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Focus Enhancements goes into Chapter 11
Technology supplier Focus Enhancements has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the U.S. and been de-listed by the NASDAQ.
The company, which was traded under the ticker symbol FCSE, markets a number of AV and digital-media products such as media players for applications including digital signage.
Focus’s troubles appear to have come to a head on 15 September, when the NASDAQ exchange notified the company that its 
Web content will complement elevator screens
Gannett-owned Captivate Network is the latest digital-signage operator to integrate out-of-home and Web content.
The company is repositioning its Website as a consumer-facing service with news and blog content to complement the programming (pictured) that appears on Captivate’s screens in office-building elevators.
“Fifty percent of the time, when someone’s in the elevators, the next stop is their desk,” CEO Mike DiFranza was quoted as saying. “I can’t tell
Celebrity chef calls for end to restaurant TV
One of Britain’s best-known chefs has joined the chorus of opposition to out-of-home TV with a magazine column criticising the spread of screens in restaurants and bars.
Writing in the latest issue of Waitrose Food Illustrated – a magazine produced for and distributed by the upmarket grocer – Richard Corrigan recounts a recent dining experience: “As you try to converse with your companion, a screen hovering over your table
Amscreen prepares to launch; Simon Sugar at the helm
Sir Alan Sugar’s son Simon will head the new out-of-home digital-signage division of Amshold set to be launched in the UK next month, despite rumours that Lee McQueen, the winner of this year’s The Apprentice BBC programme, was to take the role.
To be known as Amscreen, the division will launch with the promotional tag of “Your Media in Real Time”, pitching its services at the British market.
In search of a $500,000 sales uplift
Can digital signage sell houses? Pamela Olander hopes so – the real-estate developer from Palatine, Illinois has plastered her own image over a local digital billboard in a last-ditch effort to attract buyers.
Olander bought time on the Clear Channel Outdoor roadside digital sign, which shows two versions of her spot plus three other ads every 90 seconds, after reducing the price of a newly-built property from $799,000 to
U.S. outdoor sector backs Democrats
The U.S. outdoor-advertising sector is heavily supporting Democratic candidates in the run-up to November's elections, a SCREENS.tv analysis of campaign donations has revealed.
Since the beginning of 2007, the Outdoor Advertising Association of America (OAAA), its board members and its key management have donated a total of $197,802 to Democrats against just $67,437 to Republicans, according to Federal Election Commission records.
The largest single donor was Richard Schaps,
UK government to fund digital-signage research
The UK's Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) is to support academic research into the effectiveness of corporate digital signage.
The government-funded body will fund a three-year PhD studentship at Bangor University in Wales, focusing on the measurement of digital signage's impact on factors such as information retention, staff morale, and absenteeism.
This data will then form the basis of a set of guidelines on best practice
Focus stock steadier, but Wireless Ronin takes a hit
Focus Media Holding’s share price on the U.S. NASDAQ exchange appeared to stabilise today, and it was the turn of much smaller digital-signage firm Wireless Ronin Technologies to experience that freefall feeling.
In midday trading Focus stock, which plummeted on Friday and Monday after the late-Thursday release of Q1 results and revised forecasts for the next year and quarter, stood at 30.18 – marginally up on the previous day’s
