This week's Top 5 July 23, 2010 by Super UserSo, some weeks – particularly if I am on the road – I am lucky to produce five posts. But this week I was well past that, and here are the ones that seemed to wind people’s watches. 400 digital signage software companies, and counting … Barco buys dZine software firm Zombie Queen Mary yanked from …
KPMG report suggests consumer privacy concerns easing July 23, 2010 by Super UserThe monster professional services firm KPMG released a pile of research this week on privacy and digital security, with the common thread being an indication that consumers are, depending on how you come at this, relaxing about the implications, or just letting their collective guard down. KPMG in its latest installment of “Consumers and Convergence” …
Just one station, but much bigger deal July 22, 2010 by Super UserThe Friedrichstrasse Underground Station in downtown Berlin is thought to be the first subway platform around that is completely and exclusively tooled up with digital advertising displays. The German company Wall AG put the project, and the first domination advertiser – running this month – is Intel. The station has 12 projection surfaces on the …
Barco got dZine for 8M Euro, plus … July 22, 2010 by Super UserDenis at OOH-TV dug up the financials on the Barco acquisition of another Belgian company, software maker dZine. In its Q2 2010 financial report, Barco gave more details with regards to its recent dZine acquisition. As stated in the document: “Beginning July 2010 Barco closed the acquisition of 100% of the shares of the Belgium-based …
Display-focused digital signage conference set for next month in Silicon Valley July 22, 2010 by Super UserThe market research company DisplaySearch is staging a display-centric (go figure) Digital Signage Conference on August 17 in San Jose, CA, baked into an overall conference. It is billed as bringing in speakers that cross the spectrum of the digital signage supply chain, but is understandably heavy on the display folks. It’s a pretty good …
AR app brings old street life back in London July 21, 2010 by Super UserI struggle, a little, with the notion of many of us walking the streets and corridors of our daily lives with smartphones in front of our faces, taking in all the augmented reality enhancements. Will we need to start wearing helmets because we keep crashing into each other as we stare at little screens instead …
DSE backers plan matchmaker weekend July 21, 2010 by Super UserIf you are a digital signage vendor with $9,000-$15,000 burning a hole in your undoubtedly deep pockets, you can relieve of yourself of that burden now during a relaxing weekend at a resort and spa in San Diego this fall. Digital Signage Expo has organized what it is calling an industry forum on the extended …
Zombie Queen Mary yanked from London digital escalator campaign July 20, 2010 by Super UserFrom London – via the Telegraph – comes news that a marketing campaign on digital screens that cascade down the sides of escalator areas in the London Tube system have been pulled because they were, well, too effective. They were scaring the crap out of little kids. An advert for the London Dungeon has been …
400 digital signage software companies, and counting … July 20, 2010 by Super UserJames van Etten does the Clippings industry intelligence newsletter that rounds up industry news overnight and drops it into 1,000s of email inboxes. At least I think he still does. I have not received one in months. Whatever the case, he issued a report today looking at the rankings of software companies, based on Google …
Enough with the Minority Report references … July 20, 2010 by Super UserI have been thinking about a digital signage drinking game in which every time I read a story about face counting technology that mentions the flick Minority Report, I run down to the kitchen and pour myself a shot of something. Problem is, I’d be drunk a lot of days by noon. And I really …
