Adcentricity closes $3 million finance deal April 23, 2008 by Dave Haynes The deal was cut a couple of months ago, but after all the due diligence stuff got done Adcentricity was able to announce Wednesday a $3 million series A equity financing that will help the founders pay down their tab at Toronto’s Spoke Club. The great majority, however, will go to help expand the year-old …
The marvels of staged photos April 23, 2008 by Dave Haynes I get such a kick out of staged photos in this space. You see this with a lot of small network operators who have images proving (“There, ya see, people ARE watching the damn screens!”) there is indeed an audience. But even monsters like Cisco feel the urge. The poor woman looks utterly delighted to …
Digital signage photo gallery April 23, 2008 by Dave HaynesFormer Impart managing director Bob Grawet has started an arms-length website/blog, using Google’s Picasa photo gallery app, to showcase digital signage installations all over the world. There’s a bunch of pictures in there but he is looking for many more, and is promising not to hump any particularly company. It’s a nice idea to have …
Dell previews teeny (and green) PC April 23, 2008 by Dave Haynes Everybody and their sister seems to be using Aopen’s little digital engine box for digital signage installs where space is at a premium. There are a few other teeny boxes out there, but Aopen has been about the closest thing to a major manufacturer cranking something out that’s small enough to slap on the back …
Latest Strategy Institute event seems to tone down the vendor nonsense April 21, 2008 by Dave HaynesThe Strategy Institute has been running high-end conferences targeting this space going all the way back to 2004, but I have not been all that interested in going to one for a while because of the way show sponsors can tend to drive the speaker line-up. As I have noted a few times, not many …
Channel M gets new financing completed April 21, 2008 by Dave HaynesOn the heels of a post last week about the challenges of getting investor money comes word in MediaPost that Channel M has completed another round of financing, this time with Intel Capital. There was a $6 million raise announcement a few months ago, as well. Total money in the door to date: $24 million. …
Cell phone-based gadget saves cost of rolling a truck April 21, 2008 by Dave HaynesFor many years now I have been recommending the use of something called an automatic ring rebooter when network operators are using DSL for connecting and monitoring screen networks. Simply put, it’s a switchable power bar that you run the DSL phone line through. When, not if, the DSL modem or router fails, all you …
Raising money in a recession April 18, 2008 by Dave HaynesI have been in on a few discussions with money guys lately, as clients try to get their financing together for rollouts. The common message: really, really have your act together. The wobbly US economy has made investor cash much harder to come by than it was even a few months ago. Screens.tv has an …
Standards finally getting some attention April 17, 2008 by Dave HaynesI am told, reliably, that past efforts by POPAI to get technical standards discussions going in this industry were met with a, umm, tepid response. As in, all you could hear on the conference call was the sound of crickets. Fast forward to last week, when there was a renewed effort via conference call to …
A look at the AT&T's use of Surface screens April 17, 2008 by Dave HaynesGadget blog Gizmodo has a nice piece of Flash video demo-ing the capabilities of the Microsoft Surface table in peddling cell phone plans and handsets. I don’t get very twitchy about being able to zoom in and around a coverage map, which is the first part of the video. Basically, “Yeah, so …” But what …
