Archive for July, 2012

Xamarin Gets $12 Million For Mobile App Developers’ Toolbox

Friday, July 27th, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Xamarin, a San Francisco-based developer of mobile app development software to help users create iOS, Android and Windows apps, has raised $12 million in a first round of funding. Charles River Ventures, Floodgate and Ignition Partners participated in the round, which the company will use to expand its group of mobile developer tools, and to […]

Smartphone Users Will Average 37 Apps Download in 2012, But….

Friday, July 27th, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

A new industry analyst forecast from ABI Research claims that the world’s smartphone subscribers will download about 36 billion apps in 2012, resulting in almost 37 native apps through the year for the average smartphone subscriber. The forecast reflects a nearly 6% global increase to the 35 apps downloaded per smartphone subscriber on average in […]

Garmin On The Bright Side Of The Road With Amscreen

Friday, July 27th, 2012

Maddie Cotterill

The UK’s largest Digital Media owner Amscreen announced this week that Garmin – the world leader in satellite navigation and GPS technology within the likes of the automotive and fitness markets will be providing live local traffic feeds for the UK’s commuters for the summer and beyond. Garmin will be the official traffic sponsor on […]

Wayfinding Takes A New Direction

Friday, July 27th, 2012

Maddie Cotterill

The Digital Signage Federation concludes its Summer 2012 webinar programming on August 22nd with a webinar presented by Doug Bannister, CEO and Director of Software Development of Omnivex Corp., entitled ‘Wayfinding Takes a New Direction‘. The webinar sounds particularly interesting and will focus on how changes in facilities from static signs to digital signs have […]

Breathing New Life Into A Police Control Room

Friday, July 27th, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Christie recently gave new life to the Dallas Police Department’s 24/7 Fusion Center, with a 6 units high by 12 units wide digital video wall. The 72-unit Christie MicroTiles display is part of the Center’s comprehensive technology upgrade to fight crime in the City of Dallas and to gather and share intelligence information with state-level […]

IAB Canada’s Industry Glossary

Friday, July 27th, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

If you’re new to the industry this is definitely for you – and even if you’ve been around awhile, we expect that there are times when some terminology leaves you searching. This glossary compiled by IAB Canada can help. Check out definitions of terms you’re unsure of. While compiled with the web in mind, many […]

The Best Of The Past Five Years

Thursday, July 26th, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Although the founders have been in business together for almost eight years it is actually five years since DailyDOOH was first ‘published’. Of course, we weren’t the first to cover the digital signage sector, that honour goes to the likes of; Bill Gerba’s Digital Signage Insider and Dave Haynes’s sixteen:nine and the pioneering (sheer commercialisation […]

Open The Pod Bay Doors, HAL

Thursday, July 26th, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Those who know us well (or regular readers may have guessed), that we do a lot of work for the investment community and the subject of who we’d recommend that investors take a look at, is a question we continually get asked. There are far too many software companies in the space full stop. There […]

Top10 Digital Signage Vendors 2012

Thursday, July 26th, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

The full #DSTop10, in order (with last year’s position in parentheses), is as follows: – BroadSign (1) SignageLive (=5) ComQi (formerly EnQii and last year’s #2) Real Digital Media (new entrant) STRATACACHE (4) Scala (3) WireSpring (7) Omnivex (=5) Four Winds Interactive (new entrant) YCD Multimedia (9) Out (through no fault of their own) are […]

Frank Weishaupt Joins Jumptap

Wednesday, July 25th, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Frank Weishaupt has joined Jumptap, targeted mobile advertising company, as chief operating officer. The appointment follows Jumptap’s recent $27.5 million financing round. Weishaupt position is a new role at Jumptap with the goal of driving sales and the market brand. Weishaupt, who has more than 15 years of digital media experience, was recently senior vice-president […]