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 …
ClearChannel hangs big boards in O'Hare March 10, 2007 by Dave HaynesI try really hard NOT to travel through O’Hare Airport, and usually succeed, so I have not yet seen the new LED board network ClearChannel has put in there. The outdoor and communications giant recently announced its first, indoor digital billboard network – eight 6’x 8’ LED boards playing out 10-seconds spots, 24/7, on the United Airlines B and C Concourses. …
GSBC sends me crap I didn’t ask for after phone call I didn’t have March 9, 2007 by Dave Haynes This was in my Inbox tonight … twice. “Further to our recent telephone conversation regarding the above, I write to firstly thank you for taking the time to speak with me and expressing your interest in the media-tech company Global Satellite Broadcasting Corporation, who are about to be taken public onto the US before the …
GlobalShop: Day 2 March 9, 2007 by Dave Haynes I got over to the show a little early, grabbed my camera, and started to look around. It was evident, pretty quickly, that digital signage had been adeptly herded into a couple of rows in the Digital Store area. Beyond that, the show is companies selling fixtures and flooring and lighting and on and on. …
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 …
And the winners were??? (UPDATED TIMES 2) February 27, 2007 by Dave HaynesOk, so I know there was a Strategy Institute digital signage meeting-thingie in Las Vegas last week, and I know a few people who went. I also know there was a reception for the Fourth Screen Awards, for excellence in the space. But that’s it. Nothing on the site. Nothing on the Strategy Institute site. …
SeeSaw Networks to unveil online ad-buying system February 26, 2007 by Dave HaynesI met Peter Bowen last year at the digital retailing show in Chicago, when he was starting to build awareness for SeeSaw Networks – essentially a sales rep shop specializing in peddling time on screen media networks. Industry people have been talking forever about rolling up as many networks as possible into one media sales …
"We're number one!" Oh, really??? February 20, 2007 by Dave HaynesI like the guys at Neo Advertising, but a press release they issued today leaves me scratching my follicle-challenged head. “We’re No. 1 in Canada and already, we’re among the leaders in Europe. With our technological expertise, our employees’ know-how and ourEuropean creative inspiration, we must now turn toward the future and offer our dynamic …
Zoom rolls out interactive screens February 19, 2007 by Dave HaynesMontreal-based Zoom Media, best known for mounting posters in washrooms of restaurants and bars, is continuing to tinker with digital media. It has a few digital versions of its restroom posters out in the field, but has now installed 50 media screens that have touch capability, with the idea of letting consumers choose to view …
GSBC’s world domination looms February 16, 2007 by Dave Haynes I have been reading a flurry of press releases in the last couple of weeks from a company I suspect none of you have ever heard of – Global Satellite Broadcasting Corporation Ltd. (GSBC). The releases have steadily announced the acquistion of several other companies and culminated yesterday with a news release about how the …
