Archive for August, 2010

Wireless Ronin Looks On The Bright Side

Saturday, August 14th, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Wireless Ronin played up the positives in its financial report for the second quarter of 2010, ending June 30 but buried its loss of $2 million deep down in the report. Key (positive) takeaways were: Revenue increased 99% for the second quarter year-over-year and 78% sequentially from Q1; Gross margin hit an all time high […]

Not Quite Hello Moto ;)

Saturday, August 14th, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Well – as we sort of expected might happen – we got an “At this time we do not have a comment” line from Motorola regarding the Minkus court case filing. Frankly, it makes us think that Motorola – usually a solid, relatively forthcoming company – didn’t realize what a bag of worms it unleashed […]

Less Bad Is The New Good

Friday, August 13th, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Dave Haynes over on his blog www.sixteen-nine.net has done some interesting research on past and present Wireless Ronin numbers. His post ‘USD 68.7 Million later and the business model works‘ is well worth a read. Whilst he’s being kind to the employees in the business (no one wants to see people lose their jobs) Ronin […]

New Date For Digital Signage World Asia?

Friday, August 13th, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

I can understand the need to change dates for events but I don’t understand when they fail to communicate said change. We had down in our Travelogue that Digital Signage World Asia was in Singapore 26th – 28th September and were even planning on attending. We have received no notification but the Digital Signage World […]

Minkus Motorola And The Missing Lawyer

Friday, August 13th, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Well, it seems that law firm DLA Piper doesn’t want to talk to us anymore – despite the fact that Loren Minkus, named as inventor on United States Patent 5309174 which has been the cause of so much furore in the industry this last week, specifically asked us to speak to his legal counsel. Even […]

The DOOH Broadcast Strategy

Friday, August 13th, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Capital Networks Ltd., Markham, Ontario, is anticipating a significant growth of sales in the broadcast market due to new trends that include digital signage. Jim Vair, vice-president, business development at Capital Networks, says that broadcasters are turning to digital signage to reach and communicate with new audiences out-of-home. “With the right system, a broadcaster will […]

Marry In Haste, Repent At Leisure

Thursday, August 12th, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Perhaps DMX figure that they can win music business with one of Reflect’s three real customers; Target, Best Buy and Gamestop/Outernet because apart from that we cannot figure out why they would want to partner (or at least announce a partnership in such a public way) with Reflect Systems – a company which has lost […]

More Deployments For RAM Vision?

Thursday, August 12th, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

There are plenty of rumours doing the rounds in the UK of some major contract wins for iconic Shopping Mall network owner RAM Vision. The first of these is that they have been awarded the contract for Liverpool One by Grosvenor Estates as well as several new locations with Land Securities. The Oracle in Reading […]

Is Turtle Bay Technologies Behind Minkus EDS?

Thursday, August 12th, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

David Gothard, president of Activision.TV, talking yesterday in an exclusive interview with our North American editor suggested that Turtle Bay Technologies may – let’s stress that ‘MAY’ for a second here shall we? i.e. before we get yet another bored and under-employed lawyer onto us, Ed – be behind Minkus Electronic Display Systems and the […]

Estée Lauder, New Hydrationist Campaign

Thursday, August 12th, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

Estée Lauder, who signed a contract with EYE early this year is starting to make use of EYE’s offerings and advertising space at Singapore Changi Airport – one of the most well-trafficked airports in the world. EYE has more than 200 static, digital and ambient advertising opportunities across five terminals at the Airport. The deal […]