So is it free or not??? October 6, 2010 by Dave HaynesSee if you can figure out this email marketing pitch without going cross-eyed … Professional FREE Digital Signage for everyone! — Well, well … that’s a good price It’s Digital Signage, but smarter more flexible and FREE for all — Yeah, you just said that MediaSignage had changed Digital Signage forever! And not just because …
C-Store 101 paper from NRF offers pile of insights October 5, 2010 by Dave HaynesSomehow or other I stumbled across a paper from the National Retail Federation on the convenience store business that looks into trends and operating challenges. It makes absolutely no mention of digital display technology and only passing references to in-store marketing, but for all the software and DOOH companies that sell into or build out …
Interactive projection/kiosk promos new Nissan Leaf September 28, 2010 by Dave HaynesThe guys at Spyeglass in Minneapolis sent along a release with pix and video of a project that uses their projection film and interactive touch foil. Through the reseller, RTT, USA Inc., and a pile of other companies doing different but related stuff, the projection film was part of a roving promo program for Nissan’s …
Samsung shows off its smart TV widgets (from rAVe) September 27, 2010 by Dave HaynesFrom Sixteen:Nine’s content partner rAVe [Publications], a shaky (but stick with it as it settles out) video demo-ing Samsung’s Smart TV gadgets and general capabilities at last week’s CEDIA show. The webinar I did last week discussed widgets and gadgets and how they can start to make an IPTV loook more and more like a …
The screen-smartphone connection, sans QR codes? September 27, 2010 by Dave HaynesThis is a French company, Wizup, that has developed technology that operates a little like apps that listen for, recognize and identify music, but more broadly based. The video shows how a smartphone could recognize video or something on a poster and deliver extended information down to the phone. In theory, this would work well …
NanoLumens screens named among top tech innovations September 27, 2010 by Dave HaynesCongratulations to the guys down in Atlanta behind NanoLumens, who were cited today as a runner-up in the Wall Street Journal’s Technology Innovation Awards. Given the other runners-up were Nokia and Ford Motor Co., that’s a fairly impressive accomplishment. The winner in the category was a Taiwanese company that does paper-thin displays. NanoLumens, if you …
DDC debuts great online promo September 27, 2010 by Dave HaynesI am note sure where this is running (given the URL I am guessing the National Post newspaper online), but here is a great spot put together by DDC and its new parent company Cineplex. Thanks to DDC’s Jeff Wismer for flagging this. I like how it loads fast and gets you quickly through the …
EnVu lighting up malls floors, bankrolled by Stratacache September 20, 2010 by Dave HaynesTwo distinct impressions. 1 – I’ve never seen anyone but little kids pay more more than fleeting attention to interactive floor projections when I have seen them in malls and mega-casinos. 2 – Chris Riegel is no dummy. So when I read this morning DailyDOOH that EnVu (which I did know about) was bankrolled by …
New DOOH mall network has dwell time to die for September 19, 2010 by Dave HaynesShopping malls are a really interesting environment to put in an ad-based screen network, and the one that’s starting to spark up in the Middle East is intriguing for a couple of reasons. As DailyDOOH notes, the Al Barq Digital network is actually owned by the Abu Dhabi government and therefore poses little risk for mall operators who …
Bad digital signage projects hurt us all September 17, 2010 by Dave HaynesI have watched the rapid ascension of Amscreen in the UK with a weird blend of admiration and frustration. With deep pockets, high profile through the UK version of The Apprentice and lots of friends in high places, the company started by UK business titan Lord Alan Sugar has managed to proliferate a thoroughly utilitarian …