Hypersign Launches New All-In Digital Signage As A Service, Or DSaas April 2, 2020 by Dave Haynes Spartanburg, SC’s Hypersign has read its market and put together a business bundle it calls DSaas, which is short for Digital Signage as a service. The bundled program, which seems to be coming up more and more in digital signage (see Planar from Wednesday for another variation on this), allows end-users to put everything they …
Smart Digital, BrightSign Team To Drive Wayfinding At NYC COVID-19 Field Hospitals April 1, 2020 by Dave Haynes Here’s another story about companies pitching in … BrightSign CEO has written a blog post (somewhere, it was passed along) about adding AV to the temporary hospital facilities established in hard hit NYC. He writes: Despite how bleak the outlook may appear today, I’m inspired by how the AV industry is responding to this crisis. …
STRATACACHE Buys Old Computer Chip Plant In Oregon; Plans Next-Gen Display Facility April 1, 2020 by Dave Haynes STRATACACHE has bought an old computer chip facility south of Portland, OR with plans to revive it as a fab for its increasingly verticalized digital signage solutions business. CEO Chris Riegel bought the old Hynix plant last week for $6.3 million. Hynix spent $1.5 billion to build and equip the 1.2-million-square-foot factory, which opened in …
STRATACACHE CEO Chris Riegel On The Digital Signage Industry’s State And Prospects In Pandemic Times April 1, 2020 by Dave Haynes These are some of the oddest, craziest, scariest moments many of us have ever experienced. If you’re sick, you’ll hopefully recover quickly. But the global economy is now very much under the weather, so to speak, and it is not at all clear when it will get better. Businesses are shuttered and many won’t open …
Peerless-AV Debuts Mobile Screen Solution For Covid-19 Testing And Treatment Sites March 25, 2020 by Dave Haynes Chicago-based Peerless-AV has started marketing a bundled technology solution aimed at the hundreds of testing and treatment stations that are opening across the USA, which have needs for rapid triage and information sharing, often in rough, inhospitable environments. The bundled solution includes a 49”, 55” or 65” Outdoor display, mobile mount cart, and if needed, …
ScreenCloud’s Mark McDermott On How A Pandemic Changes How Workplace Messaging Is Done April 16, 2026March 25, 2020 by Dave Haynes ScreenCloud has been around for five years now – a pure software startup that aimed to bring web technology fully into digital signage. Now the London-based company has roughly 100 staffers in the UK, US and Thailand, and is evolving from having an SMB focus into servicing enterprise business. I’ve spoken to co-founder Mark McDermott …
Timing Is Everything: Digital Signage Paired With Hand Sanitizer No Longer Novelty Product March 23, 2020 by Dave Haynes Timing is sometimes everything when it comes to marketing a product, and it can take a compelling event to shift a product from being regarded as “interesting” to one that is right for the moment. In my dark period when I did business development for a software company, more than a decade ago, I had …
Software Shop Tightrope Develops Dedicated Site On How To Work Effectively From Home March 20, 2020 by Dave Haynes Minneapolis-based digital signage and broadcast software company Tightrope Media Systems has been largely a remote working firm for a few years, so the workplace disruption brought on by a pandemic has been minimal. “Given the current work environment I thinking about how we could be helpful to our customers, channel partners, and colleagues,” says …
Samsung Starts Marketing All-In-One Digital Signage Bundle Aimed At SMB Market March 19, 2020 by Dave Haynes Samsung has started marketing what it calls its Business TV, or Pro TV. It’s a “prosumer” display – a TV with some commercial display features – bundled with a light CMS application that small business operators can control and manage off a smartphone. The series features 4K HDR displays rated for 16/7 use, with the …
Will A Pandemic Knock Digital Signage Down The Workplace Tech Priority List? March 17, 2020 by Dave Haynes Workplace communications has been one of the most active vertical markets in digital signage for the last few years – with screens filling the gap created by unopened emails, unused intranets and the end of things like employee mail slots, physical inboxes and pay envelopes. But the new reality, or at least the reality for …
