Stratacache Adds 100K Sq Ft Integration Building, Plans 20-30 New Hires April 9, 2012 by Dave Haynes With pretty persistent rumours and public financials on the shaky state of a number of companies in this sector, it’s encouraging to get news of firms that are actually expanding facilities and hiring people. Stratacache has bought another building in the Dayton, Ohio-area – bringing its total to five and the footprint to 250,000 square …
Where’s Haynes? April 4, 2012 by Dave Haynes Not posting much this week as I am in Portland, OR with a Preset client … tied up all day and when I am free, Hellberg won’t let me in his house. The WiFi reception in the tent he set up for me is terrible. Back to usual torrent of nonsense later in week.
Download DOOHgood Spots And Help Texas Twister Relief April 4, 2012 by Dave Haynes The site of 53-footers being tossed around a trucking center yard like leaves on a lawn as twisters blew through the Dallas-Forth Worth area is a jarring reminder that the tornado season started early in the US this year and will be a bad one. You can help – in small but important ways – …
CETW Moving Back To Las Vegas In 2013 April 2, 2012 by Dave Haynes Customer Engagement Technology World is heading back to Lost Wages for 2013, after a two-year stint in San Francisco. The show will go in May 2013, the spring version running roughly six months after the fall version set for November in New York. I sent a note to Lawrence Dvorchik, the General Manager for CETW, on …
Samsung Spins Off Display Business … Sorta April 2, 2012 by Dave Haynes Samsung’s display business is now officially known as Samsung Display Co., Ltd, a spun-off separate entity from Samsung Electronics. Samsung still owns 100 per cent of Samsung Display, however. Donggun Park, the new CEO of Samsung Display, says the company did about $20 billion US last year and instantly becomes the the world’s largest display manufacturer. Samsung Display says …
A Virtual Kiss Is Just A Kiss April 2, 2012 by Dave Haynes [youtube id=”xyFZl7lCz_s” width=”600″ height=”350″] It reads all science fiction-y when you first look at this post out of Japan about an interactive poster that you can kiss and get a reaction from, but what’s going on isn’t actually all that magical or interesting. As The Verge reports, “researchers at Keio University are working on a …
Broadcast International Makes $8M, Loses $8M March 30, 2012 by Dave Haynes Utah-based Broadcast International has been around the digital signage space for a few years but not been all that embedded in it, also marketing video compression technology I remember getting demo’d on a cell phone going back maybe five years. The company was at Digital Signage Expo with a fairly substantial stand and pitch about their …
DSA Names Industry Excellence Winners March 29, 2012 by Dave Haynes The Digital Screenmedia Association has handed out the winners of its DSA Industry Excellence Awards, which honors the best digital signage, mobile and self-service kiosk technology deployments across all vertical market segments. The awards were given out last night at a function tied in to the CETW show that wraps today in San Francisco. Network …
Nielsen: Smartphone Penetration In US Crosses 50% Barrier March 29, 2012 by Dave Haynes At some point in the last few weeks more U.S. mobile subscribers were on smartphones than on “dumb” feature phones, the research firm Nielsen is reporting. As of February, the penetration rate was at 49.7% and unless something really weird happened, that percentage would have continued to rise this month. Nielsen says this marks an …
Rackspace Survey: Many Businesses Still Chained To Servers March 29, 2012 by Dave Haynes Cloud is a pretty seriously abused term these days – with companies using cloud almost interchangeably with Internet. Raffi Vartian from signagelive, which describes itself as cloud-based digital signage software, sent around a press release this morning by cloud computing giant Rackspace that references his company. CEO Jason Cremins is quoted, which is a bit …
