Archive for November, 2010

Disney’s Billboard And Store At Times Square

Monday, November 15th, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

In regards to the new Disney store opening in New York and the related Disney billboard in Times Square, as noted by JP Blamby’s article last Friday, we’re pretty impressed by the technical aspects regarding the board – and the fun of the store opening. The Disney Store Times Square Spectacular, soaring 68’ above Times […]

ImmersiveLabs First Retail Launch

Monday, November 15th, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Boulder, Colorado-based ImmersiveLabs first live retail launch will take place in Boulder during the holiday season on Pearl St Mall, a four block pedestrian mall of locally-owned and operated businesses and restaurants as well as the Boulder County Courthouse. ImmersiveLabs’ solution uses face detection with multi-touch for digital billboards. Content learns how people react to […]

Announcement Expected From BroadSign

Sunday, November 14th, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Always first with news – even when the work week (in some part of the world at least) hasn’t even started yet – we understand that we can expect a big announcement from BroadSign in the next few days. One BroadPartner who did not wish to be named told us that it was “a better […]

OVAB Europe Goes From Strength To Strength

Saturday, November 13th, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Under the guidance of President Dirk Huelsermann and the team at OVAB Europe, the organisation seems to be going from strength: possibly also on the back of an excellent Digital Signage conference in Munich in October, which was well organized by invidis consulting, we hear of new members who are going to join. I doubt […]

Disney’s Newest Magical Billboard

Saturday, November 13th, 2010

JP Biamby

What makes Disney’s newest spectacular digital billboard in Times Square so magical? It’s not just the huge LED displays towering above the masses because there are so many of them now; but rather, we think, it’s the street level digital signage which is unique!

AlhenaCom Distributor For X2O Media In Italy

Saturday, November 13th, 2010

Giuseppe Andrianò

We had the opportunity to interview Marco Bompani, Owner and CEO of AlhenaCom about this latest agreement with X2O Media. Marco says “We are very proud to have taken the distribution of X2O Media Solutions because their product lineup is perfectly suited to satisfy the needs of Digital Signage Market with a broadcast approach thanks […]

Peru’s Jockey Plaza Shopping Centre

Saturday, November 13th, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

LG Electronics wanted to successfully brand their products using digital signage at the Jockey Plaza Shopping Centre, one of the largest and most popular shopping malls in Lima, Peru. Here we see 48 x LCD Monitors tiled together and placed one next to each other around a 50 meter circular perimeter creating a 360 degree […]

X2O Media-AlhenaCom Italian Partnership

Saturday, November 13th, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

X2O Media, Montreal-based full-service provider of software, network management, and content services for professional digital signage applications, has signed a distribution agreement with AlhenaCom S.r.l., under which AlhenaCom will provide distribution and sales support functions for X2O’s Xpresenter digital signage systems in Italy. Headquartered in Modena, and part of ATS Group S.p.a., AlhenaCom is a […]

Engage, Excite, Interact

Saturday, November 13th, 2010

Geny Caloisi

Oliver Tiersch, a student at the new London School of Communication Arts 2.0, has won Clear Channel’s Quick Fire Pitch competition. The live final, hosted by Kate Russell, Presenter of Webscape, BBC Click, took place at the Royal Society of Arts last week on 10th November, as part of Clear Channel’s fourth annual Ideas seminar. […]

This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)

Saturday, November 13th, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

It was David Byrne I think who once said that “scratching your head in front of 10,000 people” wasn’t quite the same as “scratching your head in your own home” – that awareness of your effect on others has been top of our mind recently. Over these last few months we have seen Daily visitor […]