When start-up digital signage software and solutions companies ask me for advice on how to go to market, I tend to STRONGLY encourage them to find a vertical market and make it their own. I don’t know the folks at EYECHRONIC.TV, but I have to admire how they’ve identified an emerging vertical and gone all-in to serve it. […]
Exponation has confirmed that its fledgling CorpComm Expo and EduComm Expo trade show/conferences will be in Chicago about this time a year from now, moving from Atlanta, where the first ones were staged a couple of months ago. They will be at the Navy Pier Nov. […]
The CBS Morning News had a piece this morning about new technologies that have spruced up the 53-year-old Space Needle tower in Seattle, and the element that caught my eye was something it calls the SkyPad. Developed and guided by the local studio Belle & Wissell, the SkyPad interactive wall is a set of tiled touch displays on a wall on the observation deck level of the landmark structure. […]
A new study by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health suggests U.S.-based chain restaurants that voluntarily list calorie counts on their menus are compelling diners to eat less, something that arguably backs up the federal edict to get calorie counts on all US fast food menus by the end of next year. […]
People who know me a bit know that I tend to often talk about the mystifyingly short list of companies that specialize in creative, in an industry that goes on endlessly about content being king. […]
A&W Food Services of Canada Inc, or A&W as we’re going to call them, has announced it is going digital with its menus at the roughly 850 stores across the Frozen North. The rollout has already started, running on software and services, like creative, from Cineplex Digital Networks, aka EK3. […]
It is fairly remarkable that a teeny little tech sector like digital signage has 100s of software options for doing variations on the same thing, and even more remarkable that as observers like me steadily suggest the numbers will thin out, they instead keep growing! I don’t get it. […]
I’m speaking at a Customer Engagement Technology Conference in a couple of weeks in Dubai. It’s one of those places I’ve wanted to see, and also a place that I gather has a lot shaking in the digital signage sector. My talk is Nov. […]
NEC had its annual showcase event last week in New York, a tw0-day micro-show that lets integrators and end-users have a focused look at its own latest pots and plans, as well as complementary products used by partners. I saw stuff I’m not allowed to write about yet, but Wow. And I saw stuff that is ready for public consumption. […]
I had about three hours last week to zip up and down the aisles of Ad:Tech New York, and three hours was plenty if you are not in the online ad business. It’s all about ad networks and programmatic advertising and things like predictive marketing, of which I know absolutely zip. […]
The premium commercial display company Planar will have a transparent OLED panel on the market in roughly thee months, and has started showing the unit at special events like yesterday’s SEGD XLAB conference in New York. I was at that event – moderating the retail panel – and saw the 55-inch OLED in the lobby. […]
The Union sets a clear objective to deliver a state-of-the-art, connected stadium that will ultimately benefit the fans. The post RFU selects Tripleplay as part of Twickenham redevelopment appeared first on AV Magazine | Pro AV news, analysis and comment from Europe’s leading Audio Visual title. […]
The Italian/UK start-up Taggalo has launched a new gadget and service it says blends three technologies to provide retailers and brands richer insights about consumer behavior and interests in the aisles. The device combines a camera that does face pattern detection, a sensor for WiFi tracking and a Bluetooth beacon. […]
Part of the renovations done at the Fremont Street, San Francisco offices of CRM software giant Salesforce was a vast hi-rez LED wall on the lobby wall outside the elevator banks. […]
The guy who runs Google‘s ChromeOS AND Android programs has followed up on a tweet last week and in more detail reiterated that despite the buzz in tech blogs, ChromeOS and therefore Chrome devices are not getting killed off. […]
