Study Suggests High Affinity For Digital Messaging Displays In Patient Care Environments October 19, 2021 by Super User Selling non-medical technology solutions into the health care sector is long and involved at the best of times, but in the COVID-era even more so. But health care presents what is likely a big opportunity for companies who decide to go after it with solutions that directly address operational pain points. The e-paper giant E …
High School Student Hacks Entire School District’s Screens, Then Rickrolls Viewers October 18, 2021 by Super User Here’s a cautionary tale for anyone running an enterprise-level digital signage network: an Illinois high school student managed to take over the digital signage and other IPTV-connected screens across a full school district back in April. But instead of running naughty videos, he rickrolled them. A post on WhiteHood Hacker details: On April 30th, 2021, …
Canonical Launches Ubuntu Frame To Ease Development Work For Digital Signage, Kiosks October 12, 2021 by Super User The company behind the widely-used version of Linux – called Ubuntu – has released a new product aimed at developers who do digital signage and interactive appliucations. Canonical’s newly announced Ubuntu Frame is described as “a solution that allows developers to easily build and deploy graphical applications for interactive kiosks, digital signage solutions, or any …
SigmaSense Completes $24M Raise To Broaden Reach Of Its Touch Technologies October 8, 2021 by Super User Austin, TX-based touch technology firm SigmaSense has announced the closing of a $24 million Series B fundraising round the company says will be used to expand its reach in the touch, digital signage and HMI (Human Machine Interface) markets. The company does very slick sensing technology that goes well beyond the boink-boink basics of touchscreens …
SageNet Merges Capabilities From Convergent Acquisition Into Full Meal Deal Digital Signage Solution October 5, 2021 by Super User Tulsa-based managed network services provider SageNet has revealed its intentions and use of the intellectual property and insights it got from acquiring Atlanta-based Convergent earlier in the year – launching a suite of integrated SageVIEW Digital Signage solutions. The solutions combine Convergent’s content creation and integration capabilities and Digital Signage as a Service (DSaaS) approach …
Elo Releases 4th-Gen, Android 10-Driven Options For Interactive Screens October 5, 2021 by Super User With self-service ordering getting mainstreamed by the pandemic – use a machine instead of riskier person to person contact – all-in-one kiosk displays are presumably seeing a lot of demand across numerous industry verticals beyond the obvious one of QSR and fast-casual. Silicon Valley-based Elo has just announced its newest interactive screen options – which …
Ransomware Attack Takes DC-Area University Offline, Including Its Digital Signage Network October 5, 2021 by Super User A DC-area university is in the midst of a ransomware attack that has taken down just about anything network-connected around the campus, including the digital signage network that might otherwise let students and faculty know what’s going on. Washington Adventist University was hit Saturday night and, by the absence of an update on the college …
AI-Driven Generative Art For Video Walls Generates $5M At Sotheby’s NFT Auction October 4, 2021 by Super User Let me immediately get out of the way the reality that I know very close to zippo about cryptocurrencies and non-fungible tokens, aka NFTs. I take considerable comfort in how some very smart people who I follow on tech podcasts and in publications also say they can’t quite wrap their heads around it all, and …
ScreenCloud Announces New Purpose-Built Operating System And Sub-$200 Digital Signage Playout Device October 4, 2021 by Super User The UK-based digital signage CMS firm ScreenCloud has taken the interesting step of putting two years of R&D time and money into developing a purpose-built operating system for its playout software and a new, low-cost device. The company has launched ScreenCloud OS – a custom linux distribution it says is designed for high performance, simple …
Eyedog Uses Annotated Photos Instead Of Maps As Wayfinding Guides September 29, 2021 by Super User A company in the Philly area does an intriguingly different take on indoor wayfinding and navigation – using photos instead of maps to help people find their way around large, complicated footprint facilities like office and health care campuses. With roots in the Netherlands, Eyedog says its technology “uses a scientific approach that combines “landmark” …
