Broadcast International Makes $8M, Loses $8M March 30, 2012 by Super User Utah-based Broadcast International has been around the digital signage space for a few years but not been all that embedded in it, also marketing video compression technology I remember getting demo’d on a cell phone going back maybe five years. The company was at Digital Signage Expo with a fairly substantial stand and pitch about their …
DSA Names Industry Excellence Winners March 29, 2012 by Super User The Digital Screenmedia Association has handed out the winners of its DSA Industry Excellence Awards, which honors the best digital signage, mobile and self-service kiosk technology deployments across all vertical market segments. The awards were given out last night at a function tied in to the CETW show that wraps today in San Francisco. Network …
Nielsen: Smartphone Penetration In US Crosses 50% Barrier March 29, 2012 by Super User At some point in the last few weeks more U.S. mobile subscribers were on smartphones than on “dumb” feature phones, the research firm Nielsen is reporting. As of February, the penetration rate was at 49.7% and unless something really weird happened, that percentage would have continued to rise this month. Nielsen says this marks an …
Rackspace Survey: Many Businesses Still Chained To Servers March 29, 2012 by Super User Cloud is a pretty seriously abused term these days – with companies using cloud almost interchangeably with Internet. Raffi Vartian from signagelive, which describes itself as cloud-based digital signage software, sent around a press release this morning by cloud computing giant Rackspace that references his company. CEO Jason Cremins is quoted, which is a bit …
DSF Looking For Legislators March 28, 2012 by Super User If your heart races at the mere mention of things like committees and strategy initiatives, subsections and ratifications, you have my condolences … and my suggestion that you might be one of the few and proud who would actually enjoy being on the Legislative Committee of the Digital Signage Federation. The organization’s 2012 Legislative Committee …
FT Projection Maps Data Graphics In Grand Central March 28, 2012 by Super User The Financial Times international business newspaper is running a somewhat interactive Digital OOH campaign highlighted by a big projection thing in one of the cavernous halls of New York’s Grand Central Terminal. The campaign is intended to put the spotlight on the paper’s efforts in data-driven journalism – which is a lot of what business …
Miller Learns Secret Handshakes, Gets Launch Codes, For DSA March 27, 2012 by Super User Jared Miller has been briefed on the secret handshakes, fitted for his robes and handed the briefcase with the launch codes as he takes over as President of the Digital Screenmedia Association, aka the DSA. Miller, by day just the mild-mannered Managing Director, Self-Service & Emerging Technology for United Airlines, was elected to the post …
FTC’s New Privacy Report Addresses Digital Signage Face Detection Tech March 26, 2012 by Super User The US Federal Trade Commission has released a new report on consumer privacy that tries to cover the waterfront on concerns Americans have about everything from tracking their online and mobile habits to the anonymous video analytics technology being heavily marketed these days by Intel and a host of smaller companies. The FTC report is …
Research: CBS Outdoor Finds Interactive OOH Little Known Or Used in Europe March 26, 2012 by Super User CBS Outdoor has released a March 2012 study, done by Kantar Media, looking at the use and understanding of interactive technologies for out of home in Europe, and the results suggest the technology is still very much in its early adopter years. The study, done last fall in six countries and involving more than 9,000 …
Immersive Labs Helps Drive Pepsi’s SXSW Zeitgeist March 23, 2012 by Super User New York-based Immersive Labs is back from what sounds like a very cool few days working with PepsiCo at the massive SXSW interactive conference in Austin, Texas, which I am thinking I need to start attending. The startup – which does a face pattern detection-ad serving and analytics mash-up for digital OOH – was invited …
