These Digital Screens Are Just Trash January 22, 2013 by Dave Haynes Walking through a food court a downtown Vancouver office complex, looking for a critical first coffee of the day, I came across a set of back to back digital screens – one of several sets in the place. All they do, unless things change later in the day, is tell people how to use …
Dish-Spinner Needed January 20, 2013 by Dave Haynes Mr. Google Alerts scrubbed the intertubes and found this job search post for some poor soul who gets to do just about everything, it seems, on a digital signage network except accounting. Digital Signage Designer PRIMARY FUNCTION: Provide daily oversight and execution of digital signage initiatives. The function of this position will range in scope …
Video: The Future Is Swiping January 18, 2013 by Dave Haynes Here’s a video that suggests how gesture technology will be a part of everyday life as the sensing technology gets more granular. It’s a wee bit cloying as a cute couple goes from lust at first sight to marriage proposal (sorry, spoiled it for you), but is effective in showing what could/can be done. Still …
RMG Networks Merger Puts Digital OOH Network On Path To Going Public January 18, 2013 by Dave Haynes Reach Media Group Holdings, Inc. (aka RMG Networks) has done a merger agreement with a venture capital firm that will enable the Digital OOH company to go public this year. The deal is with SCG Financial Acquisition Corp, which has listings on NASDAQ and two over the counter exchanges, and does these sorts of special purpose …
Phil Cohen New Head Of Digital Signage Federation January 17, 2013 by Dave Haynes The Digital Signage Federation has done its annual board vote, and Phil Cohen of Care Media has been pegged as the new Chairman. Consultant/trainer Alan Brawn becomes Chairman Emeritus, Kim Sarubbi of Saddle Ranch Digital shifts to Vice Chairman and Ken Goldberg (Real Digital Media) is the Secretary/Treasurer. Carre Dawson (Harris), Jeff Dowell (3M), Brian …
Preset Group DSE Mixer Update January 17, 2013 by Dave Haynes The plan is to start registration next Thursday for the Preset Group DSE Mixer, which is at the Hard Rock Cafe and includes this nice patio area overlooking the packs of Honduran guys snapping cards of escorts at tourists walking the Strip. We have room for 300-ish. We’re using EventBrite once again as the …
Leap Motion To Drive Digital End-caps In Best Buys January 16, 2013 by Dave Haynes Tech Crunch is reporting that those little Leap Motion gesture controllers – which drives finger-level gesture controls to screens – will be sold exclusively (at first) in U.S. Best Buys and marketed using digital end-caps in the stores. The $70 controllers will be available for pre-order starting next month from Best Buy online and in-store …
Signagelive Bags Major UK Digital OOH Network January 15, 2013 by Dave Haynes I would imagine this is not the happiest of times around the various offices of Scala, as news is out that a big, longtime client has cut the cord and gone with another digital signage platform provider. Jason Cremins, the CEO of signagelive, tweeted this afternoon: You are currently viewing a placeholder content from Default. …
Digital Signage Makes Kids Eat Their Broccoli January 15, 2013 by Dave Haynes Entering the digital signage sector as a vendor these days requires a lot of careful thinking about what niches still exist out there. Not many, I’d think. But there are some clever people putting together products and services that go right at problems, and coming up with what at least look nice solutions. Like Nutrislice. …
Is Retail Ready For Stratacache’s Play Time January 15, 2013 by Dave Haynes I’m going to file this under Hmmmm. Stratacache CEO Chris Riegel is as smart as they get in this space, and not even vaguely one to engage in wastes of time. So there is a rationale I am clearly, entirely missing as to why the company has launched what it calls its Digital Play service …
