Microsoft Buying Touch Display Maker Perceptive Pixel
July 9, 2012 by Dave Haynes
Microsoft has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Perceptive Pixel, which makes gorgeous, highly responsive and wildly expensive multi-touch displays. “The acquisition of …
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Easy as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 … You Get The Idea
July 9, 2012 by Dave Haynes
It’s not. It’s incredibly easy, however, to waste time and money, and turn something on that is absent of any substantive thought and looks …
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Skype Gets A Public “Phone Booth”
July 6, 2012 by Dave Haynes
[youtube id=”CFnsHHL8DXM” width=”600″ height=”350″] The advertising model side of this is, I would say, mostly wishful thinking, but nonetheless this thing is kinda clever …
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Capital’s Audience Driving Torch Relay Coverage On BBC’s Public Screens
July 6, 2012 by Dave Haynes
The London Olympics are now three weeks away and the media attention is starting to really amp up, particularly in the UK. The Olympic …
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Most Of My Canadian Offices Just Added WiFi
July 5, 2012 by Dave Haynes
This has very little to do with digital signage, but will be good news for just about any Canadian working in the sector, and …
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Addressing The Question: Why So Many Digital Signage Companies In Canada?
July 5, 2012 by Dave Haynes
Countless times now, in chats with American business contacts/friends, I have been asked why there is such a disproportionately high number of Canadian companies …
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Canada 3.0 Moves From Small Town To Big City
July 5, 2012 by Dave Haynes
I quite liked the Canada 3.0 digital media forum and trade show I went to this spring, though I wondered what on Earth it …
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Pattison Onestop Opens The Ad Shop
July 4, 2012 by Dave Haynes
Pattison Onestop, aka the digital division of Toronto-based Pattison Outdoor Advertising, launched a new service today aimed squarely at the hard to sell and …
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Signagelive Gets A Brazilian
July 3, 2012 by Dave Haynes
Oh, the dreaded grip and grin photo … This is one between Raffi Vartian of signagelive and a group of guys from Brazil who …
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Challenging The Content And Context Formula
July 3, 2012 by Dave Haynes
Context when it comes to content can be pretty important, but a new content partnership raises an interesting set of questions about that whole …
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Italy’s Edisonweb Joins HTML5 Gang
July 2, 2012 by Dave Haynes
Italian software firm Edisonweb is the latest digital signage player to go HTML5, announcing this week it has done a partner deal to use IAdea’s …
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In Montreal
June 28, 2012 by Dave Haynes
Won’t be posting much or at all. Busy couple of days with pressDOOH and Preset clients in Montreal, where it is summer and beautiful.
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