Store Everything On Your Signage Network For Maybe $10 A Month March 13, 2014 by Super User In another sign existing business models are getting disrupted and pushed by a combination of cloud, dropping costs and plain old clout, Google has announced today that users can store 100 GB of files on its Google Drive cloud storage infrastructure for $2 a month. You can store a terabyte for all of $10 a …
DSA Announces Awards Of Excellence, 2nd Awards In Four Months March 13, 2014 by Super User The Digital Screenmedia Association has pushed out a news release announcing the winners of its 2014 Awards Of Excellence. These are not the same awards as the ones – called the DSA Crown Awards – that the DSA handed out a little over four months ago in New York, ahead of what’s now called CEW. This …
Webinar To Portray Digital Signage 11 Years Out. Yeah, Right. March 12, 2014 by Super User If I go back 11 years, to 2003, almost none of the technologies and services that define our day to day lives even existed. They weren’t even at the noodling in the coffee shop stage. YouTube was still a couple of years out from being started. The Facebook didn’t exist. Windows XP was dominant. Palm …
DSF Plans March 26 Atlanta Meet-Up March 11, 2014 by Super User The Digital Signage Federation is kicking off its 2014 regional networking program in Atlanta on March 26 with a evening at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta. Drop $30 and you get in the door and get free drinks, light apps and a presentation by Mark Geiger, the guy behind the install at the …
2 Hemisphere Puts Digital Signage Content Focus On Health March 11, 2014 by Super User Ventura, California-based agency 2 Hemispheres, which lists digital signage content among several capabilities, has started making noise about its impressive library of health-focused content available for digital signage network operators. The agency has some 200 digital signage network-tuned video clips on a variety of health topics, available for download by network operators. Executive Creative Director James …
Taiwan’s Digital Signage Body Puts Out Speaker Call For June Forum March 11, 2014 by Super User The Taiwan-based Digital Signage Multimedia Association holds an annual forum and has put out a call for speakers to present at this year’s event, June 6th at the Taipei International Convention Center. John Wang of IAdea is directly involved with the event and says his group looking for 30-minute talks about state-of-the-art digital signage applications, and an …
DSA No Longer Tied To CEW Trade Show March 7, 2014 by Super User Got forwarded a note about the Customer Engagement World no longer being the official trade show of the Digital Screenmedia Association. I didn’t even know CETW is now CEW, and guess I kinda sorta knew the November show in NYC was the “official” show but didn’t think of it that way. The note to DSA members …
Wireless Ronin Drops Another $3.6M, Total Deficit Near $100M March 6, 2014 by Super User On the heels of the announcement earlier in the day of the merger between Wireless Ronin and Broadcast International, RNIN released its Q4 and Fiscal 2013 Financial Results. And the numbers are not, as has been the way quarter after quarter, pretty. Revenue was down in a big way in the last quarter and up …
New Tech: How In-Store WiFi Can Drive Shopper Insights March 6, 2014 by Super User I spent the last couple of days wandering the aisles of a digital tech trade show in Toronto called DX3 Canada. From the context of digital signage, I couldn’t make any sound argument that buyers of that tech needed to be there. Despite what the pic suggests, it was BUSY (think this was taken pre …
Struggling Digital Signage Tech Firms Wireless Ronin, Broadcast Int’l Merge March 6, 2014 by Super User I’d imagine the general sense of how consolidation will play out in the software side of the digital signage sector is that healthy, growing companies will acquire distressed or dying companies. Probably not as anticipated are stories of two companies likely struggling to keep the lights on joining “forces” in a merger. But the second …
