Adcentricity closes $3 million finance deal April 23, 2008 by Dave Haynes The deal was cut a couple of months ago, but after all the due diligence stuff got done Adcentricity was able to announce Wednesday a $3 million series A equity financing that will help the founders pay down their tab at Toronto’s Spoke Club. The great majority, however, will go to help expand the year-old …
The marvels of staged photos April 23, 2008 by Dave Haynes I get such a kick out of staged photos in this space. You see this with a lot of small network operators who have images proving (“There, ya see, people ARE watching the damn screens!”) there is indeed an audience. But even monsters like Cisco feel the urge. The poor woman looks utterly delighted to …
Latest Strategy Institute event seems to tone down the vendor nonsense April 21, 2008 by Dave HaynesThe Strategy Institute has been running high-end conferences targeting this space going all the way back to 2004, but I have not been all that interested in going to one for a while because of the way show sponsors can tend to drive the speaker line-up. As I have noted a few times, not many …
Channel M gets new financing completed April 21, 2008 by Dave HaynesOn the heels of a post last week about the challenges of getting investor money comes word in MediaPost that Channel M has completed another round of financing, this time with Intel Capital. There was a $6 million raise announcement a few months ago, as well. Total money in the door to date: $24 million. …
Cell phone-based gadget saves cost of rolling a truck April 21, 2008 by Dave HaynesFor many years now I have been recommending the use of something called an automatic ring rebooter when network operators are using DSL for connecting and monitoring screen networks. Simply put, it’s a switchable power bar that you run the DSL phone line through. When, not if, the DSL modem or router fails, all you …
Standards finally getting some attention April 17, 2008 by Dave HaynesI am told, reliably, that past efforts by POPAI to get technical standards discussions going in this industry were met with a, umm, tepid response. As in, all you could hear on the conference call was the sound of crickets. Fast forward to last week, when there was a renewed effort via conference call to …
A look at the AT&T's use of Surface screens April 17, 2008 by Dave HaynesGadget blog Gizmodo has a nice piece of Flash video demo-ing the capabilities of the Microsoft Surface table in peddling cell phone plans and handsets. I don’t get very twitchy about being able to zoom in and around a coverage map, which is the first part of the video. Basically, “Yeah, so …” But what …
An in-store that's useful and at eye-level … go figure April 17, 2008 by Dave Haynes I like this … A Silicon Valley-based company called Evincii has come up with a shelf-edge screen that allows consumers get more detailed information on over the counter medications by fiddling with what the company calls a search engine in a store. They started installing PharmAssist stations in Longs Drugs about a year ago and …
NAB holds session on DS basics April 17, 2008 by Dave HaynesThe NAB show is a massive event tuned to the technology side of the mainstream broadcasting business, and new media initiatives have never been a big part of the proceedings. However, this year’s event in Las Vegas (where else?) had a session on our weird little industry, and the organizers got some pretty impressive names …
MediaTile unveiling sign/kiosk piece at Vegas show this week April 16, 2008 by Dave Haynes I’m not sure if this really is a world-first, but it’s a hair-splitting debate I and most people likely care less about. It is, however you look at it, interesting. MediaTile today unveiled the world’s first all-in-one digital signage and kiosk solution, with integrated cellular-broadband networking and web-based management, at the international KioskCom Self Service …
