DOOHgood And Help Moore, OK’s F5 Survivors May 22, 2013 by Super User Even on the other side of the world the Moore, OK F5 tornado is big news, and a couple of emails came in to me here suggesting DOOHgood needs to get ramped up for driving donations to the American Red Cross. As a network operator in the US – retail, ad, corporate or whatever – …
Android For Digital Signage: Say Hello To This Flexible, Low-Cost Platform May 18, 2013 by Super User Here’s the 12th entry in this running series of closer looks at digital signage solution providers who have started working with the Android operating system and low-cost, ultra-small ARM processors. Almost 30 companies have introduced products based on the open-source Android operating system that is very widely used for smart devices like handsets and tablets, …
Stratacache Bags Dairy Queen May 15, 2013 by Super User Stratacache won Dairy Queen quite some time ago, I think, but now has the sign-off to officially name the ice cream company as a major account. American Dairy Queen Corporation, as the company is more officially known, has signed on with Dayton, Ohio-based Stratacache to ‘power digital feature panels across 300 Dairy Queen and DQ …
DSA Celebrates Top Digital Signage Projects, Operators And Service Providers May 14, 2013 by Super User The Digital Screenmedia Association has named the winners of its DSA Industry Excellence Awards, which celebrates the best digital signage, mobile and self-service kiosk projects across a variety of verticals.The awards were presented this week during a dinner related to the association’s Digital Screenmedia Symposium in Dallas. The 2013 winners are: Industry Deployer of the …
Q&A: Vistar Media Bringing Automated Buying To Digital OOH May 14, 2013 by Super User The deal announced a few weeks ago that saw Vistar Media raise $1.5 million to help fund the first real automated buy and sell platform for Digital OOH reminded me I wanted to do a broader piece on the company. Vistar co-founder Jeremy Ozen and I have been going back and forth on an email …
Projects: ABSA’s Bank Of The Future In Suburban Johannesburg May 14, 2013 by Super User A little pre-dinner wander around the Clearwater shopping mall in Johannesburg Monday (here on a gig) walked me up to a bank of the future digital install that was both impressive and dumb. I had no idea it was there. First, the impressive … The ABSA bank (part of the Barclay’s group) has installed a …
Low Cost CPUs Force Smart Content Decisions May 12, 2013 by Super User One of the happy consequences of all the tinkering going right now with low-cost, limited-power CPUs like ARM-based Android players and Raspberry Pi micro computers is the decision to stop a lot of the multi-zone crap and simplify presentations. The Raspberry Pi forum has a post up about a project that involved developing a network …
My Day Off May 11, 2013 by Super User My consulting gig in South Africa has been a Groundhog Day thing of going to an office park and going back to the hotel, and repeat. Day after day. But we did get out today. We couldn’t figure out why traffic was backed up on this game reserve north of Joburg, and then this pair …
Wireless Ronin: Still Losing Money, Dealing To Keep Lights On May 11, 2013 by Super User The lights are still on at Wireless Ronin, but the Minneapolis-area software company is still a long way off from profitability and resorting now to taking cash from partners to fund the business, but in turn pretty much vacating what’s been a core vertical. On the earnings call, the executive team said it has done …
VertNext Is What’s Next In Ad…VERT…Ising (Really, They Said That) May 11, 2013 by Super User This is beyond awesome. A Philly area company has announced a new digital sign/advertising thingie that is positioned and presented like they just came up with a cure for some horrible disease. From what I can tell from this softly delivered blizzard of buzzwords and acronyms (including DMO, which is … something [think he means …
