Stratacache Opens Hong Kong Sales & Support Office November 26, 2012 by Super User STRATACACHE has opened a new sales and support office in the Kowloon district of Hong Kong as the Dayton, Ohio-based digital media company looks to expand its business in the Asia-Pacific region. “STRATACACHE’s new office in Hong Kong provides a great local base in the region, allowing us to offer our clients exceptional support and access to …
Project Profiles: Google’s Gallery For Everyone In Times Square November 26, 2012 by Super User Google is using a pop-up demo center and an LED board in New York’s Times Square to promote its new $249 Chromebook cloud-based laptop. You an walk up to the demo center and check out the Chromebooks, as well as upload photos with brief messages suggesting what these latops are for, as in For Movies, …
Project Profile: The Night Sky In LEDs, As Tribute To Carl Sagan November 24, 2012 by Super User You can do some pretty amazing things with even low rez LED screens if a bright mind gets involved. This is artist Leo Villareal’s tribute to the late American astronomer Carl Sagan, embedded into the outdoor ceiling of a building on the campus of Cornell University, where Sagan was a professor. The installation uses …
Financials: Wireless Ronin’s Groundhog Day Numbers November 23, 2012 by Super User There’s a bit of a Groundhog Day thing going when it comes to the quarterly financials coming out of embattled software company Wireless Ronin. Quarter after quarter after quarter, they lose a pile of money. And quarter after quarter people like me, sitting safely in the bleachers, wonder how long they can hang on. But …
Sharp Launches 90-Inch Commercial Display For Digital Signage November 23, 2012 by Super User We are moving ever closer to the point that smaller video walls don’t actually need to be arrays of LCDs with bezels that hopefully aren’t too thick and unsightly. You could get four 45-inch LCDs and put them together in an array, or just get one of these 90 inch fellas from Sharp and stop …
Project Profile: Massive Video Room Shows Narrow Bezels Essential November 21, 2012 by Super User Here is the ultimate reference case on why video walls need to use super narrow bezel monitors or display cube tech like MicroTiles or Prysm. Here is a massive, absolutely massive video wall that looks like hell because they spec’d in monitors with wider bezels. Stony Brook University, on the north shore of Long Island …
MultiTouch Plans Toronto Demo Days November 21, 2012 by Super User The Finnish company MultiTouch has organized a pair of Demo Days for next week (Nov. 28-29) in Toronto – giving people in the signage, event and interactive spaces a hands-on look at some pretty slick technology. I have seen this company’s stuff at a few trade shows, and liked how they are think about and present …
City 24 7 Touchscreens Start Rolling Out In NYC November 20, 2012 by Super User Photos from Cisco IBSG The first of some 250 touchscreens in New York have started replacing old payphones on the nicer sidewalks of the city. The first two are running in Union Square, and more are coming in a trial program that has the approval of the city. The screens are ad-supported and the city gets …
CETW Opts Out Of Spring Vegas Show To Focus On Growing Fall NYC Event November 20, 2012 by Super User JD Events, the company behind Customer Engagement Technology World, has announced it will not be going ahead with a show this coming spring in Las Vegas, opting instead to be entirely focused on a single show each fall in New York. The decision, said CETW show general manager Lawrence Dvorchik, was made prior to the …
Project Profile: Texas Tech’s New Business School Video Wall November 20, 2012 by Super User This kinda spanks a chalkboard or even an overhead projector. Texas Tech University’s Rawls College of Business has put up a massive 12 wide by 9 high wall of Christie’s MicroTiles in a primary classroom, using it as a multimedia instruction tool and something of a showpiece for the school. The wall is installed at …
