Samsung Using Contest To Crowdsource Ideas For Flex Displays August 14, 2013 by Super User Samsung’s semiconductor division is taking an interesting approach to figuring out what to do with the flexible display technology now coming to market. They’re crowdsourcing ideas through a contest. The Flexible Future Business Plan Contest is offering up a $10,000 first prize, as well as smaller second and third place cash prizes, to a person …
Stratacache Adds Specialty Display Business Unit, Called Optika August 13, 2013 by Super User STRATACACHE CEO Chris Riegel tends to take a conservative, pragmatic view on this sector, but also tends to get out ahead of his competitors when he sees something emerging. In what is a bit of a departure, a company with roots in caching hardware and content management software is now starting a specialty display division …
DSA Plans Industry Symposium Next Month In Chicago August 12, 2013 by Super User The Digital Screenmedia Association is following up on a successful symposium a few months ago in Dallas with another next month in Chicago, Sept. 5-6 at the Hyatt Regency O’Hare. The close proximity to that much loved airport means digital signage sector people can make easy trips in and out using their private jets. OK, …
DPAA Summit Touts Notion Of Video Everywhere August 12, 2013 by Super User The Digital Place-based Advertising Association – aka the DPAA – has announced Video Everywhere is the theme for its 6th annual media summit, set for Oct. 22 in New York. The event at the Hilton New York is expected to pull some 450 people, the majority from the brand and agency side of the business. …
Signagelive Works Smart Signage Deal With Ingram August 12, 2013 by Super User Signagelive is the latest digital signage software company to take a crack at getting its offer marketed through distribution giant Ingram Micro. The UK-based company now has a distribution agreement with Ingram, described as “the world’s largest wholesale technology distributor and a global leader in IT supply-chain, mobile device lifecycle services and logistics solutions.” This is …
Silver Curve’s Crowdfunding Raise Two-Thirds Subscribed August 12, 2013 by Super User Companies in this sector that are looking for start-up capital will be interested in the progress of a crowd-funding effort by Silver Curve, a UK start-up that has developed a graphics engine that makes the very low cost Raspberry Pi a viable digital signage media player. The company put 20% equity up in the company …
There’s No Content Fairy In Digital Signage August 9, 2013 by Super User Every so often, I have to look across a table at clients and drop the devastating news on them that there really is no content fairy. The many minutes of original creative and content programming they envision for the shiny new digital signage network they’re planning to light up will not just magically load in …
Full Digital Signage Advice Video Series Now Up August 8, 2013 by Super User It took me a while but all the Good Advice video pieces shot at the Preset Mixer last March (or was it Feb???) are now up on the Preset Group website. There are 12 videos from video folks, all addressing the simple premise of providing good advice to people new to this industry. Pat and …
Mirza Surfaces With Giant Ventures Firm August 7, 2013 by Super User Anyone who has been around the digital signage space for a few years will know Haroon Mirza, who was a co-founder of the video analytics company Cognovision, which was then bought in 2010 by Intel. Haroon left this spring when Intel decided to consolidate its retail technologies in Chandler, AZ – a move that made …
Can The Leap Motion Make A Touchless Touch Screen? August 7, 2013 by Super User The very cute little Leap Motion gesture device showed up via the post yesterday, and I had some time this morning and then this afternoon to download the software, plug the thing in, and see what it could do. For the unfamiliar, the Leap Motion is a gesture sensor that creates an infrared field in …
