MGM Grand Lights Up Huge Lobby Video Wall January 18, 2012 by Dave Haynes It’s really not that long ago when people in this sector were pretty giddy to even see a digital signage screen or two integrated into the back wall of a hotel reception desk. Now, with dropping prices and better technology, digital signage can BE the back wall. David Levin, the president of Four Winds Interactive, …
Intel, YCD Show Off Digital Merchandising Concept At NRF January 16, 2012 by Dave Haynes I frankly couldn’t make heads or tails out of a press release involving YCD and Intel, and a thing they were showing off this week at the NRF show in New York, but I was sent a case study that has since cleared the fog. What the release said: Using second generation Intel® CoreTM i5 …
Companies Serve Up Real-time Analytics For Corporate Communications January 16, 2012 by Dave Haynes I don’t write a lot about corporate communications projects because they rarely seem to get discussed, perhaps because the jobs are smaller one-offs done by resellers and integrators with non-existent PR machines. However, there’s a lot of those jobs out there. Of course, one of the big challenges with corporate comms jobs is figuring out …
BrightSign And Signagelive Pair Up On Networked Offer January 16, 2012 by Dave Haynes We’ve been talking a lot about consolidation in the digital signage sector because there are way too many solutions options out there. But not all that consolidation is going to be on the M&A side. Sometimes, it will be two companies choosing to work together instead of competing. Consider the news today about a deal …
DV Signage Debuts Low-Cost GPS-Driven Media Player January 13, 2012 by Dave Haynes DV Signage, aka Digital View, has come out with a nice tweak to one of its workhorse products that introduces a low-cost solution for companies that want to tie messaging to GPS coordinates. Its ViewStream 300GPS, says a release, allows the automatic triggering of specific videos and images according to realtime GPS data, on a non-networked …
Latest AR Virtual Dressing Room Takes The Cake January 12, 2012 by Dave Haynes [youtube id=”WwUa14mNNhY” width=”600″ height=”350″] The virtual dressing room-augmented reality thing has been around for a few years, and the first iterations by companies like Zugara were pretty interesting but well off from truly ready for the marketplace. As you might expect, the applications keep getting better (including Zugara’s), but a new one by a company …
Calgary’s New Science Centre Sparks Up 48-Unit MicroTiles Wall January 12, 2012 by Dave Haynes When my kids were a lot younger and we still lived out west, we’d take them now and then to Calgary’s old concrete number of a science centre west of downtown. Spent many hours there. So I was intrigued to see the oil-rich city now has a shiny new centre, complete with shiny new video …
Scala Works Deal For Connected Digital Signage On A USB Stick January 10, 2012 by Dave Haynes Software maker Scala is continuing its push – and pretty much a solitary push – into the digital picture frame market. The company has announced a strategic partnership with Isabella Products to “develop sales, marketing, and technology initiatives for 2012 and beyond for the digital signage market.” Based outside of Boston, Isabella describes itself as “a …
Shuttle Joins Skinny Digital Signage PC Pack January 10, 2012 by Dave Haynes Shuttle has been around for ages with smallish PCs that are about the size of toasters – good for tight spots in an equipment cabinet or up on a shelf, but still to big and bulky to attach to the back of a display panel. I see from the blizzard of press coming out of …
Updated: HTML5 Now Finding Its Way Into Digital Signage January 9, 2012 by Dave Haynes Taiwan-based computing device manufacturer IAdea has announced a set of media players that support the rapidly emerging HTML5 content standard – with the company suggesting broad industry adoption of HTML5 will lower content creation costs and power highly dynamic programming on low-cost boxes. The company has announced three networked “XMP” playback devices it says are …
