Two approaches to shopping malls
May 23, 2006 by Dave Haynes
I am at the International Council of Shopping Centers trade show in Lost Wages, Nevada, having a look at the industry and getting away …
Read more71,000 screens and counting
May 19, 2006 by Dave Haynes
Roll this around in your skull for a minute or two … “The total number of displays installed on our commercial networks in our …
Read moreDRE: Day 2
May 19, 2006 by Dave Haynes
Happily, Day 2 at DRE proved far busier than Day 1 – and seemed to flush out more retailers. There were emissaries from some …
Read moreDRE: Come on baby, do the LocaModa
May 19, 2006 by Dave Haynes
It took a couple of days, but I finally found something at the Digital Retailing Expo that was new and novel. Boston-based LocaModa had …
Read moreDRE – Day 1
May 17, 2006 by Dave Haynes
Good Lord there a lot of companies getting into the digital signage space. I thought I was pretty familiar with most of who is …
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Getting it right in Switzerland
May 16, 2006 by Dave Haynes
I got an e-mail from Christian Vaglio-Giors, the managing director of a Swiss firm doing digital signage for retailers and mall operators in that …
Read moreBig money from a simple idea
May 12, 2006 by Dave Haynes
Focus Media has quickly become arguably the biggest success story in digital signage, with a sneakernet collection of 1,000s of digital screens in the …
Read moreEmergency signage
May 4, 2006 by Dave Haynes
Interesting piece in a publication called Government Technology, about the premise of extending marketing-focused digital signage into emergency response systems. There's been lots of …
Read moreTruthiness in digital signage
May 3, 2006 by Dave Haynes
I won't go all the way and lump this in with past examples of rampant nonsense, but instead apply the term Comedy Central's Stephen …
Read moreSigns hacked
May 2, 2006 by Dave Haynes
The Globe and Mail, a national newspaper in Canada, reported this morning how someone with a little technical savvy managed to put a cheeky …
Read moreAnother retail design firm jumps in
April 28, 2006 by Dave Haynes
This has been percolating for the better part of a year, but Atlanta-based store-design firm Miller Zell has made it public that they have …
Read moreStrangely familiar
April 19, 2006 by Dave Haynes
I founded a company about three years ago, along with a very patient friend, that put screens in the bustling PATH system in downtown …
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