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Polish Digital OOH Network Switches To BroadSign

Polish Digital OOH Network Switches To BroadSign

Dave Haynes March 22, 2012 0

There’s nothing like a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing to install confidence in prospective clients, so I am sure the guys at BroadSign were very keen to get word out of a software win with

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Canada Telecom Giant Bell Buys Astral Media

Canada Telecom Giant Bell Buys Astral Media

Dave Haynes March 16, 2012 0

Media concentration is a big issue in Canada, and it just got bigger as the country’s largest telecommunications company BCE Inc. – which already owns TV networks and newspapers – just bought Quebec-based Astral Media,

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NEC’s VUKUNET Adds Media Sales, Addresses Software Conflict Qualms

NEC’s VUKUNET Adds Media Sales, Addresses Software Conflict Qualms

Dave Haynes March 13, 2012 0

In the midst of madly running around last week at DSE I managed to grab the equally harried tag team of Pierre Richer and Ashley Flaska, President and VP Marketing of NEC Display, to

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Latest Ronin Financials Show Improving Revenues, But Continuing Losses

Latest Ronin Financials Show Improving Revenues, But Continuing Losses

Dave Haynes March 12, 2012 0

Wireless Ronin Technologies financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ending Dec. 31, 2011, which came out late last week, show the company had a record revenue year but not enough to

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Subway’s Digital Screen Network, Run By Real Digital Media, at 1,000 Sites And Expanding

Subway’s Digital Screen Network, Run By Real Digital Media, at 1,000 Sites And Expanding

Dave Haynes March 6, 2012 0

Quietly, very quietly, Real Digital Media has been growing something called the SUBWAY TV & RADIO Digital Signage Network in the QSR’s independently-owned franchises in the United States. Now the company is making a little

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Ecast Unplugs

Ecast Unplugs

Dave Haynes March 5, 2012 0

Vending Times is reporting that Ecast Inc. shut down its jukebox music network last week, the  San Francisco-based technology firm out of operating capital. “We worked diligently for this not to happen,” said Ecast vice-president

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BroadSign Files For Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection

BroadSign Files For Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection

Dave Haynes March 5, 2012 0

BroadSign International has filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy papers in a Delaware court, seeking protection from creditors. Technically based in Boise, Idaho but in operating terms a Montreal company, the SaaS software company focused on

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NEC’s VUKUNET Hiring Digital OOH Media Salespeople

NEC’s VUKUNET Hiring Digital OOH Media Salespeople

Dave Haynes March 1, 2012 0

When NEC Display announced VUKUNET in Nov. 2009 the company rather boldly planned to get into the ad media sales business, with media pros carrying Vukunet cards doing the rounds at agencies. That changed,

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