Trolls At The Gates: Where’s The DSF Or DSA? July 10, 2013 by Super User Affectionately-named patent trolls have been around this sector for a few years now. I get emails and phone calls periodically from software execs asking what I know about patent troll activity in this sector. I tell them I am, mercifully, not running a software company like them, so I have not had the pleasure of …
Capital Networks Release V2 Of Android Platform July 9, 2013 by Super User Capital Networks is now on to V2 of its Android digital signage solution, aka Audience for Android v2. The company (loyal Sixteen:Nine advertiser) launched V1 formally a year ago, one of the first on what is an increasingly crowded market. Version two brings more horsepower to the hardware and software, as well as a broader …
OptimEyes Is New And Revolutionary Exactly How? July 9, 2013 by Super User The UK-based digital OOH network Amscreen is getting all kinds of trade media attention today for the launch of something called OptimEyes, which unless I am missing something is just Quividi face pattern detection packaged up with ad serving data as something revolutionary. Amscreen says the platform “will further cement its position as the most …
Harris Out At The New Harris July 9, 2013 by Super User The guy who ran the broadcast side of Harris, including digital signage, is now out and a new CEO is in place at the company now running independently as Harris Broadcast. Investor The Gores Group has appointed Charlie Vogt as CEO, effective today. Vogt succeeds Harris Morris, who was appointed president of Harris Broadcast when …
STRATACACHE Buys More Dayton Real Estate; Now Has Five Buildings In City July 9, 2013 by Super User Chris Riegel is gradually becoming a Dayton, Ohio real estate baron – announcing today the purchase by STRATACACHE of twin office blocks up by the airport. That means STRATACACHE now owns the HQ/ops office block just on the fringes of downtown, a couple of big warehouse blocks used as staging and distribution centers, and these …
Mystery Partner Surfaces For iSIGN’s Curious Advertising Deal July 8, 2013 by Super User That very curious deal in which the Toronto-based interactive ad network and services provider iSIGN sold its ad rights to a mystery partner now has some detail. The contract granting exclusive advertising rights for the signage and mobile network in Mac’s Convenience Stores across Canada was signed with iTrix Media, which (for those following outside …
Dynamax Adds Android Hardware-Software Solution July 8, 2013 by Super User [vimeo id=”69879094″ width=”600″ height=”350″] UK software firm Dynamax has joined the ranks of established software houses that have added Android solutions to their product offer. Dynamax Technologies says its new Android-based digital signage solution is the company’s first hardware solution since the launch of its SaaS product digitalsignage.NET, in 2010. The company already had Windows …
Projects: 19,000 Sq Ft Of Display And Brilliant Content At Redone LAX Terminal July 7, 2013 by Super User This has the makings of something really special. The revitalized Tom Bradley International Terminal (TBIT) at LAX opens next month with a series of enhancements that will make the technical side of travel better, but also add to the experience of passing through the crazy-busy airline terminal. The terminal will be filled with big, intriguing …
Preset Good Advice Series: Manolo Almagro July 5, 2013 by Super User The third in our video vignette series features Manolo Almagro (known by many simply as Manny) providing some solid advice on who to seek out for advice. Manny works for TPN and is based out of Chicago, and has a long history in and on the edges of this sector.
UK’s Silver Curve Launches Raspberry Pi-based Commercial-Grade Digital Signage Platform July 5, 2013 by Super User UK-based Silver Curve has started raising money, using a sophisticated crowd-funding platform, to build out the team for a software platform that enables “top-end signage software packages” to run on low-cost Raspberry Pi-based computers. The $300,000 US equivalent raise just started days ago and the company was already at roughly 26% subscribed when I checked …
