Carre Dawson hangs up consulting hard hat, joins Walt at Harris January 11, 2010 by Super UserHarris Corporation has brought on longtime industry consultant Carre Dawson to help grow the Broadcast Communications unit’s digital signage business, working as a director of business development. Carre joins Rebecca Walt, who has been with Harris for a couple of months now. Dawson covers the West Coast (she lives in LA) and Walt works the east, based …
Maybe not as a full fledged player, but January 11, 2010 by Super UserMaybe not as a full fledged player, but definitely applicable for personal and “on-the-fly” showings and demonstrations. On the other side of the fence, we had one of our recent Academy of Digital Signage students build out a full set of content and a playlist using only his iPhone accessing the Cisco media designer. Again …
Creative Realities hires on Davis-Taylor as retail strategy VP January 11, 2010 by Super UserDailyDOOH had this on the weekend, but there’s a press release out now with more detail about experiential branding and marketing firm Creative Realities (also known as CRI), hiring on Laura Davis-Taylor as Vice President of Global Retail Strategy, working with the New Jersey-based firm’s Studio CRI strategy and creative group.”We’ve always believed in the importance of big picture …
Do tweets on digital billboards make sense January 11, 2010 by Super UserI was just reading a post on outdoor giant Lamar’s digital blog (as spotted by DS Today) about how the MGM Grand in Las Vegas is working with them on a trial program with a couple of big digital boards around that city.The billboard comes with its own unique set of challenges, notes Lamar’s Adam Kirby. Conveying a …
I doubt the processing power of a smartp January 11, 2010 by Super UserI doubt the processing power of a smartphone for digital signage. Flash is good but more and more networks are looking towards broadcast style content and video playback on phones is less then stellar. It would have been a good jumping off point a while back but now there are so many smaller stand alone …
Is a smartphone a digital signage player, too? January 9, 2010 by Super UserSpotted this on Engadget, which was picking up on an iSuppli analysis of the build cost of the new Google Nexus One smartphone.iSuppli reports a preliminary estimate of $174.15 for the cost of materials needed to build each handset. The research firm also congratulates Google on keeping a bill of materials comparable to most recent smartphones while having “the …
Coach? No Way! You need to hold out for January 8, 2010 by Super UserCoach? No Way! You need to hold out for a first class ticket. And don’t forget to wear underpants, the x-ray machines show everything!
ISE coming up in Europe; bloggers get business class treatment January 8, 2010 by Super UserIntegrated Systems Europe is the rough equivalent, I gather, of the InfoComm show in North America for the AV/systems integrator crowd. It runs the first week of February in Amsterdam, somewhere I have never been but would love to see.I’d go because I’d like to get a better perspective on what’s going in Europe. The Dutch …
At least you have a full head of hair .. January 7, 2010 by Super UserAt least you have a full head of hair …
Dave- We also use the Revo sometimes January 7, 2010 by Super UserDave- We also use the Revo sometimes (our KioskCom booth had them as well). Like Bill says it tends to not be too flash friendly, which stops us from using them for higher-end clients that require more animations/transitions. However, Moore’s Law is definitely kicking in here and $200 players like the Revo should be out …
