Blue Bite, Partner Freckle IoT Creating Aggregated Beacons Proximity Ad Network April 10, 2015 by Super User Blue Bite is a NYC start-up that’s been hanging out around the edges of the digital signage and digital OOH sectors for a few years – marketing the capability and know-how to bridge smartphones and screens with tech like QR codes, SMS and NFC tags. The announced this week a deal with a Toronto company …
NEC Adds Entry-Level Panels That Play Video Off Thumb Drives April 8, 2015 by Super User NEC Display Solutions has added a set of commercial LED-backlit displays aimed at entry-level digital signage jobs, with a USB port that will take a thumb drive and run media files off it. The MultiSync E Series displays come in 32, 42, 50, 58 and 65-inch formats, and all have that built-in USB media player that supports …
Talk Interactive At Tomorrow’s DSF Online Hangout April 7, 2015 by Super User The Digital Signage Federation is staging what it dubs a DSF Education Hangout online tomorrow, focused on “What to Look for in Interactive Technologies.” The 45-minute session at 2 Eastern will be run by Rise Vision’s Ryan Cahoy and feature Vincent John Vincent, from Gesturetek, and Jim Nista from Insteo. The learning objectives include: Identifying new …
DSrupted 2015 Site Live, Tickets On Sale April 6, 2015 by Super User The DSrupted 2015 website is now live, the agenda is out and ticketing is live for the event, Sept. 16th in Toronto. We’re pulling together our speakers and already have commitments from a couple of really, really good ones. Microsoft’s Mike Pell will talk about data visualization. He’s a Senior Designer in the Cloud + Enterprise …
TouchTunes Acquired By Private Investment Firm April 3, 2015 by Super User One of the larger digital OOH networks on the planet, Montreal’s TouchTunes Interactive Networks, has been acquired by a private investment firm, Searchlight Capital. TouchTunes is mostly known as a digital jukebox company, and has units plugged in at more than 71,000 bars and restaurants across North America and Europe. But the jukeboxes have screens and …
Capital Networks Targets Rival Scala’s Customers With Trade-In Program April 1, 2015 by Super User Ask most people who sell signage software and they’ll confirm replacing incumbent software providers is a substantial part of their month to month business. Sometimes it is service quality. Sometimes one glitch too many. A push on pricing. Or even just personality clashes. The software guys sell against each other every day in a quest to …
VIA Rolls Out All-In Bus Signage And Infotainment System April 1, 2015 by Super User Putting screens in big things that roll and bump and jolt is a substantial technical challenge – the problems ranging from too much vibration, to dust and grime, to the inquisitive fingers and sharp objects of the general public. It’s possible to put the pieces together between rugged panels and industrial, solid state PCs – …
Stratacache Formally Expands Into India March 31, 2015 by Super User Dayton, Ohio-based Stratacache continues to push its business ops into new regions, announcing today it has opened an office in Bangalore, India and has plans to hire as many as 15 people. Bangalore makes a lot of sense for the signage CMS firm as it is India’s tech capital and has a couple of universities that are said …
Project: The End Is Nigh … Oh, Wait, No, It’s a A Cookie March 31, 2015 by Super User This was clever. When a partial solar eclipse was visible last Friday over the UK, the OOH agencies Talon and Grand Visual ran two hours of creative matching the trajectory of the event, but using an Oreo cookie to take the place of the moon. “We often talk about how data can improve the targeting …
Will They Hear Crickets At Sign Expo’s “Dynamic Digital Signage” Park Next Week? March 31, 2015 by Super User A couple of contacts have sent notes recently asking if I was going to the International Sign Association’s annual trade show, which runs next week in Las Vegas. Nope. Can’t see any reason why I would. I did go to Sign Expo a couple of years ago, but that was with a client, on said …
