Buh-Bye: Adobe End-Of-Lifes Flash For 2020 July 26, 2017 by Super User Flash has been gradually disappearing out of digital signage platforms and playlists for several years, but the company behind the technology, Adobe, made it known yesterday it is formally end-of-lifing it by 2020. Adobe said Tuesday it will stop updating and distributing its Flash Player at the end of 2020. The company said on its …
Projects: Atletico Madrid’s New Stadium Has 300+ Digital Signage Screens July 25, 2017 by Super User The Spanish football (soccer) team Atletico Madrid will have a new stadium when the new season starts in a few weeks, and it will open with more than 300 digital signage screens and another 500 IPTV screens. The Wanda Metropolitano, located in East Madrid, is running the signage and IPTV on UK-based Tripleplay’s software platform …
Projects: Selfridge’s Takes Its Staff Communications Digital July 20, 2017 by Super User This is a look inside how digital signage is being used for internal communications by iconic UK retailer Selfridges. AV integrator AVMI has put a high-impact LED wall at the London offices’ “Team Tunnel” and a network of over 30 Samsung Smart Signage screens at Selfridges office and retail locations in Manchester, Birmingham, Leicester and London. …
Aug. 8th Webinar Looks At Protecting Digital Signage Against Hackers July 20, 2017 by Super User An awful lot of the webinars that get organized by vendors or trade associations tend to re-visit familiar territory, but a session coming up in early August is, I think, the first to get into the touchy subject of preventing digital signage displays from being hacked. LED display manufacturer NanoLumens is running an August 8th …
STRATACACHE Launches Turnkey Service Available To Clients Not On Its Digital Signage Platforms July 19, 2017 by Super User STRATACACHE has launched a turnkey field support service that, intriguingly, will work on jobs regardless of whether the network is running on a STRATACACHE product. The Smart Service Team, says a press release, is multi-functional. Services include ensuring network performance with routine compliance checks, supporting digital deployments from initial site surveys to post-install audits, configuring …
Michael Higgins, Harris School Solutions July 19, 2017 by Super User Public schools would seem like a natural fit for digital signage because of all the communications that circulate, all the time, in K-12 schools. A software company that’s focused on the education market – Harris School Solutions – recently announced a product that’s an interesting blend of digital signage and smartphone apps. It’s designed to …
Kiwi C-Store Chain’s Digital Signage Screens Drive Triple-Digit Sales July 18, 2017 by Super User Sales lift stories tend to be hard to come by from retailers and brands using digital signage, often because they’re not overly motivated to tell competitors what’s working. But here’s a short case study out of New Zealand about screens in the forecourts and inside New Zealand BP gas stations and c-stores. BP New Zealand …
Startup Kitcast Launches Apple TV-focused Digital Signage Platform July 18, 2017 by Super User Silicon Valley-based Kitcast! is the latest company to develop a digital signage application that runs off AppleTV set top boxes. The company, started three years ago, says its platform comes with smart, custom templates to reduce content creation costs, and the system is touted as simple enough for non-technical users to launch and manage. “The …
Today And Tomorrow: Digital Signage Trends July 5, 2017 by Stu Armstrong Guest Post: Sean Matthews, Visix There’s really no escaping it – digital signage is here, and here to stay. It’s becoming so commonplace that people are starting to expect it when they enter a facility. Soon enough, places that don’t have digital signage will seem quaint and old-fashioned, or sadly out of touch with the …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Steve Rickless, Tripleplay July 5, 2017 by Super User Steve Rickless, one of the founders of the UK firm Tripleplay, believes likes a lot of people that technology is converging, and thinks his company is in a good spot because it has already converged its technology. The company started in IP television for the corporate market, but by 2008 was doing a blended hardware …
