Archive for June, 2010

Parallel Worlds – Asia’s Personalization of Mass Media

Monday, June 14th, 2010

Manolo Almagro, Q Division Managing Partner

On June 8th, 2010,  I had the great honor and opportunity to be one of the speakers at the “Personalization of Mass Media” Conference, held at the super swank Shangri-la Hotel -Makati, Philippines. The conference was well attended by approximately 250+ invited VIP guests, which just so happened to be the agency’s top clients and […]

#InfoComm2010 – 32,000 Visitors

Saturday, June 12th, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

InfoComm International announced that #InfoComm2010, the annual conference and exhibition for professional audiovisual buyers and sellers worldwide held June 9-11 in Las Vegas, Nevada, was the second largest commercial AV show ever held, with 32,002 AV professionals attending from more than 90 countries. About InfoComm International® InfoComm International® is the international trade association of the […]

#InfoComm2010 – BrightSign Booth N2460

Friday, June 11th, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Synchronized multi-screen video walls and prize-redeeming kiosk and SKU-activated merchandising applications are all part of BrightSign’s booth where the company has teamed up with several content developer partners to demonstrate innovative digital signage applications. The partner demonstrations reinforce BrightSign’s commitment to offering one-stop shopping for a broad range of turnkey digital signage solutions that are […]

Kodak and Provision Team Up For 3D Roll-Outs

Friday, June 11th, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Global firm Eastman Kodak Company and Provision Interactive Technologies Inc. , Chatsworth, California-based subsidiary of Provision Holding, have announced that KODAK Service and Support will provide installation services for Provision’s 3DEO Rewards Centers, beginning in Los Angeles. 3DEO Reward Centers are used to advertise all types of products and services within retail locations and around […]

Working Out At The Pump

Friday, June 11th, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Motorists across the U.S. can now ‘Pump Up at the Gas Pump’ – or, at least, learn how – through fitness videos, workout plans and exercise tips shown on PumpTop TV screens at gas stations. The interactive workout programming designed for a healthy lifestyle is being broadcast at thousands of gasoline dispensers. The new exercise […]

Projection Summit 2010 Round Up

Friday, June 11th, 2010

Andrew Neale

The two day Projection Summit 2010 held in the run up to InfoComm 2010 was a rich source of information about projection and associated technology. While some of the presentations were necessarily deeply technical, there was also some more strategic and interesting information to take away. Lasers as a primary light source loomed large during […]

Unilever Dispenser Trials

Friday, June 11th, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

EYE, has been working closely with Unilever to dispense trial products via specially designed Eyelites – carried out in Australian destination centres across NSW, VIC and QLD this month, the campaign encourages women aged 13–24 to sample the new fragrance Impulse Into Glamour from Unilever. Here we see EYE having installed specially designed dispensing mechanisms […]

Web Signage In The Windows Azure Cloud

Friday, June 11th, 2010

Giuseppe Andrianò

Web Signage is (ahead of Dynamax’s planned release of digitalsignage.net) the first digital signage software available through the Windows Azure cloud computing platform. Edisonweb, the Italian software house that develops the Web Signage platform for digital signage, becomes officially a ‘Front Runner’ and announces the release and immediate availability of its solution for Windows Azure. […]

#InfoComm2010 – Best Giveaway

Friday, June 11th, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

As usual there were a lot of nice giveaways at #InfoComm2010 and tons more prizes to be won in the various games and competitions being run (though iPods and iPads seemed to dominate the prize category). Everywhere we went we were handed bags of candy (sweets to those in Europe), key fobs (eBeam had a […]

#InfoComm2010 – Favourite Stand (brightline)

Friday, June 11th, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Yesterday Gary Kayye tweeted that his favourite booth was that of Christie Digital. We had a long, long walk today around both halls and were gobsmacked by the brightline stand N2317. We’d loved it so much in fact that we are seriously thinking of insisting that our next blogger lounge in Europe (this will be […]