Pennsylvania’s goofy wine kiosk program gets corked for good September 27, 2011 by Dave Haynes The word out of Pennsylvania is that the state liquor board’s wondrously dumb self-service, digital signage-topped wine kiosk program is done. Reports Penn Live (via Self Service World): The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board says its one-year experiment with wine vending kiosks at grocery stores is over because of a dispute with the contractor. The Liquor Control Board …
New ad serving technology raising privacy concerns September 27, 2011 by Dave Haynes If you use or have an interest in – pro or con – video analytics technology used to count audiences and intelligent serve ads on screens, you should read this piece in PC World that explores the debate about online ad-serving and personally identifiable information. The piece looks at the big investment Microsoft and other …
Digital OOH In The Works For Astral Media September 27, 2011 by Dave Haynes We hear and read a lot about how Digital OOH works best when it is part of an integrated media and marketing mix, but I’m not sure it happens all that much. It helps, however, when a media company dominates a major market and has control over multiple mediums. Up the road in Montreal, Marketing …
Gadget news: DirectX 11, Raspberry Pi September 27, 2011 by Dave Haynes Geek.com is relaying news that AMD has released a new graphics processor chip that’s optimized for the high-end video and motion graphics needs of commercial sectors like casino gaming and digital signage, using DirectX 11 graphics and features. Skip this paragraph if you are not a propellerhead: The Radeon E6460 embedded GPU is a 40nm chip running …
Spicer leaves VUKUNET; Vartian and HaiVision part ways September 27, 2011 by Dave Haynes A pair of well-known and respected industry guys parted ways with their companies at the end of last week and are now sorting out their next moves. Graeme Spicer is no longer with NEC, having spent the last year shuttling back and forth between his Toronto home and NEC’s Chicago offices to build up business …
Back at my post September 26, 2011 by Dave Haynes I’ve read it is not the brightest idea to broadcast the fact that you will be out of town for several days, as thieves might be intrigued by that information. So I just kinda dropped off for a week and went on a holiday. It had been more than a year since I last had …
Stratacache works partnership with Canadian telecom TELUS September 15, 2011 by Dave Haynes Stratacache has announced what looks like a pretty nice deal with TELUS, one of the big three telecoms in Canada, to market and deliver digital signage services up here amidst the moose, Mounties and Two-Fours. Says the release: This newly formed agreement brings together STRATACACHE’s digital signage software—ActiVia for Media—and TELUS’ national Canadian wireless network to create a new digital signage …
Worst content practices: In what strange parallel universe is this a good idea? September 15, 2011 by Dave Haynes From a press release for a new installation in a large hotel. Screen design madness. The client likely doesn’t know any better and thinks this is just mind-blowing. The vendor certainly should know better, and provide some basic advice. With ALL the good information out there, seeing these “worst practices” actually celebrated in press releases …
Four Winds hires execs to grow sales beyond North America September 14, 2011 by Dave Haynes Denver-based Four Winds Interactive has announced plans and hires to expand its business beyond North America. Former Scala exec Robert Koolen is now President of FWi’s international ops and Paul Farrow, who was most recently with HP’s digital signage business unit (wonder why he bailed on that … hmmm) is FWi’s Director for Europe. Koolen …
Where’s the dial??? Turns out 55-plus crowd actually does know how to use mobile phones September 14, 2011 by Dave Haynes If all your anthropology assumptions were based on TV spots and popular culture, you’d likely have concluded trying to get the 55-plus crowd using smart phones to use social networks and interact with screens was a totally lost cause. Older people tend to get portrayed as befuddled dolts who need phones with just two very …
