Other End Of Planet, And Crappy Internet May 7, 2013 by Super User Sorry. I am in South Africa, working with a terrific client and equally terrific set of business partners. So the combination of long flights, jet lag, wobbly connectivity and $8 wine that would cost me $25 back home have made posting a little difficult. Hic. Now that my body seems to have come to grips …
A Talking Flat Lady I Kinda Sorta Like (Must Have Skipped My Meds) May 3, 2013 by Super User As much as I dislike Talking Flat Ladies, they’ve gone over well enough – very surprisingly – at Logan Airport in Boston to merit ordering another three of the virtual assistant projection thingdoodles And the company that’s been championing the things is introducing a new version next week that I actually kinda sorta like, again …
Screenly Serves Up Raspberry Pi As Alternative To Android Players May 3, 2013 by Super User The Raspberry Pi is now very close to being a viable digital signage playback device, and a for-profit software company has been investing the time and resources to develop a Linux-driven player and content management system to bring to the market. WireLoad – which has developers in the UK and Sweden – says its Screenly …
Research: Three In Five Banks Ready To Get Serious About Digital Signage May 2, 2013 by Super User Retail marketing agency John Ryan, which is somewhere between mostly and entirely focused on retail banking, has issued a report on the findings from a survey done with some 200 large- and medium-sized European, Australian and North American retail banks – whose collective footprint is more than 150,000 branches and 32 countries. The survey was …
Projects: Franklin Institute’s New Ticketing Boards May 2, 2013 by Super User Here’s the new ticketing display system at The Franklin Institute, a science museum in Philadelphia Science Museum. There are five 55-inch displays at the ticketing entrance, showing ticket prices, current or upcoming exhibits, show and tour group times, and video trailers. The museum uses Scala and has set its scheduling to shuffle ticket packages for museum …
Projects: Skier Info At Chamonix Mont Blanc May 2, 2013 by Super User The Swiss software company Navori has its QL platform the communications for Compagnie du Mont Blanc, which runs the French Chamonix Mont Blanc area. There are 16 outdoor and indoor screens, some as high up as 10,000 feet and operating at waaay below zero, running snow conditions, wayfinding, cable lift information, weather information and alerts. …
Airgoo Joins The ARM Race With Latest Android Digital Signage Offer May 2, 2013 by Super User The UK-based AV integrator and distributor Anders+Kern, or A+K, is an unusual new entry in the ARM race, announcing an ARM-based Android digital signage player and management system. The A+K Airgoo is a micro-player stick that plugs into a display panel HDMI port and runs Android 4.0 on a 1GHz CPU. It has 4GB storage for media …
Android For Digital Signage: A Closer Look At Instillo’s Pure Play Solution May 1, 2013 by Super User We’re now at 11 entries, and still counting, in this running series of closer looks at digital signage solution providers who have started working with the Android operating system and low-cost, ultra-small ARM processors. Almost 30 companies have introduced products based on the open-source Android operating system that is very widely used for smart devices …
Marketing: BroadSign Launches Women In Digital Signage Series May 1, 2013 by Super User BroadSign has taken a couple of very different – for this sector – marketing steps of late. They’ve hired a dedicated writer to work on marketing and communications material, and the company is producing written material that isn’t the same old Five Keys To Digital Signage BlahBlah ZZZzzzz. I saw BroadSign lifer Dan Parisien down …
FWi Re-Markets Kiosk Capability As App In Apple’s Online Store April 30, 2013 by Super User There are a few kiosk apps built already for turning iPads into locked-down showroom product knowledge devices, but as far as I know Denver-based Four Winds Interactive is the first digital signage company to effectively port its interactive software to an App Store version that anyone can just buy and run. The company’s iDS Kiosk …
