Archive for December, 2011

New DOOH At Harrisburg International

Thursday, December 15th, 2011

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

A multi-year renewal of the partnership contract between Clear Channel Airports, marketer of airport advertising, and Harrisburg International Airport – under which CCA is the exclusive advertising marketer for the airport – will see CCA invest in new digital displays, an interactive touch-screen kiosk and charging stations. The investment will include a new set of […]

Cloud vs On-Premise Digital Signage

Thursday, December 15th, 2011

Guest Contributor, Jason Cremins

The choice of digital signage solutions can be mind-blowing, from; free unsupported software from hardware manufacturers through to very expensive legacy solutions. One of the first decisions that a prospective digital signage customer needs to make is ‘Do I choose a digital signage solution that is managed from my own on-premise network or do I […]

NDS USD 1.33 Million Loan Facility

Wednesday, December 14th, 2011

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

An interesting press release winged its way into our (collective) inbox Wednesday evening announcing that Net Display Systems B.V. (NDS) closed a loan of approximately 1 million euro (approx USD 1.33 million) for financing its growth plans in 2012 and beyond. The loan we are told is provided by ABN Amro Bank. Jasper Verriet of […]

NFC: No One Freakin Cares?

Wednesday, December 14th, 2011

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Congratulations to Posterscope’s James Davies who made it onto the bill at south by south west in Austin, Texas See http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/11123 How cool is that!

Scalable Display’s Red Herring Global Top 100

Wednesday, December 14th, 2011

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Scalable Display Technologies announced this week that it had been named a 2011 Red Herring Global Top 100 winner. Scalable Display was selected from over 1,000 nominees representing the most innovative technology companies across more than 40 nations. This honor comes in addition to the company’s selection as a Red Herring North America Top 100 […]

ComQi Chiefs Gather In Jerusalem

Wednesday, December 14th, 2011

Geny Caloisi

What a year it must have been for Enqi, Minicom, their employees and investors. Here we see them relaxing – err, if you can call night time Segway riding around the city of Jerusalem ‘relaxing’, Ed There’s no truth either in the rumour that the Orange heads are the start of some Ayuda Media System […]

#CES International Press Pass

Wednesday, December 14th, 2011

Andrew Neale

Our editor in chief is so (childishly) excited about attending CES in early January that he ordered me to show the world our International Press Passes. Mine shown below … CES will be our first trip abroad in the New Year but as Adrian says over in our DailyDOOH Travelogue 2012: “We are looking at […]

BroadSign 9.0.0 Now Generally Available

Wednesday, December 14th, 2011

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

BroadSign 9.0.0, the software latest major platform update from Montreal-based Broadsign International Inc., is now available for download in the BroadSign Client Portal. Daniel Parisien, BroadSign vice-president marketing and strategy, gave us information on some of the features including Native Interactivity; Hardware Acceleration; Automatic Retargeting and more. It is now easy to create an interactive […]

Grab A Cab 118 118

Wednesday, December 14th, 2011

Geny Caloisi

We are told that tomorrow (Thursday 15th December) will be the busiest night of the year for taxi drivers in London and 118 118 is giving away free cab rides in the capital (in zones 1 and 2 between 6 PM and midnight). The advertising campaign to support the event has a strong Facebook element […]

#ISE2012 Advantech Hall 10 Stand 130

Wednesday, December 14th, 2011

Geny Caloisi

In Amsterdam early next year at #ISE2012 Advantech tell us that they will be demonstrating ‘Industrial Grade Digital Signage Solutions’ and presenting some of the latest digital signage technology including Intel Open Pluggable Specification (OPS) compliant media players, ION2 based advanced graphics digital signage platforms, scenario touch computers and more. One of the highlights on […]