Adwalker tightens patent protection
Adwalker has this week been granted a British patent for its interactive wearable-media system.
According to the company, the patent – which covers “the apparatus for supporting a mobile electronic display system” and runs until September 2024 – means that Adwalker now has protection for its technology in each of its three main territories: its home country of Ireland, the United Kingdom, and North America.
However, Adwalker is 
Barco suffers sales slowdown
Shares in Barco, the Belgian display-hardware maker, have lost almost a third of their value in the last week after the company's second-quarter results showed plunging income.
Net income in the three months to the end of June dropped 68 percent to €4.61m ($7.26m), thanks partly to diminished sales and lower prices of video walls and digital billboards.
However, the company says it was clearing old stock to
Stadium places largest-ever Daktronics LED order
Daktronics has landed the largest order in its history from the developers of a U.S. football stadium.
The $45m contract to supply LED displays to the New York Giants' and Jets' new Meadowlands facility in East Rutherford, New Jersey, will see Daktronics providing both interior and exterior screens.
The largest units will be 103-by-30-foot displays at each corner of the stadium to be watched by fans during games,
Cayin suite designed for hotels, convention centres
Taiwan's Cayin Technology is aiming a new suite of digital-signage content-creation software at hotels and convention centres.
The xPost package combines three modules: lobbyPost, for producing lobby signage, meetingPost, with scheduling capabilities for informational displays at meeting venues, and wayfinderPost.
The three modules come with ready-to-use portrait and landscape templates, as well as clip art.
www.cayintech.com
Rise Vision adds ticker support, design wizard
Rise Vision has upgraded Rise Display Network, its Web-based content-management system for digital signage.
Offered on the software-as-a-service (SaaS) model and used mostly for small digital-signage applications by higher-education institutions, financial-services companies, hospitals and corporates, the Rise Vision system now supports live content on LED tickers and comes with a wizard to guide new users through the design process.
Pictured are outdoor screens powered by Rise Display Network
Spanish screen vendor to build in TruMedia measurement
Spain's Venco is the first display vendor to integrate TruMedia's iCapture audience-measurement system into its screens.
Venco, which launched a digital-signage division this year, will offer 46- and 52-inch LCD displays with built-in iCapture Camera and SmartBox, as well as 46-, 52- and 65-inch totems.
It will be showing the screens at trade events in Europe this autumn.
www.tru-media.com
www.vencoel.com
Network CN: “We can put screens where Focus can't”
Chinese digital out-of-home startup Network CN is reaching the sites that its giant rival Focus Media can't by forging close links with local government.
In a published interview, general manager Stanley Chu said that the firm was benefiting from its relationship with Beijing All Media and Culture Group (BAMC), a state-owned organisation which holds the city's outdoor broadcasting rights.
“We can access buildings that Focus cannot get into
Destination adds C-store network, grows Gas Station TV
Destination Media, the firm behind Gas Station TV (GSTV) in the U.S., is launching a separate convenience-store network to reach consumers who visit service stations' shops but don't buy fuel. The new screens will also allow advertisers on the pump network to continue their brand messaging at the point of purchase indoors.
After making its debut at 100 sites in Boston, Los Angeles and New York, C-Store TV will
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Outdoor media: crackdown in Durban, protests in Britain
Outdoor advertising is to be forbidden in much of the South African city of Durban during the 2010 FIFA World Cup, in a move that echoes recent bans in Moscow and Shanghai and the continuing debate over billboards in many U.S. communities.
The ban will apply to all roadside and other outdoor signs within one kilometre of Durban's central business district (pictured), as well as on sites near the
VisionChina: revenue, ad minutes, screen numbers all up
VisionChina Media, a major operator of digital signage on China's buses which is now moving into the subway market too, more than quadrupled its revenue in the second quarter.
At $20.3m in the quarter ending on 30 June, revenue was 332 percent up on the same period in the previous year. Operating profit, at $7.8m in the second quarter, rose from $4.5m in the first quarter; it had been
PRN says screens can persuade baffled consumers to buy
U.S. digital-signage operator Premier Retail Networks (PRN) is pitching its Home Electronics Network as a means for retailers to educate confused consumers on the benefits of HDTV and upsell them to full home-theatre packages.
One in nine American households will buy a new HDTV in the next year, says PRN, but “the average consumer is baffled by all of the new terminology”.
These consumers turn to electronics retailers
Hard Rock bets on multiple channels
The Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas has upgraded to 11 distinct channels of digital signage as part of a $750m renovation.
Replacing an old video-over-RF system, in effect an in-house cable-TV setup, the new network is based on Scala's InfoChannel software, Dell Optiplex 745 media players and 40-inch Samsung LCD displays linked via IP.
It provides separate channels for several different club, music, gambling and
Jingwei targets bus stops; VisionChina wins in Shanghai
Chinese direct-marketing specialist Jingwei International looks likely to become a bigger player in the country's increasingly competitive public-transport advertising sector after appointing an ex-CBS man to head its new-media unit.
Liu was formerly CEO of Magic Media, the company handling advertising on Beijing's buses that later became part of CBS Outdoor.
In his new role he will spearhead Jingwei's expansion into outdoor advertising, interactive mobile, and digital signage
Samsung moves further into large formats
Samsung has nearly doubled its range of large-format displays with the addition of 17 new models, now available globally.
Bringing its large-format line to a total of 35 units, the new additions include the DXN range, bundled with MagicInfo software, which run from 32 to 80 inches. (Pictured is the 46-inch display.) MagicInfo has also been upgraded.
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