Keep It Stupid, Stupid! June 25, 2010 by Super UserThe people at MediaSignage are in that race to zero game on pricing that I think can only end badly for small companies, but I suppose we shall see on that. Now and then I poke around their website and see what the California-based company is doing. The hosted product appears to have some nice …
DOOH giant Accent Health does the CEO Shuffle June 22, 2010 by Super UserAccentHealth, one of the biggest DOOH networks in the US, has switched out CEOs, with Daniel Stone replacing Richard Ruth, who co-founded the thing and has been with the company for 15 years. There is no back story provided in the press release about why Ruth is leaving, not even a pursuing other opportunities line. …
Flash 10.1 hands off video work to graphics processor June 18, 2010 by Super UserWell, we are still waiting for Adobe to hand off the definitive, uambiguous word on the whole licensing issue with the Flash Player for digital signage. That was going to be in the new year, and I suppose one might weakly argue the new year is only half over … There are people out there …
Top Five Posts of the Week June 18, 2010 by Super UserOne of the nice things that my move to WordPress gives me is a dashboard and instant analytics on what people are reading – something that was probably possible -somewhere in Joomla. So now I can see what people are reading and what they could care less about. This week, the top posts were: Movie …
DOOH creative part of Canadian New Media Awards … but just June 18, 2010 by Super UserThe 10th annual Canadian New Media Awards committee is now accepting nominations for the set of honors it will hand out in November, at Toronto’s Design Exchange. Google Alert flags digital out of home for me, and with some extra searching I read that DOOH is one of the examples of the the type of …
News as it should look on digital signage screens June 17, 2010 by Super UserThere have been encouraging signs lately that we’re seeing the industry slowly but surely move away from over-zoned screen layouts and crawling news tickers to cleaner, much more logical looks. I will continue to argue that in many cases, news headlines are the wrong things to focus on – because news is now everywhere. But …
Movie theatre giant Cineplex buys Canada's DDC June 17, 2010 by Super UserIn a really interesting move, Canada’s biggest movie theatre chain has agreed to acquire one of the country’s oldest and most respected digital signage services companies, DDC. (Disclosure: clients and friends, but this was news to me this morning) Says the release: Canada’s movie exhibitor Cineplex Entertainment LP, which is owned by Cineplex Galaxy Income …
Seneca Data's sleek little digital signage player June 15, 2010 by Super UserWhen I was at Infocomm last week poking around the trade hall, acting interested and waiting furtively for the Christie Digital booth to start pouring beers, I saw a lot of little boxes from Seneca Data driving digital signage applications. The upstate New York company only launched its slim little boxes a few months ago,so …
Google TV explained, and why you should care June 15, 2010 by Super UserThe 1:56 mark of this new video from Google tells you what you want to really know about Google TV and its relevance to the digital signage market. At the entry level, your digital signage playback engine could be nothing more than an Android app selected from the marketplace. Find. Select. Click. Off you go. …
The perils of Google Alerts June 15, 2010 by Super UserThe thing about Google Alerts for keywords – like digital signage – is that it picks up everything from high quality insights from top industry minds to flotsam from robot sites. And everything in between. It all shows up, all day long, in your email inbox. This morning, a few times, it has picked up …
