Cineplex Offers To Buy Software House EK3 July 18, 2013 by Super User Canada’s biggest movie theatre chain Cineplex – which has a substantial and solid digital signage team, has announced its offer to purchase EK3 Technologies Inc., which is best known as the London, Ontario-based software house that does the menu boards for Tim Hortons. The news release say the “initial purchase price is approximately $40 million, …
Harris Out At The New Harris July 9, 2013 by Super User The guy who ran the broadcast side of Harris, including digital signage, is now out and a new CEO is in place at the company now running independently as Harris Broadcast. Investor The Gores Group has appointed Charlie Vogt as CEO, effective today. Vogt succeeds Harris Morris, who was appointed president of Harris Broadcast when …
Ayuda Takes On CBS Outdoor’s International Work June 20, 2013 by Super User Montreal-based Ayuda Media Systems has expanded its business ties with CBS Outdoor to support CBS in North America and its international operation. Ayuda’s platform – which does things like inventory management, sales, transit and digital campaigns, finance and proof of performance – has been supplying some of its management modules to CBS Outdoor for many …
Sweden’s DISE The Latest SW Firm To Go Android June 19, 2013 by Super User [youtube id=”800n0enDE5c” width=”600″ height=”350″] The Swedish digital signage software company DISE has joined the Android club, though the actual release date of the player software is unspecified. DISE says the new player supports multi-screen synchronization – which the company touts as a core strength of its platform – as well as a NoBorders feature that …
NCR Gets The Dunkin’ Donuts Digital Menu Order June 18, 2013 by Super User Way, way back at some trade show I got a call asking if I could help put together the RFP for Dunkin’ Donuts digital menu boards. We didn’t end up getting the gig, and I kinda wondered where that project went, if anywhere. Turns out it did eventually go, and NCR won the software deal. …
Obama Administration Takes Aim At Patent Trolls June 5, 2013 by Super User Every so often an exec at a software company sends me a note saying he or she just got a letter from a law firm saying they were in the legal crosshairs for alleged patent violations having to do with digital signage software design. DailyDOOH has documented this at length, and identified these companies as …
Oz-based oOh! Media Cuts Digital OOH Network Over To BroadSign May 28, 2013 by Super User The Edwardsville Intelligencer is reporting, and I am not making this up, that BroadSign has bagged a nice software deal with the largest digital OOH media company in Australia. oOh! Media, which has some 850 screens in retail, airports, pubs and bars and universities across Australia and New Zealand, has cut over content management toBroadSign’s …
DSA Celebrates Top Digital Signage Projects, Operators And Service Providers May 14, 2013 by Super User The Digital Screenmedia Association has named the winners of its DSA Industry Excellence Awards, which celebrates the best digital signage, mobile and self-service kiosk projects across a variety of verticals.The awards were presented this week during a dinner related to the association’s Digital Screenmedia Symposium in Dallas. The 2013 winners are: Industry Deployer of the …
Wireless Ronin: Still Losing Money, Dealing To Keep Lights On May 11, 2013 by Super User The lights are still on at Wireless Ronin, but the Minneapolis-area software company is still a long way off from profitability and resorting now to taking cash from partners to fund the business, but in turn pretty much vacating what’s been a core vertical. On the earnings call, the executive team said it has done …
FWi Re-Markets Kiosk Capability As App In Apple’s Online Store April 30, 2013 by Super User There are a few kiosk apps built already for turning iPads into locked-down showroom product knowledge devices, but as far as I know Denver-based Four Winds Interactive is the first digital signage company to effectively port its interactive software to an App Store version that anyone can just buy and run. The company’s iDS Kiosk …
