Aerva Twitter Tool Makes Tweet Stream Safer For Digital Signage Networks August 1, 2012 by Super User Aerva was one of the first digital signage software companies to jump on the Twitter visualization thing, and the company has announced a new product called AerTweet that significantly juices up the offer. “Aerva also created our Twitter widget almost five years ago now—in the early days of Twitter,” founder and CEO Sanjay Manandhar related via …
Add The iStick To The Sub-$100 PC List August 1, 2012 by Super User A Silicon Valley-based firm called PQ Labs has a new micro PC called the iStick that is about the size of a breakfast snack bar, and costs about what you’d pay for a snack bar at Whole Foods – $69. Apple’s lawyers will no doubt be noodling whether to bother sending PQ a “To Whom …
Wifarer’s Indoor Positioning Goes Live In BC Museum August 1, 2012 by Super User Victoria, BC-based Wifarer has some nice technology that enables indoor positioning using the WiFi already installed in a venue, and is starting to get some traction. The company has exhibited at some Digital Signage Expo events and I’ve always liked the approach. The company did a pilot with the Royal British Columbia Museum and that …
Projects: Staff Communications At Leo Burnett Chicago August 1, 2012 by Super User The Chicago-based HQ of revered ad agency Leo Burnett covers 16 floors on West Wacker Drive, a big footprint that presents a bit of a problem when it comes to effectively getting internal communications out to staff. “There was no real centralized way to get the information out there,” says Jenny Hackett, Associate Director of …
LocaModa Enters US Presidential Race (Well, Sorta Kinda) August 1, 2012 by Super User Months ago I asked a guy who has worked in politics inside the Washington, DC beltway whether things like real-time smart phopne polling and social had a role at big political events in the 2012 US National elections. No way, he said. Too little control over the message, and therefore too much risk. Made sense. …
Jobs: Unified Brand Looking For AutoVision Account Manager August 1, 2012 by Super User Unified Brand is a Scala shop in the Phoenix area focused, in part, on solutions for the auto dealer sector, and the company is looking for an account manager to develop and deliver new business. President Guy Tonti (ex-Cisco, nice guy) has a posting up on LinkedIn, which says in part: Unified Brand is a …
Should The Lowly Room For Rent Sign Go Digital? July 31, 2012 by Super User Is an Apartment For Rent sign suddenly more impactful when it is digital, instead of printed on paper or plastic? Big Hmmm. A Toronto digital signage company that has been doing digital menuboards outside sit-down restaurants up here is now trying out a similar idea for the apartment rental market. Flagship Properties has an agreement …
Kinetic Releases 4th Edition Of Digital OOH Handbook July 31, 2012 by Super User Kinetic has released its 4th edition of its excellent UK Digital OOH Handbook, a comprehensive guide to all the different formats available and insights into each of them, as well as the sector as a whole. The world’s largest planner and buyer of OOH media has co-produced the book with the production and creative technology …
PRN Renews In-Store Deal With Costco; Adds 3D July 30, 2012 by Super User Premier Retail Networks has renewed its in-store media network deal with wholesale giant Costco, and is adding a 3D content channel to its programming. PRN has been in Costco since 2004, and has screens running in some 400 of the giant big box stores. Unless I missed it, the network does not extend into Canada. …
Canada’s Olympics HQ Gets Interactive Christie Display Walls Through Games July 30, 2012 by Super User Christie Digital has worked a partnership with Canada’s Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade’s that sees a couple of big display walls running through the Olympics at Canada Olympic House in Trafalgar Square. The space is the Canadian Olympic Committee’s space for athletes, families and friends, and is also something of a trade mission …
