Archive for February, 2013

STRATACACHE Opens New Tokyo Office

Tuesday, February 19th, 2013

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Dayton, Ohio-based STRATACACHE, provider of scalable, high-performance digital signage, content distribution and enterprise video acceleration technologies, has opened a new sales and service office in Tokyo, Japan. The expansion builds on the company’s global presence, as it recently announced the opening of an office in Hong Kong. The new facility, located in Shinjuku Park Tower, […]

A ‘Sweet’ Little Tale

Tuesday, February 19th, 2013

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Zoom Media, with digital screens in fitness clubs, campuses, and resto-bars across Canada,, surprised a select group of agencies as a thank you for their continued support with a special delivery on Valentine’s day last week. Contemporary cupids were chauffeured to agencies in Zoom Media branded vehicles to individually hand out artisanal chocolates by Geneviève […]

BlueFox Automatic Image Cropping Technology

Tuesday, February 19th, 2013

Russ Curry, Ministry of New Media

BlueFox has introduced an automatic image cropping feature, based on reframing technology from Technicolor, to offer optimal re-sized photos for all screen aspect ratios. All available BlueFox feeds can now be offered, not only in the 16:9 aspect ratio, but also as a standard in 9:16 resolution – with full-screen photos – we saw this […]

Ex @ComQi @RonniGuggenheim Lands On His IHSE

Tuesday, February 19th, 2013

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

We note that ex-ComQi Ronni Guggenheim is now billed as ‘Strategy & Management Consultant at IHSE GmbH’ according to his LinkedIn Profile. IHSE GmbH. are a manufacturer of KVM equipment.

Canadian Software Vendor Troubles

Monday, February 18th, 2013

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Rumours abound of problems at a well known Canadian digital signage software vendor. We are trying to get in contact with same to hear the real story. National holidays currently getting in the way. One ‘take’ is that it is cash flow problems with a JV south of the border. Watch this space.

#dse2013 This Is The Fast Lane, Folks

Monday, February 18th, 2013

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Whilst, next Saturday, we will be at the back of the plane en route to Los Angeles, thanks to all of our accumulated mileage in the past six months we will be, before the flight at least, scoffing at the trough with First Class passengers, in the Galleries First lounge† at London Heathrow’s Terminal 5. […]

Chris O’Donnell Joins Posterscope

Monday, February 18th, 2013

Maddie Cotterill

Ex-Kinetic Chief Executive Officer Asia-Pacific Chris O’Donnell has joined Posterscope Worldwide as global commercial director. Chris is based in Hong Kong and we are told that this appointment marks the first global role outside London for Posterscope, which underscores the importance of Asia for the division’s growth.

Q8’s Display Tender Won By @Signio_Digital

Monday, February 18th, 2013

Maddie Cotterill

Signio, one of the largest and most experienced Nordic Digital Signage bureaus has won a strongly competitive tender for the display communications needs for Denmark’s Q8 petrol forecourts (Q8 Denmark merged with OKQ8 in Sweden back in August). Martin S. Almosetoft, Project Coordinator at Q8 Service Stations told us “We have selected Signio as a […]

Digital Signage 360: Bing Kimpo

Sunday, February 17th, 2013

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

If you are thinking of expanding your business beyond the North American borders, or even if you simply are interested in what is happening in Digital Out-of-Home worldwide, there is one session you cannot miss on February 26, the pre-exhibit educational day of #dse2013. For the second year, DSE and DailyDOOH have joined in creating […]

Digital Signage 360: Neil van Wouw

Sunday, February 17th, 2013

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Tokyo was just revealed as number one by the Economist Intelligence Unit‘s list of the world’s most expensive cities in 2013, but that’s no reason for not doing business there. In fact, Tokyo is an absolute hotbed of digital signage business that cannot be ignored. I missed hearing Neil van Wouw, CEO of Vanten K.K. […]