Archive for January, 2010

Adspace Ends Tough Year With First Profit

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

New York-based Adspace Networks has closed the 2009 books with sales figures up 40%, showing a profit for the first time. “There is no doubt that this was a tough economic environment for everyone, and the media industry was certainly no exception,” says Dominick Porco, chairman and CEO, Adspace Networks. “2009 was not without its […]

Nobody Expects The Spanish Acquisition

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

Jorge Garcia de Bustos

I have certainly seen this before. Back in the 1990s when I was living in Madrid, I saw Banco Santander merge with —or rather acquire— first Banesto then Banco Central Hispano (itself the product of a prior merger) to become Santander Central Hispano. That didn’t last long, and Santander’s strong brand ended up obliterating any […]

Prysm Prepares The Market

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

In a press release that a number of industry commentators seem to have jumped upon, Prysm, formerly known as Spudnik, announced late on Tuesday what it described as ‘groundbreaking Laser Phosphor Display (LPD) Technology’ – despite this though absolutely no sign or description of a product anywhere in the release. The Prysm press release described, […]

All Billboards Should Have QR Codes

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

We’ve recently been following a number of augmented reality businesses – one of our favourites is actually in Amsterdam, namely Layar that has recently received a lot of good press, and indeed was the recipient of Vodafone’s Mobile Startup Challenge award as well. However we also stumbled upon this incredibly interesting example of augmented reality […]

Spudnik Becomes Prysm

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

Andrew Neale

Later today the company sort-of called Spudnik – the web site was http://spudnikinc.com/ but all references to the business are referenced as Codename spudnik will officially become Prysm. The company is set to launch a series of products that are described as groundbreaking Laser Phosphor Display (LPD) technology – all aimed clearly at Large Format […]

Misc 2 – #DSTop10 Vendors Update

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

We hope readers have been enjoying our preparation for our Top 10 Digital Signage Vendors list for 2010 which will be published next February (kindly sponsored now by the nice folks at Magenta Research). We don’t take the compilation of this list lightly and have put even more work into it this year than we […]

DISE Sports never.no Mobile Interactivity Option

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

never.no, a global provider of technology that enables people to use their mobile phones to interact with a video display, today announced a partnership with the developer of the DISE digital signage platform, Klocktornet AB. Under the agreement, Klocktornet, headquartered in Karlstad, Sweden, will offer customers around the world the DISE Digital Out-of-Home (DOOH) solution […]

#NRF M-Dot Network Featured In Innovation Station

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Erie, Pennsylvia-based M-Dot Network is being featured in the Innovation Station sponsored by IBM and Cisco Systems at the National Retail Federation Show in New York City, yesterday and today (Jan. 11-12, 2010). M-Dot Network enables retailers to redeem coupons from multiple coupon issuers in real-time via retail store point-of-sale systems with the security and […]

Coolsign – #DSTop10 Vendors Review

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

CoolSign, still owned by Planar back then, didn’t make it in our top ten list in 2008 nor in 2007 (though we gave them a polite mention in 2007) and we did rate their Google App Integration (an innovation back then) in our post ‘The DailyDOOH Best Of 2008‘ . That’s all in the past […]

Pixman Appoints Interim President And CEO

Monday, January 11th, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

Pixman Nomadic Media Inc. (TSXV: “PMN”) has had a torrid time of late – the merger between the mobile media business the business that we probably all know as ‘Pixman’) and the more traditional fixed digital signage business and offerings along the line of Pixnet and a host of other Pix(ie) prefix products didn’t quite […]