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18 months after Sony’s acquisition of Convergent Media from Thomson it seems that Sony is ready to setup Convergent Media Europe and a similar business unit in Japan. Whilst predominantly for Digital Cinema there is a lot of stadium and some retail business in their mix as well. Rumour is that Brad McGill, ex 3M […]

Paul Carolan, Advertising Director at Absolute Radio will join JCDecaux as Commercial Director, a senior role created as part of JCDecaux’s drive to harness digital and emerging technology as powerful new communication channels for clients. Stacey Knight also joins JCDecaux from online media company IGN as Head of Digital. In this newly created senior role, […]

Now in its third year, the DisplaySearch Emerging Display Technologies Conference (to be held in San Jose, California) is moving to a two-day format in 2011, enabling deeper coverage of more topics. Tuesday, August 16, 2011 – Expanding the Definition of Flat Panel Displays Wednesday, August 17, 2011 – Innovating Around the Mainstream The conference […]

Europcar recently began a live digital outdoor campaign to promote freeDeliver, their new hire car delivery and collection service which will, we quote “save an hour in your day”. The campaign is based on a Twitter stream from #myextrahour where people describe what they will do with the hour they gain. The tweets can be […]

Prysm’s laser phosphor display technology (LPD) tiles have been installed in their first ever broadcast studio as a videowall backdrop for Jim Cramer on CNBC’s Mad Money show. The studio has been visibly enhanced with two 4 x 3 (diagonal measurement of 92″) walls of Prysm’s 25” TD1 tile and hese will provide a backdrop […]

Luxury car manufacturer Bentley has launched its first outdoor campaign on Ocean Outdoor’s premium Silver Screen. The campaign, which was planned by the Birmingham agency Brilliant and bought by Kinetic, gives Bentley spectacular cut through on London’s main arterial routes, allowing great proximity to London’s main Porsche, Mercedes and Audi dealerships and marketing to motorists […]

Our European editor Geny Caloisi was a popular figure in the press lounge (often ‘holding court’ in the late afternoons as shown below in same) and on the show floor at #InfoComm11… When held in Orlando #InfoComm11 has a much greater Central and Latin America presence than when held in Las Vegas and Geny’s Spanish […]

You can forget the Doctor’s rhetoric on the term ‘digital signage’ because Gefen came up with a completely new term for our industry last week at #InfoComm11… You never know ‘Digital Singange’ <sic> might catch on? Talking of the Doctor he was on fine form on some Brawn organised seminar on the show floor… We […]

Adrian borrowed Raffi’s Angels† just for a few minutes in this photo shoot opportunity… Haivision had their usual good exhibition stand and we were told had something like 2,000 leads during the three days of #InfoComm11. I am not sure what is funnier, the smile on Adrian’s face or him not knowing where to put […]

Late last week FunMobility announced the launch of FunChat, a cross-platform app that combines multi-player games, chat, rewards and pranks all in one. One of the cool features of this app is that it comes with ‘Chattitude”, a customization tool that allows users to personalize chat bubbles, avatars and mood settings. “A key ingredient to […]