ComQi Integrates Panasonic’s Light ID Smartphone Tech August 3, 2016 by Super User Panasonic and ComQi have worked out a partnership to market technology that connects smartphones with digital signage displays, using encoded light signals embedded in the screens. Panasonic’s Light ID technology works a bit like QR codes or bar codes, in that consumers who have an app loaded in their phones can easily pull down information that …
Hackers Take Over Digital Signage, Audio At Vietnam Airports August 1, 2016 by Super User When digital signage systems get hacked, the perpetrators tend to go to the 12-year-old psyches and they replaced marketing messages with naughty videos. But a cyber attack went in a very different, highly political direction last week in Vietnam – when hackers posted political messages on the digital signage displays at Vietnam’s two largest airports, as well …
BroadSign Goes Public With Patent Battle Plans July 26, 2016 by Super User The Montreal-based digital signage software firm BroadSign has taken the somewhat unusual approach of announcing to its industry brethren that it’s going after a company it regards as a patent troll. In a note from CEO and principal shareholder Burr Smith, the company says T-Rex Property AB has, since 2012, filed 59 cases (and counting) against digital …
Raffi Vartian Leaving Signagelive July 25, 2016 by Super User I rarely write about staff changes in organizations, particularly hires, since I don’t really care, and my web stats confirm few others do. But … once in a while I get word on a change that’s notable, and today I learned Raffi Vartian is leaving Signagelive after roughly five years with the company. HQ is …
Mvix Ends Up In Court, But That’s OK July 22, 2016 by Super User The Washington, DC-area digital signage firm Mvix has found itself in court, but in an entirely good way. The company, which does cloud-based software, has developed a dynamic Digital Docket Display widget aimed at courthouses – showing real-time case information, including case numbers, parties involved, courtroom and time. Docket Display Systems, says the company in …
Industry Weapon Picks Up Firesign Platform And Users July 22, 2016 by Super User Pittsburgh-based solutions company Industry Weapon has acquired a long-running software platform called FireSign, as well as its user base, from Nashville creative agency Anode. Anode first developed FireSign back in 1991, but says at the end of 2015 decided to get out that business – empty when they started, hyper-crowded now – and focus on the …
Digital Signage Solutions Firm KIO: Use Our Tech And Service, And We’ll Throw In Creative July 21, 2016 by Super User Google Alerts’ digital signage search term digest for this morning popped up yet another software company going after the small business market with a cloud-based solution, but I was please to see this one had an interesting twist. You pay for a media player with software, and the deal includes custom creative and content management …
Go Vertical, Or Go Home July 20, 2016 by Super User A few conversations in recent weeks have reinforced a conclusion I made some time ago about software and solutions companies in the digital signage business: they need to get vertical. Many companies, particularly the smaller ones, badly need to find a vertical market and make it their own. Being a generalist, in a field crowded with generalists, could be …
What Happens When People Obsess Over What Technology Does, Not What It Can Do July 18, 2016 by Niel Rieger Guest Post: Mark McDermott, ScreenCloud Back when I began to create websites in the late 90s I found I could create a website that had the time on it. So I put this clock ‘feature’ on a few websites. Actually, every single website. Back then, it was a big deal. A clock! On a website! …
Miami Fail July 5, 2016 by Super User Spotted by an industry vet connecting through Miami’s airport … The wonky screen in the right has a notification message reminding the screen operator he or she can upgrade to Windows 10! It’s not that hard to disable this stuff, and avoid looking like a doofus.
