NEC's digital signage software now free, to anyone June 1, 2010 by Super UserNEC Displays made an announcement this morning that will likely make a number of people in the software start-up side of this industry get up to find a very large coffee. Or drink. The Chicago-based company is now making its hosted digital signage software solution available free of charge to anyone, regardless of whether they …
AV gearheads, and me, getting set for InfoComm May 28, 2010 by Super UserI’m starting to do my planning and scheduling for InfoComm, which is just a week and a half out now. It’s about the biggest show of the year for the panel, projector and AV integrator guys in this digital signage sector – an event aimed more at the propellerhead and arms and legs guys than …
Worst digital signage demo … ever May 24, 2010 by Super UserSo I saw a Tweet about a company I knew, and it led me to a copy/paste “news” portal that had an excerpt, which exposed me to a big button that urged me to “Try our Digital Signage software now …” So I did. Guys, if you harbor even the faintest of hopes that your …
If you go social, commit to it May 24, 2010 by Super UserIcons from Phoke How many companies in this sector have blogs, Twitter accounts, Facebook fan pages, YouTube channels and other vehicles used to market in new ways and create a dialogue with their customers? Lots. How many are any good? Few. If you are going to get into the social media thing as a new …
Show Me The Digital Signage Money Summit Back On May 24, 2010 by Super UserOne of the more popular and successful Strategy Institute conferences the company does on this sector is the one on investors, probably because raising money is anything but easy. The 5th annual Digital Signage Investor Conference has been announced for Oct. 5-6 in New York, this time moving up from the Wall Street area and …
Adcentricity's creative guide required digital signage reading May 20, 2010 by Super UserI downloaded Adcentricity’s new creative guide almost a week ago, but I only had a chance this morning to poke my way around it. To the credit of co-founder Jeff Atley, who pulled the thing together, this is not a guide that says “Add two cups of Adcentricity” and you are good to go. These …
What HTML5 could do in interactive digital signage May 19, 2010 by Super UserSome of the content/magazine demos I have seen for the iPad have been very cool, but I have always been a little bothered by how realistic they were to regularly given the unavoidably high production costs and time needed for these apps. Google has its big developer conference today and one of the publishers trotted …
Toronto's Sick Kids Hospital turns on multilingual wayfinding (yay!) May 18, 2010 by Super UserFor two or three years now I have been blabbering on with people about the opportunity hospitals present to use screens in a meaningful way, and it finally looks like someone is doing it. There are likely others, but this is the first install I know of that uses interactive screens in hospital lobbies to …
Bob Cooney leaves eCast; weighing next steps May 18, 2010 by Super UserI don’t know eCast all that well, but I’ve liked what I have seen and the guy, Bob Cooney, who was the product’s front-man and pretty much synonomous with the company — kinda like Jeff Porter and Scala. But Bob Cooney has left his longtime gig with eCast and is now considering his next moves …
The Screen sets first US DOOH event for June in NYC May 17, 2010 by Super UserThe guys behind The Screen in the UK – driven by Digital View and a few others, I think – has been doing events in London for a few years now and next month jumps the pond for its first North American event – a morning event on June 22nd done in collaboration with the …
