Quebec's Desjardins bank deploys staff-facing digital signage dashboard solution June 29, 2011 by Super UserBanks have long been seen as a primary application for customer-facing digital signage, and indeed a lot of banks are either now installed or in the process of deploying solutions. What’s not seen very often – at least not as far as I know – is staff-facing signage in banks. So the note I got …
AV giant Milestone lends hand to twister victims in its community June 27, 2011 by Super UserThe great thing about DOOHgood is that it doesn’t take a lot of work to schedule a public service announcement spot into a digital signage network playlist, but it can have a real impact. So it is pretty cool to see a company in the space do a lot of real work to help disaster …
RMG exploring $250-million IPO June 22, 2011 by Super UserThe Bloomberg news service is reporting that San Franisco-based RMG Networks is putting the components together for an estimated$250 million IPO that would, if it went out successfully, go a long way to making RMG the dominant Digital OOH network in North America. There are arguments to be made that the company already is among …
Would you drop $185K for .sign? June 21, 2011 by Super UserWord Monday from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (aka ICANN) that just about any word out there could be a new top-level domain name – meaning .dumb is just like .com – got me thinking. Until I heard the price tag. Application fees are $185,000 and that just to apply. ICANN says that …
Zoom bags Canada's biggest fitness chain for Digital OOH expansion June 20, 2011 by Super UserZoom Media has bagged a nice deal in Canada to get its digital screens running in the country’s dominant fitness chain, GoodLife. The high-definition overhead entertainment and digital signage system will run in some 275 venues and be operated by ClubCom, a subsidiary of the Montreal-based digital OOH company, reports Marketing magazine. The content will be …
NanoLumens wins big US breakthrough tech award June 16, 2011 by Super UserNanoLumens beat out some very impressive technologies – including Kinect – to win the Breakthrough Technology category for the American Technology Awards, described as the only national “Best Of” awards recognizing all technology products and services throughout the U.S. Atlanta-based NanoLumens — which has gained a lot of attention and market traction for its lightweight, …
Omnishapes introduces hexagonal displays for shaped video walls June 15, 2011 by Super UserChristie and Prysm have a new competitor in the video building blocks space – a German company called Eyevis that has launched a new product called Omnishapes. The company is showing the display blocks for the first time at InfoComm in Orlando. The units are very similar to the LED light engine tile products first …
Aerva wins NYC Port Authority media curtain software deal June 15, 2011 by Super UserThis is probably not a big money deal, in terms of numbers of licenses, but a nice win nonetheless for Aerva because of the very high profile. The Boston-based software company won the deal to drive the 6,000 sq. ft. LED media curtain facade on New York Port Authority Bus Terminal. The “Mediamesh” goes live …
InfoComm DisplaySearch Conference: More AM notes June 14, 2011 by Super UserMore notes from the morning session of the DisplaySearch conference. The Corning session was a bit of a letdown – more of an explanatory thing about how Gorilla Glass is made and little about the future of glass as a display surface. The Intel session was was pretty much just a run-through of what Intel …
InfoComm DisplaySearch Conference: AM notes June 14, 2011 by Super UserI am in Orlando for InfoComm and sitting in on the one-day digital signage conference put on by the consulting company DisplaySearch. It’s well run, but I would not exactly call the place packed. My guess is there is room for 150 and attendance is maybe half of that. Some interesting observations from various display …
