Archive for April, 2010

REWE TV, In-Store TV Concept For 480 Branches

Wednesday, April 28th, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

We made brief mention of this last week, see ‘Das Glasperlenspiel‘ but now have a bit more understanding into what is probably the second largest digital signage install in Germany at present. echion AG kicked off this project with Deutsche Telekom AG in the branches of REWE Markt GmbH – from April 2010 around 480 […]

750 Bank Signage Deal, South Africa

Wednesday, April 28th, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

Rumours of a 750 (yes 750 retail branches) digital signage deal having gone down in South Africa. We reckon it’s gone to DC Media but there’s no official comment or announcement from anyone

#ScreenMediaExpo – TextTheStand 60155

Wednesday, April 28th, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

Watch out for the graphic below on exhibitors’ booths at #ScreenMediaExpo next week. Attendees will be able to Text 60155, for example, “Stand C6” and receive back by SMS the text that the stand has supplied to never.no the operator of this service. In that instance (C6) the reply to the original text would be […]

#ScreenMediaExpo – signagelive Giveaway

Wednesday, April 28th, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

Signagelive are giving away 2 x 10″ Viewsonic network enabled displays plus 1 year signagelive licence at #ScreenMediaExpo next week Jason Cremins told us “Next week we will be demonstrating that signagelive has the widest support for digital signage devices anywhere in the world by giving away 2 x 10″ Viewsonic network enabled displays plus […]

The Apps On The Bus Go Round And Round

Wednesday, April 28th, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

The Green Bus is a home-to-school transport service currently in the West Midlands (expanding to Reading in September 2010) and serving some 2,000 pupils. The Green Bus we are told “presents an innovative style of dedicated home-to-school transport which focuses uniquely on customer service” and it looks very much to us like that mantra is […]

#ScreenMediaExpo – 3,000+ Pre Registered

Wednesday, April 28th, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

#ScreenMediaExpo opens a week today in London AND they already have well over 3,000 pre registered to attend. There are 120 exhibitors this year (up from just under 100 in 2009). As usual there has been a lot of interest from continental Europe. Back in 2009 over 50% of visitors to the show were from […]

Imagesound Wins Toni&Guy Music Video?

Wednesday, April 28th, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

Rumours that Imagseound has won a nice piece of business supplying music videos to Toni&Guy in the UK.

NCR MediKiosk Brings Hospital Self-Check-In

Wednesday, April 28th, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Mississauga, Ontario-based Women’s College Hospital, the first and only academic ambulatory care hospital in Ontario with a focus on women’s health, is implementing self-service kiosks from NCR Corporation for Wayfinding and patient registration to help minimize wait times, enhance efficiency and devote more staff time to patient care. The hospital is introducing the NCR MediKiosk, […]

Examining The 3D World

Wednesday, April 28th, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Entertainment Technology Center @ USC, the Los Angeles-based non-profit consortium that brings together top entertainment and consumer electronics companies to listen to and evaluate consumer mindshare towards future technologies, announced this week that MasterImage 3D LLC, Burbank, California, has joined as a Consumer 3D Experience Lab project sponsor.

What 2 Do In London B4 #ScreenMediaExpo

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Last year many of you emailed in and asked us what digital screen networks were worth taking a look at the day before Screen Media Expo – the resulting post seemed to be quite popular and so we thought we would repeat it this year with some old and some new recommendations. Here are our […]