New Streaming Curated Curated Digital Art Service Vieunite Pro Also Enables Workplace Messaging June 21, 2024 by Super User There have been several companies that have popped up offering subscription content services focused on digital artworks to be used on commercial displays – as one-offs or part of the mix in digital signage networks – but a newly launched service out of the UK blends curated artwork, screens optimized for display art, and a …
McDonald’s Ending AI-Driven, Drive-Thru Voice Ordering Trial With IBM June 19, 2024 by Super User While there is no end of buzz about AI and its ability to take over and optimize some human tasks, one of the world’s largest and most influential quick service restaurant chains is lapsing atrial it was running that used AI for automated order-taking in its drive-thru lanes. McDonald’s has told franchisees it is shutting …
New Industry Report Suggests Booming Business, However … June 17, 2024 by Super User I tend to put quotation marks around the word “research” when that “research” originates from a “research” factory in Pune, India, but I will at least give a company called Emergen Research a nod for demonstrating some baseline sense of the digital signage industry in its 2024-2032 industry report and forecast. Most of the reports …
Free And Well Worth The Click: The 2024 Digital Signage Yearbook Now Available For Download June 17, 2024 by Super User There is not a lot of in-depth insights and interview work done that is specific to the digital signage sector, and much of what is available involves very limited briefs that point to paywalled material, so the annual digital signage yearbook produced by German content partner invidis is pretty much unique because of its depth …
DSF Digiscape Graphically Segments, Sorts Its Industry Members June 10, 2024 by Super User I have made, through the years, brief and abandoned runs at doing one of those graphics that try to capture and then sort by categories the ecosystem of digital signage, as it is a lot of work and almost impossible to capture. So I have praise and sympathy for my friend Jim Nista, who has …
SignageOS Continues To Broaden Supported Software And Hardware, Adding ChromeOS Integration June 10, 2024 by Super User SignageOS has added full support for Google ChromeOS and ChromeOS Flex operating systems to the vast range of hardware platforms and operating systems covered off by the Prague-based company, which focuses on middleware and device management solutions for digital signage. SignageOS says its support for ChromeOS integrates seamlessly with the Google Workspace API, allowing compatibility …
Intel Partners With Sharp To Convert Underused Display Plants To Semiconductor Work June 10, 2024 by Super User Sharp has found a nice partner to take on some of its under-utilized display manufacturing capacity in Japan, chip-maker Intel. Intel Corp and 14 Japanese partner companies will use Sharp’s underutilized LCD plants in Japan to research advanced semiconductor production technology. The collaboration will reduce the alliance’s costs and in turn provide Sharp with welcomed …
Global OOH Ad Spend Almost $42B Last Year; Now Past 5% Of Total Ad Spend: WOO June 7, 2024 by Super User Global spending on Out Of Home advertising reached $41.9B last year, up 16% from a year earlier and representing 5.2% of global ad spend. Those were the big market highlights presented this week by World Out of Home Organization President Tom Goddard in his opening address to the organization’s Annual Congress in amazing Hong Kong. …
Bluefin, Intel Collaborate On New Ocean Series That Adds ChromeOS Support For All-In-One Displays June 6, 2024 by Super User Atlanta-based Bluefin has broadened its range of supported operating systems for its built-in displays – launching a new Bluefin Ocean series that is a direct collaboration with Intel and allows them to run on Windows, Linux or Chrome OS. Bluefin already had an Intel/Windows solution through Seneca, but Arrow’s decision earlier this year to wind …
Global Digital Signage Awards Entry Window Now Open June 5, 2024 by Super User Entries are now being accepted for the 2025 global Digital Signage Awards, which will be announced and handed out at a dinner ceremony during Integrated Systems Europe in Barcelona early next year. Sixteen:Nine has been and continues to be a main sponsor of these awards and, like the past couple of years, the awards dinner …
