Spectrio Acquired By Private Equity Firm

October 15, 2014 by Dave Haynes

The Tampa-area solutions provider Spectrio – which started n on-hold messaging but has more recently got into digital signage – has been acquired by …

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Projects: Eurostar Business Lounge, Brussels

October 15, 2014 by Dave Haynes

Here’s a nice team effort on the Eurostar (rail) business class passenger lounge at the Brussels station. Project involves integrator  Solutions AV and the …

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We’re All Content Creators, So How Do We Curate It All?

October 15, 2014 by Dave Haynes

We’re all content creators now, and we’re all producing content in some form that could, in theory, find its way on to digital screens. …

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VIA Debuts Dual Video Out Android Digital Signage Player

October 15, 2014 by Dave Haynes

Taipei-based VIA Technologies has released a new Android player that addresses one of the knocks used against these kinds of devices – the lack of multiple …

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Retail Tech 14: Retailer Perceptions Of Mobile Use, And Reality, Quite Different

October 8, 2014 by Dave Haynes

I zipped around the outer fringe of Toronto this morning to get up near the airport in a timely way and catch the half-day Retail …

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HTML5 Now Far Outstrips Flash For Supported Media Environments

October 8, 2014 by Dave Haynes

Were there any doubts about the adoption rate for HTML5 and the argument that Adobe Flash was still the way to go for malleable, …

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Survey Shakes Place-Based Pom-Poms

October 7, 2014 by Dave Haynes

I don’t know how meaningful these things are, but if general surveys about what agency people like about a medium gets you shaking your …

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Projects: Projection Mapping Transforms Romanian Parliament

October 7, 2014 by Dave Haynes

  I love projection mapping. Even wrote a book about it. This is the Palace of the Parliament in Bucharest, Romania, which is second …

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Apple Gets Patent Grant For Wireless, Flexible Digital Signs

October 7, 2014 by Dave Haynes

Apple has received patent approval for a device and method that is effectively a flexible, networked digital sign that uses Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) media …

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Macy’s Testing Interactive POP, Digital Look Books

October 7, 2014 by Dave Haynes

The Cincinnati Enquirer has a story up online about how the US department store chain Macy’s is testing a couple of touchscreen-driven technologies aimed …

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Projects: Stanford 60-Seat Classroom Gets Wall-Eating 192-MicroTiles Array

October 6, 2014 by Dave Haynes

Here’s a 32-unit wide by 6 high wall of Christie MicroTiles in a 60-seat, yup, classroom at Stanford University. Yes, that’s 192 Tiles eating pretty …

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Toronto Ad Club’s Big OOH Showdown Set For Thursday

October 6, 2014 by Dave Haynes

If you are in, or getting into, the Digital OOH advertising business, and are around Toronto, you’ll want to be at the Advertising Club …

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