In Toronto, At Least, Things Are Hopping January 29, 2015 by Super User I spent the last three days doing a series of show and tell visits with a vendor to the many digital signage software companies in the greater Toronto area. Those sessions all tended to to start with a little bit of “How are things going?” chatter, and the message back was uniformly that things were hopping. …
Mixer Plans January 28, 2015 by Super User I’m getting a steady drip drip of emails from industry contacts asking about the annual Preset Group DSE Mixer. Answers: Yup, it’s on. Usual night before trade show hall opens. We’ll be back at the Hard Rock on the strip, 3rd floor. Room booked. Insurance done. Sponsors are in place, but I need to double-confirm …
Christie Says 50K+ MicroTiles Now Lit Globally January 26, 2015 by Super User Christie has pushed out a news release that talks about an expanded warranty for its MicroTiles displays, but contains the more interesting information about the global footprint. The company says it has now shipped more than 50,000 units for roughly 1,000 installations worldwide. That’s, of course, a small number when compared to the commercial LCD market, …
Industry Vets Jill & David Miller Escape Huge NJ Apartment Fire January 24, 2015 by Super User If you have been around digital signage for a bunch of years it is very likely that you know Jill or David Miller, or possibly both of them. You might know them best through the Digital Signage Group, a Seattle-area consultancy and reseller that was doing things like webinars years before most companies in this space …
Digital Signage Starting To Turn On In SE Asia January 21, 2015 by Super User We all hear about vast retail and hospitality projects in huge Chinese cities people in the west didn’t know existed. But there is a lot happening in other regional centres – the product of rising economies and huge wealth that’s often in the hands of a few family-run companies. The footprint, opulence and foot traffic …
Limited Time To Post January 20, 2015 by Super User I’m way out of town this week, in Manila, where it is 30 Celsius (86 F) and blue skies. But I’m also in a hotel room catching up on emails between meetings, so my only encounter with the pool has been walking by it. Nice to be somewhere warm, but it came with 17 hours …
InLighten Touts First Windows-Based Digital Signage Stick January 16, 2015 by Super User Buffalo-based software house inLighten has released what it touts to be the first HDMI stick for digital signage to run on Windows. The Argo, as it is called, is a companion product to another HDMI stick that runs Android, called the Apollo. “Argo was created for organizations that seek the savings in hardware and installation …
NRF: Is Memomi’s Digital Mirror The Fairest Of Them All January 13, 2015 by Super User I missed this in the two days I spent wandering the aisles of NRF, which is a shame because I’m intrigued by how it works. It’s billed as the world’s first digital mirror, which is a bit of a reach given eBay and The Big Space both have digital mirror things (admitted doing different stuff) …
NRF: Lexmark’s Shrug-Inducing Digital Signage Play January 13, 2015 by Super User The big printing hardware firm Lexmark debuted a digital signage product this week at the National Retail Federation show in New York – a digital endcap solution I’d best describe as shrug-inducing. It’s a template program that will generate a jpeg and push it to an LG monitor … and that’s about it. It’s not a …
NRF: Day I Impressions January 12, 2015 by Super User The National Retail Federation Big Show extended to three days this year, running a shortened five-hour session on Sunday. That meant retailers and brands could get a look on a free day or get three full days in when two was not enough. That also meant all kinds of sales guys were finding creative …
