DSE Extends Early-Bird Registration Discount February 5, 2013 by Super User Digital Signage Expo is just three weeks out (yikes!) but the trade show has extended its early bird registration discount out to the middle of next week, which means you can save a pile on the costs of some of the educational sessions. For instance, the Gold Passport that lets you attend your choice of four seminars, …
Project Profile: iPads As Product Selectors In Lowe’s Canada February 5, 2013 by Super User There’s been lots of talk about using iPads in retail, but apart from the Apple store and some POS systems, I haven’t actually seen that much real-world usage as a low-cost and engaging merchandising solution. But here’s a small, interesting project running in Lowe’s stores up here among the polar bears and muskrat and 5% …
Fifteen Mixer Slots Open Up. Register Now! February 4, 2013 by Super User Preset Mixer FINAL from studio10productions on Vimeo. Technically the mixer is sold out, but there are always some people who have changes in plans and also a number of people who – for reasons escaping me – register themselves twice. Maybe because they’re not sure the ticketing worked first time around? Doesn’t matter. The net …
Christie’s Book Of Shapes Now A Free iPad App (Or PDF) February 1, 2013 by Super User For the purposes of full disclosure, this is a bit of a shameless plug. Christie has published and released The Book of Shapes – a “coffee table” style book that showcases projects around the globe that have used the company’s MicroTiles to somewhat reinvent the idea of video walls and digital display in retail and arhcitectuarl …
RMG Gets Unfocused Again, Taking Over Akoo’s Failed Mall Media Network January 31, 2013 by Super User News that RMG Networks has taken over the screens in shopping malls that were previously run by Akoo comes as a bit of a surprise, given that the San Francisco-based company had last year got out of verticals like fitness to focus solely on airline travel. Now the company is selling a huge network of …
ComQi Exits The Com Side Of Business Via Kramer Licensing Deal January 29, 2013 by Super User An email just came in that says Kramer Electronics and ComQi have done a “global strategic partnership agreement” that has the Com in ComQi effectively dealt to Kramer. The agreement, says a release timed for Integrated Systems Europe in Amsterdam, provides Kramer Electronics with exclusive manufacturing, sales and marketing rights for ComQi’s (former Minicom Digital Signage) …
Sightings: Transparent LCDs Done Right January 29, 2013 by Super User I followed a link to some unrelated video from the show floor at ISE in Amsterdam, which (as often happens online) took me somewhere else and to this piece of video. This company, TransLook, does the much-copied transparent LCD thing, but does content way, way better than most of what I have seen out there. …
New Digital Poster Runs, Updates Off Solar January 29, 2013 by Super User The marketplace potential for monochromatic signs probably has a relatively low ceiling, but nonetheless there are theoretically lots of basic paper signs that could be replaced with this newest generation of electronic ink displays if the ROI made sense. Plastic Logic and SERELC have developed and are now marketing a low-power outdoor digital signage solution …
Mr. Crankypants Rolls Over 3,000 Mark January 28, 2013 by Super User One of things I like about WordPress as a content management system is it gives you all kinds of stats on a configurable dashboard, so it is easy to know where you are at. I know I was coming up on my 7th anniversary as Mr. Crankypants blogger (post 1 was Feb. 5, 2006) but …
Preset Mixer Registration Stats January 28, 2013 by Super User Eventbrite’s ticket registration engine does a nice job of logging stats and spitting out analytics on events. The map shows where people are coming from, and the chart below tells you what people do. I didn’t know there were 22 consultants in this space. We could have a club! And secret handshakes! We’re now past …
