Low Cost CPUs Force Smart Content Decisions May 12, 2013 by Super User One of the happy consequences of all the tinkering going right now with low-cost, limited-power CPUs like ARM-based Android players and Raspberry Pi micro computers is the decision to stop a lot of the multi-zone crap and simplify presentations. The Raspberry Pi forum has a post up about a project that involved developing a network …
My Day Off May 11, 2013 by Super User My consulting gig in South Africa has been a Groundhog Day thing of going to an office park and going back to the hotel, and repeat. Day after day. But we did get out today. We couldn’t figure out why traffic was backed up on this game reserve north of Joburg, and then this pair …
Wireless Ronin: Still Losing Money, Dealing To Keep Lights On May 11, 2013 by Super User The lights are still on at Wireless Ronin, but the Minneapolis-area software company is still a long way off from profitability and resorting now to taking cash from partners to fund the business, but in turn pretty much vacating what’s been a core vertical. On the earnings call, the executive team said it has done …
VertNext Is What’s Next In Ad…VERT…Ising (Really, They Said That) May 11, 2013 by Super User This is beyond awesome. A Philly area company has announced a new digital sign/advertising thingie that is positioned and presented like they just came up with a cure for some horrible disease. From what I can tell from this softly delivered blizzard of buzzwords and acronyms (including DMO, which is … something [think he means …
Other End Of Planet, And Crappy Internet May 7, 2013 by Super User Sorry. I am in South Africa, working with a terrific client and equally terrific set of business partners. So the combination of long flights, jet lag, wobbly connectivity and $8 wine that would cost me $25 back home have made posting a little difficult. Hic. Now that my body seems to have come to grips …
A Talking Flat Lady I Kinda Sorta Like (Must Have Skipped My Meds) May 3, 2013 by Super User As much as I dislike Talking Flat Ladies, they’ve gone over well enough – very surprisingly – at Logan Airport in Boston to merit ordering another three of the virtual assistant projection thingdoodles And the company that’s been championing the things is introducing a new version next week that I actually kinda sorta like, again …
Screenly Serves Up Raspberry Pi As Alternative To Android Players May 3, 2013 by Super User The Raspberry Pi is now very close to being a viable digital signage playback device, and a for-profit software company has been investing the time and resources to develop a Linux-driven player and content management system to bring to the market. WireLoad – which has developers in the UK and Sweden – says its Screenly …
Research: Three In Five Banks Ready To Get Serious About Digital Signage May 2, 2013 by Super User Retail marketing agency John Ryan, which is somewhere between mostly and entirely focused on retail banking, has issued a report on the findings from a survey done with some 200 large- and medium-sized European, Australian and North American retail banks – whose collective footprint is more than 150,000 branches and 32 countries. The survey was …
Projects: Franklin Institute’s New Ticketing Boards May 2, 2013 by Super User Here’s the new ticketing display system at The Franklin Institute, a science museum in Philadelphia Science Museum. There are five 55-inch displays at the ticketing entrance, showing ticket prices, current or upcoming exhibits, show and tour group times, and video trailers. The museum uses Scala and has set its scheduling to shuffle ticket packages for museum …
Projects: Skier Info At Chamonix Mont Blanc May 2, 2013 by Super User The Swiss software company Navori has its QL platform the communications for Compagnie du Mont Blanc, which runs the French Chamonix Mont Blanc area. There are 16 outdoor and indoor screens, some as high up as 10,000 feet and operating at waaay below zero, running snow conditions, wayfinding, cable lift information, weather information and alerts. …
