Projects: Boarding Pass-Driven Wayfinding At Logan Airport May 17, 2014 by Dave Haynes I sat in on a nice presentation the other day that showed how Logan Airport in Boston has nicely thought through the challenges of wayfinding in big bustling airports, and built some well-established technology into the solution. The airport is rolling out interactive directories that let travelers find their gate on a map – as …
Holograms Help Winning Candidate Campaign Across India, From A Studio May 16, 2014 by Dave Haynes This is kind of wild … India’s new prime minister Shri Narendra Modi used holograms, portable stages and almost 200 high-end 14K and 20K Christie projectors to speak at 1,200 rallies in 32 days across that vast country, without actually being there. UK-based Musion Das Hologram was responsible for consulting, designing and managing the holographic election addresses …
Wireless Ronin Has Tentative Deal To Merge With Unnamed Marketing Technology Firm May 16, 2014 by Dave Haynes Wireless Ronin has a non-binding letter of intent in place to merge with an unnamed private company – called a “marketing technology integrator” – and is also making moves to do another private, since the executive is now conceding the digital signage software and services is almost out of money. In SEC filings this week. …
Electric Objects Poised To Launch Digital Art Display Service May 13, 2014 by Dave Haynes Electric Objects got some tech-blog love recently from TechCrunch, which wrote about the NYC start-up has raised $1.7 million to launch a service that I’d describe as a first-cousin of digital signage. The company is developing a service that allows people to hang digital art posters in their living or work spaces and subscribe to …
Two Proof Of Display Products Hit Digital Signage Market On Same Day May 13, 2014 by Dave Haynes In an odd little twist, a pair of companies are making noise week in London about new products that monitor the state of digital signage networks using tech that watches the output of screens. Beatpixels is launching UpState at an NEC Showcase event while Taggalo was formally launching and pitching its own proof of display …
Mvix Releases MenuBoard-Focused Android Digital Signage Solution May 12, 2014 by Dave Haynes Mvix is the latest digital signage software and hardware company to develop an Android-based product, with plans to show off its menu-board focused system at the upcoming National Restaurant Association show in Chicago. Called Mvix Andros, it’s a $99 player box that runs a quad-core ARM processor and uses Android as the operating system. Mvix …
DSrupted Update: More Speakers Teed Up May 8, 2014 by Dave Haynes Planning is coming along nicely for the DSrupted conference on Sept. 17th in Toronto. I’ve been more focused on completing the speaker line-up, and not paying much attention to marketing just yet. Several companies have approached me – both from inside and outside the industry – offering to speak. But I have just five slots and …
The Market Did NOT Like RMG’s Numbers May 8, 2014 by Dave Haynes Well, I liked what I saw Yesterday of RMG Networks new Executive Briefing Center but the market definitely did not like the latest financials released today by the software/media company. The NASDAQ-listed company closed trading today at 97 cents, down a mind-wobbling 70.61% from the previous day’s close. Normally, the company trades about 11,00 shares day …
Adobe’s New Voice App Lets Marketers Build Animated Videos For Free May 8, 2014 by Dave Haynes Adobe has released a new iPad app that lets marketers easily build narrated product and promotion videos off their tablet, for free. Called Adobe Voice, the software enables anyone with even a smidge of marketing and design sensibilities to put together animated videos that are driven by the narrated voice. Users pair up their recorded …
NYC Puts Payphone Call Out For (Ideally) Insane MediaCo May 8, 2014 by Dave Haynes New York City has issued a new RFP, looking for (probably) a media company interested in retrofitting its 1,000s of old public payphones as free WiFi hotspots. There are more than 7,000 public pay telephone installations across the five boroughs, and the pitch to potential respondents is that they can bankroll the deployment by running …
