ONELAN Joins Ranks Of CMS Firms Supporting SOC Panels June 1, 2016 by Dave Haynes The UK-based CMS software firm ONELAN has joined the ranks of companies that have developed to and support System on Chip (SOC) all in one commercial display panels. ONELAN has announced its CMS 3.0 solution can be installed on and run on either a Samsung Smart Signage display or LG’s webOS platform. The company also says these …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Stu Armstrong of ComQi June 1, 2016 by Dave Haynes In this episode of Sixteen:Nine Podcasts, I’m speaking with Stu Armstrong, President of the Americas for ComQi, a CMS software and services company with offices in London, New York and Toronto. Stu talks about the opportunities and challenges of working with the retail sector, and how after many years, signage is getting some serious traction …
Digital Meeting Room Signs Start-up Gets $7M Series A Raise June 1, 2016 by Dave Haynes I keep reading and hearing how venture capital is hard to come by these days, in digital signage and well beyond, but one Boston-based company has scored a $7 million investment to drive its business in digital meeting room signs. Yup, that boring little killer application that sells itself as soon as people see it. …
Capital Networks Celebrates 25 Years In Business May 25, 2016 by Dave Haynes Digital signage is still a pretty young industry, so it’s interesting to come across a note that says one of the software companies active in the sector just turned 25. Capital Networks Limited was started in 1991 in suburban Toronto by Bill Trainor, who still runs the company. The company started as a software and …
Sixteen:Nine Podcast: Neil Willis of Hypersign May 25, 2016 by Dave Haynes Neil Willis is the CEO and founder of Hypersign, a digital signage software company located in Greenville, South Carolina. In this Sixteen:Nine Podcasts episode, Neil talks about a long career path that had very humble beginnings – working in the air force in Arkansas and sweeping floors at a big box store on weekends to …
Screenly’s Raspberry Pi-Powered Platform Shifting To New IoT Version Of Ubuntu Linux May 18, 2016 by Dave Haynes Ubuntu has long been one of, if not the, go-to variants of the Linux operating system for digital signage media players, but that’s been on “real” x86 computers. Now there’s work underway to pair the new Internet of Things-focused version of the open-source software with Raspberry Pi micro-PCs, and run a digital signage platform off it. …
Sixteen:Nine Podcast: Jason Cremins of Signagelive May 18, 2016 by Dave Haynes In this Sixteen:Nine podcast episode, I had a chat with Jason Cremins, the founder and CEO of the UK-based firm Signagelive. His company has been one of the very early adopters of emerging technologies that have really changed how digital signage is pulled together and run – from cloud hosting and distribution, to HTML5, to …
Sixteen:Nine Podcast: Nanxi Liu of Enplug May 6, 2016 by Dave Haynes In this episode, I’m chatting with Nanxi Liu, the CEO of Enplug, a Los Angeles-based digital signage CMS company she started with a group of new friends after graduating from Cal-Berkeley, just four years ago.. Nanxi talks about being a Millennial Asian CEO in an industry mostly run by middle-aged white guys, growing a company …
Sixteen:Nine Podcast: Bryan Fairfield of Nanonation May 6, 2016 by Dave Haynes Bryan Fairfield is the CEO of Nanonation, which delivers digital signage and interactive for a fascinating range of clients – from Louis Vuitton to Harley Davidson to Raising Nebraska, a hands-on learning center celebrating and explaining farm life. Bryan talks in this podcast about the rise of interactive in retail and public spaces, tuning their …
NEXCOM Expands From Digital Signage Players To Free CMS Software May 5, 2016 by Dave Haynes The Taiwan-based electronics manufacturer NEXCOM has released its own, free digital signage management software, called PowerDigiS – aimed at the retail SMB market. The toolset is web-based and would seem – at least on paper – to be more than the barebones scheduling platforms I’ve seen a few times when hardware guys get into the …
