Projects: Stacked Digital Branding Wall At DFW Retailer Destinations July 1, 2013 by Super User Here’s another airport job, this one at an apparel retailer called Destinations, at a shop within Dallas Fort Worth Airport. It’s a video wall of four stacked 46-inch monitors, in place to engage and influence some of the 58 million people who move through that crazy airline hub each year. The wall is run by a …
Projects: Telecom Italia’s New Flagship In Rome July 1, 2013 by Super User The work that has been taking me way overseas involves a telecoms company, so I was intrigued by this release today from YCD Multimedia about work they have done with an Italian wireless retailer. Telecom Italia has opened a new flagship store at Fiumicino – Leonardo da Vinci Airport, Rome’s international airport, and loaded the …
BroadSign Reports 1,000-unit Android Player Order June 28, 2013 by Super User There are still lots of people out there I have chatted with who are dismissive of the whole Android media player thing – most of them suggesting an evolving open source operating system and teeny, too cheap media playback devices from Shenzhen are way too dodgy a choice for all but the entry-level ma and …
Regular Coverage Resumes Next Week June 27, 2013 by Super User It just occurred to me (I’m old, leave me alone) that I usually post something saying I am going off the grid, when I go off the grid. I am way, way out of town this week, and pretty stinkin’ busy with a client. Regular nonsense resumes next week.
Android For Digital Signage: A Closer Look At AdServe June 25, 2013 by Super User It has been a little bit since we had a close look at a new Android-based digital signage platform, but rest assured they just keep coming. The latest in our running series of closer looks at Android-driven digital signage solution providers is AdServe, which is an Aussie company with some development ties to South Korea. …
Ansley Steps Down In Wake Of Symon Acquisition BY RMG June 23, 2013 by Super User It will not come as any shock that the guy who ran Symon Communications for many years did not stick around for long after the company was acquired by RMG Networks earlier this year. Charles Ansley is retiring in a couple of weeks, stepping down as President, RMG Enterprise Solutions. Ansley had been Chief Executive …
And Now Flypaper Has A CMS, Too June 21, 2013 by Super User Flypaper began as a basic creative development tool for people with little or no creative skills, and the product first started to find its way into digital signage circles three years ago. Now the company is deep into this sector, to the point that it too has a launched its own management and distribution platform. …
Mood Media Does Content Deal With TripAdvisor June 21, 2013 by Super User I was talking recently with someone about content and who was out there thinking a little differently about what went on screens, The gas station guys, I said. They are sourcing material from new and different places. I don’t have much enthusiasm for the stuff shovelled from broadcast networks, but I do like the stuff …
Intel Confirms Rumors; Launches Software Platform June 20, 2013 by Super User After several weeks of not all that closely held rumor and speculation, Intel has announced it is getting into the digital signage software game with something it has dubbed Retail Client Manager, or RCM. RCM is being described as a “simple and cost-effective content management system for digital signage solutions” – which puts it in …
Very Odd: “Strategic Partner” Buys Ad Rights To Macs C-Store Digital OOH Network June 20, 2013 by Super User This is very odd, but then again there is no end of Very Odd in the Digital OOH (or whatever we’re calling it this week) space. iSIGN, and over the counter-listed tech and media play based in Toronto, has sold its advertising rights to the Mac’s c-store network in Canada for $1.5 million a year, …
