Industry “Should Be Put On Notice” With Emergence Of New VXT SaaS CMS: Samsung June 28, 2023 by Dave Haynes I first started hearing rumblings about Samsung developing and starting to talk about a successor to its MagicINFO CMS software at the start of the year, and got a little sense of it during ISE in Spain, and in the weeks after. The electronics giant was fully ready to showcase and talk about it by …
UK CMS Start-Up Fugo Bucks Larger Trend And Moves TO Windows Devices June 27, 2023 by Dave Haynes While much of the digital signage industry seems to be shifting to Android, dedicated devices like BrightSign and SpinetiX boxes, and special purpose operating systems for smart displays, the UK-based digital signage CMS start-up Fugo has taken the interesting step of unveiling a media player based on Microsoft’s Windows. Since its launch in 2020, the …
TelemetryTV Debuts Third-Party “DevOps” Toolset For Its CMS Platform June 27, 2023 by Dave Haynes Vancouver-based CMS software firm TelemetryTV has pushed out a very nerdy announcement about making its platform and toolset “DevOps”-driven, making it more open and easy to work with for third-party and end-user software development teams. The company says it now seamlessly integrates with developer platforms like GitHub Actions, which enables users to automate their build, …
Retail Media Network Tech Firms Neptune, Quotient “Combine” In $430M Deal June 26, 2023 by Dave Haynes A couple of retail media network technology firms have “combined” – with NYC-based Neptune Retail Solutions reaching an agreement to acquire the Salt Lake City firm Quotient in an all-cash deal valued at about $430 million. Neptune has a pile of in-store solutions and services that range from stickers and tags on products at shelves …
Just Keep Zooming In On Visuals With This Large Format Interactive Display Software June 21, 2023 by Dave Haynes One of the more compelling interactive display solutions I’ve ever seen made me say Oh Wow! when I first saw it 10-plus years ago, and it did that again when I saw it down at InfoComm last week. A little Toronto company called Content Interface markets a handful of software-driven solutions for large-format displays and …
InfoComm Day One Impressions: LED Everywhere, WTF Is MLED, And TCL Is Coming June 15, 2023 by Dave Haynes Sitting back in my hotel room quite impressed with myself for doing the wise thing, for a change, by getting the hell out of a cocktail party that had a live band, a very open bar and some old friends who were bent on having as much fun as possible at InfoComm in Orlando. Back …
SignageOS Splits Core Digital Signage Software Solution To Launch CloudControl, DevSpace June 12, 2023 by Dave Haynes The Czech-US firm SignageOS continues to evolve its product offer, expanding from its roots offering middleware that made it easy to get CMS platforms working with smart displays to then including a device management toolset and now, a dedicated platform for developing custom native apps for signage. The company announced today that it has split …
Korbyt Launches New AI Computer Vision Toolset To Dynamically Change Content June 12, 2023 by Dave Haynes Digital signage CMS software platforms have been using computer vision for years, through partners or directly, but Dallas-based Korbyt appears to have ratcheted up that capability by having AI tools not only characterize viewing dynamics, but also dynamically adjust what’s on screens. The new toolset from Korbyt – with the odd name Machine Learning Broadcast …
It’s Now Possible To Map And Project On Moving Objects In Real Time June 7, 2023 by Dave Haynes Projection mapping has steadily grown easier and better through the years, and is now at a point that a software-hardware technology stack can do all the work to accurately map and project on moving objects … in real time. It was not all that long ago that mapping a stationary object – like a building …
Digital OOH-Focused Broadsign Adds Support For Managing, Analyzing Static OOH Inventory June 6, 2023 by Dave Haynes It is slightly weird and ironic that after all the efforts in recent years to convince media companies to transition their “faces” from static to digital that one of the most active enablers of that is now offering support for posters and billboards that are remaining static. Montreal-based Broadsign, which has grown its business by …
