Archive for July, 2010

#CETW – BlueMaxx Award

Wednesday, July 14th, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

STRATACACHE is sponsoring and initiating a new industry award to promote application development around Bluetooth, NFC, SMS, MMS, QR Code or similar technologies that enable interactivity between digital signs and mobile, hand-held devices. It is of course widely accepted that consumer and end-user interactivity is one of, if not the top driver of future success […]

InMobi Raises $8 Million

Wednesday, July 14th, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

InMobi, independent mobile ad network operator, has raised $8 million in a second round of funding from its existing investors Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Sherpalo Ventures. Launched in 2007, InMobi recently expanded into the U.S. (in San Mateo, California) and the new funds will be used to focus on the U.S., as well […]

Linda Hofflander Leaves Ronin

Tuesday, July 13th, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

News just in that Linda Hofflander who was until very recently Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer at Wireless Ronin Technologies has left and setup her own consultancy called The Handa Group. If you go by the domain name setup (see below) and the fact that the web site was first published 4 days ago, […]

Magenta’s UK Voyager Launch

Tuesday, July 13th, 2010

Andrew Neale

Magenta Research and True Colours are to co-host a day of training seminars launching the new Voyager Series to systems integrators, installers, resellers and end users in the UK Pro-AV, broadcasting and digital signage markets. The seminars will take place at The Runnymead Hotel in Egham on Monday 26th July at 2pm and 3.30pm. To […]

IBM’s Digital Touchscreen, JFK

Tuesday, July 13th, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Travelers passing through American Airlines Terminal 8 in New York’s JFK airport from now to Sept. 24/10 will come across a first-time technology experience that educates consumers about how their cities can be smarter. Developed for IBM by Ogilvy & Mather, New York, in partnership with Monster Media, Orlando, the display includes 30 videos and […]

Co-operative Till Screen Grauniad Ads

Tuesday, July 13th, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

This digital screen campaign put together by Retail Marketing International Limited (nee abc media) certainly outperformed the England team, with Grauniad UK newspaper sales at the Co-operative outperforming non-promoted stores by 2.7%. The Gruaniad wanted to support sales by promoting the quality of their editorial coverage during the World Cup and the level of sales […]

Kompas: First Asian Daily on the iPad

Tuesday, July 13th, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Kompas, the largest daily newspaper in Indonesia, has been available as an App since the beginning of July, thanks to the use of WoodWing´s Digital Magazine Tools to create and publish the digital issues for the iPad. “At Kompas, we always aim to offer our audience the most compelling reader experience and to provide them […]

For Sale Market Movie Gallery Intangible Assets

Tuesday, July 13th, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Streambank, LLC, a leading advisory firm specializing in the sale of intangible assets is set to announce this week that they will lead the marketing and sales efforts for the intangible assets of Movie Gallery, Hollywood Video, and Game Crazy. Movie Gallery Inc. had operated over 4,000 retail video and game rental and sales locations […]

ConnectiVISION: Rumours Refuted

Tuesday, July 13th, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Key and major changes have taken place at Los Angeles-based ConnectiVISION Digital Communications Network as its management puts in place its new strategic plan and focus – so if you’ve heard rumours, as we had, that the company is winding down – we believe you can totally discount that idea. “It’s a false rumour, big […]

Tech Funding In Ontario, Canada

Tuesday, July 13th, 2010

Dmitry Sokolov

Province of Ontario has long been a hotbed of Canadian Digital Signage activity. It’s home to many well-known digital signage companies including (and definitely not limited to)  CognoVision, Adflow, Omnivex, OneStop and Capital Networks. If you are one of these companies, or developing your own solution set to revolutionize the digital signage market, make sure you maximize […]