How Digital Signage Can Help SMBs on Small Business Saturday
It’s that time of year again. As we all spend the day recovering from our “turkey comas”, we are also beginning to think about gift shopping. As we peruse through the hundreds of mailers, ads, catalogues, and special promotions with get in our emails, we are all looking for ONE answer: Where can we find […]
Digital Billboard Hacked…All In Good Fun
An electronic billboard in Belgrade was reportedly hacked by two computer science majors trying to make a simple point about issues in today’s network security (or lack thereof). They used the billboard to play a jumbo version of the classic arcade game “Space Invaders.” Such a display of activity should act as an alarm to […]
Digital Replacing Print in Nearly Every Respect
When you pay attention to technology and technology trends, you begin to see (and it’s sad to see) how some industries are dying and will continue to vanish away. Not necessarily the businesses themselves, but the way in which they operate. Digital content and digital content delivery are replacing the printed page in nearly every […]
The World’s First Skype Phonebooth
This month the world gets to “reach out and touch someone” through VoIP with what could quite possibly be the very first Skype-based public payphone. This new “Skype Station,” as it is called by its Estonia-based developer, AdTech, is designed to allow users to make free video calls from various public venues. It was deployed […]
Industry Spammer
Normally, I don’t like spam, but there is one blanket spammer I quite enjoy. It’s our Clippings friend Mr. James Van Etten. I’m not really into male enhancement emails or sleek, imitation Rolex watches, but James’ daily email is great. There are always interesting pieces I glean from the internal links he sends out. From Van […]
The Digital Signage “Long Tail” Wags the Dog
I drummed something up a couple of months ago in reference to the “long tail” of the digital signage industry, touting how digital sigange is not always about retail and advertising. While this will hold true through the recession, it falls apart like water in your hands when you start to market digital signage to […]
United Kingdom vs. United States
A clash of the Titans. I can almost hear the MC: “In the red corner weighing in at a GDP of $2.79 trillion is the United Kingdom. And, in the blue corner weighing in at a GDP of $14.4 trillion we have the United States.” That might be a bit weird, but it paints a […]
Chinese Digital Signage
A digital signage news report stated: ‘China is set to take over from the United States in 2008 as the biggest source of growth in global ad spending. Although the United States remains a much larger advertising market over all, China will account for 24 percent of new spending worldwide, compared with 20 percent for […]