Archive for July, 2010

WANTED – The Best Digital Signage Projects

Friday, July 16th, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Now in its 4th year, VISCOM, the International Trade Fair for Visual Communication, has been promoting these European Digital Signage Best Practice Awards, since 2007. The finalists will be presented in a special exhibition area of the Digital Signage World at VISCOM Frankfurt 2010 and announced on the evening of 5th November 2010. Three entries […]

Scotiabank Caribana Navigator App

Friday, July 16th, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Scotiabank Caribana has launched the Scotiabank Caribana Navigator, a new way for Festival participants to enjoy Toronto’s historic celebration of Caribbean culture. Smartphone users can download the free mobile app for Blackberry, iPhone and Android platforms to discover all the unique events at this year’s Festival, running July 15 to Aug. 15. (Carrier/network data charges […]

#DOOHBizKonf – Digital Signage Conference 2010

Friday, July 16th, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

The 4th Munich Digital Signage Conference 2010 in association with OVAB Europe is being held 19-20 October 2010 in Munich, Germany at the Munich Kempinski Airport Hotel (a simple 2 minute walk from the airport terminals). The draft agenda we saw looks really good and once all is confirmed we will be reporting on that […]

Small Broadcaster (DS And InstoreRadio) Italian Rules

Friday, July 16th, 2010

Giuseppe Andrianò

Recently AGCOM, the Italian Agency for the communication sector, launched a proposal for a new law to identity who is broadcasting on small networks using satellite, internet or cable solutions. The first step is for the agency to map the Italian operators who follow certain rules (reports of trasmitted material, historical video and audio log […]

More Awards For Christie Projectors

Friday, July 16th, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Christie Digital Systems has added more awards to its trophy case, demonstrating the industry’s preference for innovative and high quality products that are at the forefront of today’s technology. Christie’s Large Venue Projectors have been recognized with three awards: Christie took the top spot in Pro AV magazine’s annual Brand Leader survey, winning the Large […]

Hiperwall v1.2 Now In Beta

Friday, July 16th, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

We first saw Hiperwall back in June 2009 at InfoComm in Orlando. It was being shown on the Samsung stand (and even poorly explained by Samsung staff it was an impressive sight). The Samsung deal was the startup’s first and most recently (Feb 2010) they have inked another partnership deal with Ingram Micro. Our technical […]

Audi Use Augmented Reality To Launch A1

Thursday, July 15th, 2010

Andrew Neale

Audi are using Augmented Reality to launch their (new) A1 car into dealerships. The idea being to bring the car into the showroom to stimulate preorders before the car is physically available to dealerships later this year. You can we believe visit any of the dealerships to see it or from Thursday to Sunday this […]

SeeSaw Networks Signs Up PlayNetwork

Thursday, July 15th, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Here’s an announcement we just don’t get: PlayNetwork (a global leader of course “in providing integrated media experiences for businesses” – that will be “supplying music” to you and I and the last we looked, apart from some deal with Imagesound in the UK they pretty much a pure US player) announced earlier this week […]

More BroadSign rVue Integration

Thursday, July 15th, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

BroadSign of course carried out a first phase of integration with rVue late last year, becoming the first digital signage software company to do so and now following on from the announcement earlier this week that ‘RDM Integrates NEOCAST With rVue’ we have another announcement on a second phase of integration.

McDonald’s Worldwide Owner/Operator Convention

Thursday, July 15th, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

Digital Signage was presented as “an Innovative Growth Area for Advertising, Marketing and Motion Graphics” to 12,000 McDonald’s executives, suppliers, and franchise owners from around the world at their recent Worldwide Owner/Operator Convention held in Orlando, Florida Animation Dynamics Inc. was selected to help create a visual representation of McDonald’s history and vision of the […]