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New Scala CEO Tom Nix didn’t take long to reshuffle his management team. In a letter to his partners on Monday 12th December 2011 and leaked to us, titled ‘Scala Global Alignment Announcement‘, Tom announced that … “Anthony Maddalone will remain in place as our Chief Financial Officer” Peter Cherna is the new Senior Vice […]

Just as we started to write nice things about CBS Outdoor (they seem to be working magic at the moment with their TfL London Underground XTP offering) they go and do something mightily stupid with Bluetooth. In what can surely only be a press release from circa 2008 which has got stuck in some kind […]

ADFLOW Networks, in partnership with Mediavation, has been selected by Mark’s to bring their new strategic store re-branding initiative to life, using innovative in-store digital media solutions. Mark’s, a wholly owned subsidiary of Canadian Tire, has selected ADFLOW Networks as their digital signage provider for all store redesign initiatives. Mark’s is incorporating multiple in-store digital […]

The AraCast Digital Signage Suite, a combination of software, hardware and services, provided by TECCO and ARANOVA (all of those Spanish companies are new to us) will be on display at #ISE2012. Chief Operations Manager Luis Miguel Batuecas tells us that he is “looking for distributors to sell our software”. TECCO and Aracast will be […]

VeriFone announced a few weeks ago that it is working with Radio Taxis Group (RTG) to deliver a next generation payment solution across RTG’s fleet of licensed London taxis. The deal, which will mean that more than 2000 systems will have been installed in the RTG fleet by June 2012, will make RTG one of […]

NEC Display Solutions Europe will be at #ISE2012 of course and tell us that through its booth, R24, located in Hall 4, they will be highlighting a wide range of vertical domain expertise with AV and signage applications and solutions. NEC will showcase the HLO Projection category, the company’s latest professional LCD and LED backlit […]

Rumours abound that UK consultancy Silver Curve (who have been doing a truly superb job with OpenSplash and to be fair many other things) is expanding with a lot of new staff and a new, larger, shinier office immediately following Christmas. Even after a boozy Xmas lunch we couldn’t get much out of Managing Director, […]

Rosemont, Illinois-based Akoo TV has launched several new, originally-produced programs across its 165 shopping malls in 60 top U.S. markets. The new programs and interactive segments are part of a broader line-up of entertainment programming and celebrity-driven content which the Nielsen-measured network is premiering in Q1 2012 with expanded advertising, custom content, and branded entertainment […]

Beauty spa and skin clinic Zen Lifestyle has a new Digital Mannequin on its window on Hanover Street, Edinburgh, to attract potential customers. Installed by Scala Certified Partner Cognition the life-size Digital Mannequin is composed of three 42” Phillips LCD screens. Graham Pow from Cognition explains “the client wanted to have a window display that […]

Supported by The Screen, Kinetic Worldwide this week released a Global Digital Out of Home Handbook, aimed at covering the full global context of digital OOH including market sizes, growth rates, media owners, formats, environments, research and creative innovation. The document quantifies that digital OOH is currently worth 7% of all Out of Home expenditure […]