Say what you will about the software company Wireless Ronin and the sinking ship it may well be, but its execs deserve credit for identifying a vertical and going after it hard. The company has clearly laid down sector knowledge and service delivery in quick service and fast casual restaurant markets, and unlike many of its [...] Read More

I have tons of respect for Jason Goldberg, who has been active on the edges of digital signage through his work with MTI and his long-running blog, Retail Geek. Somehow or other I noticed recently that he’d left his VP Marketing gig at MTI, so I sent him a note to find out what’s up. [...] Read More

Akihabara News is reporting a new Hitachi gesture technology that the Japanese electronics giant thinks has a role in several sectors one day, including digital signage. Here you are the last bit of our tour at Hitachi exhibition, with the company vision of a “Minority Report” like interface. Perhaps closer to Microsoft Kinect UI, Hitachi [...] Read More

I was just reading a press release about a media network’s plans to increase its footprint by 1,000 locations, starting with 500 by the end of Q3. That may be entirely true, but as someone who has talked to hundreds of early stage network operators over the years, my BS Filter starts shaking and spitting [...] Read More

Montreal-based Matrox has put out a case study about an impressive install at a club in Linz, Austria. In a nutshell, 40 big flat panels are tiled together and running around the perimeter of the venue. The system runs off three Mac Pros and drives 15 Matrox triple-head video thingdoodles. If I am reading the [...] Read More

Suppose you were one of the world’s great consumer electronics brands, with a reputation for premium displays, and you decided to change up the retail design for a concept store. You’d make good use of those displays to tell the brand story and communicate with shoppers, right? Well, no. You’d print up some signs and [...] Read More