MultiTouch Plans Toronto Demo Days November 21, 2012 by Dave Haynes The Finnish company MultiTouch has organized a pair of Demo Days for next week (Nov. 28-29) in Toronto – giving people in the signage, event and interactive spaces a hands-on look at some pretty slick technology. I have seen this company’s stuff at a few trade shows, and liked how they are think about and present …
City 24 7 Touchscreens Start Rolling Out In NYC November 20, 2012 by Dave Haynes Photos from Cisco IBSG The first of some 250 touchscreens in New York have started replacing old payphones on the nicer sidewalks of the city. The first two are running in Union Square, and more are coming in a trial program that has the approval of the city. The screens are ad-supported and the city gets …
CETW Opts Out Of Spring Vegas Show To Focus On Growing Fall NYC Event November 20, 2012 by Dave Haynes JD Events, the company behind Customer Engagement Technology World, has announced it will not be going ahead with a show this coming spring in Las Vegas, opting instead to be entirely focused on a single show each fall in New York. The decision, said CETW show general manager Lawrence Dvorchik, was made prior to the …
Project Profile: Texas Tech’s New Business School Video Wall November 20, 2012 by Dave Haynes This kinda spanks a chalkboard or even an overhead projector. Texas Tech University’s Rawls College of Business has put up a massive 12 wide by 9 high wall of Christie’s MicroTiles in a primary classroom, using it as a multimedia instruction tool and something of a showpiece for the school. The wall is installed at …
Meet The Sponsors … November 20, 2012 by Dave Haynes We are so far ahead of schedule in terms of planning the 2013 Preset Group DSE Mixer it’s almost weird. It’s November, and the sponsors are in place, and we have the budget together, a venue tentatively booked (great place), and an events planner who will soon start, well, planning. We’ll probably get the tickets …
Light Version Of Intel’s Video Analytics Platform Now Free November 20, 2012 by Dave Haynes Intel has tweaked the offer for its video analytics technology (aka face pattern detection/counting) by making a version of free to use, and not just for a trial period. The Silver edition of the Intel AIM Suite is now positioned as a way for retailers, brands and screen network operators to check out and start …
The Mannequins Are Watching You Watching Them November 20, 2012 by Dave Haynes When we think of anonymous video analytics in retail, we tend to think about products like Intel’s AIM Suite being integrated as software and cameras embedded with networked display monitors. Now there’s word of a very different way of doing the same sort of retail analytics – using cameras embedded in mannequins in high-fashion stores. …
Sold Out DailyDOOH Awards Set For Next Week In UK November 20, 2012 by Dave Haynes Tickets are now sold out for the DailyDOOH Gala Awards, an event billed as the “First Annual International Awards Totally Dedicated to Digital Out of Home.” The black tie evening is next Thursday in London in what would be locally described as a very posh establishment, the main hall of the Banqueting House – …
Dallas Ministry Using Digital Signage To Help Homeless November 19, 2012 by Dave Haynes This is a nice little project to talk about this week, with Thanksgiving coming up. A Dallas-based homeless ministry is using digital signage as part of its efforts to help that city’s homeless, with flat screens in Our Calling’s facility telling people about things like meal times, food distribution points and weather conditions. “A lot of …
Signagelive, Seneca Data Debut Sub-$1K Digital Signage Bundle November 19, 2012 by Dave Haynes Signagelive and Seneca Data have worked a bundle deal that sees the upstate NY commercial PC maker ship a box with pre-loaded software, three years of platform access and three year warranty, for sub-$1,000. The bundled solution features an Intel-powered Windows 7 Embedded media player with 2GB of memory and 320GB of internal storage, pre-installed …
