If A VP Sales Is Hired, Does Anyone Care? Nope. July 31, 2013 by Super User I was trading emails Tuesday with an industry friend, and explaining why I wasn’t covering an announcement from his company. It wasn’t personal, I said. I just didn’t think it was all that interesting, as news goes, and doubted I was alone in that perspective. It got me thinking about reader patterns, and the type …
Research Team Adds Touch Overlay To Print Poster; Makes Interactive July 30, 2013 by Super User The conventional wisdom is that digital will continue to inexorably replace paper signage, but a research team in the UK has come with something like a hybrid. They’ve made paper interactive. As PSFK reports: Novalia is a team of seven scientists, programmers and designers from the UK – all of whom are interested in turning paper into …
Monster Media Acquires LocaModa July 30, 2013 by Super User Monster Media has bought LocaModa in a deal that sees the Orlando-based digital out of home media company better equipped to add social media integration, not to mention smarts, to its offer via the small but respected Boston company. Stephen Randall, who founded LocaModa back in something like 2005, will now be the Executive VP …
In Digital Signage, Uptime Rules July 29, 2013 by Super User There is a fast casual restaurant on the departures level at Oliver Tambo airport in Johannesburg, South Africa that I have walked past at least a half dozen times in the last three months. The menu boards, any time I looked, never showed more than floating screen savers. On a video wall I was just …
Scala, Outform Release Android Digital Signage Solution July 25, 2013 by Super User Software company Scala and Miami-based display integrator Outform have joined the now long list of companies that have put Android digital signage offers on the market. In this case, an Outform iDisplay media player is running Android in combination with Scala’s Enterprise software. Says a release: iDISPLAY’s Model UID0382 Media Player has been specifically designed …
Startup Thirdshelf Lets Retailers Easily Appify For The Sales Floor July 23, 2013 by Super User Retailers who want to get their pots and pans, or whatever they sell, onto app-driven tablets for staff can find themselves conflicted on exactly how to do that. The default option is to get an app development team to build one and get it approved and loaded in app stores. If the retailer has a …
SmartBomb Drops New Mobile-Digital OOH Plan July 19, 2013 by Super User There’s a good debate to be had about what’s the best bridge to build between networked displays and handsets, and what’s on that bridge in terms of content. I never, ever got the whole check-in thing and it’s an activity that has largely passed (though I still see Tweets from people who think me and …
Good Advice Series – DMG, LocaModa Added July 18, 2013 by Super User There are now 10 or so videos up on The Preset Group Good Advice series, the latest some great comments from Tom Percich of DMG and Stephen Randall, or LocaModa. The archive is here: http://presetgroup.com/category/mixer-videos/ I still have 3-4 more to add in the next few days.
Projects: Video Case Study On New McCarran Airport Terminal July 18, 2013 by Super User [youtube id=”5hLQSoz4TY8″ width=”600″ height=”350″] Four Winds Interactive has posted a nice, tight video case study on the work they did at the lovely, airy, almost placid new international terminal at McCarran Airport in Las Vegas. As disclosure, I’ll note I did the interviews as a favor to FWi and the video shoot team, my Studio …
Cineplex Offers To Buy Software House EK3 July 18, 2013 by Super User Canada’s biggest movie theatre chain Cineplex – which has a substantial and solid digital signage team, has announced its offer to purchase EK3 Technologies Inc., which is best known as the London, Ontario-based software house that does the menu boards for Tim Hortons. The news release say the “initial purchase price is approximately $40 million, …
