Intel on its Connected Store (video) January 12, 2011 by Super UserSpotted this video on Intel’s YouTube channel. It is built around the NRF show and shows how Intel, from its point of view, pretty much IS the eco-system of digital signage in retail. It’s a solid presentation about the many ways screen-based technology is and will be implemented in retail environments, but someone new to …
Intel shows off future digital retailing ideas at NRF January 10, 2011 by Super UserIntel made some noise last year at NRF with its interactive station, and the chipmaker is going for it again at the retail trade show. Intel unveiled its Connected Store concept – a two-story, 2,400 sq. ft. retail storefront concept – with an assortment of whiz-bang technologies. Powered by 2nd Generation Intel® Core™ processors, previous-generation …
Christie announces managed services for digital signage January 10, 2011 by Super UserChristie Digital has a pile of resources and experience in place from the work it does supporting its projection business, and the company has decided to “sweat those assets” a little more by introducing an end-to-end digital signage management offer aimed at retail. The company has a presence at NRF this week in New York …
Siemens uses SMS, digital signage screens to get CEO interacting with 10,000 staffers January 10, 2011 by Super UserThis is an interesting spin I’ve not seen before that integrated mobile technology with digital signage for a corporate communications exercise. Siemens stuck its US CEO at a cafeteria table and did a “Fireside Chat” via live video streaming with 10,000 employees, in 50 locations, and across 4 timezones. Staff interacted with Daryl Dulaney by …
Acronym Alert: YCD and HP show RAMP at NRF January 10, 2011 by Super UserYCD Multimedia is at NRF this week showing off some technology that at least suggests it auto-generates content to screens based on the integration with a partner’s POS back office system. “YCD’s solution will be changing the playing field for grocery and convenience store retailers. We are allowing retailers’ digital signage campaigns to be fully …
Global DOOH: New DOOH Insights Blog Looking At Middle East Sector January 9, 2011 by Super UserA new blog looking at the Digital Out Of Home industry in the Middle East has been started by one of that region’s high-flying new companies, Al Barq Digital. The firm – which launched this past summer and has started rolling out in shopping malls – is owned and operated by Abu Dhabi Media Digital …
DOOH NO! Pittsburgh daily showcases plain old TVs as DOOH example January 9, 2011 by Super UserGoogle Alerts popped up a piece this morning on “Digital Advertising” that suggested the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette was looking at DOOH as an on-screen revolution. Over I click there is a shot of a deli counter with a screen nicely out of the field of view of customers. Oh well, I thought. At least they are …
Wow: LG's 4 by 30 video wall at CES January 7, 2011 by Super UserI was way too busy to go to CES this year, and it is such a crazy,exhausting show I kinda look for reasons why I can’t go. Hotel prices shoot up. Cabs are hard to get. There is sooo much walking. But, there’s always stuff you wish you could see in person, instead of reading …
MTI comes in from the edges, into thick of retail digital signage offers with new ReAct product January 6, 2011 by Super UserMTI has been working around the edges of the digital signage retail sector for many years, with software and displays that popped up content based on shopppers lifting up and inteacvting with its core products – secured tethers for merchandising displays. When you are about to stuff that sexy Samsung amoled smartphone into your pocket …
MicroSigns does first US deal for digital signage displays January 6, 2011 by Super UserMy friends (and clients) up in Montreal who have steadily built up European business for MicroSigns’ cool little interactive screens for wireless retail now have a toe-hold in the US, albeit waaaay west in Alaska. The company’s digital merchandising displays – small interactive LCDs that replace paper fact sheets on the display counters in wireless …
