Archive for July, 2011

6th Digital Signage Investor Conference, NYC

Saturday, July 16th, 2011

Geny Caloisi

The Strategy Institute’s 6th Digital Signage Investor Conference is being held Monday 17th October and Tuesday 18th October in New York City. Once again the event is being co-chaired by our editor-in-chief Adrian Cotterill who will be joined this year by industry veteran Steve Nesbitt (who chaired it single handedly rather superbly I am told […]

Digital View Expands In The Land Of Opportunity

Friday, July 15th, 2011

Geny Caloisi

We have heard that Digital View has just signed a contract with Emergent Media Marketing (EMM) to represent the company in South East US territories, which adds to the company’s other two USA office. EMM, based throughout the southeast, focuses on representing traditional and new media technologies to over 250 AV and IT dealers in the […]

Hex TV Displays Ads

Friday, July 15th, 2011

Geny Caloisi

Heathrow Express trains have been equipped with Digital Onboard Panels (DOPs) for a number of years displaying information and news. Since last year, the screens changed content provider to Sky and JCDecaux Airport was invited to become involved as the advertising sales partner. Finally this year, the first Spot advertising on ‘Hex TV’ has been […]

Mexican Digital Signage Forum Speaker Lineup

Friday, July 15th, 2011

Geny Caloisi

For a third consecutive year, Kolo Academy is organising a day of talks for the DOOH industry in Mexico City on Thursday August 11, 2011 at the WTC Salon Palenque. Rene Garza, marketing director of Terra Networks will explain what are the key ingredients to succeed in the signage industry in Mexico. Garza is currently […]

NYC Open Positions

Friday, July 15th, 2011

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

ComQi is looking to recruit a senior Vice President in charge of Product Management reporting to Ajay Chowdhury, CEO and a Sales and Marketing Admin person reporting to Nathalie Garson, Director of Marketing Communications. Both positions are based in ComQi’s New York City office. The VP Product Management will be a core part of the […]

skyrockit Raises $2.6 Million From Intel

Friday, July 15th, 2011

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

San Francisco-based skyrockit, an award-winning mobile entertainment studio, has raised USD 2.6 million in new funding to expand the company’s products and services, hire key talent, and solidify its position as a global innovator in the mobile entertainment space. The recent round of funding was led by investor Intel Capital, with participation from Asuka DBJ […]

Event & Exhibiting Show

Thursday, July 14th, 2011

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Aztec Event Services went completely interactive at this week’s Event & Exhibiting Show, 13th and 14th July at Business Design Centre, showcasing how its leading products, including Christie MicroTiles, XBox Kinect and Apple iPads, can be deployed in the events and exhibitions environment to help organisers, exhibitors and visitors to get the most from a […]

The Minority Report

Thursday, July 14th, 2011

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

‘The Minority Report‘ is a 1956 science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick, first published in Fantastic Universe and ‘Minority Report‘ is a 2002 American neo-noir science fiction film directed by Steven Spielberg and loosely based on said short story. Neither of them have anything much to f***ing do with digital signage, digital out […]

Managing Growth Beyond The Tipping Point

Thursday, July 14th, 2011

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

I’m privileged I think to be taking an early look at the agenda for the 5th Digital Signage Conference being held over 3 days between 14-16 September 2011 in Munich. Subtitled ‘Managing Growth beyond the Tipping Point‘ it looks like the invidis boys have pulled off an exciting agenda, mix of summits and workshops and […]

Cisco ECDS Optimises Video And Data Transfer

Thursday, July 14th, 2011

Geny Caloisi

Cisco has launched the Cisco Enterprise Content Delivery System (ECDS), a set of video distribution products that work together to deliver the high-quality live and on-demand video content. I’m not sure the ECDS would be used for the in store DS application but the system can be deployed in corporate networks to deliver training and […]