The morning press - digital signage news for July 2

Here are some of today's interesting clips from the web:

• UzoneMedia and ComfortDelGro to Launch iCabTV - UzoneMedia's iCabTV will be installed in ComfortDelGro taxis in stages over the next few months. With at least 1,000 ComfortDelGro taxis expected to carry the system by fourth quarter of 2008, iCabTV will reach more than 30,000 affluent consumers, business professionals, and tourists across Singapore on a daily basis.

• Self service transactions to surpass $1.7 trillion by 2012 - Transactions at self-service kiosks will surpass US$607 billion this year in North America, and are expected to triple by 2012 to over $1.7 trillion, according to a new research study.

• Selling Ad Space Into Store Windows: The New Billboard Business - 3 Minute Ad Age explores what happens when, "store windows are emerging as a new kind of billboard business. Store operators and building owners are going for the idea because it turns underused window space into cash."

• Ads Give Moviegoers Chance to Interact - A deal struck earlier this month between Verizon Wireless and cinema-advertising network Screenvision combines mobile and social-networking applications to test an interactive polling program in American movie theaters.

• CBS Outdoor unveils digital screens in major Tube stations - CBS Outdoor has signed up Nestlé, BSkyB, Magners, Paramount, InBev and Dewynters as its launch partners on its digital Cross-track Projection (XTP) screens. The high definition out-of-home offering launches today on the London Underground.

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