Sightings: New teeny, powerful PC well-suited for digital signage? January 19, 2011 by Dave HaynesAs spotted in Engadget: The Israeli firm Compulab has released a 6 inch by 6 inch, 1 inch thick little box called the Fit PC3 with a dual-core AMD and Radeom HD graphics card, and no fan. I am no propeller head, but that sounds like a pretty spanking nice little digital signage player. Reports …
Navori's new software pushing broadcast-quality video out of $350 PCs January 19, 2011 by Dave HaynesThe Swiss software company Navori doesn’t make a lot of noise in the marketplace, but they quietly do a lot of business – with installs in 90 countries and some 75,000 active licenses. That number thoroughly blows away the installed base of a lot of much noisier competitors. The company IS making some noise this …
Intel on its Connected Store (video) January 12, 2011 by Dave HaynesSpotted this video on Intel’s YouTube channel. It is built around the NRF show and shows how Intel, from its point of view, pretty much IS the eco-system of digital signage in retail. It’s a solid presentation about the many ways screen-based technology is and will be implemented in retail environments, but someone new to …
Intel shows off future digital retailing ideas at NRF January 10, 2011 by Dave HaynesIntel 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 Dave HaynesThis 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 Dave HaynesI 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 Dave HaynesMTI 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 Dave HaynesMy 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 Dave HaynesThis 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 Dave HaynesHaving 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 …