And We’re Back January 2, 2013 by Super User Happy 2013. Remarkably, for me, I closed the lid on my laptop on Dec. 21 and really didn’t crack it again until Jan. 2. I don’t think I missed much, and any company that was pushing out press releases with actual (or any) significance in the last 10 days needs to get better PR advice. …
ComQi’s NYC Office Pitches In To Fix Sandy’s Mess December 21, 2012 by Super User Here’s a nice item to wrap things up and take a few days off to eat too much and have an extra glass or three … Some of the people at the NYC offices of software and distribution gear company ComQi took Wednesday off and headed out to Far Rockaway, out by JFK Airport, to …
Project Profile: Crescent School’s Student Network December 20, 2012 by Super User It’s almost weird that a little private school appears to do a better job with content presentation than a lot of private businesses that have the budget and people available to get it right. Here’s s small project involving the century-old Crescent School for boys in Toronto, which is using a digital signage network in …
PRI Industry Sentiment Index Ticks Up Big In Q3 December 20, 2012 by Super User The Platt Retail Institute’s quarterly North American Digital Signage Index saw 15.5% jump in third quarter, and was the first positive shift thsi year. Chicago-based PRI says the current DS Index increased by 15.48 percent, from 108.51 in the second quarter of 2012 to 125.30 in the third quarter of 2012. Comparing the third quarter …
Add Vodigi To The Free Open Source Digital Signage Software List December 17, 2012 by Super User I stumbled on another company, called Vodigi, that’s offering free open-source software for the digital signage market. Not the bait and switch free of my favorite West Coast software spammers, but really free. Vodigi joins a short list that includes Xibo, Concerto, JADS, Screenly and Rise Vision, the latter by far the most commercial and …
Lyle Bunn Takes The Cake December 17, 2012 by Super User I could have all kinds of fun about consultant Lyle Bunn being the icing on the cake for a project, but I will just do a straight read here and say he was in for a visit to the Toronto-area offices of Capital Networks last week, and they figured out somehow or other that it …
Project Video: Barneys-Disney-Christie Spectacular In NYC December 17, 2012 by Super User Christie MicroTiles and Disney light-up Barneys New York “Electric Holiday” window displays from Christie on Vimeo. Here’s a video than runs through the Disney project running at Barneys in New York through the holiday season. The video is bankrolled by Christie, which has supplied the MicroTiles used to drive the visuals on the huge canvas …
Report: Symon Acquired By “Blank Check Company” December 17, 2012 by Super User I could probably read this convoluted news release 20 times and not get it entirely right – accountants and lawyers should not write press releases – but from what I can tell a “blank check company” called SCG Financial Acquisition Corp. has entered into a non-binding letter of intent to acquire digital signage software provider Symon Communications, Inc. …
Corporate Video Production Team Planning Low-Cost Shoot For DSE Week In Vegas December 14, 2012 by Super User My guys at Studio 10 in Regina, Sask. have developed what I think is a really good little program to run in Las Vegas in the immediate run-up to the Digital Signage Expo trade show in late February. I call them my guys, but they are merely friends I have worked with a little and …
The NUC: Not As Cheap As Thought, But Getting Good Reviews December 12, 2012 by Super User I wrote a little while back about Intel’s Next Unit of Computing, or NUC, and how it looked like an impressive little digital signage player for a very low price point of $300. I put the caveat in there that I didn’t think an OS was in there, so the actual cost would be higher. …
