Audience counting gets a yappy new advocate in Mark Cuban July 19, 2010 by Dave HaynesI just invested in a company that takes video of an area and can tell you exactly how many people are in the capture area at any given time. It’s great for traffic patterns, security, and much more. We are posting cameras in certain environments where anonymity is required, and we don’t and won’t capture …
Rise Vision's digital signage offer goes to the cloud July 8, 2010 by Dave HaynesRise Vision/Rise Display has gone through a shuffling and rethinking over the past year, and it’s been pretty clear from chairman Byron Darlisons Twitter and blog posts that the company was taking its services into the cloud and going big-time on open architecture. He put up a post Wednesday that talks about the beta release …
New InWindow movie promo adds 3D interactive July 6, 2010 by Dave HaynesInwindow Outdoor has another nice storefront DOOH program running with a movie house, this time an interesting interactive campaign for Disney’s new Sorcerer’s Apprentice flick. It is the first major use of 3D gesture technology, the company claims, in an outdoor ad display. People who walk up can actually play a game and control the screen …
Samsung's Magic software evolving, getting slicker July 6, 2010 by Dave HaynesThe Samsung people I know don’t spend much time trying to sell me on the 10 gallons of awesome that is their software product, MagicInfo/MagicNet. Because it’s actually pretty basic, entry-level stuff. But that’s all a lot of end-users are going to need, and it’s now been around a few years. It’s evolving and getting …
Wine-buying kiosk fails basic test of making a task easier June 28, 2010 by Dave HaynesHow about taking the experience of buying a bottle of wine and giving it all the pleasure of renewing your license plate sticker? That’s what the state of Pennsylvania has in mind, apparently, with a new automated wine-dispensing system that gets rid of those pesky state liquor store employees and puts all the bottles of …
Flash 10.1 hands off video work to graphics processor June 18, 2010 by Dave HaynesWell, we are still waiting for Adobe to hand off the definitive, uambiguous word on the whole licensing issue with the Flash Player for digital signage. That was going to be in the new year, and I suppose one might weakly argue the new year is only half over … There are people out there …
Seneca Data's sleek little digital signage player June 15, 2010 by Dave HaynesWhen I was at Infocomm last week poking around the trade hall, acting interested and waiting furtively for the Christie Digital booth to start pouring beers, I saw a lot of little boxes from Seneca Data driving digital signage applications. The upstate New York company only launched its slim little boxes a few months ago,so …
Google TV explained, and why you should care June 15, 2010 by Dave HaynesThe 1:56 mark of this new video from Google tells you what you want to really know about Google TV and its relevance to the digital signage market. At the entry level, your digital signage playback engine could be nothing more than an Android app selected from the marketplace. Find. Select. Click. Off you go. …
New Mac Mini makes best Digital Signage player out there better June 15, 2010 by Dave HaynesApple has quietly released a new version of its Mac Mini, stripping down the size, amping up its capabilities and reducing power consumption. What was already considered arguably the best digital signage player around seems to be better (though also costlier). The refreshed Mini is now 0.6 inches thinner, and even sleeker than the original. …
Another display vendor gets into digital signage software game June 10, 2010 by Dave HaynesLG Electronics has announced a turnkey digital signage solution called LG SignNET, that includes hardware, software, news feeds from CNN, and a dozen starter templates. Aimed at the SMB market, the service is set to come available by end of summer, and gives customers a full-meal deal at $179/month, for three year agreements. The deal …