finalists for this year’s AV Awards has been finalised. Judging was concluded mid-August and the awards dinner and presentation will take place at the […]

Imagesound And USP Content Partner AT B&Q

Monday, August 24th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Rumours that Imagesound and USP Content have partnered together in order to re-launch the music at UK superstore B&Q. Imagesound was always the incumbent here, having the business for something like the last ten years.

Deli de Luca iPhone App In Top 4 Downloads

Monday, August 24th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Thousands of Norwegians it seems are currently downloading CatchTheEye‘s Deli de Luca iPhone App that we wrote about a few weeks ago (not I hasten to add because we wrote about it) because it is now number 4 amongst the most popular free downloads and is still climbing (see chart to the right). The App […]

Media Displays Appoints Secret Millionaire

Monday, August 24th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Media Displays, who claim like so many to be “one of the leading providers of outdoor mobile digital advertising” has appointed high profile entrepreneur and star of Channel 4’s ‘The Secret Millionaire’, Carl Hopkins, as a non-executive director. Media Displays’ products include TV advertising vehicles that feature 3 x 2m LED screens Established in 2004, […]

First Pictures Swedish Sports Retail Chain, Stadium

Saturday, August 22nd, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Back in July Harris announced a rare big retail signage win in Europe – ‘Swedish sports retail chain Stadium has installed a large number of Harris® InfoCaster Player™ content playout systems as part of a complete upgrade of its internal digital signage system’ It’s a big win with Stadium having something like 110 stores throughout […]

Muzak Tries To Re-Invent The iPod

Friday, August 21st, 2009

Russ Curry, Ministry of New Media

Muzak Holdings LLC is introducing a new hand-held device designed to facilitate in-store music programming. It’s called the Encompass MV and  weighs just over 300 grams. It fits into the palm of the hand yet stores up to 500 hours of programming and can be controlled from a distance over the internet. The device is […]

Taxi-Top Liquid Crystal Display Panel

Friday, August 21st, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Mantise Media launched Asia’s first geo-targeting digital out-of-home media network using LCD’s from LiteMax on top of Taxis shown here. We’ll have more on the network later. About Mantise Media Founded in 2006, Mantise Media is the leading digital out-of-home media company in Hong Kong and it is privately held. Mantise is dedicated to providing […]