UK Town’s Shiny New Digital Information Station Hijacked With Porn Site September 5, 2017 by Dave Haynes Via Telford Live The person behind a local news portal in Telford, UK, northwest of Birmingham, came across one of the combined wayfinding and digital media totems in the town centre, and noticed the community information normally running on the screen had been replaced by a gallery of naughty video thumbnails. The writer notes this …
Columbus Convention Center Expansion Includes 7 by 60 Wide LED Wall September 2, 2017 by Dave Haynes Turns out that 14-foot LED selfie head isn’t the only big digital feature turned on at the convention center in Columbus, Ohio. There’s also a 7-foot tall by 60 wide fine pitch LED wall in the building, put together by solutions provider Coffman Media and running Signagelive’s CMS. It’s part of a $140 million upgrade to …
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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 …
