YCD In Strategic Partnership With Major Analog Sign Firm February 17, 2012 by Super User Every time I write something about the printing industry and the ongoing absence of digital signage vendors at their trade shows, I get responses about how the two businesses are too different and the analog print guys are Luddites, and so on and so on. And every time, I sit there and think, “But … …
DSA Extends Awards Entry Deadline February 13, 2012 by Super User This doesn’t strike me as a master stroke of timing – smack in the middle of a series of major trade shows for vendors – so it is not a big surprise the Digital Screenmedia Association has had to extend the nomination window for its Industry Excellence Awards. Due to the response and number of requests …
Details: Preset’s DSE Mixer Registration Is Tomorrow February 8, 2012 by Super User So … tomorrow is registration day for the 2012 version of the The Preset Group DSE Mixer, featuring the Bridgestone Halftime Show with Madonna and the Geico pig that screams “Wee Wee WEE!!!” Here’s the deal. There are 300 spots, a percentage of those already allocated to sponsor invitees and to Pat Hellberg’s private security team and …
Company’s New Up-Time Service Seems To Just Keep Up With Industry Joneses February 6, 2012 by Super User Retail marketing agency/digital signage software vendor and consultancy John Ryan has announced the launch of a bank-centric digital signage monitoring application designed to maximize up-time. The company is calling its service very different, but apart from the technical details about how things happen, I’m not sure what’s actually distinct here from what’s pretty common among …
ComQi Announces New Funding, Credit Line February 1, 2012 by Super User It was always expected that the software companies in this over-space were either going to have to have rocketing growth to start dominating the market, or choose a specialist area and differentiate itself that way. I don’t think ComQi is a high-flyer in terms of growth nor is it set up that way, so it …
Smart City Lights Up Smart Video Wall Network at LVCC January 27, 2012 by Super User I think I have been to at least a dozen trade shows of some kind or another at the Las Vegas Convention Center, and over that time seen a few stabs at digital signage ad and information networks in the public areas. It’s a big honking space, so much of what has been done to …
VeriFone Newest DPAA Member January 27, 2012 by Super User VeriFone Systems, Inc., which does ad screens in taxis and at gas pumps, has signed up as the newest member of the Digital Place-based Advertising Association (DPAA). “As we continue to grow our digital network presence it is increasingly important for us to have a seat at the table on matters of importance to the …
DSA Looking For Industry Excellence January 23, 2012 by Super User The Digital Screenmedia Association has put a call out for entries for its Industry Excellence Awards, which celebrate self-service, digital signage and mobile technology deployments across a bunch of vertical market segments. The DSA says it welcomes entries from all interested companies – both members and non-members. Categories: Technology (you can enter your project for …
PRN Acquires indoorDirect; Shuts Down Dallas HQ January 17, 2012 by Super User Premier Retail Networks has done what is billed as a joint venture but is, in reality, an acquisition and takeover of Dallas-based indoorDIRECT, which through its Restaurant Entertainment Network has screens in some 1,200 major brand QSRs in the United States. All the Dallas staff, where indoorDirect was based, have been bingo’d. Says the release: …
Stratacache Ups Sales Team, By 20,000 January 17, 2012 by Super User Dayton, Ohio-based signage software and services vendor STRATACACHE has announced a collaborative deal with telecom giant Verizon that sees the company’s technology sold in a joint solution featuring the carrier’s 4G LTE network and infrastructure. The offer, called Digital@Retail, will be sold by some 20,000 Verizon and Verizon Wireless account people. “Influencing consumers at the …
