Archive for July, 2010

Molson Canadian’s Seize The Summer App

Monday, July 19th, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

This app reminds me of the Boy Scouts, but it’s most definitely for adults! Molson Canadian, one of Canada’s top selling beers, has developed a new mobile app that lets you earn virtual badges every time you do something that makes your summer great (eg. catch a fish; go on a road trip; etc.). Every […]

10,000 Digital Menu Boards (And Counting)

Monday, July 19th, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

STRATACACHE announced today the successful installation of its 10,000th digital menu board within the quick service restaurant (QSR) industry. In addition to traditional static menu boards, four leading North American QSR operators are seemingly powering their digital menu board initiatives with STRATACACHE’s ActiVia for QSR digital signage software. As with other technology solutions on the […]

Two Studies On Mobile From ABI Research

Monday, July 19th, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Linux-enabled mobile devices, led by the success of Google’s Android and upcoming Chrome OSs, will comprise 62% of the operating systems shipping in all (non-smartphone) mobile devices by 2015, according to Linux for Mobile Devices, a new study by ABI Research of Scottsdale, Arizona. “The number of Linux-oriented initiatives recently seen in the mobile industry […]

AddMirror Launches In Calgary

Monday, July 19th, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

AddMirror’s new interactive mirror officially launched in Calgary resto-lounges earlier this month. Targeting young, urban upscale audiences, AddMirror has initially partnered with six venues that offer classic, fine dining or are cool, vibrant hot spots. Additional Calgary locations will be announced shortly. AddMirror’s exclusive resto-lounge network serves Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver and Calgary. Since launching in […]

Meredith Acquires Hyperfactory

Monday, July 19th, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Women’s magazine publisher Meredith Corp. has acquired The Hyperfactory, a company specializing in mobile marketing, which is being incorporated into Meredith Integrated Marketing. After buying 20% of the company last year, the latest deal gives Meredith 100% ownership of the mobile marketer, which has offices in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Hong Kong, Sydney, Auckland, […]

Lecterns And Panel Discussions MicroTile’d

Monday, July 19th, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

We have already seen a so called Christie ‘News Desk’ at this year’s #NABShow – designed and produced by Christie Digital themselves as a demonstration of what can be done with MicroTiles and at the time we made mention “It’s not just desks that can be made more interactive of course – think speaker podiums, […]

OBN Network Ceases Operations

Sunday, July 18th, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Toronto-based Outdoor Broadcast Network, in operation since 2002, is closing down its network operations, citing a combination of an advertising downturn and a reluctance by its major investors to put funds into upgrading the infrastructure, OBN will continue to operate its digital and static signage in Toronto’s Dundas Square area on the Eaton Centre Media […]

Al Barq Digital Launched In Abu Dhabi

Sunday, July 18th, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

A new company formally launching this month in Abu Dhabi marks what is thought to be the first Digital Out Of Home firm owned and managed by a government. 
Abu Dhabi Media Digital Out of Home (AD Media DOOH) is the latest member of the government-backed Abu Dhabi Media Company (ADMC) portfolio of digital businesses […]

Have BroadSign Won The JCDecaux Business?

Friday, July 16th, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

There’s a strong rumour that BroadSign have won the JCDecaux business.

Minicom Launches DS Vision

Friday, July 16th, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

Ronni Guggenheim, CEO, Minicom Digital Signage Ltd. sent us these pics from his recent trip to India where, together with Emarson IT Solutions they launched their DS Vision Digital product. As we had witnessed a couple of years ago, India is (still) a buoyant market. There were 90 participants involved in this launch as shown […]