Flash Is Done; Time For Digital Signage To Fully Adopt HTML5 August 30, 2017 by Paul Croubalian Guest Post: Paul Vincent, Neuranet Most computer technologies come and go quickly, with few people outside of software engineering noticing. But Adobe’s Flash was a major technology that lasted 20 years, and was familiar to just about any consumer with a laptop or smartphone. Consumers knew about the frequent updates needed for the Flash player plug-in, and …
Projects: Auckland Airport’s Duty-Free Adds Digital End-Caps August 25, 2017 by Super User This is the duty free at Auckland, NZ’s international airport – one of a pair of The Loop shops at the terminal equipped with some 70 screens. The system was put in by NZ-based solutions provider Hydro Media, which first did 40 digital screens into The Loop’s refurbished arrivals store last year. “This led,” says …
Meeting Room Signs Business On Big Growth Curve August 24, 2017 by Super User Traffic on a baby sister site to 16:9 – called MeetingRoomSigns.biz – has grown steadily since its launch in early 2016, as have the leads that come in from a form and then get kicked to site sponsors. The sheer growth in the number of available meeting room sign solutions – more than 5X …
TransitScreen Adds Bolt-On Nearby Service To Connect People To Closest Lattes August 22, 2017 by Super User Washington, DC-based TransitScreen has built up a business tapping into and visualizing real-time mass transport and ride share data to pass along organized, easily digested information to people in buildings and public spaces. They’ve now added a new bolt-on feature that makes sense – information and directions to nearby services. Here’s the pitch: Your building …
Projects: Giant LV Strip Board Framed By Virtual Roman Columns August 10, 2017 by Super User I don’t think I’ve seen an LED marquee quite like this – a very tall roadside slab that has the curves of three-dimensional Roman columns on each side, wrapped in LED. It’s an 85-foot tall 10mm sign along the Las Vegas Strip, in front of Caesar’s Palace. It went up in June, I believe, for …
Six Must-Haves For Any Digital Signage Design August 9, 2017 by Samantha Brault Guest Post: Mike Kilian, MVIX Signage, whether it be analog or digital, is at its foundation a form of advertising. The intention of most signs is to attract people to come closer, capture those same people with the content on display, and send customers, consumers, or the general public on their way with a call …
IntuiLab’s New API Explorer Allows Mere Mortals To Tap Into Web Data And Services August 4, 2017 by Super User The technical side of IntuiLab’s new API Explorer is way over my head, but the general concept being floated by the French interactive software firm is pretty interesting – a way for software partners and end-user creative people to use web content and services without needing any programming chops. The API Explorer is part of …
Texas Longhorns Kit Out New Football Locker Room With Screens Over Stalls August 3, 2017 by Super User Other people can engage in the argument over whether Division 1 college athletes in the United States should be paid, and based on social media posts, it’s already evident the new University of Texas Longhorns football locker room has people griping about money being spent on bells and whistles, instead of paying players or putting …
New Turnkey Digital Signage Solution Builds Off Open Source Xibo Software August 2, 2017 by Super User Free open source digital signage software options get a lot of reader interest here, but I’ve not seen many commercial companies take open source options and roll them into their commercial offer (unless you lump in Android). However, here’s a Las Vegas-based, casino-centric solutions company that’s developed a CMS offer built on the long-running Xibo …
RDM Hires DSF Vice Chair Graham Out Of Longtime College Job August 2, 2017 by Super User As mentioned in the past, posts on new hires don’t tend to generate a lot of page views, which means readers don’t generally care about new sales people. But this one is noteworthy … Tampa Bay-area CMS software firm Real Digital Media has hired on Spencer Graham as Business Development Manager for Higher Education. Graham comes …
