DSA Taking Entries For Content Awards; Big & Small Budget Work Judged Separately
August 22, 2012 by Dave Haynes
The Digital Screenmedia Association has started accepting entries for its DSA Crown Awards, “recognizing the impact of excellent content in out-of-home environments through the …
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Galante Moves To Corum
August 22, 2012 by Dave Haynes
The company that recently picked up the assets of MediaTile and eLiquid Media (aka firmChannel) has now grabbed a guy from another company going …
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Research: Nielsen Global Study Shows Price, Nutrition Biggest Grocery Buying Factors
August 21, 2012 by Dave Haynes
The research firm Nielsen has some really interesting survey results out today about consumer decision making in grocery – with findings that may seem …
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Ancient French Cathedral’s History Told Using Projection Mapping
August 20, 2012 by Dave Haynes
Projection mapping can be extraodinary, but the problem I have seen repeatedly with big public projects has been the absence of a real theme …
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Man Plans, Books Marriage Proposal on Digital OOH Network
August 18, 2012 by Dave Haynes
Now THIS is narrowcasting. A Toronto man proposed to his girlfriend today using a 15-second targeted ad on Pattison Onestop’s digital mall media network. …
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Scala Canada Is Now Dot2Dot
August 16, 2012 by Dave Haynes
The software company Scala has done a deal with its Canadian office to break it off and make a new company out of the …
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DPAA Adds Russian And Romanian Members
August 16, 2012 by Dave Haynes
The Digital Place-based Advertising Association says it has added Russia and Romania to its international membership, joining earlier relationships announced with associations in Canada, …
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Signagelive’s Raffi Vartian Now Daddy Vartian
August 16, 2012 by Dave Haynes
Congratulations to signagelive’s Raffi Vartian and his presumably long-suffering partner Genevieve on the birth yesterday of their daughter, Eleanore Lucine Vartian. Quoting Raffi from Facebook: …
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New H.265 Video Compression Will Be Twice As Efficient as H.264
August 16, 2012 by Dave Haynes
This could be big. The Moving Picture Experts Group (aka MPEG), which has members representing the interests of telecoms, computer, TV and consumer electronics …
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Gear: Giada’s Super-Skinny $274 PC
August 15, 2012 by Dave Haynes
“Giada” is Italian for “Jade” but that’s about the only tie this mini PC company has to the land of Amarone and bunga bunga …
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Sightings: LED Graffiti Wall Lit Up By Water
August 14, 2012 by Dave Haynes
As spotted in The Verge: French artist Antonin Fourneau created digital art project last month in the small city of Poitiers that used a …
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Financials: Planar’s Fortunes Improving As Digital Signage Sales Climb
August 14, 2012 by Dave Haynes
Planar Systems latest financials show the company lost money during the last quarter, but its fortunes are improving as it gets more focused on standard …
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