STRATACACHE Deal Sees LCDs Sourced From China Giant BOE January 14, 2020 by Super User STRATACACHE appears to be timing partnership announcements this week to coincide with its presence at the NRF retail trade show in NYC. On the heels of a partnership announcement Monday regarding the Japanese market, CEO Chris Riegel has announced what is a more significant and momentous deal with a huge Chinese LCD panel manufacturer. The …
STRATACACHE Partners With Japanese Digital Agency To Accelerate Access To Market January 13, 2020 by Super User STRATACACHE has announced a strategic technology partnership with a big, influential Japanese ad and digital agency – Hakuhodo DY Holdings – that will give it accelerated access to the digital retail market in that country. Hakuhodo has business ties with a lot of large household brands, like auto and electronics makers. This deal gives the …
Still Have Screens On Windows 7? It’s Really Dead In Five Days January 9, 2020 by Super User The New England firm Advanced Kiosks – which makes and sells guess what – has pushed out an interesting email blast reminding end-users out in the world that if they have devices on kiosks that are running Windows 7, they are about to be using an unsupported, dead product. Says the company: You may not …
Mvix, BrightSign Partner On Flat Fee Digital Signage Bundle January 9, 2020 by Super User The DC-area CMS software firm Mvix has entered into a partnership with hardware manufacturer BrightSign that see’s a one-time only software price attached for end-users and solutions providers who want to use the little purple media players. “Unlike most CMS vendors who charge for a monthly or annual subscription, we’re offering a simple one-time fee …
Intuiface, IAdea Partner On Non-Proprietary Meeting Room Signage Solution January 7, 2020 by Super User The French interactive software firm Intuiface has done an interesting tie-up with Taiwanese digital signage hardware manufacturer IAdea, offering a combined solution for end-users and integrators who don’t to get locked into specific meeting room signage platforms. The partnership enables end-users and solutions providers to develop specific meeting room sign user experience and functionality using …
Screenfeed Launching Automated, Localized Alerts For Digital Signage Networks January 6, 2020 by Super User The subscription content firm Screenfeed is launching a new automated alert product that will automatically interrupt regularly-scheduled screen content to make viewers aware of impending emergencies, as they develop. The system can be configured to make, for example, screens in a public school system flash alerts when a tornado threat comes up. It can be …
Cincinnati’s Museum Center Adds 35-Screen Digital Signage Network January 6, 2020 by Super User The Cincinnati Museum Center in guess-what-city has added 35 digital signage displays around the historic Art Deco-era site that face visitors for information and staffers for corporate communications. The unique multi-museum complex is located inside Union Terminal, a converted transit station and National Historical Landmark that has gone through substantial renovations and expansions in recent years. The 35 endpoints …
Food Court Vendor Uses Tape, Paper And Scissors to Update Digital Menu Displays December 30, 2019 by Super User Every so often I will get an email and pix from a reader who has spotted a food concession – usually – that has resorted to a manual fix for a digital problem. I have unavailable menu items hidden by tape and entire displays covered by paper … and everything in between. But I had …
Florida Grocer Opens Seed To Table Concept Store With 100+ Screens December 30, 2019 by Super User A new grocery in Naples, Florida – heavily focused on locally grown and sourced product – has more than 100 screens deployed around the floorplate. Arguably the most visually compelling component – from what I can see in videos and still images – is one set of stocked shelves that has 32 feet of LCD …
Valotalive Adds Easy Animation Overlays For Its Digital Signage Presentations December 20, 2019 by Super User The Finnish software firm Valotalive has developed new patent-pending technology designed to overlay content atop other content on digital signage screens. Valotalive says its Overlay Technology is patent-pending, using HTML5 and its own CMS. “The overlay technology provides a novel and refreshing way of combining multiple data sources to the screen. The customer creates an …
