Archive for July, 2012

Clear Channel Outdoor Americas Strengthens Leadership Team

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Gene Leehan, with 24 years advertising experience, has joined Clear Channel Outdoor Americas, New York-based outdoor advertising company as senior regional president to manage the 12 largest markets in the U.S. as well as the Airports, Malls and Spectacolor businesses. Leehan is expected to bring a fresh direction to the Clear Channel Outdoor business as […]

Samsung Display Huge Following Merger

Monday, July 2nd, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Seoul, South Korea-based Samsung Display Co., Ltd., a major player of course in display panel technologies and consumer products, has begun conducting business as a newly merged corporation with Samsung Mobile Display and S-LCD corporations. Samsung Display is now claiming position as the world’s largest display manufacturer; with 39,000 employees and seven production facilities worldwide. […]

Let @taximediauk Take You On A Trip

Monday, July 2nd, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

It’s overcast in London (mind you, it’s incredibly wet elsewhere in the south of England today) and the cabbies are all seemingly demob happy ahead of the Olympics when they will seemingly all decamp to their villas in Spain and Cyprus (anecdotally, every other cabbie we have spoken to in London is planning to flee […]

Late 1980’s Software For Digital Signage (Thx @ScalaInc)

Monday, July 2nd, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

As we continue our Software Holocron and unearth more history about the early days of the industry we have been finding (and of course have been sent) some interesting early photos – forgive us for continuing to say but they all make an absolute mockery of all the Minkus Minkus patent trolls out there. Shown […]

Britain’s Soaring Tech Companies @ST_FastTrack

Monday, July 2nd, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

In September, The Sunday Times will publish the definitive ranking of Britain’s fast-growing private technology, media and telecoms firms. The 12th Annual Tech Track 100 League table which is sponsored by Microsoft and Barclays will be published on 16th September (it’s compiled and produced by Oxford based research and networking events company Fast Track). To […]

Prysm Mourning Loss Of Jason Litt

Monday, July 2nd, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

The staff of San Jose-based Prysm, mourning the loss of Jason Litt, vice-president of North American sales, in a motorcycle accident Thursday, has released the following public statement: “It is with a deep sense of sadness, we have to inform you that Jason Litt – Vice-President of NA Sales at Prysm – passed away prematurely […]

Bankers Reward Honesty Streuth!

Monday, July 2nd, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

This experiential campaign from National Australia Bank (NAB), which in our eyes, goes down as one of the best we’ve ever seen, would be good whether or not the banks across the world could do with a bit of positive PR or not at the moment! The YouTube video is just over two minutes long […]

@WebSignage Support 4 @IAdea HTML5 Appliances

Monday, July 2nd, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Italian software company Edisonweb announced today support for IAdea digital signage media HTML5 appliances with its Web Signage management platform. Edisonweb join the likes of Scala and Signagelive in ‘announcing’ support.

Pearl Media’s 3D Digital Art Installation for Tenga

Monday, July 2nd, 2012

JP Biamby

Pearl Media recently executed a 3D Art Installation for Tenga – and, Yes ladies and Gentlemen, when you click on the link it is what you think it is, Ed. The execution fused stunning 3D projection, animation and effects with the artwork of the late global icon, Keith Haring – we are not sure if […]