Reflect showcasing digital signage

"The National Retail Federation show is a great venue for us to showcase our latest products and capabilities for thousands of professionals in the retail industry from all over the world," said Vince Bove, SVP for Reflect, in the announcement. "We're honored and excited to have the opportunity to showcase our latest technologies with valued partners like HP, Seneca and Intel, who continue to contribute so much in terms of innovation and ingenuity to the retail industry as well."

Reflect will feature three technologies at the NRF Show, the ReflectView Touchpoint solution for interactive applications, the ReflectView MediaPoint solution for dynamic digital signage content, and the ReflectView Tablet solution for assisted selling and product demonstrations.

Visitors to the Intel booth will be greeted with an interactive kiosk powered by The ReflectView TouchPoint solution, which is designed for interactive displays. TouchPoint supports customers' touchscreen activity and interaction with physical sensors, buttons and product lift triggers, and is used in welcome areas, customer service and shopping zones such as end-caps, and product demo locations.

TouchPoint can also be used to integrate in-store digital media with Web, social and mobile strategies to create a connected multichannel consumer experience, the company said. The interactive greeter kiosk will provide booth visitors with wayfinding within the Intel booth as well as self-service information on Intel's Ultrabook. Also in the Intel booth, the IT Command Center, powered by Reflect and CompuCom, will showcase the remote management of complex retailer infrastructure comprised of different form factors such point of sale, digital signage, kiosks, tablets and smartphones in a store location or in multiple retail locations.

The ReflectView MediaPoint solution will be featured in the HP booth as it is used for passive media messaging and supports HD media, screen segmenting with images, videos and dynamic content such as real-time information or social media content. MediaPoint is utilized for content designed to drive shopper behavior with targeted and timely product promotions and branding in areas such as general customer wait areas, store departments, end-caps and in-aisle product promotions.

In the Seneca booth, the ReflectView Tablet solution will showcase the ability to easily change on-screen content and the solution's ability to drive product drill downs available with the touchscreen activity in the Seneca booth. This feature provides store associates and employees with assisted-selling capabilities creating a more knowledgeable customer service experience. The ReflectView MediaPoint and ReflectView TouchPoint solutions will also be demonstrated in the Seneca booth.

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By the time Alvarez moved to Chicago, the Svengali name was making the rounds on the blogs; Alvarez attracted a lot of interest from Flashlight Tag, and in fall 2011 Zanca became part of the Svengali family. In late January he released "False Astronomy" as Lake Rescue, and Alvarez sent the song to Flashlight Tag founder Tyler Andere, who liked it so much he gave Zanca some advice. "He's like, 'You should start a new moniker and start a new name for yourself,'" Zanca says. "He basically helped me brand the entire Mister Lies thing."

"I sort of told him, 'You should go anonymous and see if people pick up on it, and I'll help you push it,'" says Andere, who also contributes to tastemaking sites such as Potholes in My Blog and Portals. "He made the Mister Lies Soundcloud that day, uploaded the track, and I started posting it on Flashlight Tag and Portals." A version of "False Astronomy" credited to Mister Lies appeared on Flashlight Tag on January 31, 2012, and for the next week and a half Zanca worked on the first Mister Lies EP, Hidden Neighbors. "'Cleam' was basically done in one six-hour session at two in the morning, and I had a one-act play due for my class the next day," he says. "So I literally finished that, got the last five pages of the last scene of the play done, and then just didn't sleep." Zanca released the EP by uploading it to his Bandcamp page.

Pitchfork caught wind of Mister Lies, and in March it posted "I Walk," a one-off with vocals from Zanca's friend Jessica Blanchet, as a Best New Track; in April the site bestowed the same honor on "Cleam." Within the next month Zanca shed his anonymity (he still goes by "Mister Lies," but he also lets people know his real name), released a collaboration with Alvarez called Mass EP via the Absent Fever label (which Andere founded with Eloise Hess of the blog Verb/re/verb), signed with Lefse, and began a short tour of California supporting popular avant-garde electronic producer Tycho. (Around the same time, Lefse hired Andere to do A&R,Find Complete Details about howo tractor Truck. a development Andere credits in part to Zanca's success.)

After the California tour, school was out for the summer, so Zanca returned to his parents' place in Connecticut to work on his debut full-length. He had a hard time working in New Canaan, though—he was homesick for Chicago and distracted by the same social scene he'd been happy to escape when he moved to Illinois. At the end of June he left for his family's Vermont lake house,Our aim is to supply air purifier which will best perform to the customer's individual requirements. where he spent the rest of the summer (aside from a short trip to Chicago in July to play an Empty Bottle show with Supreme Cuts and attend the Pitchfork Music Festival). He lived largely in isolation, making field recordings, plugging away at his album, and reading Nietzsche and The Jungle Book. He worked with his collaborators—including actress Aleksa Palladino, singer for New York duo Exitmusic—mostly via e-mail. Zanca decided to name the album after the feral child from Kipling's stories. "We all kind of have that feral-child quality we go through," he says. "Even though we don't want to admit it."

Zanca says parts of Mowgli will take his fans by surprise. "If people are expecting 'False Astronomy' and 'I Walk' and the chillwave side of things,Creative glass tile and stone mosaic tile for your distinctive kitchen and bath. they'll like this record—but they'll be a little bit taken aback by the first half, because it's probably the most hard-hitting tribal stuff that I've done," he says. "It's kind of like side A is destroying the room and side B is looking around the room and realizing what you've done and trying to fix it."

Zanca describes Mowgli as the harshest Mister Lies material to date, but despite the hiatus that mono forced on him, he's already moved on from it. "Maybe it's the fact I'm so young or it's the subject of untreated ADD or something like that, but these songs, I'm kind of past that," he says.We offers several ways of providing hands free access to car parks to authorised vehicles. "I'm listening to a lot more darker shit, a lot more dark ambient.We open source indoor tracking system that was developed with the goal of providing at least room-level accuracy. I'm revisiting my noise roots. I'm listening to a lot of Nine Inch Nails, oddly enough, and that's been inspiring me in ways that I'd never think it would have."