Archive for November, 2013

The Italians Are Coming

Tuesday, November 19th, 2013

Giuseppe Andrianò

At The DailyDOOH Gala Awards, table #19 is the preserve of the Italians as the Associazione operatori Digital Signage (AssoDS) have taken a table at this, the most prestigious award ceremony that our industry has to offer. The AssoDS guest list includes: – Grazia Butera (Telecom Italia) Roberto Vogliolo (DOOH.IT) AssoDS Board Stefano De Troia […]

Jose’s Pro Wrestling Tag Team

Tuesday, November 19th, 2013

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

We don’t know (we didn’t ask ‘cos pretty much we don’t care) if 5th Screen Digital Services’ Keith Kelsen and John Curran are still working with AOpen to promote OpenService in North America† BUT what is clear is that the dynamic duo are busy cozying up to Intel’s Jose Avalos (and telling everyone that they […]

#dse2014 To Present New Content University Program

Tuesday, November 19th, 2013

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

#dse2014 will present an all new Content University Seminar Program designed specifically to help those who are now managing and operating digital signage systems or networks to develop successful content strategies and improve their content creation. DSE’s Content University Seminar Program, to be presented in Las Vegas February 12-13, 2014, is part of DSE’s seven-track […]

Really Nice #ErosSnowGlobe From @WildstoneUK

Tuesday, November 19th, 2013

Andrew Neale

Wildstone, working on behalf of Westminster City Council, have installed a replica snow globe to protect the Shaftesbury Memorial and Eros statue in London from vandalism over the festive season. Revellers in the past have caused considerable damage to the structure and the snow globe is designed to defend Alfred Gilbert’s statue. The memorial which […]

Advantech Acquires UK Display Developer GPEG

Tuesday, November 19th, 2013

Andrew Neale

Advantech (2395.TW) has signed an agreement to acquire UK display developer GPEG International Ltd. After the merger, GPEG’s original management team will remain unchanged, and will join Advantech Embedded Core Computing Group, under the name of Advantech-GPEG. Advantech Chairman KC Liu stated that “In view of the global trend toward Smart Cities and IoT, the intelligent […]

Amscreen Launches Digital Menu Board Solution

Tuesday, November 19th, 2013

Maddie Cotterill

Amscreen Digital Solutions are deploying a network of digital menu boards within petrol forecourts across the UK. Amscreen, Europe’s leading digital screen provider, are using their 40” digital screens to bring a new dimension to deli menus and product promotions across 250 Shell petrol stations in the UK. The full HD LCD digital menu boards […]

AW LAB Stores, Italy Chooses @ScalaInc

Tuesday, November 19th, 2013

Andrew Neale

In 2011, Athletes World created a new brand identity to promote a consistent and unified look across all sport shops. The new brand name, ‘AW LAB’ was conceived to strengthen the connection to younger generations and the digital world – along with the abbreviated name, a new slogan was created, ‘Your Urban Style Refresher’ and […]

(More on) The 3M Digital Signage Closure

Tuesday, November 19th, 2013

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

As usual we were the first to tell readers (some two weeks ago now) that 3M was to shut its Digital Signage Group and as far as we can tell there still hasn’t been any formal corporate announcement from 3M but news has started to trickle in from local Bainbridge† news outlets – i.e the […]

NCSA Selects @Signagelive 4 Internal Comms

Tuesday, November 19th, 2013

Maddie Cotterill

The NCSA which was founded in 2000 to help student athletes and their families navigate the cutthroat, competitive, and often confusing world of college recruiting has installed six screens across their organisation (which is split across a few floors in a Chicago office building) using Signagelive to display statistics of how well their organisation is […]

Bundle Up & Get Down 2 Business Say @NEOCAST

Monday, November 18th, 2013

Andrew Neale

Real Digital Media are offering a nice bundle of their NEOCAST software together with various NEC Commercial Displays which includes: – NEC Commercial Display (40”, 42” and / or 46”) 3 Yr Onsite Warranty Peerless Wall Mount Kit included Site Installation included NEOCAST® Media Player included 1 Yr Software Subscription to NEOCAST® Digital Signage Platform […]