Good Advice Series – DMG, LocaModa Added July 18, 2013 by Super User There are now 10 or so videos up on The Preset Group Good Advice series, the latest some great comments from Tom Percich of DMG and Stephen Randall, or LocaModa. The archive is here: http://presetgroup.com/category/mixer-videos/ I still have 3-4 more to add in the next few days.
Projects: Video Case Study On New McCarran Airport Terminal July 18, 2013 by Super User [youtube id=”5hLQSoz4TY8″ width=”600″ height=”350″] Four Winds Interactive has posted a nice, tight video case study on the work they did at the lovely, airy, almost placid new international terminal at McCarran Airport in Las Vegas. As disclosure, I’ll note I did the interviews as a favor to FWi and the video shoot team, my Studio …
Cineplex Offers To Buy Software House EK3 July 18, 2013 by Super User Canada’s biggest movie theatre chain Cineplex – which has a substantial and solid digital signage team, has announced its offer to purchase EK3 Technologies Inc., which is best known as the London, Ontario-based software house that does the menu boards for Tim Hortons. The news release say the “initial purchase price is approximately $40 million, …
Projects: Tourism Vancouver Opens Digitally-Focused Flagship Centre July 15, 2013 by Super User Tourism Vancouver, which is the tourism authority for that awesome (when sunny) city on Canada’s west coast, downsized its main downtown visitor facility this spring and wanted to add digital to drive information and also the ticketing for its many, many member destinations and attractions. The result is a really nice combination of a dominating …
Silver Curve Puts More Light On Its Aperture Digital Signage Engine For Raspberry Pi July 12, 2013 by Super User An ongoing client project has me back in Johannesburg again, and this time I went through London, which gave me a sufficiently long layover that I was able to run into the city. I did a meeting (honest) at a pub and then headed over to Regent Street to the packaged office space where Silver …
Webconverger’s Neon Uses Stable, Secure Browser As Digital Sign Platform July 10, 2013 by Super User I was in the middle of one of those sessions online where you start in one direction and then make a whole bunch of left turns and end up somewhere completely different, and came across some narrative about the little Raspberry Pi micro PCs, digital signage and a company called Webconverger. That was an unfamiliar …
Good Advice Series Now Up To Seven; More To Come July 10, 2013 by Super User There are now seven Good Advice video vignettes up live on the Preset Group website – the latest ones Neil van Wouw from Japan’s Vanten K.K., Jim Nista from Insteo, Jim Vair from Capital Networks and Pierre Richer from NEC Display. Here’s Neil … Niel van Wouw, Vanten KK, @ 2013 Preset Mixer from studio10productions …
Trolls At The Gates: Where’s The DSF Or DSA? July 10, 2013 by Super User Affectionately-named patent trolls have been around this sector for a few years now. I get emails and phone calls periodically from software execs asking what I know about patent troll activity in this sector. I tell them I am, mercifully, not running a software company like them, so I have not had the pleasure of …
Capital Networks Release V2 Of Android Platform July 9, 2013 by Super User Capital Networks is now on to V2 of its Android digital signage solution, aka Audience for Android v2. The company (loyal Sixteen:Nine advertiser) launched V1 formally a year ago, one of the first on what is an increasingly crowded market. Version two brings more horsepower to the hardware and software, as well as a broader …
OptimEyes Is New And Revolutionary Exactly How? July 9, 2013 by Super User The UK-based digital OOH network Amscreen is getting all kinds of trade media attention today for the launch of something called OptimEyes, which unless I am missing something is just Quividi face pattern detection packaged up with ad serving data as something revolutionary. Amscreen says the platform “will further cement its position as the most …
