Archive for January, 2010

Carre Dawson / Rebecca Walt Join Harris

Monday, January 11th, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

In our post on Saturday ‘Harris Steps Up Signage Efforts‘ we made mention of “two prominent independent Digital Signage consultants in the USA” who would soon be joining the business. On Monday, Harris duly obliged with an announcement “Harris Corporation Names Two Industry Veterans to Digital Signage Business Development Team” and it confirmed (or should […]

Ocean Outdoor Appoints Interim CEO

Monday, January 11th, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Ocean Outdoor, which manages iconic giant format advertising sites across the UK and who has been doing, perhaps the best job at large format digital in London in recent months today announced that Andrew Oldham has been appointed CEO on an interim basis. This appointment follows a decision by Damian Cox the founder of Ocean […]

Will Wi-Di Change Retail Signage?

Monday, January 11th, 2010

Andrew Neale

Intel CEO Paul Otellini used his CES keynote speech to launch a new display technology called Wi-Di which we believe could significantly change the way digital signage in retail is architected. Intel Wireless Display (or Wi-Di for short) uses Wi-Fi to wirelessly transmit video from PCs running Intel’s latest generation of Core processors to HD […]

GestureTek’s New Offerings At CES

Monday, January 11th, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Sunnyvale, California-based GestureTek announced at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week that its patented, award-winning software for gesture-based mobile device interaction now supports the Android operating system. In addition, the company is also launching a brand new engine that allows Windows Mobile publishers and developers to integrate motion and object tracking into […]

York Transit Relaunches Digital Screens

Monday, January 11th, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

York Region Transit in Ontario, one of Canada’s largest transit networks, and Byte Media Inc., have announced the recent re-launch of their on-bus Digital Media and News Network. Signs first launched in 2006, and were fairly static in their content (only updating daily). They ran for one year. Byte and YRT choose to re-architect the […]

Laura Davis-Taylor Joins CRI

Sunday, January 10th, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

The saying “everyone’s a consultant until they find a real job” – a little harsh perhaps? Well, we used to think so but with the two new hires at Harris about to be announced today (Sunday) or tomorrow at NRF and news also soon to be announced that Laura Davis-Taylor is to join Creative Realities, […]

KioskCom Self Service Expo Las Vegas, 2010

Saturday, January 9th, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

KioskCom Self Service Expo / The Digital Signage Show is being held in Las Vegas, 14th – 15th April 2010.

Vertigo New York Showcase

Saturday, January 9th, 2010

Andrew Neale

If you are in New York 20th or 21st January you might want to drop in on Vertigo Digital Displays demo showcase. Vertigo of course count many of the NY-based large outdoor media companies as customers but we doubt they have been in front of them since re-positioning the company. Vertigo will be showing their […]

Key Digital Marketing Itself Through Contest

Saturday, January 9th, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Mount Vernon, New York-based Key Digital has launched a contest for integrators, asking them for stories and photos of their favourite Key Digital system in return for a chance to win the company’s Digital Magic KD-DH12 Distribution Amplifier with built-in tuner (value $2,500). Key Digital’s product line to caters to a wide variety of markets, […]

Harris Steps Up Signage Efforts

Saturday, January 9th, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Harris has recently hired two prominent independent Digital Signage consultants in the USA. They will be issuing a press release on Monday to coincide with NRF to announce the appointment of two people to lead Denise Macdonell’s Digital Signage business development efforts in the US. There will be a marked focus in the retail vertical […]