Telecine Launches Animated Video Learning Series – Called Digitalsignage.tips April 9, 2020 by Dave Haynes The team at Montreal digital signage solutions company Telecine does a lot of serious work for some big name business clients, but it is a lot more playful when it comes to its own marketing. For many years, James Fine and his team have put together loopy Christmas videos that it then shares out to …
Carousel Digital Signage Offers Platform Free To Heathcare Operators And Still-Open Businesses April 9, 2020 by Dave Haynes The CMS software firm Carousel Digital Signage has developed a free package aimed at healthcare facilities and other essential businesses that still have their doors open these days. “As crowded hospitals, pop-up healthcare/ICU tents, test sites, and other COVID-19 focused organizations interact with an influx of patients, family and community members, digital signage will make …
Airtame Offers Free Subscription, Extensions And Content Design For COVID-hit Customers April 8, 2020 by Dave Haynes The Danish firm Airtame – which has a software and hardware solution for screen sharing and digital signage – has tweaked its subscriptions to help business and schools through the pandemic. The company’s core product is a software-driven dongle – that looks like a Chromecast – that enables screen sharing but also functions as a …
22 Miles Offers Free Mobile Wayfinding App For Pandemic-Struck Healthcare Industry April 8, 2020 by Dave Haynes The wayfinding-centric digital signage CMS firm 22Miles has announced a set of offers aimed at helping organizations in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. It is making a mobile wayfinding app available free of charge to all hospitals, clinics and testing centers: The App is accessible in a simple web URL that anyone can easily …
Signagelive Launches Free Broadcast Player Companies Can Use To Reach Work From Home Staffers April 7, 2020 by Dave Haynes UK-based Signagelive has announced a free – for now – service that enables companies to broadcast messages to opted-in staff members who are working from home during the pandemic. The Signagelive Broadcast Player allows for full-screen playlists or multi-zone layouts to be created and published to a weblink. The weblink can then be shared with …
Digital Signage CMS Yodeck Offers Cloud Service Free To Healthcare Sector For 2020 April 7, 2020 by Dave Haynes The Raspberry Pi-focused digital signage CMS Yodeck is offering up its cloud-based management platform free of charge to hospitals, pharmacies and other health-oriented organizations on the “front lines” of the COVID-19 pandemic. The company – which has an address in San Francisco but I am reasonably sure is heavily based in Athens, Greece – says …
Singapore Gov’t Authority Using Sensors To Visualize, Load-Balance Malls To Help Social Distancing April 6, 2020 by Dave Haynes The Singapore government has started published a really interesting real-time data visualization that provides citizens with the status of crowd levels at shopping malls. The government’s Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) collaborated with mall operators on what has been dubbed Space Out – which visualizes the current crowd levels of malls, as well as patterns for …
Two Touchless Solutions For Times When Interactive Is A Little Scary April 3, 2020 by Dave Haynes There have been many times when I have had demos done for me of vendor solutions that involved people using their smartphones to do something more easily done on a general-use touchscreen. I’d politely say what they’d developed was interesting, but then ask why consumers/patients/whoever wouldn’t just boink away on a touchscreen to get what …
Rise Vision Develops Free Chrome Browser Extension For Coronavirus Safety Tips April 2, 2020 by Dave Haynes As well know, digital signage isn’t all that relevant right now when many to most of the “places” were screens are fixed are empty, and most everyone is at home. That will change, with time. But for now, companies like Rise Vision are thinking about ways that signage-like communications can still happen for people whose …
When Your Bedroom Becomes Your Office, And You’re In A Meeting April 2, 2020 by Dave Haynes With many millions of people working from home, most rather abruptly, they are confronting challenges like finding room to work, and somehow chasing off the kids who are also at home, and will barge in at the worst moments. There are endless meeting room display solutions out there, but the great majority of them are …
