Archive for March, 2012

DOOH vs The Astronomers

Friday, March 23rd, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

We’ve learned via The Arizona Republic of a protest against digital signage that’s a bit unusual: the protesters are Arizona’s observatories and astronomy industry. The electronic billboard industry is pushing a bill that would make 70 existing digital billboards along Arizona’s highways legal in the wake of a state Court of Appeals ruling. However, Arizona’s […]

First Digital Signage Multimedia Association Mtg

Friday, March 23rd, 2012

Andrew Neale

As mentioned yesterday the Digital Signage Multimedia Association (DSMA) was to hold its first meeting under its new guise today… The DSMA was previously the ‘DS-SIG‘, which was formed some 4 years ago in Taiwan as an informal ‘special interest group’ representing 150+ member companies. The next DSMA get together will be their Digital Signage […]

PSco (NEC) X463UN Videowall

Friday, March 23rd, 2012

Andrew Neale

PSCo Technical Distribution, NEC’s specialist videowall partner, will create a show-stopping four and half-metre high videowall at the 2012 NEC Solutions Showcase taking place on Wednesday 25th April at the O2 London, 10am – 6pm, alongside British Music Experience.  PSCo Technical Distribution will build an iconic 16-screen portrait videowall in the DOOH Zone, using the new […]

Counting Faces at #sxsw 2012

Friday, March 23rd, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Immersive Labs, New York, worked with PepsiCo at #sxsw 2012 March 9-18 in Austin, Texas, to deliver real-time anonymous face detection statistics from the show. The real-time statistics data fed into the PepsiCo Zeitgeist, a ticker of social media activity around #sxsw showed that over 44,000 faces were detected!

Watchfire LED Signs @isa2012expo

Friday, March 23rd, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Watchfire LED Signs and Electronic Message Boards were at @isa2012expo this week with a bright and impressive stand… The International Sign Association will have likely attracted over 20,000 sign industry professionals. You can follow the event on twitter @isa2012expo

Cross River Network Partners With NY Waterway

Friday, March 23rd, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Cross River Network of Weehawken, New Jersey and Port Imperial Ferry Corp. (NY Waterway), believed to be the largest private ferry company in the U.S., have made a 10-year agreement under which CRN will serve as the exclusive provider of a state-of-the-art digital advertising system at certain trans-Hudson terminals. The new system, which launched on […]

King’s Cross Media Space

Thursday, March 22nd, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

This week saw the biggest transformation in the 160 year history of King’s Cross station in London, with the opening to the public of the spectacular new western concourse. A newly installed media space has now gone live, providing passengers and advertisers with state-of-art digital poster sites designed into the fabric of the station. The […]

Call2Action Installs A 3400 BroadSign Network

Thursday, March 22nd, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

A leading digital signage network operator in Poland, Call2Action SA, has completed the deployment of BroadSign’s SaaS platform on its 3400-screen network and continues to instal new digital signs in big grocery stores across the country. According to Call2Action, as the network’s growth accelerated, the company recognized the need for a software platform that could […]

MTM-6060 @PremierMounts

Thursday, March 22nd, 2012

Andrew Neale

When we first saw this Christie MicroTiles Mounting System (from Premier Mounts) at #dse2012 we thought it was an as-yet-unannounced-system from Christie themselves that we had seen in their Labs a while back… Not so, turns our that Premier Mounts have beaten Christie in producing what looks like a useful, flexible mounting system for MicroTiles. […]

Akoo International Awarded Patent in Japan

Thursday, March 22nd, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Akoo International Inc., Chicago-based media and technology innovator, has been granted patent number 4892481 by the Japan Patent Office for Akoo’s interactive technology, which enables smartphone and tablet users to search and select on-demand television and video content via mobile app or text messaging. To date, Akoo has been awarded patents for its technology in […]