Rise Vision Formally Goes Free June 26, 2012 by Super User Rise Vision has had a freemium model in place for some time now, with a tiered offer that got you to a kind of all-you-can-eat network operator account for $150/month. But now the Toronto-based company – which has been doing digital signage (starting with LED financial data boards) for 20 years – has gone all …
Tokyo’s Narita Airport Invests Big In Digital Signage June 26, 2012 by Super User Mitsubishi has finished the rollout of what it calls “Japan’s largest digital signage system” at Tokyo’s Narita International Airport, with some 336 displays fixed individually and in clusters around the terminals. I have my doubts it is really the biggest network in that country, but maybe the biggest in an airport, or in one venue, …
Thomson Reuters Sticks With Wireless Ronin, But Changes Business Model June 15, 2012 by Super User It looks like Wireless Ronin is hanging on to (despite chatter to the contrary) and transitioning its relationship with information giant Thomson Reuters from a product called Infopoint -which has been around for several years – to something called Thomson Reuters Knowledge Direct Digital Signage, or TRKDDS for short (I’m kidding). The Infopoint system was a …
Photo: W3C Web-based Signage Event in Japan June 15, 2012 by Super User This is the angry mob that met this week in Japan to talk about standards for web-based digital signage. John Wang of IAdea attended and is probably in this crowd somewhere. He wrote up a preview and will hopefully send along his impressions as the event concludes.
NEC Wins Big Display Deal For New Vegas Airport Terminal June 15, 2012 by Super User NEC announced a nice order this week for 900 displays for the new Terminal 3 at Las Vegas-McCarran International Airport, which opens in a couple of weeks. The new terminal (yay, freaking yay … the old terminal I always end up in is just, well, old) will have 182 46-inch and 723 40-inch LCDs to be …
Web’s Open Standards Body Taking Detailed Look At Digital Signage June 5, 2012 by Super User The body that somewhat guides the development of open standards for the web is taking a serious look at web-based digital signage, and running a special workshop about it next week, in conjunction with the Digital Signage Japan trade show. W3C, aka the World Wide Web Consortium, says this about the June 14-15 event in greater …
DigiCast Picks Up RMG’s Cafe Network May 31, 2012 by Super User DigiCast Networks and its parent company Brite Media Group have picked up the old Danoo coffee shop-based Digital OOH network run by RMG. DigiCast will roll the network into an digital Café Network and bring the cafe footprint to 650, and DigiCast’s overall footprint to 2,300 total locations in the U.S. “Adding RMG’s …
BroadSign Emerges From Chapter 11 (Details) May 31, 2012 by Super User As was pretty much expected, BroadSign is now owned by Burr Smith, the guy who has been the primary investor in the company since 2009 and chairman of the company board. Formally, the assets of BroadSign International, Inc. have been acquired by JedFam Group, LLC (Smith). This comes three months after the company filed for Chapter …
Blood Donor Clinics Tap Into Digital Signage May 30, 2012 by Super User I have either missed stuff or grown immune, or more likely my fellow Canucks at ScreenScape have ratcheted back the PR blast-o-meter and no longer issue press releases on every curling rink and corner bar that plugs into their platform. After a while it was just noise. Now they just do meaningful announcements, and this one …
NYC SmartScreens Start Rolling Out In June May 16, 2012 by Super User That much discussed network in New York City that plans to replace old sidewalk pay-phones with interactive information and alert stations is starting to hit the street, and the guys behind the project have wisely found people who understand the importance of ruggedizing the hell out of the units. The City 24×7 smart screens are …
