How Live Data Delivers 9,640 Different Digital OOH Ad Messages June 8, 2015 by Super User Live data and web services are starting to demonstrate the long-discussed possibilities for hyperlocal digital display screens, with a great example of that being a marketing campaign now running in the UK and built around Microsoft’s Cortana – the Windows phone version of Siri or Google Now. The agencies behind the campaign created 241 distinct …
T1V Buys Cenique, Rolls Into Larger, Charlotte-based Digital Signage Offer June 5, 2015 by Super User A pair of Charlotte, NC companies have merged, putting together a combined offer that includes things as diverse as low-cost media players, video analytics and interactive stations. The interactive touchscreen firm T1V has bought the assets of Cenique USA, which now do business as Cenique Global, a division of T1V. Says a press release: T1V …
InfoComm Booth Profile: Peerless-AV June 2, 2015 by Super User Display hardware specialist Peerless-AV will be at InfoComm, and this is why company president John Potts says people in the digital signage industry need to come by booth 3401 in a couple of weeks. 1 – Why do people going to InfoComm need to put your company on their Must See list of booths? Some top “must …
InfoComm Booth Profile: Philips June 2, 2015 by Super User Here’s what Philips has to say about its InfoComm 2015 trade show plans, via North America Marketing Manager Stephen Shao: 1 – Why do people going to InfoComm need to put your company on their Must See list of booths? InfoComm attendees should come by the Philips booth (#4689) because we’re premiering some really cool …
E Ink Goes Yellow June 2, 2015 by Super User A typical flat panel monitor supports millions of colors, so it’s a little funny to see a press release celebrating how a display now supports yellow. We Did Yellow!!! But in the case of electronic ink, it’s a big deal. E Ink has announced its Spectra shelf displays can now do black, white, red and now …
Projects: Canadian Tire Lights Up 100+ Screens At New Showcase Store June 2, 2015 by Super User Canadian Tire has opened a giant new store on the south end of Edmonton, on the main road out of town south to Calgary, and loaded it up with a whole bunch of digital. The South Edmonton Common store, which opened Friday, has more than 100 digital screens, including a video wall and an outdoor …
Visix Adds Client-Branded Smartphone App And Beacons For Wayfinding June 2, 2015 by Super User Atlanta-based Visix has added an interesting new element to its product offer aimed at corporate facilities and campuses – a brand-able wayfinding app for smartphones that can be tied to bluetooth low energy beacons. The app can be used as an extension of traditional kiosk-based wayfinding or as a stand-alone solution. “We’ve had great success providing …
Retail Innovation Workspace And Lab Opens In SF Mall June 1, 2015 by Super User What would be a really good environment to test and tweak retail technologies, and get them in front of major retailers and brands? How about a major mall in a tech hotbed, in a city few people groan about having to visit for a business trip? That’s at least part of the idea of a …
Intel’s Compute Stick Gets Big Shoulder Shrug In Lab Testing June 1, 2015 by Super User The geeks at Engadget have put put one of Intel’s new Compute Sticks through testing, and come back with a resounding shoulder shrug. “The Compute Stick,” concludes the review, “shows that Intel can build an entirely new form of computing device, but it fails to prove why anyone would want one.” The technical testing put …
Four Winds Gets “Cool Vendor” Nod From Gartner May 30, 2015 by Super User Denver-based signage software firm Four Winds Interactive got a nice little nod recently from the tech-centric market analysis firm Gartner, listing it among a tight selection of Cool Vendors for Content Management for 2015. The April report by Gartner evaluated content management vendors that “provide IT leaders, HR and marketing strategists with innovative solutions to help them share, …
