Gose Leaves RMG For Stratacache February 25, 2014 by Super User One of the higher profile senior guys in the digital signage sector has left RMG Networks, in the wake of the Symon-RMG deal, for a similar gig with Stratacache. Chuck Gose is now VP of SME Corporate Communications at the Dayton, Ohio company, but presumably will continue living and working out of Indianapolis. Mr. Linked …
Lightning Review: Dell’s Cloud Connect HDMI Stick & Nanonation February 25, 2014 by Super User Let’s get one thing out of the way from the get-go. I don’t have a test bench or thingies that analyze voltage or heat or duty cycles or Higgs boson mass. I have a big-ass 50-inch plasma in the rec room, and it has a spare HDMI slot. So my lab test is not your …
Denver Startup Offers Outsourced Services To Create Vendor Margins February 25, 2014 by Super User I’ve loosely known Matt Krebs for a few months now, and he’s kept me informed here and there as he spooled up his start-up Creating Margin, an interesting little take on providing support services in the digital signage eco-system. The Denver company is there primarily to take on things like the scoping, set-up and ongoing …
Projects: Adidas Gets Experiential With New HomeCourt Concept Stores February 25, 2014 by Super User The German athletic brand adidas has opened the doors of its new HomeCourt retail concept store in Beijing, with plans to open a couple dozen of them around the world this year. “Our new retail concept HomeCourt offers a consumer experience unlike any that adidas fans have enjoyed before. We have created a store where …
Projects: GTE Financial’s Tampa Showcase Branch February 25, 2014 by Super User The Florida financial cooperative GTE Financial has redesigned a main location in downtown Tampa that includes a giant, curved indoor LED banner and pile of other tech. “The new space layout is designed to be more open, eliminate teller lines, and offer visitors an engaging and interactive retail-like experience,” says Mandy Zurbrick, VP of Marketing …
Projects: Creighton University’s Finance Lab February 25, 2014 by Super User Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska has created a real-world trading environment, called the Finance Lab, that’s outfitted with a 42-foot premium LED ticker display, a 6-zone world clock, and three 110-inch video walls, one of them fully interactive. The lab was pulled together by solutions provider Rise Display, based in Shawnee Mission, KS. “Business schools recognize that …
DSE 2014 Counts 4,003 Through Doors, Down Slightly From 2013 February 25, 2014 by Super User Exactly 4,003 people wandered down the long Sands Expo hallway and through the doors into Digital Signage Expo 2014. The trade show’s organizers released the final numbers today, which included a breakdown of 42% end-users, aka potential buyers. There were another 1,813 poor souls chained for two days to booths on the show floor, bringing total attendance to …
Germany’s Viewneo Crosses Pond With Android Digital Signage Platform February 24, 2014 by Super User On one of my sprints up and down the aisles at DSE a couple of weeks ago in Las Vegas (sigh … where it was warm), I slowed down and asked a guy at a booth called Viewneo what they did. “Easy to use digital signage,” he said, with a German accent. “And we use …
Via Announces New Board Optimized For Android Digital Signage February 24, 2014 by Super User VIA Technologies is showing off a new Pico-ITX (Pico = teeny) board later this week at Embedded World 2014 in Nuremberg, Germany that’s optimized for applications like digital signage. Via has for years been selling micro PCs with conventional x86 processors, but has started also marketing products based on the ARM reference design. The 1.0GHz …
inLighten Launches Apollo Android Platform For Digital Signage February 24, 2014 by Super User inLighten is one of those companies that has been quietly doing its own thing in the digital signage sector for many years, staying largely out of the echo-chamber of PR and industry trade shows. But just ahead of DSE, the company put out news that it had developed and was now releasing its own Android …
