Android For Digital Signage: A Closer Look At TargetR May 22, 2013 by Super User The latest in our running series of closer looks at Android-driven digital signage solution providers is UK-based TargetR. Some 30 companies have introduced products based on the open-source Android operating system that is very widely used for smart devices like handsets and tablets, all of them using CPUs based on ARM reference designs. Most smartphones …
DSA Names New President, Exec Officers May 22, 2013 by Super User The Digital Screenmedia Association (DSA) has elected a new president, officers and representatives for its digital signage, mobile and self-service kiosks councils, with the body now being led by Bill Lynch. Can’t say I know him, but he Lynch is the vice president for mobile and self-service transaction company Reevex, which I also know diddly about other than …
Xaxis Adds Digital OOH To Its Programmatic Buying May 22, 2013 by Super User The programmatic ad buying space appears to be heating up. First, there was Vistar Media, which Sixteen:Nine profiled recently. Now there is word, via Digiday, of another firm spraying this ad territory. Xaxis says it has inventory across more than 100,000 digital out-of-home screens available through its audience buying platform. That’s a lot or a …
Details Set On DSF’s Toronto Mixer In June May 22, 2013 by Super User The Digital Signage Federation has filled in the blanks on plans to hold a mixer in Toronto in about a month. Held at the King Street West bar where we used to do mixers (but I got too stinkin’ busy to organize), the event is meant for networking. There will be drinks and appetizers and …
DOOHgood And Help Moore, OK’s F5 Survivors May 22, 2013 by Super User Even on the other side of the world the Moore, OK F5 tornado is big news, and a couple of emails came in to me here suggesting DOOHgood needs to get ramped up for driving donations to the American Red Cross. As a network operator in the US – retail, ad, corporate or whatever – …
Android For Digital Signage: Say Hello To This Flexible, Low-Cost Platform May 18, 2013 by Super User Here’s the 12th entry in this running series of closer looks at digital signage solution providers who have started working with the Android operating system and low-cost, ultra-small ARM processors. Almost 30 companies have introduced products based on the open-source Android operating system that is very widely used for smart devices like handsets and tablets, …
Stratacache Bags Dairy Queen May 15, 2013 by Super User Stratacache won Dairy Queen quite some time ago, I think, but now has the sign-off to officially name the ice cream company as a major account. American Dairy Queen Corporation, as the company is more officially known, has signed on with Dayton, Ohio-based Stratacache to ‘power digital feature panels across 300 Dairy Queen and DQ …
DSA Celebrates Top Digital Signage Projects, Operators And Service Providers May 14, 2013 by Super User The Digital Screenmedia Association has named the winners of its DSA Industry Excellence Awards, which celebrates the best digital signage, mobile and self-service kiosk projects across a variety of verticals.The awards were presented this week during a dinner related to the association’s Digital Screenmedia Symposium in Dallas. The 2013 winners are: Industry Deployer of the …
Q&A: Vistar Media Bringing Automated Buying To Digital OOH May 14, 2013 by Super User The deal announced a few weeks ago that saw Vistar Media raise $1.5 million to help fund the first real automated buy and sell platform for Digital OOH reminded me I wanted to do a broader piece on the company. Vistar co-founder Jeremy Ozen and I have been going back and forth on an email …
Projects: ABSA’s Bank Of The Future In Suburban Johannesburg May 14, 2013 by Super User A little pre-dinner wander around the Clearwater shopping mall in Johannesburg Monday (here on a gig) walked me up to a bank of the future digital install that was both impressive and dumb. I had no idea it was there. First, the impressive … The ABSA bank (part of the Barclay’s group) has installed a …
