Most Of My Canadian Offices Just Added WiFi July 5, 2012 by Super User This has very little to do with digital signage, but will be good news for just about any Canadian working in the sector, and you foreigners who manage to slip across our borders: free WiFi all over the frozen tundra (82 F right now). Just about any Canadian who has started or run a small …
Addressing The Question: Why So Many Digital Signage Companies In Canada? July 5, 2012 by Super User Countless times now, in chats with American business contacts/friends, I have been asked why there is such a disproportionately high number of Canadian companies involved in digital signage – particularly on the software side. I’ve always answered that the key reason is we’re not very bright. But I’ve been kidding there. There’s probably a bunch …
Canada 3.0 Moves From Small Town To Big City July 5, 2012 by Super User I quite liked the Canada 3.0 digital media forum and trade show I went to this spring, though I wondered what on Earth it was doing in a small town’s recreation centre. So were some others, apparently. Stratford is a beautiful little town (and known widely for its Shakespeare theatre), and the venue and people …
Pattison Onestop Opens The Ad Shop July 4, 2012 by Super User Pattison Onestop, aka the digital division of Toronto-based Pattison Outdoor Advertising, launched a new service today aimed squarely at the hard to sell and service small business sector. Called The Ad Shop, the service aggregates all of the company’s digital inventory online to allow easy buying and targeting, and makes templates available to build low …
Signagelive Gets A Brazilian July 3, 2012 by Super User Oh, the dreaded grip and grin photo … This is one between Raffi Vartian of signagelive and a group of guys from Brazil who are the key people in a company called JBTec, which is now the preferred distributor for the UK-based SaaS product in the red-hot Brazilian market. “JBTec is extremely happy to have Signagelive’s …
Challenging The Content And Context Formula July 3, 2012 by Super User Context when it comes to content can be pretty important, but a new content partnership raises an interesting set of questions about that whole idea of tuning content to to the environment and what’s going on in it. The Reelzchannel – a cable/sat network that is nothing but movies content – has announced a partnership …
Italy’s Edisonweb Joins HTML5 Gang July 2, 2012 by Super User Italian software firm Edisonweb is the latest digital signage player to go HTML5, announcing this week it has done a partner deal to use IAdea’s digital signage media appliances. The company’s Web Signage platform, it says, was the first to be integrated with the cloud-based Windows Azure platform. Edisonweb says using IAdea’s SMIL players allows the company to …
In Montreal June 28, 2012 by Super User Won’t be posting much or at all. Busy couple of days with pressDOOH and Preset clients in Montreal, where it is summer and beautiful.
Digital Signage Platform Adds Phone On-hold Messaging. No, Really. June 27, 2012 by Super User Differentiation is important in a crowded marketplace, as you don’t want to go in selling something that dozens of other companies also have. On that count, Louisville, KY-based Captive Indoor Media is definitely differentiated from the digital signage software mob – as it has added on-hold telephone messaging to its digital signage software offer. Connect the …
Will Interactive Digital Signage Take A Giant Leap With New Gesture Technology? June 27, 2012 by Super User Kinect applications for digital signage have left me pretty much cold because of accuracy issues and the necessary learning curve to make things happen. Despite the hype, I just don’t see it. The technology from a startup called Leap Motion is where gesture-driven public signage will go. Leap Motion uses VGA camera sensors to track …
