TEDx event planned for Toronto in October, backed by digital signage guys September 21, 2009 by Dave Haynes The guys at Planet-Tek Systems, who run the Marketplace Station network in Canadian Whole Foods stores, have organized a Toronto version of the popular TED series of thought-provoking speaking/networking events.Planet-Tek has licensed the Toronto rights and the event is set for Tuesday, Oct. 13th at the Mill Street Brew Pub, 55 Mill Street, Building 63, in Toronto’s Victorian-era Distillery District.Raji …
You get what you pay for. Digital Sign b September 19, 2009 by Dave HaynesYou get what you pay for. Digital Sign business reminds me of the kiosks business in the 90’s. Low cost desktop systems are installed that can just barely operate and fail long term. Must be some great opportunity for someone to go back out and do the job properly a year down the road
Funny, I just walked by one of these ins September 18, 2009 by Dave HaynesFunny, I just walked by one of these installs yesterday in Boston. Honestly though I thought the interactive capabilities and intuitiveness mediocre. Starting the “game” required pushing the glass window pretty hard to select and I think you’re supposed to try and catch footballs, but I had a difficult time doing so, although it did …
Terrific street-level interactive window for ESPN September 17, 2009 by Dave HaynesPat Hellberg of The Preset Group (disclosure: so am I) sent along a link to this GREAT street-level promotion for ESPN and Monday Night Football, done with the help of projection media guys Monster Media and some gesture technology the agency, Wieden + Kennedy, doesn’t want to talk about.It’s great because it is interactive right at street-level, directly addresses …
More snappies of the 300-plus screen ACC install September 17, 2009 by Dave Haynes (Disclosure: I have some business ties with DDC, but I’d be showing these anyway … cool stuff)Jeff Wismer fought through the chaos of 80,000 or so people in a few square blocks of Toronto last night as U2 played the Rogers Centre and a couple of blocks over the Toronto Maple Leafs hockey team had …
Wireless retailer overcomes big box challenge September 17, 2009 by Dave HaynesThe vast space of a big box retailer like Costco (for the unfamiliar, huge zero-frills warehouse stores) make it really hard to imagine how screen networks moght work effectively in there. In my sales guy days, I chatted with several companies who were planning to crack that environment with LCDs fixed here and there. I had …
Doubt Linutop will play Flash well…I u September 16, 2009 by Dave HaynesDoubt Linutop will play Flash well…I use a lot of Linux systems and Flash plays considerably slower on much more powerful AMD/Intel systems when compared to my Windows laptop.
Pittsburgh daily opens up Black Box, finds big company September 16, 2009 by Dave Haynes It’s still fairly rare when a daily newspaper has a look at one of the technology firms or network operators in this space, but the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette does a fairly deep take on Black Box Network Services, an IT services firm that over the past year has started coming more and more on to the …
