Archive for May, 2010

Christie Shines At Rhone-Alpes’ Light Show

Tuesday, May 11th, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

This 20-minute nightly Light Show performance of the Rhone-Alpes pavilion in Shanghai that presents an artistic night landscape highlighting the Expo 2010’s’s theme of ‘Better City, Better Life’ reminds us somewhat of the multi-media projection in 2008 celebrating Quebec City’s 400th anniversary. (See our June 28/09 article.) Christie, a global leader in visual solutions for […]

GoTV Acquisition Gives New Capabilities

Tuesday, May 11th, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Los Angeles-based GoTV Networks Inc., mobile media network, has acquired the HOMBRE (Hands-On Mobile Binary Runtime Environment) division of Hands-On Mobile Inc.

More iPhone Apps For Signage Solutions

Tuesday, May 11th, 2010

Giuseppe Andrianò

Edisonweb, the Italian software house which develops the digital signage platform Web Signage adds to the various solutions and tools it currently offers a new iPhone application making it possible to monitor the status of each player within the mobile digital signage network. For each player it is possible to visualize the updated status, a […]

Mike Fabian Leaves CRI Europe

Tuesday, May 11th, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Did the Carpet and Rug Institute give up on Europe or did they simply give up on Mike Fabian? The tittle tattle gossip at last week’s #ScreenMediaExpo was that Mike had already left CRI – as he joined July 1st 2009 he didn’t even make it 12 months in the job. It’s likely that due […]

Teaching Visitors At Bristol Zoo

Tuesday, May 11th, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Founded in 1836 and located in Bristol, U.K., Bristol Zoo is the fifth oldest zoo in the world and is recognised nationally for its conservation and education work. To help it in that work and to provide visitors with information, BrightSign’s digital sign players have been installed at Bristol Zoo Gardens to deliver dynamic messages […]

EYE Wins Gatwick And EYE UK Doubles In Size

Monday, May 10th, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

It’s not very often we expect that you can win a deal and almost double in size but that’s the case for our good friends at EYE Corporation in the UK with the recent announcement that they had won the advertising contract for London’s Gatwick Airport (that’s the UK’s second biggest airport). News last week […]

You Know, This Used To Be A Helluva Good Country

Monday, May 10th, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

There’s always more to a press release than what is written in it and so we read with interest one of the latest to cross our path ‘AGENCY 225 SELECTS PARK MEDIA PLATFORM TO POWER MOTO TV NETWORK’ Agency 225 is of course effectively Gary Halpin one of the original founders of RMS a long, […]

Humber & District Catholic River-Widener’s Club

Monday, May 10th, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Digital Signage Federation (DSF), the independent not-for-profit trade organization serving the digital signage industry, has now posted committee positions at www.digitalsignagefederation.org and is inviting interested DSF members to sign up online. The interim Board of Directors has approved an initial list of five committees that include: Advocacy/Outreach Committee
 to identify programs and activities that have […]

#ScreenMediaExpo – Litelogic’s Round Signs

Monday, May 10th, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

One of the new products that Litelogic, based in Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, showed off at #ScreenMediaExpo for the first time is a bright, round LED sign. I can easily envision this at the entrance to quick service restaurant drive-in areas or at Lotto locales, among other places. The company itself envisions Disclite being sold to signage […]

America’s Minority Health Network

Monday, May 10th, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

America’s Minority Health Network, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of AMHN, Inc. (OTCBB: AMHN) ,the only place-based provider of digital video education for medical practices who primarily serve the African-American population in the United States, has just announced a partnership to rollout its network to over a thousand screens in physicians’ practices across the country, […]