NCR Gets The Dunkin’ Donuts Digital Menu Order June 18, 2013 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 …
Health Screening Kiosk Network Rolls With BroadSign April 30, 2013 by Dave Haynes Health solutions provider Stayhealthy has completed the initial deployment of some 2,000 self-service, health screening kiosks in pharmacies across the U.S., using BroadSign as the content management platform. The Los Angeles-area company’s plug-and-play kiosks are FDA-cleared and let consumers measure key health indicators including blood pressure, heart rate, total body weight, total body composition, BMI and color …
BroadSign Marks 10 Years With An X April 24, 2013 by Dave Haynes Congratulations to my old colleagues at BroadSign, who are celebrating 10 years in business, which is three or four more than lots of people predicted when the company ran into a perfect storm of cash flow issues and a crippling, lingering recession in 2009. The company is leaner and smarter because of that, and from …
Symon Deal Closes; Now Called RMG Enterprise Solutions April 22, 2013 by Dave Haynes The reverse merger thing that has led in the last few weeks to RMG Networks being a listed company took another big step with the closing Friday of the acquisition of digital signage software firm Symon Communications. RMG Networks, which has primarily been in the business of selling Digital OOH advertising, is now touting in …
Canada Launches Start-Up Visa To Attract Entrepreneurs Through Fast-Tracked Residency April 1, 2013 by Dave Haynes There’s been lots of chatter in the last 2-3 years about the need change immigration laws to attract tech entrepreneurs and keep brilliant young minds in North America after they finish college in the US or Canada. There’s hasn’t been much progress in gridlocked Washington, but a new program has started today in Canada that …
