Archive for June, 2012

Nurlan Urazbaev, Digital Signage Media Expert

Sunday, June 3rd, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

After eight (no doubt long) years it looks like Nurlan Urazbaev, former Director, Market and Media Intelligence and former Marketing Director at BroadSign International has moved on. We had heard a rumour that he wanted to do something different and whilst we haven’t seen any official announcement from either party, his LinkedIn profile now lists […]

Naples Airport Installs Scala-backed LED Walls

Friday, June 1st, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Scala today has installed two large LED walls at Naples International Airport, executed by Scala Certified Partner Konvergence. Capodichino Airport in Naples welcomes 5.7 million travelers annually. In order to enhance the customer experience at the airport, Gesac, the airport management company, decided that it wanted two LED walls, of 3 x 4 meters each, […]

CEO Spotlight: Lazar Demişulam, Digiboard, Istanbul

Friday, June 1st, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

This month we welcome Lazar Demişulam who is the CEO of Digiboard, based in Istanbul, Turkey. You came from many successful years building the toy business for Lego and Hasbro and then moved to digital signage in 2002 with the idea that it will be one of the most important communications tools of our lives. […]

Barclays & Cardtronics Buy More @idgrp Licenses

Friday, June 1st, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

i-design Group Plc, the owners of atmAd announced today the purchase of 3,000 additional software licences by existing customers; Barclays Bank plc and Cardtronics, Inc. It’s a significant purchase of additional licences that sees the number of ATMs running i-design’s software increasing in three key territories, the UK, USA and Canada. Cardtronics, the world’s largest […]

Mood Media Acquire BIS Group

Friday, June 1st, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

It’s a bit of a stretch to call the BIS Group (‘BIS’)† a ‘European media provider’ which is what some reports have headlined with on news that Mood Media have been spending again – this time blowing EURO 22.5 million on a Belgium AV supplier. The press release states that BIS is a leader in […]

Zoom Media Adds To Nautilus Plus Digital Network

Friday, June 1st, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Zoom Media Group Inc., Montreal-based fitness digital media company, has solidly increased its digital screen presence in Nautilus Plus fitness facilities in Quebec. Nautilus Plus well-being and fitness-integrated provider combines nutrition coaching with exercise regimens and healthy lifestyle advice. Zoom originally launched its Flexcast digital media interface – which is made up of high definition […]

Dutch Digital Signage 2012, Netherlands

Friday, June 1st, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

The first Dutch Digital Signage 2012 event ‘Follow the Speed’ takes place next week on June 7th in the Miele Inspirience Centre in Vianen. It’s being put together by the DiSiN Association, an independent non-profit platform for the Digital Signage industry in the Netherlands. Chairman Michael Stallvord emailed to tell us “We have over 500 […]

London Underground WiFi – First Stations Named!

Friday, June 1st, 2012

Maddie Cotterill

London Underground and Virgin Media have named the first London Underground stations that will be WiFi enabled for free this summer. Stations including Oxford Circus, Stratford, Liverpool Street, Leicester Square and King’s Cross will be among the first to launch, with around 80 stations WiFi enabled by the end of July. Virgin Media’s WiFi service […]