Rugged little $249 D2Plug PC pushes HD video May 17, 2011 by Dave HaynesI wrote the other day about the dubious merits of PC companies trying to out-market each other with steadily smaller boxes for digital signage deployments. My argument is they’re pretty much already small enough. However, going smaller on price is always in play, which is what got me interested in a little gadget called the …
Does the race to smallest, for digital signage players, matter anymore? May 16, 2011 by Dave HaynesTweetdeck popped up a Twitter post this morning about what was dubbed the world’s smallest x86 digital signage player, which made me mildly curious. The box, marketed by iBase, is indeed teeny and looks pretty powerful and slick. Like many people, I have for years been paying attention to the PC marketplace and watching as PCs …
London Stock Exchange sparks up world's biggest MicroTiles install to date May 11, 2011 by Dave Haynes Nice deal if you can work it … 508 MicroTiles at the London Stock Exchange. At $3,000 or so (I’m not sure what the actual street price is, but this is an educated guess) that’s $1.5 million worth of display tiles in one building – the largest install to date for Christie’s unique units. …
New regional tourism hub near Montreal has digital everywhere May 11, 2011 by Dave HaynesArsenal Media has been working for at least a year on a new regional tourism centre in the Montreal area, and the facility is now open and the content firm can make some hay about their work inside. The new Maison du tourisme de la Montérégie (MTM) at Quartier DIX30 in Brossard (attention hockey fans, this …
The $25 digital signage player May 9, 2011 by Dave HaynesBob Rushby, whose retirement swan song for Christie Digital was co-inventing MicroTiles, still keeps his hands in technology and is working on something he’s calling Pixelized Light. He flagged a really interesting piece in Venture Beat about an extremely low-cost computing module. Game developer David Braben, the piece reports, has created a computing device with …
E Ink's capabilities (and possibilities) continue to grow May 4, 2011 by Dave HaynesWith LCD technology costs so low and its use so pervasive, the demand for electronic ink in advertising and marketing would seem to be diminished. But it will all come down to cost and capabilities/limitations. New tests of E Ink, as relayed on Engadget, certainly show some promise for applications where LCDs just won’t be …
Alpha Video opens ready-to-serve content store May 4, 2011 by Dave HaynesWe’re starting to see more content suppliers create original or re-purpose existing material to sell and re-sell across the sector. The latest is Twin Cities-based Alpha Video Creative, which has announced an online store where integrators and network operators can go to buy “soft” content to fill out their playlists. The material includes packs of …
Italian virtual drapes aimed at interactive retailing May 4, 2011 by Dave HaynesI’ve been trading emails for the last few days with Massimo Barbieri, the sales and marketing director for an Italian software firm, Hypersoft, that does some really interesting custom work for interactive retail stations. He got me interested by sending me a link to a drapes and curtains simulator that would allow a sales person, …
QR Codes at POS drive 16K daily deals coupons in two weeks April 29, 2011 by Dave Haynes On the heels of the RMG Networks announcements with BlueBite and Groupon yesterday in San Francisco comes word of a network that’s had hundreds of units in the field for the last few months linking digital signage POS screens with QR codes and Groupon-like daily deals. The Counter Connection service has been around for several …
