Archive for February, 2011

Olá Ice Cream Chain Pilot, Portugal

Sunday, February 6th, 2011

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Stinova announced last week at #iseurope in Amsterdam that they signed up Subvertice as its new reseller for Portugal. Subvertice will distribute Stinova’s software in Portugal and to provide local sales and support services from its offices in Lisbon. Subvertice has recently installed a pilot project for the 32 store Olá Ice cream chain. For […]

Digital Signage Middle East Summit 2011

Sunday, February 6th, 2011

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

This event has now been moved to June 5th – 8th, see our post ‘Middle East Event Moved To June‘ This event has now been CANCELLED see our post ‘Middle East Summit Cancelled‘ International Conference: 18-19th April 2011, Interactive Workshops: 17th and 20th April 2011 (i.e day before and day after), Location: Dubai, UAE Key […]

The Revolution Will be Webinized

Saturday, February 5th, 2011

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Haivision / CoolSign have organised what will undoubtedly be a very interesting webinar next Tuesday – primarily for VARs we believe… Titled ‘US Signage Revolution – Kodak & Haivision & CoolSign‘ See our Q+A ‘Clarifying the Kodak/CoolSign/Haivision Deal’ here

Intel’s Retail Demos

Saturday, February 5th, 2011

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Intel had many of the same demos on their stand at #ISEUROPE that they had at #nrf11, that they will have at #dse2011 and also at #ScreenMediaExpo… .. wherever they are, they are always worth a look and a play. Personally I don’t think they are perfect – in some cases being very ‘wide of […]

Digital Signage Experts Group Certification

Saturday, February 5th, 2011

Andrew Neale

Digital Signage Experts Group certification programs are available at Digital Signage Expo 2011… Digital Signage Certified Experts Program (DSCE) Digital Signage Display Experts Program (DSDE) Digital Signage Network Expert Program (DSNE) The DSCE and DSDE are full day courses, and they will be on the 22nd February 2011. The DSNE is scheduled for the 25th. […]

Minority Squawk

Friday, February 4th, 2011

Andrew Neale

Our very own Reggie (now celebrating the Chinese new year) starred on a number of twitterwalls at #ISEUROPE this past week… Here we see him on the MultiTouch twitter wall which saw some software improvements since Adrian so scathingly critiqued it at CES.

Samsung’s Drive Thru

Friday, February 4th, 2011

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Samsung are excellent at putting their screens in context and every year have one or two great ideas (we loved last year’s Bus Shelter built on the stand and it was a shame they did not repeat – after all you never know when one might be along). Anyway seen at #ISEUROPE and shown above […]

Mocapay Red Herring Global 100 Award

Friday, February 4th, 2011

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Denver-based Mocapay has been selected as a 2010 Red Herring Global 100 award winner, an award given to the top 100 leading private companies in North America, Europe, and Asia. “Choosing the best out of the previous three years was by no means a small feat,” says Alex Vieux, chairman of Red Herring. “After rigorous […]

Where Were You Top 30?

Friday, February 4th, 2011

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

It’s only a few weeks now until we announce our new #DSTop10 at #dse2011 in Las Vegas but as you know ‘thirty’ recently became a (new) convenient number for us to have narrowed down the hundreds and hundreds of digital signage software vendors out there to. After a major show we usually like to wind […]

Joint Task Force Works Towards Easier Mobile Marketing Programs

Friday, February 4th, 2011

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

The Mobile Marketing Association and CTIA-The Wireless Association have created a joint task force that will streamline the process for Common Short Code-based mobile marketing programs in the U.S. The new group will focus on two areas: shortening time-to-market for mobile marketing programs and supporting those mobile marketers who best adhere to consumer protection guidelines. […]