"Oh Really!" Department: World's First "Intelligent" Media Player? May 13, 2010 by Super UserThis is a reach, to put it mildly. From a press release: AOpen America Inc., the world’s leading ultra small-form-factor computer system manufacturer and digital signage solution provider has entered into an OEM licensing agreement with iSIGN Media Solutions Inc to embed iSIGN’s patent-pending Bluetooth(R) interactive software technology into AOpen’s digital media players. The move …
Nanonation demos iPad app for retail and digital signage April 20, 2010 by Super UserThis is my first stab at using my little Flip video thingdoodle – kindly supplied by some friends at Cisco – to show some stuff I see at trade shows and from my other travels. The video is a quick chat with Brian Ardinger on Nanonation about the iPad app they quickly did up for …
Does Animoto's juiced-up slideshow app have a role in digital signage? Yup. March 18, 2010 by Super UserI’m just coming off a very heavy project writing what I think is a great set of guidelines on creating content for a particular piece of technology, so creative is a little on my melting brain at the moment. The client does great content – among the best around – but its work is oriented …
Samsung intros super-wide 4:1 LCD for mass transit, other public spaces March 5, 2010 by Super User Samsung now has a 43-inch LCD panel that has a panoramic aspect ratio of 4:1 and does full HD-ready (1920×480 resolution) signals.
Stratacache starts new award for clever apps that bridge digital signage and mobile March 3, 2010 by Super UserThe mobile industry will have a huge impact on what the digital signage industry does over the next few years. It is not technology that operates in parallel to DS screens. It’s going to be integrated, and supplanting many of the notions we all had how screens would be used. Who, for example, is really …
Center for Democracy & Technology releases new report on privacy and DOOH; skips alarmist nonsense March 2, 2010 by Super User The Washington, DC-based Center for Democracy & Technology released a new report this week on consumer privacy and the digital signage industry, called Building the Digital Out-Of-Home Privacy Infrastructure. The CDT report has recommendations for ensuring privacy as more and more DS and DOOH companies start using audience counting and other technologies to get a sense …
Monster Media sets up sales office in Canada March 1, 2010 by Super User The companies that have been dabbling in the projection DOOH media space in Canada now have a pretty substantial competitor in their midst. Orlando, Florida-based Monster Media has hired a guy and established an office in Toronto, with a release this afternoon describing what they do as “full body responsive out-of-home advertising.” John Payne, president of Monster …
More DSE 2010 Impressions February 26, 2010 by Super UserSo the theory was that because I was not going to be chained to a booth, I for once could really have a good look around. Didn’t work so hot. I did indeed see a lot more than usual, but there were a lot of vendors and I ran out of time to have more …
DSE Impressions … so far February 25, 2010 by Super UserDay three at DSE in Lost Wages. On the go for about 20 hours each day so NOT a lot of time to type away. But wifi is now working in the press room, so quickly, here’s what I know and see … Busy show. Lots of people and some booths like Christie very crowded. …
LocaModa sweats it assets; opens apps store February 16, 2010 by Super User This is smart. LocaModa has taken a lot of the Flash-centric applications it has developed and refined over the last 3-4 years, added some new ones, and packaged them up into an app store. These are essentially full-screen widgets that DOOH networks can grab to juice up their programming with something outside the over-used and …
