For readers in the Greater Toronto Area we wanted to post a quick reminder that today’s Toronto Digital Signage Mixer is on for 6PM at Shoeless Joe’s downtown. The RSVP list is impressive and having managed/hosted these during 2009-2010, it’s an event well worth attending. To register, click HERE. The sponsor for this round is [...]
Software releases, or rather re-releases, are as good as any opportunity to look under the hood of a software suite. With that in mind, we took the announcement of BroadSign 8 as a chance for a guided tour. Sitting in a spacious boardroom of Broadsign’s new location on René-Lévesque Boulevard in Montreal, we watched Jody [...]
It’s a well-hidden fact that I’m a huge Games Workshop (GW) nerd. After being distracted from the hobby for the better part of the last decade, I was pleased to see that my favorite hobby store was (slowly) embracing digital technologies in their retail locations. As large part of the hobby revolves around ‘conversion’ of [...]
Last week we were excited to attend a guided tour of an ‘all-digital’ location of the SilverCity CrossIron Mills Cinemas and XSCAPE Entertainment Centre just outside Calgary (Rockyview, AB) – the first of Cineplex Entertainment’s all digital concept locations and here is what we saw… The new facility is equipped with a full digital cinema projector system, larger screen [...]
Sunnyvale-based Canesta, developer of motion-detecting solutions for control and automation of technology and consumer electronics is now acquired by Microsoft. Founded in 1999, Canesta’s low-cost electronic perception technology enables machines and ordinary electronic devices to perceive and react to nearby objects or individuals in real time. When sight-enabled with Canesta’s unique electronic perception chips and software, consumer, industrial, and [...]
Last weekend’s Toronto Nuit Blanche, sponsored by ScotiaBank (who incidentally has a national digital signage RFP out right now…) exposed over a million Toronto spectators to some pretty spectacular night projectons. Outdoor installations ranged form simple movie projections on facades of large concrete urban structures to choreographed audio-visual symphonies and “tweet-to-screen” projects. In some of the more notable installations, the facade of [...]
Reflecting the increasing rate of outdoor installations, BroadSign recently announced an update for their player, edge server and administrator suite – all aimed at functionality sought by outdoor deployments. Alongside the usual host of ‘enhancements’ or bug fixes, typical of any software update, “Auto Brightness” feature was the main highlight of the release. This feature is designed for use with displays that incorporate temperature and luminosity sensors. [...]
Less than a year after the acquisition of Tandberg and previous acquisition of Pure Digital (makers of Flip Camcorder), Cisco recently announced intent to acquire yet another media company – ExtendMedia. The motivation behind this appears focused on consumer-level service provider media delivery: “ExtendMedia will strengthen Cisco’s position in the delivery of IP video services by enabling service providers to provide a more [...]
Over 90 people from 73 companies signed up for last week’s Ingram Micro Digital Signage training in Toronto. Designed specifically for IT resellers, the full day session at the Old Mill Hotel and Spa coincided with Ingram Micro’s CONNEX Program and was headlined by Lyle Bunn’s SPEED program.
The second event in Lyle Bunn’s Master Series, focused on ad-based retail implementations, drew a crowd of approximately 80-90 attendees. Unlike other Digital Signage Events, it was great to see a high number of end-users in the audience. Canadian Tire, LCBO, Scotia Bank and a few others were most notable, considering they all have some sort [...]
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