Google’s Evolving Future In Digital Signage October 30, 2015 by Super User The digital signage ecosystem has developed at least two distinct camps, with distinct points of view, about the presence of tech giant Google in this relatively teeny industry. On one hand, there are people like me who think a company with a huge impact and footprint on the everyday working and personal lives of billions …
How Four Winds Used Own Product To Boost Morale, Culture And Employee Engagement October 26, 2015 by Super User If there was a highlight for me from last week’s Forward conference in Denver, it was probably the opening session run by David Levin, the CEO of Four Winds Interactive, which put the event on. I’d tend to think of these kick-off sessions as welcomes and walk-throughs of what to expect, and not a bunch …
IntuiLab Turns On Interactive Toolset For ChromeOS Digital Signage October 19, 2015 by Super User The French firm IntuiLab has developed and announced a version of its interactive screen tools to work with low-cost Chromeboxes and all-in-one Chromebase displays. The hook to the IntuiFace platform is its ability to enable slick, highly interactive HTML5-based experiences without the designer, developer or network operator need to know much of anything about coding. The ChromeOS …
How To Go Interactive In Digital Signage September 22, 2015 by Mark McDermott GUEST POST: Mark Janke, Deviceworx There’s a reason so many digital signs out there have fingerprints all over them – consumers expect that pretty much any screen they see and use will be interactive, just like their phones and tablets. But only a fraction of the digital signs now operating in the field are set …
Scala Boosts Speed, Performance In New Release August 12, 2015 by Super User Scala has issued a major version release of its Scala Enterprise digital signage platform, saying Release 11 adds a pile of speed and performance enhancements. In all, the company based outside Philadelphia says the new release has 25 new features and 265 enhancements. Nerd alert: the rest of this from the release will make all but propeller-heads …
ScreenScape Builds Sports Video Clip Platform Into CMS Offer August 4, 2015 by Super User PEI’s ScreenScape Networks Inc. has worked a content deal with another Canadian company that specializes in packaging up sports highlights as YouTube-style videos. Victoria, BC’s SendtoNews is making digital content available to ScreenScape’s CMS platform customers through its own SportStation platform, on a pay-per-use basis. The partnership offers two levels of SportStation programming: A standard package will supply daily …
Enplug Shows Off Its Millennial Take On Digital Signage July 15, 2015 by Super User I’ve known about the LA start-up Enplug for a few years, and followed with curiosity the journey of millennial friends who got a company going in a rented house and gradually started to build it up and get some attention. I hopped off a plane Tuesday (upgraded by surprise, yay!), grabbed a rental, and went over …
Enplug Launches What It Calls 1st Public App Market For Digital Signage July 9, 2015 by Super User LA-based Enplug has launched what it calls the industry’s first Public App Market – the highlight of the signage content and solutions company’s upcoming software release, called DisplayOS 4.0. The App Market pitch is that it brings the smartphone app store idea to digital signage – allowing users to poke around the Enplug App Market and selecting from a variety of content-focused …
YCD Beefs Up HTML5 Support On C-nario Suite June 23, 2015 by Super User I don’t tend to write about minor version releases for software, as only existing clients and almost-there prospects really care. But news from the Israeli firm YCD Multimedia caught my eye. Version 3.7.1 of its C-nario Digital Signage Suite (you may remember YCD bought C-nario) adds some important features for supporting HTML5 content – which is …
BroadSign Gets Out Of Digital OOH Box March 27, 2015 by Super User BroadSign has for many years mined the digital OOH side of this business, to the point that you don’t really think of the signage software being used outside of advertising. But it is. Case in point: The Montreal company has announced a partnership it has worked with Scandinavian solutions provider LCD Media, which is operating primarily in …
