Pattison Outdoor out of stealth mode June 19, 2008 by Dave Haynes Canadian out of home advertising biggie Pattison Outdoor Advertising has been poking around at the digital signage space for about three years now, but has been doing so very, very quietly. But the cat is out of the bag, not sure how, as Adrian’s Daily Dooh blog has a post and snapshot (above) about the …
InfoComm day 1 June 19, 2008 by Dave Haynes Crazy hot. Not a cloud to be seen. Pretty busy inside, though compared to Day 1 at DSE a few months ago the traffic was nothing. It was mercifully free (well … almost) of AV integrators wandering up and asking what we did. I expect that tomorrow, as day 1 at a show is usually …
Everybody do the all in one hustle June 19, 2008 by Dave HaynesIs it just me, or is the all-in-one, digital signage in a box, easy as 1-2-3 thing suddenly popping up here and there and everywhere. EK3 recently unveiled DigiPost. Wirespring was showing one off at a conference the other day. Mediatile has been peddling that concept since forever. Same with MagicBox. And day one of …
InfoComm opens its doors in Las Vegas June 18, 2008 by Dave Haynes Technically, bits and pieces of the show have been on for a fews days and there is quite a big co-locates show called NexComm (I think) already running, but it was full of telephony and connectivity gear and people who love acronyms. The real show infoComm starts in an hour so off I got to …
The shame of shameless self-promotion June 17, 2008 by Dave HaynesSo I am sitting at the Strategy Institute conference, listening to “Software Options: A Framework for Selection to Ensure Interoperability, Fit and Success.” I know this is going to be one of those vendor-driven things of nominal value, but this one was particularly useless because of the first guy up. We won’t say who, but …
The next wave of projectors June 17, 2008 by Dave Haynes The use of projectors for digital signage has always been limited by a couple of critical factors: the short lifespan of the bulbs, and the cost of servicing (mostly to swap those 2000-hour bulbs). So many people have been watching with fascination as projector systems get smaller and smaller … and smaller. This is still …
Using DS to keep a campus safe June 16, 2008 by Dave HaynesYou can tell alot about the quality of the presentations at a conference by how many people are firing up their laptops and fiddling about with their BlackBerries. Suffice to say, there was a fair amount of idle email checking this morning during the opening presentations at the Strategy Institute’s conference here in Las Vegas, …
InfoComm '08 opens with Strategy Institute conference June 16, 2008 by Dave Haynes There’s a lot more than digital signage going on with infoComm, a massive AV show whose organizers decided June in Las Vegas would be a smashing idea. It’s a little hot. But drinking a lot of beer is no longer recreation, just necessary hydrating. The latest incarnation of the Strategy Institute series of DS-focused shows …
TruMedia prez calls for proactive privacy policy to counter NY Times fuss June 10, 2008 by Dave HaynesUndoubtedly concerned that other journalists will steadily recycle that torqued New York Times article about the privacy horrors of face tracking, the president of one of those audience measurements has written a letter to the newspaper suggesting he and his competitors expressly promise they will not store images of consumers or other information that could …
OVAB chair promises guidelines by early summer June 6, 2008 by Dave HaynesThe latest Media Post Digital Outsider has a Q and A with an old post-merger boss, Mike DiFranza of Captivate Network, who talks about where the company has been and where its going. DiFranza is also one of the founders and the current chair of OVAB, and he talked about the much anticipated guidelines the …
