Archive for August, 2011
Monday, August 15th, 2011
Gail Chiasson, North American Editor
comScore Inc., a leader in measuring the digital world, has released results of a study on mobile QR and bar code scanning based on data from its comScore MobiLens service. A QR (Quick Response) code is a specific matrix bar code (or two-dimensional code) that can be read by smartphones. The study found that in […]
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Monday, August 15th, 2011
Gail Chiasson, North American Editor
Rose Costa has joined iSIGN Media Solutions Inc. as Vice President, Business Development. iSIGN is a Toronto-based developer of location-based interactive proximity advertising solutions that deliver rich media, permission-based messages, free of charge to cell phones using Bluetooth connectivity, while providing business Intelligence to the client. Costa was recently with Bell Media-CTV, where for the […]
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Sunday, August 14th, 2011
Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
For some reason @dhuelsermann. Founder and President of OVAB Europe and Manager NEC DOOH Solutions asked a few weeks ago the following via twitter “There are quite a lot of good blogs,covering the DOOH industry. So,from the following list, in alphabetical order,who is the most influential?” Now whilst only 246 people actually cast a vote […]
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Sunday, August 14th, 2011
Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
Media Displays’ digi-vans and Scott Anthony’s SA Group digiadvans (shown below) have been the true out of home (OOH) stars these past few days by helping the Police and the communities they serve bring the English looters to justice. Digi-vans has featured prominently in the UK newspapers with the Grauniad reporting “Looting suspects caught on […]
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Sunday, August 14th, 2011
Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
DSJ 2012 is being held 13th to 15th June
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Sunday, August 14th, 2011
Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
The 5th China Retail Development Summit 2011 takes place in Shanghai 1st – 2nd December 2011.
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Saturday, August 13th, 2011
Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
The MMA Forum Los Angeles takes place on November 16th and 17th, 2011, at the SLS Hotel at Beverly Hills.
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Saturday, August 13th, 2011
Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
The UK Grauniad newspaper featured this great picture of one of the Media Displays digi-vans (shown below) in a now familiar #englandriots story entitled ‘Looting suspects caught on CCTV paraded on ‘digi-van’: Police hunt those involved in riots by displaying footage of crimes on a mobile screen in Birmingham city centre‘ It described the “digi-van” […]
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Friday, August 12th, 2011
Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
A man walks into a Birmingham Police Station and hands himself in, admitting that he was photo number 23 on the digi-van parked here in central Birmingham!!! The UK’s West Midlands Police force have within the last 24 hours been using digi-vans from Media Displays to help identify perpetrators from the recent riots in Birmingham. […]
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Friday, August 12th, 2011
Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
@SymonDacon Hemel Hempstead’s twitter feed bills the business and the feed itself as “Clever Signage.Insights into Symon Dacon’s unique positioning in the Digital Signage space” but there’s not much unique or indeed insightful in repeating the same four tweets ad infinitum… SymonDacon Symon Dacon Hospitality digital signage http://vltb.com/f6b6b981?37389 55 minutes ago SymonDacon Symon Dacon The […]
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