Swedish Firm Puts Messaging At The Point Of Pay September 11, 2014 by Super User A Swedish company has launched a quasi-digital sign product that puts an e-ink screen into the top of one of those divider bars people use to separate purchases in checkout lanes at groceries. Motion Display’s “Motion e-bar” will be used initially in selected Swedish ICA stores. “Customers we discussed with spontaneously say they can’t imagine …
DSrupted Is Next Week, And Strangely In Control September 11, 2014 by Super User Doing mixers for as many as 400 people invariably taught me a few things about organization and sweating the little details, and as a result, I’m pretty calm about where planning sits for next week’s DSrupted conference in Toronto. Big, bad windy and wet weather blew through town last night so I plopped all the …
Hybrid-Cloud: Squashing the Debate on Cloud vs. On-Premise September 11, 2014 by Tony Downey Guest Post: David Wible, Industry Weapon There is a lot of debate on whether digital signage should be housed on-premises or in the cloud. Of course, both cloud based and on-premises digital media management solutions have pros and cons. An ‘on-prem’ solution allows clients to have complete control of the system, so that data security …
San Diego Start-up Hopes Retailers, Brands LUV ADs September 10, 2014 by Super User An ad services start-up operating out of the San Diego area has started a new service called LUV ADs, which uses RFID-embedded loyalty cards and readers paired with screens to deliver contextual, customized ad messaging to consumers. The pitch is that ads can be targeted down to customer profiles, based on loyalty data, and generate …
Looks A Lot Like Digital Signage: Opera Browser Adds Smart TV Ads Capabilities September 10, 2014 by Super User The majority of the chatter about using HTML5 and web browsers as digital signage playout tools has been about using Google’s Chrome browser and/or OS, or the open source webskit browser. But there is news that Norway’s Opera Software has released a smart TV solution, coupled with advertising, that would do the business, as well, …
What’s The Biggest Digital Signage Network in North America? The World? September 10, 2014 by Super User Having written almost 3,800 posts on digital signage, going back 8 1/2 years, it’s reasonable for people to conclude if they don’t have an answer for something, Dave may well know. I get that a lot, and once in a while I actually DO know. But this one stumped me, and I thought it was …
Dell Latest To Add Chromebox To Product Line September 9, 2014 by Super User US PC maker Dell has added a little Chrome OS-driven Chromebox to its product lineup, with units shipping later this month. The Austin-based company is the 4th, by my count, with a $179 USD Chromebox – a device I know is already in the field as a digital signage player with Rise Vision and being actively …
Fabulous Parting Gifts From Our DSrupted Sponsors September 7, 2014 by Super User We’ll have some genuinely “fabulous parting gifts” for the folks who register and attend DSrupted next week in Toronto. Google and Rise Vision – Google’s Vidya Nagarajan is our lead-off speaker and Rise is an event sponsor – have very kindly offered up 10 Asus Chromeboxes, teeny put powerful little devices that Rise already has in …
Clarity Gap Closing As Super-Tight LED Walls Light Up September 5, 2014 by Super User About a year and a half ago I was walking around the National Association of Broadcasters show in Las Vegas and got stopped dead in my tracks by a giant LED video wall that even up close looked terrific. It was a 1.9 mm pixel pitch wall, with the little LED modules positioned so tightly …
DSrupted Will Offer Instant Pheedback For Speakers September 4, 2014 by Super User DSrupted already has a very nice, dedicated app that enables attendees to network, message and set-up chats with other attendees. It’s called Bizzabo and I’m liking what it does. The event will also have a mobile tool that will allow attendees to not only rate speakers, but provide direct feedback and message the speakers. Instead …
