Real-Time Transit Info Screens In Nottingham, England So Bad City Council Sends “We Share Your Frustrations” Email To Riders May 1, 2024 by Dave Haynes It’s never a good thing when a city’s mass transport authority sends a note to passengers to concede the real-time information screens at stops along its routes tend to either be blank, or showing inaccurate information. Nottingham City Transport is the UK sent an email saying it shared their frustrations about displays that appear to …
Samsung Now Clearly Selling Its VXT CMS And Related Services Against Rest Of Digital Signage Software Ecosystem April 30, 2024 by Dave Haynes As expected in many industry circles, electronics giant Samsung is now competing directly with CMS software companies through its new-ish VXT cloud-based platform, even throwing in discount pricing if subscriptions are bundled with monitor purchases and selling installation services. This is a product page from Samsung’s US site that shows a typical pro display, and …
Airport Trade Show Demo Has Fine Pitch LED Wrapping Jetway Entry As Departure Gate Portal April 29, 2024 by Dave Haynes Anyone who does a lot of commercial flying for business travel knows the quality of information on the screens at depature gates is all over the map – from rich and detailed to minimal and not all that useful, beyond confirming the gate number and destination. So it is interesting to see a departure gate …
Signagelive Automates High Volume Video Content Production And Delivery Via Integration With Serb Start-up Plainly April 29, 2024 by Dave Haynes The UK CMS software firm Signagelive has a long history of looking around the corners at what’s now possible, or will be soon, when it comes to emerging technologies and software integrations. CEO Jason Cremins was talking, for example, about things like cloud, headless CMS and low/no code well before most other companies. Now the …
AI And The Other Technologies Helping Shape Experience In Auto Retailing April 25, 2024 by Robert Orndorff Guest Post: Robert Orndorff, Spectrio Customer experience, both pre and post sale, has always been at the heart of successful auto dealer operations, and steadily evolving display technologies are an increasingly big part of how those experiences are delivered and optimized. Screens in showrooms and waiting lounges are mainstays in most dealer environments, but emerging …
UK Firm Demos More Sensible Approach To Screens In Retail Chiller Fridges April 24, 2024 by Dave Haynes A UK retail hardware solutions firm called Theravada is at the Retail Technology Show in London this week, among many vendors, and is showing what it calls a Digital Food To Go Cabinet. It’s interesting because it is a more sensible approach to the idea of blending digital displays with retail infrastructure like chiller fridges. …
Korbyt Anywhere Now Tied To Cisco’s Webex, Enabling Digital Signage On Meeting Displays April 24, 2024 by Dave Haynes Lots of announcements have found their way to my email inbox touting how CMS software companies have developed solutions that work with the video collaboration and meetings platforms Zoom and Microsoft Teams to turn inactive displays into digital signs, but I only remember one company that had also also integrated with Cisco’s Webex. Now there …
Scala Gets Healthy Crowd For Its Retail Media Networks Day In London April 23, 2024 by Dave Haynes It looks like Scala got a healthy crowd out to its retail media networks learning day in London, run today ahead of the Retail Technology Show that starts tomorrow. The What’s in Store for Retail Media Networks is a UK spin on a retail media network-focused one-day conference that Scala’s parent company STRATACACHE did ahead …
Australia’s Vivi Formally Adds Digital Signage To Its Schools-Focused Screen Mirroring Solution April 10, 2024 by Dave Haynes The education-focused Australian screen mirroring hardware and software platform Vivi has picked up on the idea of using its technology for more than just teaching and sharing, adding digital signage as a capability. The wireless screen mirroring solution, purpose-built for the education market, has been expanded to also work as a communication tool that can …
Zoom Rooms Workplace Displays Double Up As Digital Signs Via New Spectrio Integration April 5, 2024 by Dave Haynes Workplaces can now get more out of their meeting room video collaboration investments by turning displays into digital signage screens when they’re not actively being used for Zoom calls, using a new app-like integration developed by digital signage software and experiential solutions firm Spectrio. The newly-launched Zoom Rooms software integration – called Enplug for Zoom …
