Archive for March, 2011

Supper Club Exit Planet Dust

Tuesday, March 29th, 2011

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Our next supper club will be held in one of the private dining rooms in the Chemistry Centre at the Royal Society of Chemistry in central London on the middle evening of #ScreenMediaExpo – that’s Wednesday 18th May 2011. As usual it will be a select invite; this time around we will be focussing on […]

Scala At Milan Transit

Tuesday, March 29th, 2011

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Milan Transport Agency is employing Scala-powered digital signage to Jump-start its renewal Project. The Milan Transport Agency (ATM) and the City of Milan, on a mission to modernize both the underground and above-ground public transportation network, has plans to replace all vehicles with more environmentally friendly versions, improve transportation efficiency, and increase safety and comfort […]

#GlobalShop Misc Photos

Tuesday, March 29th, 2011

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

MediaPlace, “The Place Based Media Experts” (their words not ours) were touting ‘The Barbershop Network’ at #GlobalShop yesterday.

STRATACACHE At #GlobalShop

Tuesday, March 29th, 2011

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

#GlobalShop kicked off in Vegas yesterday (and continues until Wednesday). To be fair, it’s probably like NRF and one of those events we should have covered … Vegas in April 🙂 though NRF in NYC in Jan 🙁 anyway I digress … STRATACACHE’s stand (Booth 1350) was its usual, well its uniquely STRATACACHE mish mash […]

RAM Investment Group

Monday, March 28th, 2011

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

RAM Investment Group’s share price perhaps says it all… … and yesterday the group, which owns both TrainFX and RAM Vision had to issue a statement saying “current trading is in line with expectations” and that it saw no reason for the share price fall. The statement to the Alternative Investment Market also made mention […]

Bluefox Unbranded 3D Weather

Monday, March 28th, 2011

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

BlueFox is now offering unbranded 3D weather content, available in HD quality. The sophisticated weather forecasts cover more than 26,000 locations in the US and more than 78,000 around the world. Guillaume de la Tour, Bluefox CEO told us “We are happy to be able to propose this new range of contents that allows us […]

STRATACACHE In Alliance With SapientNitro

Monday, March 28th, 2011

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

STRATACACHE just announced its newly formed alliance with integrated marketing and technology services firm SapientNitro. The alliance aims to offer customers in the retail, banking, service, hospitality and quick-service restaurant (QSR) segments the latest advances in customer engagements and cross-channel communications. The press releases says that “combining STRATACACHE’s digital technology with SapientNitro’s customer experience strategy, […]

MediaEquals Starts London 2012 Auctions

Monday, March 28th, 2011

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Late last week MediaEquals started its auction process for outdoor sheetage in and around the London 2012 Olympic venues, with the auction of one specific venue dubbed ‘The London Gateway’ – more auctions will follow of course. The Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA), the public body responsible for developing and building the new venues and infrastructure […]

BrightSign Updates Signage Comms At UC Irvine

Monday, March 28th, 2011

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Six networked BrightSigndigital players have been installed at University of California – Irvine on the Paul Merage School of Business campus. The turnkey solid-state media controllers include five BrightSign HD210s with high-definition looping playlist support and a BrightSign HD1010 Interactive player. In addition to delivering school news combined with RSS feeds, the HD210s deliver inter-school […]

Color Raises USD 41 Million

Monday, March 28th, 2011

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

We’re a little late with this news, but we found the amount of money being invested for this app launch so amazing, we thought it worth a mention. Color, a Los Angeles start-up that has developed a mobile photo-sharing application – also called Color – recently raised $41 million in funding from backers including Sequoia […]