If Content is King, Power is God August 11, 2010 by Super UserWalmart Smart Network endcap. No power or dead unit. It happens. But it really can’t in retail or anywhere else. Pic from reader
Adcentricity paints darker picture of DOOH spend from Q2 August 11, 2010 by Super UserI tend to run into Jeff Atley after hours at trade shows, after we’ve both had a few pops and are not all that eloquent. Or coherent. So when the VP and co-founder of Adcentricity rattles off this sort of thing in his writing, I’m amused. “This does not, however, translate directly to an equivalent spending ratio …
Japanese vending machines use video analytics to make drink recommendations August 10, 2010 by Super UserIf I ever squirted out of the rail car at a stop on the JR East transport system in Japan, I doubt anything would make me feel finer than a cold bottle of Pocari Sweat. Yes, evidently the Japanese have a drink called Sweat – presumably some sort of sports drink that maybe wouldn’t run …
Digital Signage Expo tweaks, expands 2011 conference program August 10, 2010 by Super UserDigital Signage Expo is only six months away and with luck, that will be the next time I am in Lost Wages. Been there a little too much this year. The DSE folks have announced changes to the conference program for 2011, breaking it up into nine tracks to serve different target audiences: • Digital …
Enough with the endless membership drive announcements August 6, 2010 by Super UserThere is a raging tomato fight, as you may have heard, going on between two non-profit organizations battling for the hearts, minds and wallets of the digital signage <you choose> a) industry or b) sector or c) evil cabal. Part of that battle is making the world aware when new members are signed up. Once …
Race to the bottom dep't: $250-$750 budget for digital signage platform August 6, 2010 by Super UserHi, looking for a company to create a digital signage application for me. This application has 3 parts a designer, admin and player. Admin site monitor players alert players Designer will be modeled after bannersnack.com for most part… (Budget: $250-750, Jobs: Embedded Software, Flash, HTML, MySQL, PHP) From i-freelancer.org 1 – there will undoubtedly be …
NASCAR Hall of Fame fan board lit up with 250-plus of Christie's MicroTiles August 5, 2010 by Super User(Disclosure: I do some writing for Christie, and prepared a case study on this project) One of the first BIG projects to come along for Christie Digital’s much-covered, much-praised MicroTiles technology is a signature installation at the NASCAR Hall of Fame in Charlotte, NC. The facility opened this spring and a focal point is a …
Madness. Just madness … August 5, 2010 by Super UserWhat is it that drifts through a network operator’s head that leads to the conclusion that this is a good idea? This degree of information overload would not be a good idea in print. Online. Anywhere. In simple terms, if someone is confronted with so much information they don’t know where to even start … …
DSA takes micro-show to big printing expo August 5, 2010 by Super UserI wrote the other day about how companies that take the trade show road less traveled are being smart, and I see now the Digital Screenmedia Association is thinking along those lines, as well. The DSA has a digital signage zone in October at the specialty Imaging and Printing Technology Expo in Lost wages in …
NEC joins the stretched screen crowd August 5, 2010 by Super UserSomeone will correct me, undoubtedly, but as far as I know LG was the first display manufacturer to come out with a monitor that looked like someone took a circular saw to it and cut it in two. They called it a stretch monitor and it gained a lot of attention in the marketplace maybe …
