Research Suggests Android Picking Up Steam In Signage, Embedded Markets July 7, 2015 by Super User The embedded business unit of VIA Technologies in Taiwan – which has a big office in Silicon Valley, as well – has done a worldwide survey of end-user customers to get a sense of where they’re at with using Android. Some 93% of the roughly 250 respondents indicated they are either currently using or are …
Projects: The Source Opens Its First Experiential Format Store July 7, 2015 by Super User Canadian gadget retailer The Source – once known as Radio Shack up here – has opened its first experiential format store in an ongoing effort to “reinvent” the brand and shopping experience. The store is at Toronto’s Yorkdale Mall – arguably the ritziest mall in Canada and where most retailers have flagships, if they have flagship locations. …
Projects: Augmented Reality Video Wall Fills French Grocery Carts In Surprising Ways July 7, 2015 by Super User Via PSFK This is a clever use of augmented reality that happily doesn’t require the experience to happen through the lens of a smartphone screen. The French supermarket chain Système U used gesture cameras, software and a large video wall at a store to deliver a fun way of communicating the origins of some of its …
Infographic: How Digital Menu Boards Help Businesses July 7, 2015 by Super User Here’s a nice infographic ROI-modeling digital menu boards that was passed along by Neil Maycock of Allsee Technologies, a UK-Chinese company that makes a broad range of digital signage displays.
CRI Carries On Ronin’s Red-Splashed Ways; Cash Doesn’t Match Burn Rate Needs For Q2 July 6, 2015 by Super User There are things you want to inherit when you acquire another company, but a penchant for red ink is probably not among them. New York-based Creative Realities in the year since it merged with Wireless Ronin is now reliably spitting out the same butt-ugly quarterly statements that followers grew accustomed to seeing when Ronin was still a …
ICX Association Hands Out Its First Excellence Awards July 2, 2015 by Super User I’ve heard some positive reviews coming out of the Interactive Customer Experience Association’s event in Chicago earlier this week – with loads of end-users and supplier/vendors limited to those that had some tie through sponsorship or awards to the event. If I read the tweets right, it was sold out. The ICX Association is the new …
Intel Releasing Ubuntu Linux Compute Stick; Specs Not Encouraging July 2, 2015 by Super User If you are a digital signage propellerhead and have been looking at the Intel Compute Stick and thinking about running one with Linux on it, it looks like that won’t work so hot. ZDnet reports that a $110 Ubuntu Linux version of the PC on a stick will go on sale next week, at least in …
Leap Motion Used As Portable Touchscreen Demo July 2, 2015 by Super User When the Leap Motion came out there was quite a bit of curiosity in this sector as to whether it could be used as a low-cost but effective alternative to expensive touchscreen overlays and add-ons. I ordered one, and tried it out, and was fairly underwhelmed by its capabilities. Then it sat on my desk …
RMG Networks Sells Off Its Airline Media Business July 1, 2015 by Super User It looks like the last little bits of the media business built up by RMG Networks are being sold off, and RMG is now pretty much Symon Communications again, under the newer name. Global Eagle Entertainment (GEE), a media company focused on the travel industry, has “certain assets” from RMG Networks Holding Corporation – the ones related to …
STRATACACHE Buys IZ-ON Media & Big Retail Footprint July 1, 2015 by Super User STRATACACHE has acquired IZ-ON Media, the company formerly and arguably better known as PRN, picking it up in a cash deal with its French owners Technicolor. The deal gives the Dayton, Ohio company – which is evolving into a lot more than a software CMS firm – a big footprint in many of the top retailers in …
