Archive for December, 2012

Adspace Partners With Conde Nast Traveler for Content

Monday, December 10th, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Condé Nast Traveler, one of the most trusted names in travel, is providing exclusive holiday content across the New York-based Adspace Digital Mall Network. The Adspace creative team has brought the pages of the magazine to life in 207 malls nationwide. Eimear Lynch, Condé Nast Traveler’s Word of Mouth, is featured speaking to shoppers about […]

Clear Channel Outdoor Names New Pres. & COO

Monday, December 10th, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Suzanne Grimes has joined Clear Channel Outdoor Americas as president and chief operating officer effective Jan. 1/13, with responsibility for all CCO’s business in the U.S. and Canada. She will report to William Eccleshare, CEO of CCO. Grimes, a highly-regarded executive with a 25-year history in the media business, will head the CCOA Executive Committee, […]

The DailyDOOH Gala Awards Jury 2012

Monday, December 10th, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

The DailyDOOH Gala awards jury (jury members absent here are Thomas Dokter and Adrian Cotterill) plus the Ministry of New Media’s Russ Curry… From left to right, IT Girl beauty one, IT Girl beauty two, Raphaël Pinot, Russ Curry, Giuseppe Andrianò, Roi Iglesias, IT Girl beauty three, IT Girl beauty four.

Matthew Stoudt @OutcastMedia Gets 2 Speak

Monday, December 10th, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Last week we had a lengthy interview with Matthew Stoudt, CEO of Outcast, based in Santa Monica, California. One of the first questions we asked him was about the rumour last month that Gilbarco Veeder-Root was buying Outcast. At the time, neither Stoudt nor Gilbarco were unreachable. “I don’t know how these rumours get started,” […]

#ISE2013 InfoComm’s Future Trends Summit

Monday, December 10th, 2012

Andrew Neale

Aimed squarely at the systems integrator keen to get some input into how to position their company over the next three to five years, InfoComm’s Future Trends Summit will be held the day before the #ISE2013 show floor opens on Monday, 28th January. It’s broken down into three parts:- Future Customer Needs will comprise an […]

Tweet #kiacheerwcf To Make The Kia Rio ‘Cheer’

Monday, December 10th, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Creative agency Innocean Worldwide Canada and Thinkingbox, an alternative media studio, partnered in an experimental and interactive campaign that engaged Vancouver Whitecaps FC (soccer) fans to interact with the Kia Rio. On game days, when Whitecaps’ fans at the stadium tweeted with the hash tag #kiacheerwcf, it would trigger the Kia Rio on show in […]

HealthSpot Station Will Debut At #CES

Monday, December 10th, 2012

JP Biamby

In the AV industry, according to InfoComm, healthcare is the fastest growing customer segment with $959 million spent in 2009 to a projected growth of $2.6 billion in 2015. As one of the major disrupters shaking up an industry desperate for new solutions, HealthSpot is truly changing the face of medicine. Healthspot has developed a a system […]

The Twelve Scala Models

Saturday, December 8th, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Scala Cylons are not merely robots with a human appearance, they possess actual flesh and blood. These Scala Cylons biologically mimic human form so completely that they are nearly undetectable to current technology. Scala Cylons have the capacity to emulate many human physical acts and their ‘programming’ is such that they genuinely possess human personality […]

The Gores Group And Digital Signage? Umm, We Don’t Think So!

Friday, December 7th, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

When you have just been acquired by a Private Equity firm and you are part of a small, inconsequential group in terms of revenue and you’ve screwed up big time wasting USD 30 million or more on a retail deal gone wrong you’d think you would be a little wary of the future. Not so, […]

Citrix To Acquire Mobile Device Management Firm Zenprise

Friday, December 7th, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Citrix, Santa Clara, California-based developer of cloud, collaboration, networking and virtualization technologies, will acquire Redwood City-based Zenprise, developer of mobile device management technology. Financial terms of the deal, expected to be completed in the first quarter of next year, were not disclosed. (Last November, Zenprise raised $30 million in a round of funding led by […]