Interactive Merchandising Part of Future Retail Panel At DSE2013 February 13, 2013 by Super User The keynote breakfast panel on the second day of Digital Signage Expo 2013 is all about future tech and one of the guys who’ll be there talking about his company’s cool pots and pans is Jared Schiffman, co-founder and CEO of NYC-based PERCH Interactive. Speaking with Curt Bailey (Sundberg-Ferar), Tim Huckaby (InterKnowlogy), and Christine Outram …
Mixer Sponsor Profiles: Multiband USA February 12, 2013 by Super User The Preset Mixer is now just two weeks out and it is time to start profiles of the great companies that kindly chipped in financial support to pull off an event for some 300 people. First up is Multiband, which in very broad strokes does digital signage deployments. I asked Matt Weldon, the National Sales Director of …
Retail Business Intelligence Engine Tracks Shopper Trends By Smartphone IDs February 12, 2013 by Super User The ability to understand what consumers are doing in retail environments has been the domain these past few years of video-driven analytics that use overhead cameras to generate heat-maps of where shoppers go and where they don’t. Companies like Intel, via its video analytics technology, can also generate data on things like gender, dwell time …
Guzzle Energy Drink, Make It To Lightning Round February 11, 2013 by Super User So Day 2 of 2, at 4 PM, is not my idea of the feature speaking slot at a trade show, but hopefully a pile of people will grab a coffee or one of those crazily-overpriced cans of caffeine and make their way to the DSE session my Preset Group partner Pat Hellberg is running …
Finally, A Hand-Cranked Digital Sign February 11, 2013 by Super User The only time I’ve written about kiosk-maker Zivelo was to slap them around on some really goofy PR, so I am happy to this time instead reference something a little out there, but nonetheless pretty interesting. The Marion, Indiana-based company (small town, 3 hrs south of Chicago) has launched what it calls the X-Eco kiosk, …
DSE’s New Products Area Will Set Ops Guys Hearts Aflutter February 11, 2013 by Super User Digital Signage Expo has a New Product Pavilion set aside on the trade show’s exhibit floor that features dozens of new products it touts as being shown for the first time. A lot of them are gadgets and gizmos that will set the hearts of ops guys fluttering, but not look like much of anything to mere …
Stratacache Putting Big Focus On Asian Opportunities February 11, 2013 by Super User There are two companies in this space right now finding their way into the final consideration stage of many or most of the big digital signage jobs: Four Winds (who I wrote about the other day after its Forbes Top 50 listing) and Stratacache. They are wildly different companies in terms of corporate culture, software …
A 201-inch LED Display That Hides In The Ground February 8, 2013 by Super User This is just flat ridiculous in so many ways, but the technical design is pretty interesting in terms of what an events center or other large public facility could, at least theoretically, do with it. Put together by a German company, C-Seed, with a design by Porsche Design Studio, it’s a 201-inch waterproof LED board that …
Mixer Name Badges Ready For Printer Next Week February 8, 2013 by Super User We did name badges for the first time at last year’s Preset Group DSE Mixer, and the general response was good. With more than 300 mingling in a crowd, there’s a lot of people to meet and names to remember. I’m pathetic with names, so these little social tools help. Like last year, there’s a …
Four Winds Gets Top 50 Ranking Among Forbes’ Most Promising US Firms February 8, 2013 by Super User Denver-based Four Winds Interactive has been ranked #41 in Forbes magazine’s annual ranking of America’s Most Promising Companies, which is a list of 100 privately-held, high-flying companies. David Levin, President and CEO of FWi, was also pegged by the business publication as one of America’s Most Promising CEOs Under 35. The company, which does digital signage …
