Q and A: Privacy expert on the DSF’s new digital signage guidelines February 5, 2011 by Dave Haynes The two key people behind the Digital Signage Federation’s privacy standards released late last week were Ken Goldberg, CEO of Real Digital Media, who chaired the eight-person committee, and Harley Geiger, a committee member and Policy Counsel at the Center for Democracy & Technology. Geiger has written and commented extensively on privacy as it relates …
DSF releases recommendations on privacy and transparency standards February 4, 2011 by Dave HaynesThis <Company Name> digital sign uses a camera to estimate your age and gender in order to make advertisements more relevant to you. No images or identifying information about you is collected or stored. For more information, please visit www.companyname.com/privacy or see the store manager. How would you feel about being obligated to run that message in your …
Thoughts on five years … February 4, 2011 by Dave HaynesTomorrow, Feb. 5th, is the five-year anniversary of Sixteen:Nine – five years and closing in on 2,000 posts about the digital signage and digital out of home sector. My first post didn’t say a whole bunch more than, “Hello??? Anybody out there?” Five years later, I know there are indeed people out there. I just …
Are just one in four DOOH networks even on agency radar screens? February 2, 2011 by Dave HaynesA release by Columbus, Ohio-based DOmedia yesterday seemed to get a lot of social media and Google Alert action, but I kinda missed it and figured I’d skip writing about it, because it was well-circulated. However, I stopped and actually read the release this morning and have a couple of observations. 1 – For a …
AMX releases beefed-up Inspired XPert platform at ISE February 1, 2011 by Dave HaynesAMX has announced a new version of its Inspired XPert digital signage platform that improves support for larger deployments, adds a new player box that can install at the panel, and some emhanced and streamlined content management workflow features. The new version is on display at the Inspired XPert booth this week at Integrated Systems Europe …
Ayuda's OpenSplash Player SMIL-based, touted as new standard February 1, 2011 by Dave HaynesSo now I know why Adrian Cotterill has been in Montreal a lot in the past year. Mr. DailyDOOH is touted as the inspiration and champion of Ayuda Media Systems’ newly announced OpenSplash free digital signage player. There is now a release on the new product, which was announced during a presentation by Ayuda’s CEO yesterday …
More detail on Kodak-Haivision deal February 1, 2011 by Dave HaynesThat deal between Haivision’s CoolSign digital signage unit and Kodak is now official, with an announcement page on the Haivsion website talking about how the software is now directly integrated into Kodak’s new JV700 (7inch) and JV1000 (10 inch) digital signs. It’s not about getting pictures or video to every screen; it’s about controlled content …
Ayuda makes Splash with free playback software for DOOH January 31, 2011 by Dave HaynesOne of my stops last week in Montreal was at the offices of Ayuda Media Systems, in a historic riverfront building in old Montreal. I didn’t know a whole bunch about the company, except that its background was in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems for the OOH media business. I also knew the company had …
CoolSign/Haivision announcing Kodak deal next week January 29, 2011 by Dave HaynesA deal with Kodak that’s been done for a buncha weeks and chattered about quietly around Haivision and its recently-acquired CoolSign unit gets announced next week. In a nutshell (as was whispered across the pond by DailyDOOH), the deal sees a a couple of Kodak’s networked digital picture frames driven by CoolSign’s enterprise-grade software. The …
Preset Mixer Registration – Monday 11:15 ET January 28, 2011 by Dave HaynesOk, we are trying to coordinate this across several time zones, and ensure people are up and at ’em even on the West Coast. So, Sixteen:Nine and sponsor DailyDOOH will schedule posts on both blogs to activate at 11:15 Monday morning Eastern Time, 8:15 in LA and 4:15 PM in London. The posts will link …
