Appspace Now Built Into Cisco Webex, Enabling Easy Jump From Video Calls To Workplace Messaging May 19, 2021 by Super User The CMS software firm Appspace has had close ties with Cisco for many years, and the latest iteration of that relationship is an integration of the the digital signage platform within Cisco’s Webex video call system. Tied in with Cisco Webex Control Hub, the set-up allows companies that use Cisco Webex devices to enable team …
Melitron, Axis and ICON Partner On COVID-Driven People Count Kiosk for Retail May 18, 2021 by Super User I don’t get out much lately, so maybe the retail world is overrun with COVID-19 access control technologies and I’d see them if I traveled. But I don’t think so. I get carpet-bombed daily with emails about digital deployments of some kind or another, and I just have not seen much material that suggests widespread …
Gartner Forecasts Chip Shortages Will Stretch Well Into 2022 May 14, 2021 by Super User The research and analysis firm Gartner is forecasting that the worldwide semiconductor shortage that is hitting most tech industries, including digital signage, will persist throughout 2021 and not return to more normal levels until Q2 2022. “The semiconductor shortage will severely disrupt the supply chain and will constrain the production of many electronic equipment types …
BrightSign Adds Cellular Connectivity To Product Line-up May 12, 2021 by Super User Dedicated media player maker BrightSign has taken the interesting step of launching a USB cellular modem with carriers and 4G data plans, to sell alongside its little purple boxes. The idea behind BrightSign Mobile is providing a means to connect digital signage networks in venues where on-premise broadband is just flat unavailable, for various reasons, including …
Ford Patents Method To Scan DOOH Billboards, Push Versions Of Ads To Dashboard Screens May 12, 2021 by Super User Auto manufacturer Ford has patented a method and apparatus for using AI-driven pattern detection to read digital billboards on highways, using the on-board sensors in new vehicles that are there for safety purposes. The concept has vehicles that are scanning the roadway for things like speed limit and other traffic control signs, as well as …
Telelogos Integrates With Hivestack To Bolster Advertising Capabilities Of Its CMS April 27, 2021 by Super User It seems, at least, that more and more general offer digital signage software platforms are adding some advertising capabilities either directly in their code or via partnerships and APIs. Broadsign is the obvious example of a software shop that is mainly focused on digital OOH advertising. But most CMS platforms offer more generalized solutions, or …
Submarine Takes Slow Dive Based On Viewers Of Those UK Digital Billboard April 22, 2021 by Super User In the first wave of QR codes. several years ago, there were lots of jokes about the dubious merits of putting these enhanced bar codes on digital OOH billboards. But here, in what seems to a revival period for the tech, is a billboard that makes the artistic rendering of the codes the focal point …
How Businesses Can Remain Connected During COVID-19 April 22, 2021 by Super User Guest Post: Colin Farquhar, VITEC One year on from lockdowns imposed in countries around the world and we now face a starkly different world. No one could have predicted the far-reaching impact that the COVID-19 outbreak would have and how phrases such as ‘social distancing’ and ‘lockdown’ would become standard in people’s vocabulary. But today, …
AUO Latest Display Giant To Add MicroLED To Product Portfolio; Showing Demos At TouchTaiwan April 16, 2021 by Super User I wrote earlier today about Touch Taiwan going ahead as a live trade show next week, aimed at a domestic crowd and in an island country that is seeing just a handful of new COVID cases day to day. An industry friend sent along a show promo video from AUO – a Taiwan company that …
Nudge: Looking For More Responses To Workplace Digital Signage Survey (Takes Minutes!) April 16, 2021 by Super User I am looking for more responses to the workplace digital signage survey I pushed out earlier in the week, which is gathering insights about how the tech fits in workplaces that are, or will soon be, repopulating. The survey is just a Google form and you should be able to bomb through it in a …
