Dave Haynes

Adobe Air on Ulitzer When I was selling software, one of things that came up and that I was coached to use as a selling tool was the whole issue around what is OK and not OK about using Adobe Flash. There were a few schools of thought or lines of attack, depending on how you lo... (more)

Tire manufacturers probably wouldn't be the first guys you'd think of as innovators and early adopters in the sector, but Toyo Tire Canada has announced it is going ahead with an expansion of its long-running trial to dealers across Canada. The company has 79 dealers on its reta... (more)

I am seriously skeptical about the applicability but applaud the efforts by PumpTop TV to offer something different on its screens. As spotted too early this morning on the Digital Signage Expo site: PumpTop TV, a digital out-of-home media network comprising more than 12,600 scre... (more)

Digital Signage Journal on Ulitzer Toronto, Montreal and the Kitchener-Waterloo region (home to BlackBerries) have a lopsided amount of the activity going on in the digital signage sector, but there's absolutely stuff shaking elsewhere. If you subscribe to Google Alerts you see t... (more)

Microsoft Developer on Ulitzer I have not seen the stores in person, but from a distance I really, really like what Microsoft has done with its retail presence. Sure it looks vaguely familiar to Apple's stores, but big whoop. The wall to wall screens are brilliant. However, I a... (more)

From an article on an industry news portal - by a good, respected vendor - on poor communications and missed opportunities, and how to do it right. Amazingly, this is the main art and it is meant to suggest HOW to do it properly. It's one thing for companies to have software t... (more)

The Toronto and area digital signage and DOOH industry got together last night for the first mixer in a few months, and the turnout was tremendous - with at least 75 and perhaps more crowding the downstairs area of the Six Steps lounge. There were a lot of people who I had not ... (more)

  Nice win for EnQii announced today - but in the works for a while, from what I hear. The DS software firm has announced a partnership with Compass Group, which does food service management support services and did about $9 billion (that was the illion with a B in front) in re... (more)

I have been asked a few times what I think the mood is out in the marketplace, and whether I get a sense business is picking up. Things are obviously a lot brighter than a year ago, when the market was tanking and I have the distinct memory of closing a decent sales deal and hav... (more)

  We have not had one in a while for various reasons, but if you are in Toronto on Tuesday cancel your tattoo appointment, talk to your lawyer and arrange bail, or whatever you need to do, and get out to the event. It is at the Six Steps restaurant in downtown Toronto, in pretty ... (more)

This is the form factor of these things. They are about 10 inches deep and then need a couple more inches clearance for proper ventilation. The units are serviced from the front, by pulling off a shatterproof acrylic optical lens.Christie Digital has a pile of photos on its Face... (more)

  As a Canuck it is very nice to wobble into Penn Station in New York at 6:30 AM and discover a Tim Horton's outlet. Coffee snobs will sniff at this, but familiar fuel is good at that time of day. It took me a bit because the branding is a little different for these outlets tha... (more)

Good - Monster wrap-around screen that envelopes and soars above the American Eagle store at Times Square. Great visuals and simple color schemes that really pop. Bad - Very large projection screen on a walkway between platforms at 42nd Street subway/Port Authority Terminal. T... (more)

I had an invite to go see the new MicroTiles display technology announced this week by Christie Digital. They did a soft-launch of the product for environmental (as in rooms, not trees) design people at a function in New York. Disclaimer - I am doing some writing for them I had... (more)

Day 2 at the DS Show had what looked to be very solid foot traffic. Saw some big brand names wandering around. Observations: - HP is working with a Toronto company on a live webcam app for retail, using its all in one screens. They are testing a store in a store concept that al... (more)

OK, finally got them. Retail Roll-out, Local: House of Media Experience for Miele Inspirience Centre   Retail Roll-out, National: Level 5 / Hammond Communication Group, for Sprint Studio Store   Interactive Technology Roll-out: 2C Visual Communications For BC Children's Hospita... (more)

  Christie is well known in the display industry as a manufacturer of high-end digital projection systems, but the company will also be known now for a new display technology that may actually earn the slightly tired tag of revolutionary. I have not yet seen it, but there is a ... (more)

From white paper I stumbled on. These screens are in the right spot if the only people who shop here are eight feet tall.  ... (more)

I'm sorry but this is just inadvertently funny: Our very own Chuck Gose and his Digital Signage Solutions blog is in a heated battle to win the Top 50 Blogs in Indiana competition. It would be great recognition for MediaTile and the digital signage industry if we could pull out ... (more)

Last year I stirred up a bit of a stink because the DIGI Awards were announced at the Digital Signage Show and I could not get anyone to tell me who won. For days. I was actually at the thing this year and being old and stupid, forgot about last year's fuss. But then I started t... (more)