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Media4Display Certified on Philips Android Signage

by Bob Raikes

The Media4Display Digital Signage software from Telelogos of Angers, France, has now been certified for the Philips D series large format displays, which support Android on their SoC systems. “We put the D-Line screens …

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JCDecaux

JCD Wants More Reach – Clear Channel Out of Billboards

by Bob Raikes

Spencer Berwin, Co-CEO at JCDecaux UK told ‘Campaign‘ that the company wants to be seen as a leading media owner beyond its out-of-home reach. To to achieve this, the company wants to double its …

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Gatwick Gets LED Storefront

by Bob Raikes

Hour Passion, a watch store belonging to the Swatch group at London’s Gatwick Airport, has a shop front that has been upgraded to include an LED display with 3mm pitch from Dynamo LED of …

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Celestica’s Q3 Better Than Expected

by Yvette Raikes

Canadian EMS provider Celestica recorded better than expected Q3 turnover of $1.55 billion, up 10% YoY, giving profits of $62 million, an increase from $31.4 million. The company gave the results in US dollars. …

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AT&T Increase Satellite Sales

by Yvette Raikes

AT&T Inc. saw Q3 net profits of $3.3 billion, compared with $3.0 billion a year ago, on turnover of $40.9 billion, up from 39.1 billion. For the year to date there were profits of …

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Technology for Halloween

by Matthew Brennesholtz

The Entertainment Technology Department of the New York City College for Technology (City Tech) in Brooklyn has a high-technology haunted house for Halloween every year called Gravesend Inn. Gravesend is actually a neighborhood in …

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VR May Replace Pills in the Future

by Norbert Hildebrand

The Colorado State University has launched the Virtual Reality Initiative to bring VR to their students. In their recent ‘Virtual Reality Hackathon’, William Warren, Vice President and Head of Innovation Programs at Sanofi Pasteur …

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Seat Goes Automatic for Automotive

by Bob Raikes

Seat has opened a new digital car dealership in the Intu Lakeside shopping centre, to the East of London in the UK. The move follows from other showrooms in malls, including Rockar at Bluewater …

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Game Charges for PlayStation VR

by Bob Raikes

UK specialist retailer, Game, has upset users by charging £5 ($6) for a ten minute demonstration of the new PlayStation VR headset or £15 ($18) for thirty minutes, although it is refunding fees against …

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Smartwatch Sales Plummet

by Bob Raikes

IDC said that the worldwide smartwatch market experienced a round of growing pains in Q3 2016, with sales falling 51.6% from Q3 last year at 2.7 million, although the company pointed out that Q3 …

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Uber, Ubering, and Ubered. I Finally Ubered.

by Kenneth Li

During my decades of working life, I have travelled around the world many times and rented cars and hailed taxis endless number of times. Usually, for a one-day trip, I used taxis, and for …

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2016 German AV Market Will Top €11 Billion

by Yvette Raikes

VPRT, the German commercial broadcasters’ association, has just published its autumn report with AV media forecasts for 2016. The association believes that AV revenue in Germany will increase by 6.2% to €11.1 billion ($12.1 …

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