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 Dave Haynes 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 …
IAdea Ships Small Smart Displays With Built-In Meeting Room Availability Light Bars June 28, 2017 by Dave Haynes The meeting room signs market has grown to a point now that hardware manufacturers now make red and green LED colour bars part of the regular kit they sell with small, all-in-one displays. It wasn’t long ago, at all, that digital meeting room signs were pretty much done with consumer tablets or small open-frame LCDs. …
Four Winds Sets Dates For Third Forward Conference June 27, 2017 by Dave Haynes Four Winds Interactive is going ahead with a third edition of its annual Forward conference in Denver, the software company’s home city. The Oct. 10-12 event targets existing and prospective clients, but is also pretty good networking for vendors within FWI’s ecosystem. I know companies like Scala and NDS (Netherlands) also do user events, though …
Projects: 700-Plus Wide Band Of LCDs At Orlando’s Airport June 22, 2017 by Dave Haynes One of the InfoComm Big Canvas sessions I put together last week in Orlando took an in-depth look at the massive video wall steadily being put in place at Orlando’s primary airport. We had Seattle’s Synect, which did the content, RP Visuals, which did the mount structure, and LG, which won the deal for 700 …
Subway Steps Up Digital Game; Adds Self-Ordering Kiosks, Menuboards June 19, 2017 by Dave Haynes Subway is stepping up its digital game, adding self-ordering kiosks and digital menuboards in a bid to reverse three years of declining sales. Bloomberg reports that Subway is testing about 50 self-ordering kiosks that allow people to walk in and tailor their order, instead of doing the back and forth ordering with the worker actually adding …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts – Eric Henry, Tightrope Media Systems June 14, 2017 by Dave Haynes Tightrope Media Systems has been around the digital signage business for 20 years, and if you’ve heard of the company, there’s a decent chance you thought, like me, that the Minneapolis firm was a broadcast software company that also did a signage CMS. Turns out it was the other way around, and Tightrope started as a digital …
Sweden’s ZetaDisplay Continues Roll-Up Of Scandinavian Digital Signage Companies June 9, 2017 by Dave Haynes The Swedish firm ZetaDisplay continues to roll up other companies in the Scandinavian market, doing a deal to acquire Seasam Oy, the second largest supplier of digital signage in Finland. The company, based in Malmo, had done deals earlier for other providers in Finland and Norway. Seasam has about 20 people and a customer base that …
New Tightrope Device Management Set-Up Makes Apple TVs Commercial Digital Signage Players June 7, 2017 by Dave Haynes St. Paul, MN-based Tightrope Media Systems has integrated its digital signage content management software with an Apple-centric device management platform that ends up turning little $149 Apple TV set-top boxes into commercial digital signage players. The integration with JAMF, says Tightrope, provides immediate interoperability between Carousel 7.0 and Apple TV. “As new Apple TVs registered with the JAMF …
Screenly Adds Open Source WordPress Plugin For Digital Signage June 6, 2017 by Dave Haynes The Raspberry Pi-centric CMS software firm Screenly has written a plugin for WordPress that allows users to generate simple presentations for a signage network off the blogging and website management platform. It’s not a replacement for a signage CMS, but more of a means for users on a network that already know WordPress to produce …
