Leap Motion Gets $30M Raise; Does Asus Partnership January 3, 2013 by Super User Leap Motion – the start-up with the tiny, very granular gesture controller – has done a $30 million funding raise with existing investors and announced a partnership deal with PC maker ASUS. The ASUS deal will result in the Leap controller – which is roughly the size of a cigarette lighter – bundled with select …
Two More Android Playback Devices To Add To The Pile January 3, 2013 by Super User One of the the things that was pretty evident a year ago was how Google’s Android operating system would be applied to low-cost set-top box-like devices to create very inexpensive digital signage offers. Capital Networks showed a working device and platform at DSE 2012, as did FirmChannel. Since then, we’ve seen several more companies step …
And We’re Back January 2, 2013 by Super User Happy 2013. Remarkably, for me, I closed the lid on my laptop on Dec. 21 and really didn’t crack it again until Jan. 2. I don’t think I missed much, and any company that was pushing out press releases with actual (or any) significance in the last 10 days needs to get better PR advice. …
ComQi’s NYC Office Pitches In To Fix Sandy’s Mess December 21, 2012 by Super User Here’s a nice item to wrap things up and take a few days off to eat too much and have an extra glass or three … Some of the people at the NYC offices of software and distribution gear company ComQi took Wednesday off and headed out to Far Rockaway, out by JFK Airport, to …
Project Profile: Crescent School’s Student Network December 20, 2012 by Super User It’s almost weird that a little private school appears to do a better job with content presentation than a lot of private businesses that have the budget and people available to get it right. Here’s s small project involving the century-old Crescent School for boys in Toronto, which is using a digital signage network in …
PRI Industry Sentiment Index Ticks Up Big In Q3 December 20, 2012 by Super User The Platt Retail Institute’s quarterly North American Digital Signage Index saw 15.5% jump in third quarter, and was the first positive shift thsi year. Chicago-based PRI says the current DS Index increased by 15.48 percent, from 108.51 in the second quarter of 2012 to 125.30 in the third quarter of 2012. Comparing the third quarter …
Lyle Bunn Takes The Cake December 17, 2012 by Super User I could have all kinds of fun about consultant Lyle Bunn being the icing on the cake for a project, but I will just do a straight read here and say he was in for a visit to the Toronto-area offices of Capital Networks last week, and they figured out somehow or other that it …
Project Video: Barneys-Disney-Christie Spectacular In NYC December 17, 2012 by Super User Christie MicroTiles and Disney light-up Barneys New York “Electric Holiday” window displays from Christie on Vimeo. Here’s a video than runs through the Disney project running at Barneys in New York through the holiday season. The video is bankrolled by Christie, which has supplied the MicroTiles used to drive the visuals on the huge canvas …
Report: Symon Acquired By “Blank Check Company” December 17, 2012 by Super User I could probably read this convoluted news release 20 times and not get it entirely right – accountants and lawyers should not write press releases – but from what I can tell a “blank check company” called SCG Financial Acquisition Corp. has entered into a non-binding letter of intent to acquire digital signage software provider Symon Communications, Inc. …
Corporate Video Production Team Planning Low-Cost Shoot For DSE Week In Vegas December 14, 2012 by Super User My guys at Studio 10 in Regina, Sask. have developed what I think is a really good little program to run in Las Vegas in the immediate run-up to the Digital Signage Expo trade show in late February. I call them my guys, but they are merely friends I have worked with a little and …
