Mvix Extends Software To Better Reach Hybrid Workforces March 15, 2023 by Dave Haynes Mvix is the latest digital signage software firm to adapt and extend its platform to service the needs of hybrid workplaces – launching a new feature that allows clients to stream real-time digital signage content to a distributed audience. The service from the DC-area company, dubbed Virtual Player, “enables digital signage content to be distributed …
Surge Pricing Comes To QSR, Enabled By Digital Menu Displays March 10, 2023 by Dave Haynes In the early days of digital signage, management software and screens were promoted as a way for quick service restaurant operators to much more easily and quickly change what was on the menus posted behind order counters – notably removing things like breakfast items that are unavailable the balance of a day. Years on, with …
Slovak Bus Line Kits Out New Terminal With 80+ Passenger Update Screens March 9, 2023 by Dave Haynes Several new or updated airport terminals have come online in the past year kitted out with displays that help inform and guide passengers, and it’s the sort of thing that can also serve other mass transport hubs well – like this new bus terminal in Slovakia. The new bus station in the Nivy shopping center …
Telecine, YCD Partner On Custom On-Premise TV Channels For Retail Banking March 7, 2023 by Dave Haynes Solutions provider Telecine and software developer YCD Multimedia have developed a partner product that is, in effect, a financial news TV channel customized for banks. Called RAMP Up! , the product is intended to provide steadily updated information-you-can-use content to screens in retail banking scenarios, leveraging the data feeds and produced content of Bloomberg News, …
Live Performers Pair With Movement Tracking On Video Wall On The Absolutally Walkway March 1, 2023 by Dave Haynes I’ve seen companies like Zuzor at digital signage and AV trade shows demonstrating movement tracking experiential software for video walls, and thought it was interesting, but couldn’t come up with many real-world use-cases other than eye candy for little kids and extroverts. But here’s one that uses that sort of tech to to pair brand …
Mark Ossel Explains The Whys And Hows Of The Global Signage Alliance, And Its Ties To Samsung March 1, 2023 by Dave Haynes When I was doing my initial recon walk through the many halls of ISE a few weeks back, I went by a stand that was highlighting something called the Global Signage Alliance, which was unfamiliar to me and made me curious. The stand’s occupants weren’t there, and I was on the go, so I never …
NoviSign, Partners Create Spin-Out JV Company – ReaLo – Focused on Turnkey Digital Retail Solutions February 24, 2023 by Dave Haynes Three Israeli companies that all come at retail from differing angles have partnered on a new firm, called ReaLo, that makes end-to-end retail marketing/merchandising services available to customers. ReaLo, says PR, will support its customers end to end from the planning stage, through implementation and installation and up to ongoing full support, using its unique …
Idaho Municipality Adopts Digital Signage To Efficiently Promote Local Events, Services February 24, 2023 by Dave Haynes Vertical markets that offer a lot of scale are understandably attractive to vendors in the digital signage industry, so it is logical that a lot of companies have spent years chasing business with retailers and fast food operators – because they both tend to have a lot of locations, and therefore might use a lot …
PPDS Studios Opening Up In EU, UK And US To Support Sellers, Inspire End-Users February 24, 2023 by Dave Haynes The company marketing Philips digital signage and related pro AV solutions has started building and opening a series of showroom/demo/meeting spaces across Europe and North America under the handle PPDS Studios. Intended to support partners like system integrators, consultants, distributors, AV/IT designers/architects), as well as end customers, PPDS Studios have already opened in Amsterdam, Madrid, …
India’s Voolsy Screen Rebrands As DotSignage February 21, 2023 by Dave Haynes Branding experts could probably talk for days about the merits of choosing the right name for a business, and whether the name needs to evoke the product or service, but in the case of an Indian software company, they decided a change was needed. The digital signage CMS software firm Voolsy Screen is “rebranding itself to …