Latest Ronin Financials Show Improving Revenues, But Continuing Losses March 12, 2012 by Super User Wireless Ronin Technologies financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ending Dec. 31, 2011, which came out late last week, show the company had a record revenue year but not enough to avoid another year finishing deep in the red. The digital signage software company based in Minneapolis, one of few that are …
Subway’s Digital Screen Network, Run By Real Digital Media, at 1,000 Sites And Expanding March 6, 2012 by Super User Quietly, very quietly, Real Digital Media has been growing something called the SUBWAY TV & RADIO Digital Signage Network in the QSR’s independently-owned franchises in the United States. Now the company is making a little hay about it – saying the network is approaching 1,000 sites and set to expand beyond the U.S. Sarasota, Florida-based Real …
Ecast Unplugs March 5, 2012 by Super User Vending Times is reporting that Ecast Inc. shut down its jukebox music network last week, the San Francisco-based technology firm out of operating capital. “We worked diligently for this not to happen,” said Ecast vice-president of network operations Scott Walker. “We appreciate all the support from jukebox operators and the industry.” Walker, who joined the jukebox …
BroadSign Files For Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection March 5, 2012 by Super User BroadSign International has filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy papers in a Delaware court, seeking protection from creditors. Technically based in Boise, Idaho but in operating terms a Montreal company, the SaaS software company focused on digital OOH networks has debts listed of between $10 million to $50 million and assets of $1 million to $10 million, …
NEC’s VUKUNET Hiring Digital OOH Media Salespeople March 1, 2012 by Super User When NEC Display announced VUKUNET in Nov. 2009 the company rather boldly planned to get into the ad media sales business, with media pros carrying Vukunet cards doing the rounds at agencies. That changed, and VUKUNET evolved into more of an enabling technology that other media sales people could use – the idea being the VUKUNET player/agent/thingie …
Pro AV Giant Extron Bails On Infocomm, ISE February 28, 2012 by Super User I don’t know the AV sector to pass much judgment, but found it interesting to read that pro AV electronics giant Extron is pulling out of its industry’s two biggest trade shows. After serious reflection and review, says president Andrew Edwards, I have decided to make a significant change to our tradeshow schedule. Effective this …
CODACAN Names New Board, New Strategic Plans February 28, 2012 by Super User The Canadian Out-of-Home Digital Association (CODACAN) had its Annual General Meeting last week, electing a new slate of Directors and signing off on plans to build up the organization and industry profile in 2012. The new Board is Bruno Pupo of LG Electronics, John Brosseau of Consumer Media Solutions, Haroon Mirza of Intel, Joe Cotugno …
signagelive Partners With Data Host Giant Rackspace February 28, 2012 by Super User The term cloud has entered the mainstream and applied to pretty much anything that uses the intertubes to communicate. You could argue any networked digital signage platform is cloud-based, I suppose. But when I think of a cloud-based platform, I think in terms of shared servers – somewhere else – that provide resources, software, and …
STRATACACHE Teams With Merchandising Giant RockTenn February 27, 2012 by Super User STRATACACHE CEO Chris Riegel and his guys have worked a very nice deal with the largest in-store display fixture company in North America to drive the use of retail digital signage and STRATACACHE’s very clever transparent transparent LCD chiller and cabinet displays. RockTenn Merchandising Displays is the big boy in this space by a factor …
UK Charity Using Face Pattern Detection To Serve Digital OOH Ads By Gender February 21, 2012 by Super User Here’s an interesting twist on the whole gender/facial pattern detection thing for digital OOH advertising. The BBC has a news piece up about a digital OOH street furniture campaign that started today for the charity Plan UK. In a trial, a transit shelter located on London’s busy Oxford Street a sensor is scanning for female face patterns looking …
