Did Indoor Wayfinding Just Get Easier For Android Signage Platforms? August 14, 2015 by Dave Haynes This is one of those devil in the details things, but it would at least appear there is a slick new way for software companies offering Android digital signage software platforms to add indoor mapping for malls, campuses and other busy, confusing places. A company called Here is offering up indoor mapping capability to Android …
ScreenScape Builds Sports Video Clip Platform Into CMS Offer August 4, 2015 by Dave Haynes PEI’s ScreenScape Networks Inc. has worked a content deal with another Canadian company that specializes in packaging up sports highlights as YouTube-style videos. Victoria, BC’s SendtoNews is making digital content available to ScreenScape’s CMS platform customers through its own SportStation platform, on a pay-per-use basis. The partnership offers two levels of SportStation programming: A standard package will supply daily …
Tim Hortons Digital OOH Network Stirs Controversy, Prompts Rethink July 27, 2015 by Dave Haynes Canadian QSR giant Tim Horton’s has run into the problem that has occasionally come up at just about any venue running third-party advertising as a cost-recovery measure: complaints about the advertisers. CTV News, a Canadian broadcaster, reported today how the hyper-popular coffee and donut chain has found itself in the middle of a much broader …
US FDA Pushes Back Menu Labeling Requirements By Year July 9, 2015 by Dave Haynes Hat tip to Raffi Vartian at Signagelive for flagging this … The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has postponed by a year federal menu labeling requirements, with the FDA saying it needs to provide more clarification on rules and regulations that are not necessarily being warmly greeted by all affected parties. “Industry, trade and other …
Enplug Launches What It Calls 1st Public App Market For Digital Signage July 9, 2015 by Dave Haynes LA-based Enplug has launched what it calls the industry’s first Public App Market – the highlight of the signage content and solutions company’s upcoming software release, called DisplayOS 4.0. The App Market pitch is that it brings the smartphone app store idea to digital signage – allowing users to poke around the Enplug App Market and selecting from a variety of content-focused …
DSrupted: Brad Parler On Firing First Shot In Content Revolution July 9, 2015 by Dave Haynes Brad Parler has turned the typically bland business of corporate communications on its ears with a content programming model at his workplace – the online retailer Blinds.com – that actually makes people want to look, and keep looking. Instead of text and number lists of performance indicators or employee of the month photos, Parler shot, …
Menuat Puts Creative First With Menu-Board Offer July 9, 2015 by Dave Haynes I got into a yelling match at Infocomm last month with a guy named Jeff Charette, CEO of a cool little startup called Menuat. We were hollering at each other, from a foot away, because we were at a big vendor’s networking party and the band was louder, I swear, than Metallica – even though …
How Digital Menu Boards Can Help You June 30, 2015 by Debbie DeWitt Guest Post: Freddie Laker, Kairos Stand at the counter in any fast food restaurant or cafe. Somewhere up in front of you there will be a menu displayed. In some places, it might be very amateurish, maybe even handwritten. More often, there will be sign-written boards. Usually these are drab, tedious, and functional. They list what …
Monster, Aerva Patent Dispute Settlement Could Have Broad Implications For Running Social Media On Screens June 24, 2015 by Dave Haynes A pair of companies long active in digital signage and digital out of home have reached an out of court patent dispute settlement that could have broader implications for the use of social media feeds on networked digital screens. Boston-based software and solutions firm Aerva has reached a settlement in a patent infringement action filed by …
YCD Beefs Up HTML5 Support On C-nario Suite June 23, 2015 by Dave Haynes I don’t tend to write about minor version releases for software, as only existing clients and almost-there prospects really care. But news from the Israeli firm YCD Multimedia caught my eye. Version 3.7.1 of its C-nario Digital Signage Suite (you may remember YCD bought C-nario) adds some important features for supporting HTML5 content – which is …
