Skykit Pivoting From Marketing CMS Software To Device Management Solutions Available To Competitors May 4, 2023 by Super User Minneapolis software firm Skykit is in the middle of a business pivot from a focus on chasing digital signage CMS software business in a crowded competitive field to offering a device management platform for signage that its competitors are welcome to integrate and use. The company has zeroed in on the Android operating system and …
Loop Media Rings NYSE Opening Bell As It Builds Free Digital Signage/DOOH Footprint In US February 16, 2023 by Super User Linkedin regularly has giddy photos of groups of business people surrounding the boss as she or he rings the bell at the New York Stock Exchange, and a recent one caught my eye, as the firm is in the DOOH media networks business. Loop Media develops and supports a series of curated music video and …
SignageLab Leverages SignageOS Platform To Create Full Digital Signage Platform February 14, 2023 by Super User I am catching up on notes from ISE, which is already two weeks ago, and trying to relate some of the quicker conversations I had. Every time I go to a big show like ISE, I run into unfamiliar companies, and I try – when I can – to stop and have a chat, so …
Sony Has Developed Its Own Device Management Toolset For Its Smart Pro Displays December 8, 2022 by Super User Anyone in digital signage or pro AV who has ever had ops in his or her title will know easy and pretty user experiences are nice, but what can really matter in selecting the right software and hardware solution is boring stuff like device management. Some CMS software companies have always had it, while many …
Partnership With SignageOS Almost Doubles Sony’s CMS Platform Ecosystem November 23, 2022 by Super User Sony has become a very different player in the digital signage since it brought on some people very familiar, experienced and connected in the sector – Rich Ventura first, then Jay Leedy and probably some others I am forgetting (SORRY!) Before they got involved, I could not name a mainstream CMS partner working with Sony, …
Sony Has Grown Software Partner Ecosystem From Two To 34 In Last 18 months June 14, 2022 by Super User There was a time not very long ago, at all, when I would walk into a Sony booth at a trade show and try to sort out what the company was even doing in digital signage, besides selling very nice LCD and microLED displays. That has changed, rather dramatically. The Japanese manufacturer, particularly in the …
Mvix Joins Growing List Of CMS Software Firms Running On Sony’s Android TV Pro Displays March 18, 2022 by Super User The digital signage CMS software and solutions firm Mvix has joined a growing list of companies creating variants of their platform to run on Sony’s commercial smart displays. The Sony platform for its Bravia series of pro displays runs on Android TV, which is similar to the Android operating system now broadly used in digital …
Custom LCD Maker Bluefin Starts Marketing Open OS All-In-One Panels February 22, 2022 by Super User The Atlanta-area custom LCD manufacturer Bluefin International has been around the industry for several years marketing a variety of retail-centric screens that have BrightSign media play-out hardware built-in, but now the company has added a series with a dual CPU set-up that can run Android 10 or different flavors of Linux like Debian. Bluefin’s new …
Elo Releases 4th-Gen, Android 10-Driven Options For Interactive Screens October 5, 2021 by Super User With self-service ordering getting mainstreamed by the pandemic – use a machine instead of riskier person to person contact – all-in-one kiosk displays are presumably seeing a lot of demand across numerous industry verticals beyond the obvious one of QSR and fast-casual. Silicon Valley-based Elo has just announced its newest interactive screen options – which …
Sony Building Up Digital Signage CMS Partners In Android/SoC-Focused Collaborative Alliance July 30, 2021 by Super User Sony wasn’t an overly active or noticed player in digital signage for a bunch of years, but the company has been steadily trying to boost both its profile and its partnership programs in the last 18 months or so. The company recently announced something called the Collaborative Alliances program, which sounded a bit like a …
