New Version Of Intuiface Works In Interactive Web Triggers From IFTTT Recipes, Zapier Apps April 13, 2018 by Super User The French interactive software firm Intuilab has released a new version Intuiface that now allows content to be triggered based on really common Internet of Things web triggers, like IFTTT recipes. The company says while it has for several years supported data integration with third-party platforms, IntuiFace Version 6.2 adds Web Triggers that work with …
How To Screw Up A Digital Signage Deployment. April 10, 2018 by Stu Armstrong Guest Post: Sean Matthews, Visix While costs are certainly coming down, a comprehensive digital signage deployment is still a chunk of change. What a shame to spend all that money and then fumble the project when it comes to getting the system up and running. Unfortunately, that happens far more often than you might think. …
The Digital Campus: The Rising Challenge For Education April 9, 2018 by sixteenninewpadmin Guest Post: Joe Rabah, RMG Networks Gone are the days of the cold, impersonal lecture halls, with rows of students diligently writing notes after notes long-form in books and files they later go on to lose. Today’s students are ‘digital natives’ brought up in a world of smart phones, high speed wi-fi and technology on …
Projects: Century-old Garden Center Group Takes (Some Of) Its Messaging Digital April 5, 2018 by Super User This is a straightforward menuboard and messaging boards set-up at Notcutts Garden Centres Ltd – which has 18 individual garden centres across England and has been doing this sort of thing for more than a century. The family-owned company cut over from pure print and some tablet-sized displays manually updated by thumb drive. The company did …
Instagram Changed Its API, And Now Your Version On Digital Signs Probably Isn’t Working April 5, 2018 by Super User If your digital signage or digital OOH network calls and displays Instagram posts/pix, you may well have an issue because of API changes made by the social media company. The short story is – a lot of what you show may no longer show. If you don’t have logins for Instagram account you want to …
16:9 Podcasts – Reece Kurtenbach On Why Hyper-Competition Is Nothing New To Daktronics April 4, 2018 by Super User Reece Kurtenbach now runs Daktronics, the company started by his father and a university colleague 50 years ago – and has grown up seeing it evolve from electronic voting systems from state politicians to the maker behind some of the biggest and most iconic LED display boards on the planet. That’s Daktronics’ tech, for example, …
RMG’s Board Chair Does Merger Deal To Take Company Back To Private April 3, 2018 by Super User RMG Networks has done a definitive merger agreement with its board chairman to take the company private, after several years operating as a public company. The deal opens a time window for a third-party suitor to, in effect, make a “superior” offer before this deal closes. The merger deal is with Greg Sachs, RMG’s Executive …
STRATACACHE Buys X2O Media From Barco March 28, 2018 by Super User STRATACACHE has acquired Montreal CMS software shop X20 Media from the Belgian visual solutions firm Barco, four years after Barco bought the company in what at least some observers (like me) thought was a head-scratcher. CEO Chris Riegel says he believes he is picking up a diamond in the rough, and wants to grow that …
16:9 Podcasts – Stan Richter On How SignageOS Bridges CMS Platforms With Different Hardware March 28, 2018 by Super User One of the big challenges on the technology side of digital signage is keeping up with all of the emerging hardware and software options on the market. It used to be a reasonably simple case of developing software in one OS or another and getting it running on a PC. But now there are Android …
NEC, BrightSign Pair Up On New Bundled Offer March 27, 2018 by Super User In what seems like a pretty smart move, among several lately, BrightSign has paired up with yet another tech company in the digital signage ecosystem to make its little purple media players part of the offer and solution. NEC Display Solutions of America will be offering a bundled signage solution involving an NEC commercial grade …
