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 Dave Haynes 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.
Mumbai’s VXL Debuts $400 Illumineye Digital Signage Bundle July 5, 2016 by Dave Haynes It is endlessly amazing to come across yet more companies introducing digital signage software platforms, when there are already 100s and possibly 1,000s (no, really) out there. At least the latest is not two guys and a dream, but a company with 40 years in thin client software that must have some sense of a market …
Webinar At 1 ET Today On Using Data In Digital Signage June 21, 2016 by Dave Haynes I’m up midday at Omnivex’s offices in the north part of Toronto to do a Q&A webinar on how data can be used to drive digital signage. It’s more of a chat than a formal presentation, and I’ll toss questions at Omnivex President Jeff Collard about how this stuff is done. Omnivex was doing data-driven digital signage a decade and …
NanoLumens’ AWARE Adds CMS, Android Media Player To Indoor LED Display Offer June 20, 2016 by Dave Haynes The lines between hardware and software makers in digital signage continue to blur, with news that Atlanta-based LED display manufacturer NanoLumens now has a content management and remote management software suite, and a dedicated Android media player that will ship with its new displays. This is a bit along the lines of how the LCD …
Ad Campaign Hyper-Targets Apartment Rentals To Digital Posters In NYC Neighbourhoods June 17, 2016 by Dave Haynes You’re reading more and more lately about the impact data will have on future advertising and visual communications, and here’s a small ad campaign, now running in New York, that shows some of the possibilities. Those LinkNYC interactive information stations that are popping up around Manhattan and the boroughs, replacing phone booths, are there to provide …
Projects: Lithuania’s Teo Networks Its Instore Marketing Efforts June 13, 2016 by Dave Haynes Lithuania’s leading telco and home entertainment services provider Teo has kitted out stores with single displays and clusters in push to enhance customer services. The set-up is running in shopping malls in that country’s three largest cities, with the tech put in by solutions provider Hansab, running Signagelive on Samsung displays. The company, says a press release, …
InfoComm 2016: Day One Impressions June 9, 2016 by Dave Haynes As warned, there are indoor LED displays everywhere at this year’s edition of the big InfoComm systems integrator-pro AV nerdfest in Las Vegas. There are two massive halls for this show, and LED companies are all over the footprint of both of them. There is by no means just an area designated for them. What …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Viktor Petersson of Screenly June 8, 2016 by Dave Haynes Viktor Petersson is kind of “the man” when it comes to making digital signage run on a $45 Raspberry Pi mini PC. For the last four years, Viktor’s company Screenly has been focused on developing and evolving a signage solution specifically for the Raspberry Pi. In this episode of Sixteen:Nine Podcasts, we talk about why he went …
Packaging Up Content For The Market June 3, 2016 by Dave Haynes I’m not sold on the idea of digital signage marketplaces when it comes to selling software and gear, but where I do think it can make some real sense is for packaged-up content and creative. Subscription content has clearly worked well for thriving companies like Screenfeed, and I think selling creative can work when the …
