The Digital Signage Expert‘News’ Archives
Bell Micro Digital Signage Solution Day
The early morning mist was still blanketing the countryside when a group of people met in Chessington, England on the 8th of July this year. I know, because I was driving through it. It was an important day, like a new dawn, BellMicro and Avnet were beginning the long planned kick-off to a new and powerful company. Bell Micro/Avnet, an [...]
Bell Micro UK event, named “Digital Signage Solution Day”
The event, in organization of Bell Micro UK, is in fact one day event, with the main idea “to bring together the channel partners with the executives of leading Vendors in Digital Signage Market, AOpen, Intel, Matrox, Minicom and Philips”. It will take place in Chessington, UK, at July 8th 2010. The speakers, as well as the opportunity [...]
It just got colder again – DBCI dropped for 4 degrees all over Europe
OVAB Europe in the latest DBCI report: The business climate in the Digital Signage industry has dropped slightly (48 to 44) compared to the beginning of the year. Most notable Europe’s regional Digital Signage market developments have moved further apart than before. (Source: OVAB Europe DBCI report) Should we get worried? Not so [...]
Excellent on-floor education opportunity at ScreenMedia Expo 2010 – The Digital Signage Expert Tour
Another event and another opportunity to take the well known Digital Signage Expert Tour on the show floor. The tour will give an overview of the typical digital signage application from content creation to monitoring at the point of display. Yes, I am talking about ScreenMedia Expo 2010. This time, the participants will have a chance to [...]
Remarkable “The Wall” multitouch debuts in Copenhagen
With a price-tag of €200.000 per square meter, the new interactive digital signage installation “The Wall” must be one of the most expensive ones in Denmark. Copenhagen City Museum has this saturday (april 24th) opened a public interactive digital signage “museum”, allowing the public to view, touch and interact with thousand of years [...]
Ronni Guggenheim – “We will conduct an aggressive strategy” – interview for ooh-TV
"We never made any secret, we will conduct an aggressive expansion strategy. Our desire is to be one of the leading players, between the content and display. We will therefore, in these sectors , make acquisitions that will complement and support our current offering." - just an abstract of the interview with the catchy title, conducted by [...]
Cinema City International running the same digital signage content in 6 countries
Just read on the Beaver Group blog about their project for Cinema City International. In all-in-all 6 countries (Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Romania, Bulgaria and Israel), Cinema City is running high definition video content, in local languages, created by Beaver Solutions. Read about it in detail here
AEON National Rollout in Japan
I just returned from a trip to Japan where I have seen parts of a national rollout of AEON, the leading supermarket and shopping malls operator. We believe the rollout was done with Scala software and all screens are connected with Minicom Digital Signage's DS Vision 3000 systems, allowing for full screen control over CAT5. Have a look at a [...]
Sharing the Magic
Recently received a Press Release that caught my eye, not that all others are dull, but rather this one heralds’ an event in a location not often used by the budding digital signage industry. Essen, yes considered the European Culture Capital. Having been to Essen many times in my life I cannot fully agree, yet things change and that is what [...]
The Academy
One of the benefits of being a digital signage reporter is that you often get invited to many interesting occasions. The one I attended a couple of weeks ago was the Academy Training sessions held at the offices of MultiQ here in London. These are training sessions held about once a month. The main topic of course is their Digital Signage [...]