Projects: Tourism Vancouver Opens Digitally-Focused Flagship Centre July 15, 2013 by Super User Tourism Vancouver, which is the tourism authority for that awesome (when sunny) city on Canada’s west coast, downsized its main downtown visitor facility this spring and wanted to add digital to drive information and also the ticketing for its many, many member destinations and attractions. The result is a really nice combination of a dominating …
Silver Curve Puts More Light On Its Aperture Digital Signage Engine For Raspberry Pi July 12, 2013 by Super User An ongoing client project has me back in Johannesburg again, and this time I went through London, which gave me a sufficiently long layover that I was able to run into the city. I did a meeting (honest) at a pub and then headed over to Regent Street to the packaged office space where Silver …
Webconverger’s Neon Uses Stable, Secure Browser As Digital Sign Platform July 10, 2013 by Super User I was in the middle of one of those sessions online where you start in one direction and then make a whole bunch of left turns and end up somewhere completely different, and came across some narrative about the little Raspberry Pi micro PCs, digital signage and a company called Webconverger. That was an unfamiliar …
Good Advice Series Now Up To Seven; More To Come July 10, 2013 by Super User There are now seven Good Advice video vignettes up live on the Preset Group website – the latest ones Neil van Wouw from Japan’s Vanten K.K., Jim Nista from Insteo, Jim Vair from Capital Networks and Pierre Richer from NEC Display. Here’s Neil … Niel van Wouw, Vanten KK, @ 2013 Preset Mixer from studio10productions …
Trolls At The Gates: Where’s The DSF Or DSA? July 10, 2013 by Super User Affectionately-named patent trolls have been around this sector for a few years now. I get emails and phone calls periodically from software execs asking what I know about patent troll activity in this sector. I tell them I am, mercifully, not running a software company like them, so I have not had the pleasure of …
Capital Networks Release V2 Of Android Platform July 9, 2013 by Super User Capital Networks is now on to V2 of its Android digital signage solution, aka Audience for Android v2. The company (loyal Sixteen:Nine advertiser) launched V1 formally a year ago, one of the first on what is an increasingly crowded market. Version two brings more horsepower to the hardware and software, as well as a broader …
OptimEyes Is New And Revolutionary Exactly How? July 9, 2013 by Super User The UK-based digital OOH network Amscreen is getting all kinds of trade media attention today for the launch of something called OptimEyes, which unless I am missing something is just Quividi face pattern detection packaged up with ad serving data as something revolutionary. Amscreen says the platform “will further cement its position as the most …
Harris Out At The New Harris July 9, 2013 by Super User The guy who ran the broadcast side of Harris, including digital signage, is now out and a new CEO is in place at the company now running independently as Harris Broadcast. Investor The Gores Group has appointed Charlie Vogt as CEO, effective today. Vogt succeeds Harris Morris, who was appointed president of Harris Broadcast when …
rVue Resets Exec Team; Releases Wobbly Financials July 9, 2013 by Super User Things have been so quiet with rVue since founder Jason Kates left last year that I mostly assumed the company – primarily a consolidated online buying platform for digital out of home media networks – had been wound down. So it was a bit of a surprise this morning to read about new executive appointments and the …
STRATACACHE Buys More Dayton Real Estate; Now Has Five Buildings In City July 9, 2013 by Super User Chris Riegel is gradually becoming a Dayton, Ohio real estate baron – announcing today the purchase by STRATACACHE of twin office blocks up by the airport. That means STRATACACHE now owns the HQ/ops office block just on the fringes of downtown, a couple of big warehouse blocks used as staging and distribution centers, and these …
