Could you have at least waited until the crime scene tape came down??? April 17, 2007 by Dave HaynesFrom the Department of Tasteless Opportunism: NEW YORK, April 17 /PRNewswire/ — “A community alert system using all available PC screens, digital signs and student notebooks, could have made a difference at Virginia Tech University,” says Frank Hoen, CEO of Netpresenter. “In yesterday’s news conference, Virginia Tech University President Charles Steger said notifying students immediately …
Adobe releases latest design suite April 16, 2007 by Dave Haynes If you are the person who cuts purchase orders for your digital signage company, that nervous shuffling sound you hear behind you right now is the lead creative type waiting for just the right moment to ask you for this: The gadget blog Gizmodo is reporting this morning that Adobe has released Adobe CS3, …
Dead simple screen at Whole Foods that works April 13, 2007 by Dave HaynesI was in New York yesterday and walked to the office from Penn Station, dipping into the Whole Foods in Chelsea to grab something to munch on. Like a lot of things in New York, this store is squeezed into an older commercial building and the store layout is a little weird. Instead of a …
To 1080P, or not 1080P April 2, 2007 by Dave HaynesI usually feel like I need a little cheat sheet on an armband when I get ensnared in some acronym-riddled chat with video or PC nerds. I still don’t have all those SXGA, SVGA, WXGA and whatever GA things all sorted in my head, and now I am having to deal with people who want …
One airport – at least three sign networks March 29, 2007 by Dave Haynes So much for having one throat to choke … The people who run Montreal’s Trudeau airport have three companies running signage networks in their public areas. Perhaps more, but I only saw three in the last couple of days. The one I really liked, having seen bits of it months earlier, is run by telecom …
GSBC founder says he's got hottest tech stock on planet March 26, 2007 by Dave HaynesSo I hadn’t heard or read anything for a few days on DigiCurve, also known as Global Satellite Broadcasting Corporation. The stock is not trading as yet, as far as we can tell. In looking around, I did manage to find a fascinating interview with GSBC founder Ronald Flynn, who tells the venerated business trade …
Why DigiCurve will ensure GSBC's industry domination March 21, 2007 by Dave Haynes From GSBC’s March 20 press release: DigiCurve, Inc. (OTCBB:DCUV), a multimedia producer and provider of online content, announced today that it has signed a Letter of Intent to purchase the assets of Global Satellite Broadcasting Corporation (GSBC) of Thailand in an all-stock transaction. “We are very pleased to have the opportunity to acquire the assets …
No listing on NASDAQ OTC yet for GSBC March 19, 2007 by Dave Haynes Unless they have come up with a different handle, the guys humping GSBC did not manage to list on the NASDAQ over the counter board today, as an enthused salesman told me last week was going to happen. Well … now where am I supposed to spend my life’s savings??? This is particularly disappointing because in trying …
Microsoft also chasing digital signage patents March 12, 2007 by Dave Haynes Steve Ballmer and the sorta cool kids at Microsoft have sniffed, wet their fingers and stuck them in the wind, rubbed soil between fingers, spun a dead cat at full moon, and determined digital signage is the next industry they should try to get into and, maybe, take over. That makes 3M, Cisco, Google and Microsoft …
Screensaver=digital signage??? March 2, 2007 by Dave HaynesSaw a press release about a Dutch company that is humping a solution called Digital Signage to the Desktop,which made me very curious. “DSM First Global 1000 With Digital Signage to Desktops LONDON, March 2 /PRNewswire/ — At DSM, Digital Signage to its 21,000 Desktop Screens is an Alternative to Email DSM – A Netherlands …
