Project Profile: Digital Street Furniture In Poland January 4, 2013 by Dave Haynes Here’s a nice looking digital street furniture rollout in the Polish province of Pomorskie province, and its capitol city Gdansk, put together by the outdoor digital enclosure firm Infinitus. There are 75 “imotion” 46-inch single-sided touchscreen units used by locals and tourists to get on-demand city information and local business offers. The units have a smartphone …
Clones For Apple Store’s iPad Enclosures January 3, 2013 by Dave Haynes Apple stores have been using iPads as very simple but effective digital merchandising displays, the tablets tidily and securely encased in acrylic frames. Now a company is marketing secure enclosures that mimic (OK, clone) the Apple store design, with other retailers in mind. My initial thought is that Apple must have a patent on that …
Research: If You Insist On QR Codes, Use Them For Product Information January 3, 2013 by Dave Haynes Results of a survey by Perception Research Services International (PRS) show product information is the most likely reason people will whip out their smartphones and scan a QR code. The consumer survey suggested – as relayed in Marketing Charts – among those shoppers who reported having used QR codes, the predominant uses were for general product information (69%) …
Leap Motion Gets $30M Raise; Does Asus Partnership January 3, 2013 by Dave Haynes Leap Motion – the start-up with the tiny, very granular gesture controller – has done a $30 million funding raise with existing investors and announced a partnership deal with PC maker ASUS. The ASUS deal will result in the Leap controller – which is roughly the size of a cigarette lighter – bundled with select …
Two More Android Playback Devices To Add To The Pile January 3, 2013 by Dave Haynes One of the the things that was pretty evident a year ago was how Google’s Android operating system would be applied to low-cost set-top box-like devices to create very inexpensive digital signage offers. Capital Networks showed a working device and platform at DSE 2012, as did FirmChannel. Since then, we’ve seen several more companies step …
And We’re Back January 2, 2013 by Dave Haynes Happy 2013. Remarkably, for me, I closed the lid on my laptop on Dec. 21 and really didn’t crack it again until Jan. 2. I don’t think I missed much, and any company that was pushing out press releases with actual (or any) significance in the last 10 days needs to get better PR advice. …
ComQi’s NYC Office Pitches In To Fix Sandy’s Mess December 21, 2012 by Dave Haynes Here’s a nice item to wrap things up and take a few days off to eat too much and have an extra glass or three … Some of the people at the NYC offices of software and distribution gear company ComQi took Wednesday off and headed out to Far Rockaway, out by JFK Airport, to …
Project Profile: Crescent School’s Student Network December 20, 2012 by Dave Haynes It’s almost weird that a little private school appears to do a better job with content presentation than a lot of private businesses that have the budget and people available to get it right. Here’s s small project involving the century-old Crescent School for boys in Toronto, which is using a digital signage network in …
PRI Industry Sentiment Index Ticks Up Big In Q3 December 20, 2012 by Dave Haynes The Platt Retail Institute’s quarterly North American Digital Signage Index saw 15.5% jump in third quarter, and was the first positive shift thsi year. Chicago-based PRI says the current DS Index increased by 15.48 percent, from 108.51 in the second quarter of 2012 to 125.30 in the third quarter of 2012. Comparing the third quarter …
Add Vodigi To The Free Open Source Digital Signage Software List December 17, 2012 by Dave Haynes I stumbled on another company, called Vodigi, that’s offering free open-source software for the digital signage market. Not the bait and switch free of my favorite West Coast software spammers, but really free. Vodigi joins a short list that includes Xibo, Concerto, JADS, Screenly and Rise Vision, the latter by far the most commercial and …
