Archive for March, 2012
Friday, March 16th, 2012
Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
Obviously not frightened off by their wonderful-life-and-industry-enhancing Mercury deal many moons ago, news reaches us that 3M are once again sniffing around the digital signage industry looking for S&M M&A action. Perhaps they should go speak to MediaTile (yours for USD 13 million allegedly although with approximately 10K of revenues a month and costs of […]
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Friday, March 16th, 2012
Gail Chiasson, North American Editor
Danville, Illinois-based Watchfire Signs will showcase its two newest digital signs at the ISA International Sign Expo 2012, including the Price Watcher family of gas price signs (as we wrote about Feb. 2) and the XVS 12mm video display. The International Sign Expo will take place March 21-24 at the Orange County Convention Center in […]
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Friday, March 16th, 2012
Maddie Cotterill
Engineers have always been an integral part of Ford Audio – Video and they play a significant role in the systems that are designed and installed. This vacancy is for an engineer who would be responsible for preparing CAD system drawings, programming DSP, and designing A/V computer control systems. The remaining time would be spent […]
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Friday, March 16th, 2012
Andrew Neale
LocaModa are well known for the their Wiffiti real-time messaging platform, which can display social messaging aggregated from various sources, such as Twitter and SMS text messages. Recently, an unexpected surge in users creating wiffiti message boards (100,000 of them, apparently) led to the discovery that lots of people have started using wiffiti in the […]
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Thursday, March 15th, 2012
Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
Following our story ‘BroadSign Files For Chapter 11 Protection‘ which seems like aeons ago it’s worth us giving you all a quick update based on what we’ve heard together with reading through the court (for the umpteenth time) and new investment documents. As part of the Chapter 11 it’s standard practise for the court to […]
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Thursday, March 15th, 2012
Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
Cisco Systems said on Thursday it will buy NDS Group, a developer of software for multichannel television networks, for USD 5 billion. This is a REALLY smart buy to compliment their Scientific Atlanta purchase from a few years back. Cisco obviously wants to be a big player in TV to consumer and hospitality. NDS was […]
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Thursday, March 15th, 2012
Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
Amscreen, the UK’s largest digital out of home media owner today announced that Chris Forrester, European MD Sales & Marketing, is to leave the company in June. Chris, who joined Digicom back in June 2009 and stayed with them when Amscreen acquired parts of Digicom’s business in August 2011 has worked closely with CEO Simon […]
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Thursday, March 15th, 2012
Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
Convenience store chain SPAR (UK), has built on its digital signage network with the installation of signagelive – allowing the retailer to manage it’s growing network of 170 stores, through an easy to use platform that allows content to be tailored to different store formats and locations. Anthony Sappor, Business Development Manager at Spar told […]
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Thursday, March 15th, 2012
Gail Chiasson, North American Editor
When #dse2013 takes place next February 26-28, it’ll be close but still no cigar for anyone hoping to ride SkyVue, the largest observation wheel in the Western Hemisphere (and #InfoComm13 of course will be in Orlando) as this wheel is scheduled to open July 4, 2013. We missed noticing where the SkyVue’s foundation was already […]
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Thursday, March 15th, 2012
Gail Chiasson, North American Editor
Dr. Raymond Pettit, author and vice-president of research at Premier Retail Networks LLC., San Francisco, has contributed a chapter in the new marketing research reference book entitled Leading Edge Marketing Research: 21st-Century Tools and Practices. (SAGE, November 2011) Pettit was one of the well-known, thought-provoking experts invited to provide chapters in their area of expertise […]
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