Archive for March, 2013

More TELUS Projects (This Time With @CiscoSESG)

Wednesday, March 13th, 2013

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

While in Las Vegas for #dse2013 we had a chance to sit down and talk with David Carbert, senior product and business development manager, collaboration services, customer solutions for TELUS, Canada’s only major telcom involved heavily in digital signage. Carbert had earlier told us about the major work the company has been doing for Sport […]

Visix Digital Signage Solutions For Healthcare

Wednesday, March 13th, 2013

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Atlanta-based Visix Inc. showed off its digital signage solutions for hospital and healthcare facilities, including content management software, interactive wayfinding and Power over Ethernet room signs, last week at the annual conference in New Orleans for HIMSS – the premier venue for education and showcasing of information technology and management systems for the betterment of […]

It’s 50,000 Digital Menu Boards 4 @STRATACACHE

Wednesday, March 13th, 2013

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

STRATACACHE hit a milestone this week with the installation of its 50,000th Digital Menu Board within the quick service restaurant industry. Five leading North American restaurants now power their restaurant initiatives with STRATACACHE Digital Menu Boards. In just months, STRATACACHE installation numbers have doubled, further proving that the QSR industry is turning to digital media […]

Avnet: Digital Signage Made ‘Competitive’

Wednesday, March 13th, 2013

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Avnet are fast joining the growing list of folks who seemingly want to compete against their own customers. We note in a mass email ‘Digital Signage Made Easy’ sent out by those who also hawk PizzaMarketplace.com that they seem to be happy to be a distributor now in direct competition with those they pretend to […]

@DSFederation Regional Networking Events

Tuesday, March 12th, 2013

Maddie Cotterill

The Digital Signage Federation announced this week that they will be hosting four regional networking events throughout North America in 2013, with the first taking place in Dallas, TX as reported late last week here. Each of the four markets that the DSF will be visiting this year has been picked for its influence upon […]

#SXSW A Peek At Our World In 3 – 5 Years

Tuesday, March 12th, 2013

Manolo Almagro, Q Division Managing Partner

I just spent the last three days attending #SXSW (south by southwest) interactive festival in Austin TX. For those of you who aren’t familiar to SXSW – its an annual music and interactive technology festival that started in the late 80’s and has gotten bigger and bigger each year since. Companies like Twitter or Foursquare […]

#RBTexpo Sees Samsung @ScalaInc, @Signagelive, @STRATACACHE

Tuesday, March 12th, 2013

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

It’s not a show we usually have time to attend but we note that everyone in our industry whose business starts with the letter ‘S’ are exhibiting at today and tomorrow’s Retail Business Technology Expo 2013 in London. Both Scala and Signagelive are exhibiting with their new friend Samsung, whilst STRATACACHE are going it alone, […]

Verifone Media Comic Relief Liveries, London

Tuesday, March 12th, 2013

Maddie Cotterill

Comic Relief is using VeriFone Media’s digital platform to showcase its ‘Do Something Funny for Money‘ campaign trailer in more than 3000 taxis in London and Manchester, supported by traditional livery advertising in London, in the run up to Red Nose Day, this Friday on March 15th. The 90-second ad features Mary Berry, Jessie J, […]

Digital Signage World Asia Loses Support

Tuesday, March 12th, 2013

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

The 3rd annual Digital Signage World Asia (co-located with Retail World Asia and three other shows which effectively gives it ‘attendees’), which is being held from 24 – 25 April 2013 in Singapore seems to be rapidly losing support. Organiser Terrapinn is doing our industry no favours – it has churned through a few good […]

MPV Marketing at Retail Show 2014

Tuesday, March 12th, 2013

Russ Curry, Ministry of New Media

If the trend from last year continues (and there is no reason to think otherwise) then the MPV Marketing at Retail event, even though it is biennial, is clearly emerging as the leading show for Digital Signage in retail in France. The next show takes place 1st, 2nd and 4rd April 2014 at Porte De […]