Android For Digital Signage: A Closer Look At Capital Networks’ Audience For Android April 11, 2013 by Super User This is the first in a 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. At least 20 companies have introduced products based on the open-source Android operating system that is very widely used for smart devices like handsets and tablets, …
Coxcom Marks 15 Years Deploying Screens April 11, 2013 by Super User Dave Spence at Toronto-based deployment firm Coxcom sent a note over to say he and his colleagues just marked 15 years in business, starting in satellite but adding in digital signage about a decade ago. “Some of the earliest deployments for what would emerge as the Digital Signage industry were piloted by Coxcom using CRT …
NAB Lightning Impressions April 10, 2013 by Super User OK, back at the live bait shop after two trade shows and a vendor summit in Las Vegas – a place that is a lot more fun on a slow DSE week than a packed NAB week. Long taxi lines. Crowded sidewalks. Jammed restaurants. Good for the local economy, but exhausting if you are in the middle of …
Impressions: Sign Expo 2013 April 6, 2013 by Super User The last couple of days have been very full ones, hanging out and looking around at the International Sign Association’s Sign Expo trade show in Las Vegas. I was there hanging out with a client and trying to assess whether this was s show and a crowd worth the attention, and a couple of days …
UCView Latest Digital Signage Software Firm To Go Android April 3, 2013 by Super User LA-based UCView appears poised to be the latest digital signage software company to release an Android product, or in this case, a pair of them. The news release came out on April Fool’s Day (my free PR advice: don’t do PR that day), but I assume CEO Guy Avital is serious (why would he not be?) about …
Arsenal Media Adds US Presence With New Miami-Based Sales Director April 2, 2013 by Super User Arsenal Media has been doing business in the US for several years now, but the Montreal company has always been kn0wn, logically enough, as a Montreal/Canadian company. Doing business south of the border can be a LOT easier for a Canadian company when you have somebody down there, full-time, shaking trees. That changed a few …
Heading Back To LV April 2, 2013 by Super User It has been a whole month, I think, since I’ve had to flash my passport and empty my pockets at an airport – but that all changes tomorrow. Back to Las Vegas, which was my last trip. I am going to the International Sign Association trade show – called SignExpo – at the Mandalay Bay. …
Screach Does Reset, New Investment Focused On Interactive Pub/Bar TV April 2, 2013 by Super User The guys at Screach have raised some $2.5 million in new operating capital and changed up the business model, focusing on being an interactive pub entertainment solution. ScreachTV, as it is branded, allows pubs to fill the dead space on their TVs (between things like Premier League and rugby matches) by creating their own personal, …
Projects: Scotiabank’s Scattered Sweep Of MicroTiles At Yorkdale April 1, 2013 by Super User I already thought the digital display work at Scotiabank’s branch at Yorkdale mall (a very high-end shopping centre in Toronto) was pretty nice, but a new element that was still just in planning when I was last through there is now up and running. There are 80 MicroTiles in an abstract, textured sweep on the …
Canada Launches Start-Up Visa To Attract Entrepreneurs Through Fast-Tracked Residency April 1, 2013 by Super User There’s been lots of chatter in the last 2-3 years about the need change immigration laws to attract tech entrepreneurs and keep brilliant young minds in North America after they finish college in the US or Canada. There’s hasn’t been much progress in gridlocked Washington, but a new program has started today in Canada that …
