Interactive projection/kiosk promos new Nissan Leaf September 28, 2010 by Dave HaynesThe guys at Spyeglass in Minneapolis sent along a release with pix and video of a project that uses their projection film and interactive touch foil. Through the reseller, RTT, USA Inc., and a pile of other companies doing different but related stuff, the projection film was part of a roving promo program for Nissan’s …
Samsung shows off its smart TV widgets (from rAVe) September 27, 2010 by Dave HaynesFrom Sixteen:Nine’s content partner rAVe [Publications], a shaky (but stick with it as it settles out) video demo-ing Samsung’s Smart TV gadgets and general capabilities at last week’s CEDIA show. The webinar I did last week discussed widgets and gadgets and how they can start to make an IPTV loook more and more like a …
NanoLumens screens named among top tech innovations September 27, 2010 by Dave HaynesCongratulations to the guys down in Atlanta behind NanoLumens, who were cited today as a runner-up in the Wall Street Journal’s Technology Innovation Awards. Given the other runners-up were Nokia and Ford Motor Co., that’s a fairly impressive accomplishment. The winner in the category was a Taiwanese company that does paper-thin displays. NanoLumens, if you …
Guest Post: Out Of Home Day (Canada) – Recap September 26, 2010 by RajiThis past week I attended OOH Day in Toronto. It was my second time at this event, the first since 2005. Great event, with some noticeable differences from the 2005 event. One difference was the prominence of DOOH suppliers, compared to mainstream OOH suppliers. Meaning everything was digital … from Ad Mirrors, Ad Pods, Cinema …
Will trade ruling lower flat panel prices in Europe? September 22, 2010 by Dave HaynesFrom Chris Sava and Display Alliance News comes word that the European Union will not appeal a ruling this summer that it has to stop imposing a 14 per cent tariff on imports of high-end LCD flat panels. The World Trade Organization had ruled that the EU was slapping on the tariff for anything bigger …
Webinar tomorrow on where CMS platforms are going September 21, 2010 by Dave HaynesDigital Signage Magazine and NEC asked me to present on a free webinar tomorrow about content management systems for digital signage. Mike Zmuda – a nice, sharp and straight-talking guy who handles biz dev for NEC – will give the skinny on VUKUNET, but I had free reins to blabber on about whatever I wanted. …
DS Talent Pool: Tom McGowan September 20, 2010 by Dave HaynesTom McGowan and I met on my first day on the job with BroadSign, having been enticed to join the team. He impressed me right away, because he spoke his mind and knew the technical side of the business like few I’d run into through the years. He’s the subject of my latest Talent Pool …
Sixteen:Nine and rAVe work new partnership September 14, 2010 by Dave HaynesWell after 1,700-plus posts, the odd angry letter and threatened lawsuit, and endless side notes about me being “such a smart-ass”, Sixteen:Nine is making a bit of a big move this week. I have entered into a content and sales/marketing partnership with rAVe [Publications] that will see some Sixteen:Nine content being used on rAVe’s AV …
Neo exits Canada, sells network to partner September 14, 2010 by Dave HaynesNeo Advertising has sold its mall food court network to its mall media partner Traffic, effectively ending the Swiss-based company’s activity in North America (having earlier abandoned once aggressive US expansion plans). The deal has been in the works for several months and I kept hearing chatter about it being on and off, on and …