Nutrislice Bridges Menuboard Solutions With Foodservices Tech Provider CBORD October 22, 2019 by Super User Foodservice-focused digital signage service provider Nutrislice has done an interesting deal with a tech solutions provider to integrate with a company that does loyalty cards and online/mobile ordering for the same vertical. Denver-based Nutrislice is tying in its system with CBORD’s GET Campus Card and Foodservice Suite, which will by Q1 2020 allow students to pre-order …
ZetaDisplay Acquires Dutch CMS Gauddi In Ongoing Digital Signage Consolidation Effort October 10, 2019 by Super User The Swedish firm ZetaDisplay is continuing to build its digital signage solutions company through acquisition, announcing today that it has paid about $5 million USD, in cash, to acquire the Dutch CMS software company Gauddi. Malmo-based Zeta says the deal, effective today, makes it the primary player in the BeNeLux region. Eindhoven-based NDS might argue …
Matt Schmitt On Why Retail-centric Reflect Got Into Advertising Software October 9, 2019 by Super User Reflect is one of the longest running companies in the digital signage sector – operating out of Dallas since 2001. The company built up its CMS software business largely in retail, but in early 2017 did something of a pivot into ad scheduling and targeting. I wondered, when I first got walked through what’s called …
SignageOS Launches Benchmark And Testing Center For System On Chip Devices October 7, 2019 by Super User The team at signageOS, the US/Czech company that has written middleware to bridge CMS software and system on chip media players, has started a research center that tests and benchmarks the wide variety of available devices. The first report out of the signageOS Research Center focused on “smart” digital signage displays running Samsung’s SOC hardware …
AirDroid Adds Business Tool For Managing Remote Digital Signage, Kiosks October 2, 2019 by Super User A software company that develops remote access and management tools for Android devices has released a business version aimed at use-cases like digital signage. The newly announced AirDroid Business has a kiosk mode, the developers says, that turns “any Android device into a kiosk and manage it remotely, with the ability to maintain and customize software …
Mood Media Gets Retail Music, Digital Signage Working Together With New Harmony CMS October 2, 2019 by Super User Austin, TV-based Mood Media has come up with an interesting cross-media solution aimed at making it easier to control a variety of “experiences” in retail settings off of a single platform. Called Harmony, the software and underlying technology platform lets retail operators “connect and manage all of their in-store content – including music, messaging, visuals …
Daniel Griffin Of Userful Talks Video Walls And AV Over Networks October 2, 2019 by Super User Like a lot of people in the digital signage industry, I tend to think about video walls in terms of the display hardware, and what’s running on those big beautiful screens. I know precious little about what’s happening behind the wall to ensure it all looks good. Userful has been making waves for a few …
Germany’s info-beamer Optimizes Digital Signage Software For Raspberry Pi 4 September 30, 2019 by Super User The German company behind the Raspberry Pi-driven digital signage CMS info-beamer has released a new version of the service built around and optimized for the new Raspberry Pi 4. The platform is the world’s first Pi4 OS for digital signage, the company says, with support for HEVC video playback (so it can do 4K) and …
Belgium’s PresentationPoint Adds Cloud-based Version Of Digital Signage Software September 27, 2019 by Super User The Belgian company PresentationPoint, which marries PowerPoint-based presentations to a digital signage platform, has released a new cloud-based service called SignageTube. Like the 20-year-old mother ship company, the software lets users design presentations and integrate dynamic data with the hyper-popular Office presentation software, and then have it converted to a signage presentation format. The primary …
North America’s Cinema Giants Team Up On Digital Signage Management September 25, 2019 by Super User Toronto-based Cineplex Digital Media, whose parent company is the dominant cinema chain in Canada, has done a deal to manage the digital signage network for AMC Theatres, which is the biggest cinema operator in the US and, I think, the world. Cineplex has announced its selection “to manage and enhance AMC’s digital network at approximately …
