Archive for January, 2011
Wednesday, January 12th, 2011
Gail Chiasson, North American Editor
Toronto-based Media Resources International, until recently known as The Grant Sign Group, has acquired Hamilton Digital Designs Ltd., Burlington, Ontario. HDD has designed and manufactured electronic indoor and outdoor LED displays for the sports, commercial and entertainment markets for 37 years.
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Wednesday, January 12th, 2011
Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
Unfortunately the Jo Yeates Missing Woman, Bristol (UK) alerts that Amscreen ran across their networks just before Christmas turned into a murder investigation post-Christmas. The Sun newspaper is offering a £50,000 reward for information leading to the conviction of Miss Yeate’s killer and here we see Amscreen running the reward posters free of charge… The […]
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Wednesday, January 12th, 2011
Gail Chiasson, North American Editor
Burtonsville, Maryland-based Lifeclinic International, believed to be the world’s largest supplier of commercial, automated blood pressure monitors and health stations, has appointed ABC Regional Sports and Entertainment Sales as exclusive ad sales representative for Health Station Network. The announcement was jointly made by Lon von Hurwitz, president of the Health Station Network, and John Watkins, […]
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Wednesday, January 12th, 2011
Gail Chiasson, North American Editor
Rick Voight, former national sales manager of retail Publishing at Hewlett-Packard, has joined Duluth, Georgia-based SoloHealth, a leader in self-directed health care, as vice-president channel distribution. Technology company SoloHealth develops and deploys interactive health screening kiosks in an effort to empower consumers to be proactive about their health. The company’s kiosks provide free health screenings […]
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Wednesday, January 12th, 2011
Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
JimmyWhite147 (a famous snooker player and if you know anything about the game – the 147 suffix on the twitter name is clever) tells his followers “@Lord_Sugar persuaded the largest snooker exhibiton promotor to advertise my forthcoming exhibitions with @amscreen_Simon! Hope it works!” There’s been a bit of back and forth on twitter about the […]
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Wednesday, January 12th, 2011
Gail Chiasson, North American Editor
Brite Lite Media Group, Marion, Ohio, has installed its first digital billboard, a 12’ x 24’, 19mm board manufactured by Watchfire Digital Outdoor. The board is located on the corner of S. Prospect and W. Church streets in Marion, a town of 38,000 residents about 50 miles north of Columbus.
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Wednesday, January 12th, 2011
Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
Last year in our ISE 2010 show highlights review we wrote “Getting together and having fun is surely an integral part of any trade show and there were several really enjoyable events we attended. The Barco Belgian Beer event for press only on the Tuesday night was probably our favourite highlight” (yes, yes, yes obviously […]
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Wednesday, January 12th, 2011
Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
signagelive announced this week that it has joined the Digital Screenmedia Association (DSA) – one of the many non-profit trade organizations serving the digital signage, interactive kiosk, mobile and self-service technology industries.
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Wednesday, January 12th, 2011
Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
Wow! Thirty Five (35) people have signed up for the Content Day being held in Paris next Tuesday 18th January 2011. It is as you know being hosted this time around by Guillaume Delatour and his team at Bluefox. Guillaume also has a spot at #DiSCO11 on 31 January 2011 in Amsterdam to present findings […]
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Wednesday, January 12th, 2011
Russ Curry, Ministry of New Media
The French industry association, Digital Media Association France is once again partnering with the Synafel (National Association of Sign Makers) and the eighth edition of its Visual Communications Awards Ceremony, the “ICONA d’Or”, to launch its third ‘Golden Screen Awards’ (‘Ecrans d’Or’). This year there will only be two prize categories : Best Overall Project Judging Criteria: […]
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