Creative Realities SEC Filings Show Yet More Red Ink For Blended Entitity April 28, 2016 by Dave Haynes The red ink story has continued at Creative Realities – the blended entity that includes elements of CRI, Wireless Ronin, Broadcast International and . The company filed its annual report with the SEC, which shows it had a net loss of just shy of $8 million for the 2015 fiscal year. Sales were down about …
Projects: SoCal University Fixes Digital Signage Budget Problem And Starts Course In Process April 27, 2016 by Dave Haynes Students at Southern California’s University of LaVerne have turned a problem into a small business – developing a low-cost digital signage solution for the campus library and in the process realizing the same set-up could be offered to area businesses. The library wanted to expand its messaging capability, but the commercial solution being used by the …
BroadSign Extends Ad Targeting Platform To Smartphones April 20, 2016 by Dave Haynes Montreal-based, ad-centric, signage software firm BroadSign has started making noise about a new mobile product – helpfully called BroadSign Mobile and aimed at digital OOH networks, notably retail ones. The company has a deal with Denver’s Xprnc Media to blend conventional digital OOH marketing on 55-inch displays with directly tied and target mobile messaging. Here’s how it works: BroadSign has …
embedsignage Latest To Add ChromeOS Digital Signage Support April 18, 2016 by Dave Haynes The UK cloud-based signage software firm embedsignage is the latest company to add support for ChromeOS devices. The player, available off Google’s Chrome store, will run on Chromeboxes or the more recently introduced Chromebits. Like several companies out there, embedsignage has a web-centric platform that drops pretty readily on to numerous operating systems (whereas the first …
Projects: Tampa Bay Lightning’s Arena Upgrade Features Unique Video Walls April 12, 2016 by Dave Haynes The NHL’s Tampa Bay Lightning’s home arena has finished a big fan experience upgrade that included new restaurants, bars, party decks and a lot of digital. The management team at Amalie Arena wanted to turn standard video walls into pieces of art to showcase views of the city and other local content, all of it in 4k. Pro AV …
BS Alert: The Crowd Now Reviewing Digital Signage Software, Mostly Using Martian April 8, 2016 by Dave Haynes When Google Alerts popped up a press release this morning celebrating “NAVORI QL PROFESSIONAL AWARDED BEST DIGITAL SIGNAGE SOFTWARE ON CROWDREVIEWS.COM,” I was fairly amazed the Navori guys would make hay over an award from a highly dubious crowd-sourced review site. But they didn’t. The news release was generated by the highly dubious review site. So …
Five Reasons Why Your Organization Should Be Using Digital Meeting Room Signs April 8, 2016 by Bryan Crotaz Guest Post: Trey Hicks, Visix There are many powerful arguments to be made for using digital meeting and conference room signs for shared spaces in any organization – whether it’s an office, healthcare facility, conference center, college campus or K-12 school district. 1 – Integrative Room signs bring your calendar right to your door, and your door …
Forget The Rules, Subway Going Ahead With Calorie Counts On Menuboards April 5, 2016 by Dave Haynes It’s starting to look like the whole thing about the QSR business going to digital menu boards, because of FDA regulations, is going away. The QSR industry isn’t waiting on rules requiring that its menu-boards show calorie counts. Major operators are just going ahead and doing it. Why that matters is the digital signage business has …
Four Winds Sues 22 Miles For Patent Infringement; Alleges Reverse-Engineering Of FWI Platform March 31, 2016 by Dave Haynes Denver-based digital signage CMS company Four Winds Interactive has filed a lawsuit in Colorado to go after Silicon Valley-based 22 Miles over patent infringement, copyright infringement and something called Patent False Marking, in addition to other related claims. FWI is claiming 22 Miles – which markets itself as an “innovative interactive digital signage solution vendor” – is marketing a …
Webinar Thursday On Getting Paid Faster On SaaS Deals March 28, 2016 by Dave Haynes The Toronto company that is marketing a way for companies to bring forward revenue from digital signage SaaS deals is doing another webinar this Thursday on how the arrangement works. The pitch from the SaaS Lending Group, which is part of Alliance Financing, is debt financing in the form of a term loan that gets tied to …
