ComQi works shopper insight deal with UK’s Path Intelligence September 28, 2011 by Super User The digital signage hardware/software firm ComQi (aka Minicom/EnQii) has worked a deal with a UK firm that specializes in generating reports on how consumers moves around malls and big footprint retailers. Path Intelligence passively tracks and logs how mobile phone users move around an enclosed environment, sort out the patterns on where people go, when …
Brawn’s volunteer work cited by InfoComm September 28, 2011 by Super User The pro-AV trade association InfoComm International has cited one of the more omnipresent names in this sector – Alan Brawn – for his volunteer efforts. The consultant and educator (he and his son, among many things, do those Digital Signage Experts Group sessions that seem to be part of most sector trade shows) has been …
Coke bottles – Ohmigod! – floating in mid-air!!! September 28, 2011 by Super User For some reason, I go into some rapid eye-blinking state when I read and re-read the key pitch line for this new company: 9D Media is the world’s first “Glasses-Free” 3D Digital Out of Home Signage Network, purely focused on reaching the Hispanic consumer. There’s a network now that JUST does autostereoscopic 3D? And it only …
DSA and CETW plan pre-show mixer in NYC September 27, 2011 by Super User CET World is coming on pretty soon in New York, and the Digital Screenmedia Association – which has close ties to the trade show – is planning a mixer on Nov. 8, the night before the show’s doors open. The DSA’s Crown Awards will be announced at the function. The venue is yet to be …
Pennsylvania’s goofy wine kiosk program gets corked for good September 27, 2011 by Super User The word out of Pennsylvania is that the state liquor board’s wondrously dumb self-service, digital signage-topped wine kiosk program is done. Reports Penn Live (via Self Service World): The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board says its one-year experiment with wine vending kiosks at grocery stores is over because of a dispute with the contractor. The Liquor Control Board …
New ad serving technology raising privacy concerns September 27, 2011 by Super User If you use or have an interest in – pro or con – video analytics technology used to count audiences and intelligent serve ads on screens, you should read this piece in PC World that explores the debate about online ad-serving and personally identifiable information. The piece looks at the big investment Microsoft and other …
Digital OOH In The Works For Astral Media September 27, 2011 by Super User We hear and read a lot about how Digital OOH works best when it is part of an integrated media and marketing mix, but I’m not sure it happens all that much. It helps, however, when a media company dominates a major market and has control over multiple mediums. Up the road in Montreal, Marketing …
Gadget news: DirectX 11, Raspberry Pi September 27, 2011 by Super User Geek.com is relaying news that AMD has released a new graphics processor chip that’s optimized for the high-end video and motion graphics needs of commercial sectors like casino gaming and digital signage, using DirectX 11 graphics and features. Skip this paragraph if you are not a propellerhead: The Radeon E6460 embedded GPU is a 40nm chip running …
Spicer leaves VUKUNET; Vartian and HaiVision part ways September 27, 2011 by Super User A pair of well-known and respected industry guys parted ways with their companies at the end of last week and are now sorting out their next moves. Graeme Spicer is no longer with NEC, having spent the last year shuttling back and forth between his Toronto home and NEC’s Chicago offices to build up business …
Back at my post September 26, 2011 by Super User I’ve read it is not the brightest idea to broadcast the fact that you will be out of town for several days, as thieves might be intrigued by that information. So I just kinda dropped off for a week and went on a holiday. It had been more than a year since I last had …
