Intel shows off future digital retailing ideas at NRF January 10, 2011 by Super UserIntel made some noise last year at NRF with its interactive station, and the chipmaker is going for it again at the retail trade show. Intel unveiled its Connected Store concept – a two-story, 2,400 sq. ft. retail storefront concept – with an assortment of whiz-bang technologies. Powered by 2nd Generation Intel® Core™ processors, previous-generation …
Siemens uses SMS, digital signage screens to get CEO interacting with 10,000 staffers January 10, 2011 by Super UserThis is an interesting spin I’ve not seen before that integrated mobile technology with digital signage for a corporate communications exercise. Siemens stuck its US CEO at a cafeteria table and did a “Fireside Chat” via live video streaming with 10,000 employees, in 50 locations, and across 4 timezones. Staff interacted with Daryl Dulaney by …
Wow: LG's 4 by 30 video wall at CES January 7, 2011 by Super UserI was way too busy to go to CES this year, and it is such a crazy,exhausting show I kinda look for reasons why I can’t go. Hotel prices shoot up. Cabs are hard to get. There is sooo much walking. But, there’s always stuff you wish you could see in person, instead of reading …
MTI comes in from the edges, into thick of retail digital signage offers with new ReAct product January 6, 2011 by Super UserMTI has been working around the edges of the digital signage retail sector for many years, with software and displays that popped up content based on shopppers lifting up and inteacvting with its core products – secured tethers for merchandising displays. When you are about to stuff that sexy Samsung amoled smartphone into your pocket …
MicroSigns does first US deal for digital signage displays January 6, 2011 by Super UserMy friends (and clients) up in Montreal who have steadily built up European business for MicroSigns’ cool little interactive screens for wireless retail now have a toe-hold in the US, albeit waaaay west in Alaska. The company’s digital merchandising displays – small interactive LCDs that replace paper fact sheets on the display counters in wireless …
iPads clustered to make giant iPhone display December 21, 2010 by Super UserThis somehow straddles the line between clever and butt-ugly. As spotted in Engadget, a promotion at London’s St. Pancras rail station uses 56 iPad’s kinda tiled together to make one big, thick-gridded iPhone screen. The intent is to showcase a new Lara Croft/Tomb Raider iPad game. I was thinking a single screen would have made more …
Taipei tech co switches up whole size matters thing; debuts nano kiosk December 20, 2010 by Super UserHaving seen sales people for at least a couple of companies working trade shows and other events with little digital lapel tags, I get the concept and see the attraction. I’m not sure, however, about a spin-off product that takes the same little cell-phone or MP3 media player screen and puts it on its own …
Pic: Digital art in new Vegas hotel lobby December 16, 2010 by Super UserThe latest, and probably last for a long while, big resort on the Vegas strip opened this week. The $4B, 3,000-room Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas has no end of bling – it is catering to the Bellagio-Wynn crowd – but what I will want to see when next there is the digital art that evidently …
Panasonic joins the all-in-one bun fight with CoolSign/Haivision December 14, 2010 by Super UserPanasonic has done a partner deal with Haivision, the new owner of CoolSign, to market a “a complete digital signage solution for businesses that is easy to purchase, install and operate.” The solution combines Haivision’s CoolSign digital signage software platform, pre-configured on a powerful media player PC, and Panasonic’s professional LCD displays. This bundled digital …
AMX releases TCO calculator. Great, but … December 14, 2010 by Super UserPro AV giant AMX has announced and released a total cost of ownership (TCO) calculator for digital signage installations. “The first such tool in the digital signage industry lets buyers compare digital signage solutions and evaluate costs, both fixed and recurring. The TCO calculator also serves as an education vehicle introducing new buyers to the …
