rAVe: LCD Price-Fixing Suit Settled December 12, 2011 by Super User After the $585-million government fine for price-fixing, Sharp, Samsung, Chimei Innolux, LG and four other LCD manufacturers now must pay $388 million to settle the class-action suit from end users. The companies won’t admit to the crime, but they agreed on the settlement in a price fixing case from a 2007 class action lawsuit. That …
Pre-DSE Golf Tourney Back For 2nd Year December 12, 2011 by Super User The Digital Signage Federation is going ahead with its second annual pre-Digital Signage Expo golf tournament at the TPC Las Vegas golf course on March 5th, the Monday of DSE week and a day ahead of the conferences, final booth set-up and the big Preset Group mixer. Tournament proceeds will go to support the scholarship …
Canadian retailer Mark’s rolling out store redesigns with ADFLOW solution December 12, 2011 by Super User ADFLOW Networks seems to be on a bit of a roll lately. On the heels of a nice joint marketing deal with Acosta and an announced rollout of interactive health stations in Rite-Aid store, the Burlington, Ontario-based software firm is announcing a deal to be the digital signage provider “for all store redesign initiatives” for …
DSA does digital signage, but not that DSA December 9, 2011 by Super User This is kinda funny … I was on Digital Signage Today looking at a story and noticed an ad embedded in the story, to: Get Creative with Digital Signage from DSA Hmmm. The DSA, aka Digital Screenmedia Association, is directly marketing a solution??? And they have a new logo! Well, no. Turns out this is …
Lou Giacalone joins consulting ranks December 9, 2011 by Super User We welcome Lou Giacalone to the august and ever-building ranks of digital signage smarty-pants for hire. Portland-based TargetPath announced Thursday that Lou has signed on as Vice President, Digital Media Client Services for the consulting group, focused on developing new business and guiding existing clients on digital media strategy and technology. Giacalone will work out …
Another big tech distributor adds content component December 9, 2011 by Super User The drive to sell content as a SKU in a digital signage order continues, this time with Tech Data doing a deal with Saddle Ranch Digital for “an exclusive line of SKUs specifically developed for Tech Data to complement its full line of content creation and management services.” “Our new partnership with Tech Data brings …
NYC impressions, inc. pix December 9, 2011 by Super User Back at the Bait Shop and home office after three wet, tiring days in New York. Few things are more magical than seeing the city at Christmas time amidst heaving rains, umbrella-destroying wind gusts and people who walk four-abreast on crowded sidewalks, at about a three feet an hour pace. Oh well, Thursday was …
On road, again December 5, 2011 by Super User In New York this week for meetings and some holiday sightseeing. Hope to see and shoot a few things like this projection on the side of Saks Fifth Avenue. Blogging nonsense resumes Friday. Pic from: http://www.infofornyc.com
Retailers need to get “preferred” status with shoppers December 5, 2011 by Super User Poking around looking for something else led me to a good piece, from summer 2010, in Retail Customer Experience, written by author Robert H. Bloom (THE NEW EXPERTS: Win Today’s Newly Empowered Customers At Their 4 Decisive Moments) about how mobile devices are changing the retail landscape and its dynamic. The premise, in simple terms, is that …
Christie posts video and case study on massive London Stock Exchange project December 5, 2011 by Super User [vimeo id=”30825185″ width=”600″ height=”350″] Christie Digital has developed and released a nice case study and video that shows us folks on the other side of the Atlantic what that massibe MicroTiles installatiuon at the London Stock Exchange looks like in action. It’s a bit of a drive, so I’ve no idea when I might see …
