NEC decouples DS management platform from Vukunet; does partnership with DOmedia April 7, 2011 by Dave HaynesNEC Display has gone a long way towards clarifying and advancing its Vukunet offer in the marketplace through a couple of announcements. The free VUKUNET CMS, or content management system, is now the NEC CMS. It still works with the VUKUNET platform, but it’s not part of the Vukunet family. It will now be called …
It's free, well, free-ish, well … ummm April 6, 2011 by Dave HaynesThe “free” software guys are eternally interesting with their tortured approach to marketing. Consider the following news: Saudi Aramco ranks first among oil companies worldwide in terms of petroleum production and exports. It has purchased licenses for up to 22 Locations for the use of Digital Recalls Digital Signage Software. In addition to Saudi Arabia, …
Rant: Content-farmed tips make for worthless reading April 5, 2011 by Dave Haynes (Rant alert) The system of tubes is polluted with crappy human or machine-generated articles about anything under the sun. Far too many of the things that pop up on Google Alerts for this sector are just content farm produce that is about as useful as weeds. It’s spam like too many emails we all get. What …
New cranky, funny but also insightful digital signage blog from UK: Loudscreen March 31, 2011 by Dave HaynesWord of a new blog on the digital signage industry gets my excitement level about as high as when my wife says she’d like me to come with her to Ikea to look at cushions. I got one of those “I’ve got a new blog” emails from a guy yesterday, and I politely said I …
Top digital signage software: End-users need their own list March 17, 2011 by Dave HaynesFor the last few years, my fellow blogger and arch-enemy (kidding) Adrian Cotterill does a review of the Top 10 digital signage software vendors out there. It generates a lot of interest and no end of debate about its validity, as well as the presence and absence of certain vendors. The stated criteria for the …
EnQii's Passport enters crowded mobile retail app field March 14, 2011 by Dave HaynesEnQii sent a newsletter/release out late afternoon about its launch of a new mobile phone app called EnGage Passport – a white-labeled application that allows retailers who are using EnQii’s DS platform (or not) to to make targeted savings offers to shoppers when they enter a store. Users download the EnGage Passport app and are …
Time to cut bait on Toronto DOOH in schools concept March 10, 2011 by Dave HaynesThe reporting on the Toronto Public School Board debate about expanding Onestop Media’s Digital OOH network in local high schools is a little on the confusing side. The project is dead … but not really, it seems. The pitch in its current form was referred, after more than three hours of debate, to a committee …
Onestop's high school DOOH proposal in front of school board tonight March 9, 2011 by Dave HaynesOnestop Media Group’s pitch to the Toronto District School Board to expand the screen project it has tested in city high schools is up for discussion tonight, and as one might predict, local media have had no problem finding people to scream in horror about the threat to the impressionable minds of youngsters. Reports the right-leaning …
Are iPads suitable for digital signage? March 3, 2011 by Dave HaynesAre iPads suitable for digital signage? This is more an open question than something I can really answer here, but the all the discussion and attention stirred up by the iPad 2’s release got me thinking. I’d love to hear from people who have taken a crack at using the tablets – or iPad’s increasing …
ScreenReach at Demo 2011, announces 800 screen interactive deal with RMG March 2, 2011 by Dave HaynesIn the lead-up to DSE and our frantic planing for the Preset Group DSE Mixer we chatted with Paul Rawlings of ScreenReach Interactive, a UK company that does really interesting integration between mobile devices and screens, be they place-based or even in homes. Rawlings, a great young guy, was very happy to throw some resource …
