Archive for July, 2011

Sharing Anglo-Saxon Treasures

Thursday, July 14th, 2011

Geny Caloisi

The Staffordshire Hoard, the largest collection of Anglo-Saxon gold and silver metalwork ever found, is on tour around England thanks to the efforts of Birmingham City Council and Stoke-on-Trent City Council. The collection, consisting of nearly 4,000 items that are nearly all martial or warlike in character, is not only shown in vitrines but also […]

Gefen Launches New DS Players With Wi-Fi

Thursday, July 14th, 2011

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Digital connectivity solutions provider Gefen, Chatsworth, California, has announced the availability of two new digital signage media players with Wi-Fi, expanding the range of solutions it provides for the growing DS industry. Both Digital Signage Media Players with Wi-Fi offer a SMIL-compliant media player that works with any computer LAN system, either by connecting directly […]

#smics2011 @annalena Berlin, Germany

Thursday, July 14th, 2011

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

As we twittered through out #smics2011 we simply loved the ‘Graphic recording and visual sensemaking’ carried out by Anna Lena Schiller over the two days… Anna listened carefully to the speakers and the audience participation and put into pictures the sense of the day’s proceedings (shown above afternoon, Day one). Fantastic. A great addition to […]

TabTimes: A Tablet Mag On Tablets

Thursday, July 14th, 2011

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Sixteen years ago, Patrick Pierra began a company on the web about the web. Yesterday, Pierra, with a group of media industry veterans, announced the future launch of a tablet news magazine on tablets about tablets. “I guess history tends to repeat itself a little bit,” says Pierra, publisher and owner of the new TabTimes, […]

#smics2011 @DonPeppers Sea Island, GA

Wednesday, July 13th, 2011

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Don Peppers, Founding Partner, Peppers & Rodgers along with Brian Solis were the true stars over the two day #smics2011 conference and we were lucky enough to have Don present on both day one and day two. Here he is in full flow… On the Tuesday he spoke about ‘From CRM to Social CRM’ but […]

NV3 Technologies Deploys Third-Generation Charging Kiosks

Wednesday, July 13th, 2011

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

From its headquarters in Baltimore’s Emerging Technology Center this morning, NV3 Technologies announced the availability and deployment of the third-generation NTC series Charging Kiosks. NV3’s Charging Kiosks, available in both desktop and floor models, are ideally suited for myriad high-traffic locations such as convention centers, restaurants, hotels, theme parks, banks, universities, hospitals, airports and shopping […]

#smics2011 Monte Carlo Day Two

Wednesday, July 13th, 2011

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Day two in Monte Carlo at the Social Media Marketing and iCommerce Summit 2011 started with many a hangover one suspects but still 900 folks managed to drag themselves out of bed (or the nightclub) into the main auditorium to listen to Tim Campos, CIO Facebook explain ‘Why you really should ‘like’ Facebook’. We then […]

The Billboard Boat

Wednesday, July 13th, 2011

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

EYE To EYE Media LLC offers a variety of mobile digital advertising services including this boat mounted digital video billboard with daily runs up and down the beaches of southern New Jersey … In addition, Eye To Eye Media L.L.C. will have truck mounted screens positioned at highly attended events including but not limited to: […]

Galaxy Macau Hotel and Casino Uses IPTV For Signage

Wednesday, July 13th, 2011

Geny Caloisi

The new New Galaxy Macau Hotel has opened its doors with the inevitable use of digital signage on its halls. In this occasion, the solution to cover the vast grounds of the venue was to use an IPTV infrastructure for content distribution. Macau is the gambling and krypto spiele land for the Chinese. Gambling is […]

#smics2011 Monte Carlo Day One

Wednesday, July 13th, 2011

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Day one in Monte Carlo at the Social Media Marketing and iCommerce Summit 2011 saw far too many US centric examples from pretty much all the speakers BUT also surely saw two of the greatest brains in the social sector impart so much knowledge, wisdom and vision it’s difficult to know where to start. Karl-Heinz […]