Archive for July, 2011

Miami’s Controversial Billboards

Monday, July 11th, 2011

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Giant new LED-illuminated digital billboards being seen in the Miami area are causing more than a few debates because there’s a question of whether the city may have flouted laws by allowing them. According to Miami newspapers, Miami is cash-starved so has aggressively adopted new ordinances and lucrative agreements with advertising companies that could transform […]

Newad TNS Canada Survey

Monday, July 11th, 2011

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

There are no huge surprises here, we think: A survey conducted by Montreal-based Newad in collaboration with TNS Canada shows that 18-to-34 year-old Canadians definitely surpass the total Canadian adult population in their use of the web, mobiles and social networks. Possibly one of the most interesting facts is the fact that 21% of 18-to-34 […]

Apple’s App Store Downloads Top 15 Billion

Monday, July 11th, 2011

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

More than 15 billion apps have been downloaded from Apple’s revolutionary App Store by the more than 200 million iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users worldwide. The App Store offers more than 425,000 apps and developers have created an array of over 100,000 native iPad apps. Users of the more than 200 million iOS devices […]

Zynga Buys Five Mobile

Monday, July 11th, 2011

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Social gaming giant Zynga, one of the fastest growing tech companies, has purchased Five Mobile, Canadian mobile app development firm, marking Zuynga’s 15th acquisition in 13 months. The Five Mobile team will now become Zynga Toronto. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Five Mobile is a mobile application development company that specializes in multi-platform […]

Neon: Going, Going, Gone

Sunday, July 10th, 2011

Geny Caloisi

56 million people pass by Piccadilly Circus each year and a photo of its lights is surely a must have in any tourist’s album? Only three times were the lights of Picadilly Circus switched off: during World War II, when the whole of London went dark, November 1965, for Winston Churchill’s funeral and at the […]

#smics2011 Monte Carlo

Sunday, July 10th, 2011

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

On Monday afternoon we will be practising what we preach and broadening our horizons and heading off to Monte Carlo to attend the Social Media Marketing and iCommerce Summit 2011. I know a few of our readers have told us that on our urging they will be heading along as well, though the two day […]

TOTALmedia, Spain

Sunday, July 10th, 2011

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

TOtalmedia are once again putting on a Trade Show for Digital Signage, Kiosk, Dynamic and Mobile Marketing. 28 y 29 de Septiembre de 2011 IFEMA in Madrid.

NFC Bootcamp Santa Clara

Sunday, July 10th, 2011

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

NFC Bootcamp Santa Clara is put together by OTA Training Date: Wednesday; January 25 – 26, 2012 Time: 8am – 6pm Based in Dallas, Texas, OTA offers RFID training courses worldwide. They take great pride in providing state-of-the-art training tools, with up-to-date content in the best RFID training centers around the globe.

NFC Bootcamp Chicago

Sunday, July 10th, 2011

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

NFC Bootcamp Chicago is put together by OTA Training Date: Wednesday; November 16, 2011 Time: 8am – 6pm Based in Dallas, Texas, OTA offers RFID training courses worldwide. They take great pride in providing state-of-the-art training tools, with up-to-date content in the best RFID training centers around the globe.

Maybe We Need To Be Nicer To Scala?

Saturday, July 9th, 2011

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Formula BMW (which we believe this is) is a junior racing formula for single seater cars and is positioned at the bottom of the motorsport career ladder alongside the longer established Formula Ford category… … giving perhaps a whole new meaning to the phrase ‘Powered by Scala’ The car is being driven by Liam Petrus […]