Who’s Dropping $250 A Head For Digital Signage Advice? September 4, 2013 by Super User Some company with evidently deep pockets is turning to the great unwashed of digital signage for guidance, offering “up to $250” for opinions and insights on the space. I got this email via the Digital Screenmedia Association on Tuesday: One of the world’s top digital signage manufacturers wants to ask you a favor—share your opinions …
Cineplex-EK3 Deal Closes For $39.1M August 31, 2013 by Super User Toronto’s Cineplex has announced it has completed the acquisition of EK3 Technologies, first announced a few weeks ago. The Londoin, Ontario-based company will be renamed and operate as Cineplex Digital Networks, and Nick Prigioniero will continue to lead the business as the company’s president. The deal terms are as previously announced: “the purchase price includes …
Projects: AT&T’s Store Of The Future In Chicago ‘Burbs August 30, 2013 by Super User US telecoms giant AT&T has followed up its very fancy flagship brand store on North Michigan in Chicago with a tech-heavy concept store in that same city’s southwest suburbs. The “store of the future” in La Grange is, says the company in a news release, the end result of “more than two years of research …
Projects: New Shoppers Drug Mart Boutique August 28, 2013 by Super User Canadian retailer Shoppers Drug Mart has always done a roaring trade in crazily high margin, and crazily tiny, jars, vials and tubs of beauty products, and has been putting more and more of an emphasis on that in its pharmacy locations across the country. The retailer today opened a beautyBOUTIQUE at the hyper-busy Toronto Eaton …
Digital Signage & QR Code Linkage Patented August 28, 2013 by Super User The Marlin Company is a workplace communications company that has been around for decades and has recently made the transition to analog and digital, picking up patents along the way that relate to methods of digital messaging in workplace environments. The company already has two patents, and has now been granted a third – this …
Survey: What Content Matters August 26, 2013 by Super User My friends at the Belgian content startup Seenspire do automated content feeds for networks (as well as custom content), and are working with a university in their country to do some market research. They have collaborated on a short survey that pokes at end-users about what content matters to them, how they use it …
Patent Trolling In US Sees Big Uptick, Most Of It Involving Software August 25, 2013 by Super User The US government’s accountability office is reporting a big uptick in patent troll activity, and suggests one in five lawsuits are now brought on by “non-practicing entities” that are pretty much in the business of buying patents and suing other companies. The Government Accountability Office issued a report last week that suggests software-related patents accounted …
TargetR Now Has Both Android & Raspberry Pi Digital Signage Options August 22, 2013 by Super User The UK digital signage software firm TargetR now has platforms support both Android and Raspberry Pi, as well as standard PCs. TargetR’s new Raspberry Pi player uses the same underlying core player components from the Android Player software and in hooked into the company’s cloud-based platform. They’ve done that by adapting the player core and …
Your Headlines Are Too Damn Small August 21, 2013 by Super User Roughly a million years ago I came up with the notion of office tower retail concourses as a digital media environment, and started a company that put up screens and sold media avails. It was many, many years too early, something I learned while absorbing the confused or indifferent looks of agency media planners, and …
Vital Media, 11Giraffes Hitch Up On Auto Job August 20, 2013 by Super User A couple of Charlotte, NC companies have hooked up on the solution targeting independent auto service centers and other retailers around North America. The existing Vital Media digital signage network – including several hundred locations affiliated with a “big international tire retailer” (based on the vids, it is BF Goodrich) – has been cut over to …
