3M tech opens possibility to analyze screen placement effectiveness in retail November 4, 2011 by Dave Haynes I am down in St. Paul, Minnesota with a group of industry smarty-pants … plus not-so-bright me … on the invitation of 3M. The display and graphics group at 3M is getting increasingly active and interested in the business possibilities for its technology and services, particularly as it relates to digital merchandising in retail. We …
Pix from LA’s DSE Huddle November 2, 2011 by Dave Haynes So, three time zones is probably a little too far to travel for an industry mixer, but geez, they were pouring pints of Shock Top! And there were wings! Ah well, I missed it by about 2,500 miles, but it looks like the Digital Signage Expo’s DSE Huddle mixer in LA went off well a …
Smartphones are changing the in-store digital dynamic, and that’s OK November 2, 2011 by Dave Haynes We’ve been hearing and reading for two or three years now how the rise of smartphones was going to change the dynamic in retail environments, and force some rethinking and reinvention of early in-store digital efforts. One-way pushes of content was looking awfully antiquated, and basic touch screens were going to quickly seem lame when …
Industry seminar and AM mixer set for mid-month in Toronto November 1, 2011 by Dave Haynes Taking the pint glass half-full perspective, I suppose it is good that I am so freakin’ busy that organizing a Toronto industry mixer remains stuck on the To Do list. It will get arranged at some point, I guess, though “When?” is a reasonable question. Any volunteers? It’s good then, that someone is getting the …
Guest Post: Digital Signage and the Internet of Things November 1, 2011 by Bas Smeets The technical community has been talking for a while now about the coming Internet of Things – when our business and personal lives see a fundamental shift in how we see and use the Internet. Right now, we use the Internet through computing devices like desktop PCs and laptops, tablets and smart phones. The digital …
Minority Report’s visionary doing DSE 2012 keynote October 31, 2011 by Dave Haynes [vimeo id=”2229299″ width=”600″ height=”350″] Minority Report references in stories about digital signage tend to set my eyes rolling, but a guy named John Underkoffler gets a pass – since he’s the fellow who came up with the gesture-based user interface in that 2002 Spielberg sci-fi movie. Most of the oh-so-tiresome Minority Report references we hear and …
Curmudgeon Friday: The “world’s greatest” digital signage manufacturer October 28, 2011 by Dave Haynes
Immersive founder Sosa profiled by Fox Business October 28, 2011 by Dave Haynes Jason Sosa of the start-up Immersive Labs – which mashes up video analytics with other tools to do intelligent screen-based ad targeting – got a very nice, lengthy profile on Fox Business – both in video and online. I tried to embed the video, but is no workee for me. So click here. He gets …
Prysm announces $100M-plus raise to start volume production October 27, 2011 by Dave Haynes Investment capital may be hard to come by for a lot of digital signage people – and business in general – these days, but the guys at Prysm just raised more than $100 million. The company, which markets Laser Phosphor Display stackable display tiles, just announced new financing that will turn on volume production of the …
McDonald’s stressing new Digital OOH channel just a regional test October 27, 2011 by Dave Haynes That recent news about a McDonald’s TV rollout in its stores continues to get a lot of attention, and in turn generate a lot of questions. I noted at the time the very noticeable absence of PR from the fast food giant when the story came out, and the decidedly cautious comments. Now the online …
