Archive for August, 2011

Who’s Scanning QR Codes?

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 […]

Rose Costa New V-P At iSIGN Media

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 […]

8 Out Of 10 Owners Who Expressed A Preference…

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 […]

#englandriots Shop A Looter

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 […]

Digital Signage Japan 2012, Tokyo

Sunday, August 14th, 2011

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

DSJ 2012 is being held 13th to 15th June

China Retail Development Summit 2011, Shanghai

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.

MMA Forum, Los Angeles

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.

Looting Suspects Paraded On ‘digi-van’

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” […]

D’oh! #englandriots Man Hands Himself In

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. […]

@SymonDacon Hemel Hempstead

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 […]