New Omaha Concert Venue Uses E-Paper Displays To Assign And Manage Dressing Rooms And Suites August 7, 2024 by Dave Haynes Using networked displays to help assign and manage meeting rooms in workplaces is now commonplace, but they’re also being used for applications that are kinda sorta similar, but also very different. Like assigning dressing rooms at a performing arts venue. The Slovenian e-paper solutions provider Visionect has an interesting post up about how it has kitted …
Blue Screens Of Death Invade Planet Earth August 6, 2024 by Vpetersson Guest Post: Viktor Petersson, Screenly It’s Saturday morning. Emergency services in Alaska are knocked out, meaning you can’t even get through to 911. Atlanta, Delta’s hub, is full of people sleeping wherever they can, and the queue to the help desk is more than a mile long. Thousands of flights are grounded, and there are …
Taco Bell Adding Voice AI Ordering To Hundreds Of US Drive-Thrus August 1, 2024 by Dave Haynes The owner of Taco Bell says it has targeted hundreds of its US stores for the implementation of voice AI-based ordering in the drive thrus. Yum! Brands says its Voice AI technology is already in more than 100 Taco Bell U.S. drive-thrus across 13 states – using it to “enhance back-of-house operations for team members …
Gate Information Appears Through Wood Totems Airside At Spokane’s Expanded Airport August 1, 2024 by Dave Haynes I was just saying the other day, again, that if people want to see innovation and how digital signage can be applied across big footprint venues, they should go to a new or renovated airport terminal. Here’s a good example of that: custom display totems at the departure gates of Spokane International Airport in eastern …
Screenly First Digital Signage CMS Software Company To Sign Multinational Secure By Design Pledge July 31, 2024 by Dave Haynes With the global IT outage a very recent memory, and still not fully resolved for some CrowdStrike customers, software security and IT best practises are now (or certainly should be) big discussion points across organizations and industries. Numerous digital signage CMS software providers have had announcements in the past year or two about attaining security …
Happy Trails To A Retired Craig Marshall, Now Ex Of Omnivex! July 26, 2024 by Dave Haynes Happy trails to Craig Marshall, who retired this week after almost 25 years in the digital signage business, all with Toronto-based CMS software firm Omnivex. His now ex-boss Doug Bannister: We know Craig has formed countless relationships over the years with Omnivex customers, partners, and employees, which is why we are making this announcement today. …
Korbyt Integrates Its Workplace Experience Platform With Crestron’s AirMedia Systems July 23, 2024 by Dave Haynes Integrations with workplace collaboration platforms like Teams and Zoom are growing commonplace for digital signage solutions and platforms targeting business communications as a vertical, but I haven’t seen as much work done with the big companies that do pro AV controls in those environments. So it’s interesting to read of a partnership Dallas-based CMS Korbyt …
Southwest Airlines Kept Flying Through Global IT Outage Because It Still Uses Windows 3.1, Circa 1992 July 22, 2024 by Dave Haynes Through Friday’s global IT outage, it started to become clear that the enterprise-level digital signage networks most affected by the CrowdStrike security update boo-boo seemed to be airports and airlines, but U.S. carrier Southwest Airlines screens were minimally affected because the carrier, somewhat astonishingly, is using versions of Windows coded in the 1990s. Numerous IT-focused …
Omnivex Does A Lot of Windows-based Digital Signage Networks, And CTO Says They’re On Top Of It July 19, 2024 by Dave Haynes When I first learned this morning of the CrowdStrike update that was causing Blue Screens Of Death on computers running Windows (and CrowdStrike security software), I started thinking about the implications for digital signage software vendors that have scores, hundreds or even thousands of endpoints running Microsoft’s operating system. The company that most comes to …
Photos And Videos: How Windows/Crowdstrike Issues Affecting Airlines And Airports July 19, 2024 by Dave Haynes It is VERY difficult these days to discern what is real and what is the cheeky fakery of someone who knows their way around image and video editing tools. But poking around online for a while reveals some real examples of problems brought on by the Windows/CrowdStrike issues that developed overnight. Most notably, in the …
