Mystery Partner Surfaces For iSIGN’s Curious Advertising Deal July 8, 2013 by Super User That very curious deal in which the Toronto-based interactive ad network and services provider iSIGN sold its ad rights to a mystery partner now has some detail. The contract granting exclusive advertising rights for the signage and mobile network in Mac’s Convenience Stores across Canada was signed with iTrix Media, which (for those following outside …
Dynamax Adds Android Hardware-Software Solution July 8, 2013 by Super User [vimeo id=”69879094″ width=”600″ height=”350″] UK software firm Dynamax has joined the ranks of established software houses that have added Android solutions to their product offer. Dynamax Technologies says its new Android-based digital signage solution is the company’s first hardware solution since the launch of its SaaS product digitalsignage.NET, in 2010. The company already had Windows …
Projects: 19,000 Sq Ft Of Display And Brilliant Content At Redone LAX Terminal July 7, 2013 by Super User This has the makings of something really special. The revitalized Tom Bradley International Terminal (TBIT) at LAX opens next month with a series of enhancements that will make the technical side of travel better, but also add to the experience of passing through the crazy-busy airline terminal. The terminal will be filled with big, intriguing …
Preset Good Advice Series: Manolo Almagro July 5, 2013 by Super User The third in our video vignette series features Manolo Almagro (known by many simply as Manny) providing some solid advice on who to seek out for advice. Manny works for TPN and is based out of Chicago, and has a long history in and on the edges of this sector.
UK’s Silver Curve Launches Raspberry Pi-based Commercial-Grade Digital Signage Platform July 5, 2013 by Super User UK-based Silver Curve has started raising money, using a sophisticated crowd-funding platform, to build out the team for a software platform that enables “top-end signage software packages” to run on low-cost Raspberry Pi-based computers. The $300,000 US equivalent raise just started days ago and the company was already at roughly 26% subscribed when I checked …
Newad Now Past 3,600 Digital Displays In Network July 4, 2013 by Super User If you need some tangible evidence in the argument that printed posters and signs will gradually go digital, here’s a very solid bit of news from up the highway in Montreal: Newad does the advertising in restaurant and nightclub washrooms thing, and has pretty rapidly converted much of that printed stock to digital. The company …
Preset Good Advice Video Series: Steve Harris of Cineplex July 4, 2013 by Super User The second Good Advice video is up on the Preset Group site, this one featuring Steve Harris of Cineplex Digital talking about stakeholders in digital signage projects. As mentioned yesterday, this is a running series of videos shot at the Preset Mixer earlier this year, before any of the interview subjects got unruly.
New Preset Video Series Features Advice From Industry Veterans July 3, 2013 by Super User When we held the Preset Mixer in Las Vegas in March 2013, we had a video crew there shooting the event and hauling some industry friends into an area where lights and cameras were set up. We wanted to do quick interviews, to be edited later, with folks, focusing on providing advice to people just …
Android For Digital Signage: A Closer Look At NoviSign July 2, 2013 by Super User Here’s the latest in the 30-plus series running on Android/ARM offers that now seem to be flooding into the digital signage space. As chronicled, many software and hardware companies are addressing the marketplace demand for lower costs and simple solutions by launching media players and software based on low-cost ARM processors and the open source …
Chipmaker Via Debuts ARM-based Android Hardware And Software Platform July 2, 2013 by Super User Taiwanese chipmaker Via has sent a note over to say it is now marketing a digital signage platform and solutions based both on the ARM and more conventional x86 PC processors. The company has also developed a VIA Embedded Digital Signage ISV Program (ISV = Independent Software Vendor) that encourages software companies to develop to its devices, …
