Archive for December, 2012

Trendy Media @Trendy_Vend @Signagelive

Friday, December 7th, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

UK based Trendy Media have chosen Signagelive as their platform to deliver and manage digital advertising to 700 Trendy Vend HD screens in Clubs and Bars throughout the UK. Rob Sutton, Director of Trendy Media told us “Trendy Media has the largest style bar and nightclub screen network in the UK, working with renowned venues […]

Qualcomm Atheros Launches Ultra-Low Power NFC Chip for Mobile Devices

Friday, December 7th, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Qualcomm Inc.’s subsidiary, Qualcomm Atheros Inc., has introduced a new ultra-low power Near Field Communication solution that will enable mobile devices with contactless communications and data exchange, including next-generation mobile payments. The company claims that the QCA1990 is the industry’s smallest, ultra-low power system-on-chip with an overall footprint that is 50% smaller than current NFC […]

7 Heaven Media Reps @OceanOutdoorUK Internationally

Friday, December 7th, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

7 Heaven Media, the newly launched international media company, has been appointed international sales agent for premium outdoor media owner Ocean Outdoor and James Ellis has been hired by 7 Heaven Media to run the Ocean Outdoor overseas accounts. He joins the business from global television network Fox International Channels. This is 7 Heaven Media’s […]

Harris Sells Broadcast Division To Gores Group

Thursday, December 6th, 2012

Dmitry Sokolov

Just announced, Harris’ Broadcast Communications Division is to be sold to The Gores Group for $225 Million. As expected, the proposed sale includes the Digital Signage component of Harris’ business. “The sale of Broadcast Communications reflects our strategy to optimize our business portfolio and focus on our core businesses,” said William M. Brown, president and chief […]

@BillGerba #Hashtags #DigitalSignage

Thursday, December 6th, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Wirespring’s Bill Gerba has written an interesting post over on his blog, entitled ‘Using Twitter Hashtags to Measure the Digital Signage Industry‘ and puts the questions “Are tweets a reasonable proxy for industry activity?” It uses #Hashtag data that we trap and monitor over on aka.tv and is well worth a read – especially for […]

The Japanese Seem Stubborn About DS @Sharp_USA

Thursday, December 6th, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Earlier this week Sharp Imaging and Information Company of America (a Division of Sharp Electronics Corporation) announced a number of digital signage related products (Sharp Electronics Corporation can be found at #dse2013 on stand #913). SDSS Pro joined the product family which includes SDSS Stand Alone, SDSS Network and SDSS Viewer. Mind you, as we […]

NEXCOM NDiS M422 OPS Digital Signage Player

Thursday, December 6th, 2012

Andrew Neale

NEXCOM have announced a new OPS digital signage player, the NDiS M422 which is aimed at interactive kiosks and signage applications requiring an energy efficient processor and high graphic performance. Designed with value and performance in mind, the M422 features an AMD Embedded G-Series T56N 1.65GHz dual core processor with Radeon™ integrated graphics, hardware decoder, […]

12th Projection Summit, June 10-11, Orlando

Thursday, December 6th, 2012

Andrew Neale

The 12th Projection Summit will be held on June 10th and 11th June 2013, i.e. the two days prior to #InfoComm13 in Orlando.

Ex-Akoo Execs Launching Intelligent Personal Assistant

Thursday, December 6th, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Terranova Inc., a new Chicago-based technology company, has secured seed funding and technology support from undisclosed sources totaling $1.05 million towards the launch of an intelligent personal assistant app for iPhone and Android devices, the web, and Google Glass. Terranova founders hail from Akoo International where George Stoikos was Akoo’s chief technology officer and Andy […]

Primeview And @YCDMultimedia Strategic Partnership

Thursday, December 6th, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Out of New York comes word that YCD Multimedia, a global leading provider of smart digital signage solutions, has developed a partnership with Primeview, a provider of advanced digital displays. The partnership combines YCD’s expertise in digital media software with Primeview’s display technology products, and will provide corporations and organizations worldwide with the widest choice […]