DOOH-Bolstered EV Charging Network In Europe Now Insolvent August 13, 2024 by Super User In yet another reminder that making money from advertising is harder than it may appear, a German digital out of home media firm using screens on EV charging stations as the business model is now insolvent. Less than a year ago, the Bavarian firm Numbat had raised 140 million euros in new capital in a …
Blue Screens Of Death Invade Planet Earth August 6, 2024 by Viktor Petersson Guest Post: Viktor Petersson, Screenly It’s Saturday morning. Emergency services in Alaska are knocked out, meaning you can’t even get through to 911. Atlanta, Delta’s hub, is full of people sleeping wherever they can, and the queue to the help desk is more than a mile long. Thousands of flights are grounded, and there are …
Christine Rogers Of AVI-SPL’s XTG Team On The Art Of The Possible With Experiential Display Projects July 24, 2024 by Super User Sixteen:Nine worked with German content partner invidis on its annual digital signage yearbook, which by a mile (or 1.6 km) is the most comprehensive annual look into the industry. That free yearbook has been available for the last few weeks, and we’re now making individual pieces available online – so readers get a sense of …
Korbyt Integrates Its Workplace Experience Platform With Crestron’s AirMedia Systems July 23, 2024 by Super User Integrations with workplace collaboration platforms like Teams and Zoom are growing commonplace for digital signage solutions and platforms targeting business communications as a vertical, but I haven’t seen as much work done with the big companies that do pro AV controls in those environments. So it’s interesting to read of a partnership Dallas-based CMS Korbyt …
Southwest Airlines Kept Flying Through Global IT Outage Because It Still Uses Windows 3.1, Circa 1992 July 22, 2024 by Super User Through Friday’s global IT outage, it started to become clear that the enterprise-level digital signage networks most affected by the CrowdStrike security update boo-boo seemed to be airports and airlines, but U.S. carrier Southwest Airlines screens were minimally affected because the carrier, somewhat astonishingly, is using versions of Windows coded in the 1990s. Numerous IT-focused …
Omnivex Does A Lot of Windows-based Digital Signage Networks, And CTO Says They’re On Top Of It July 19, 2024 by Super User When I first learned this morning of the CrowdStrike update that was causing Blue Screens Of Death on computers running Windows (and CrowdStrike security software), I started thinking about the implications for digital signage software vendors that have scores, hundreds or even thousands of endpoints running Microsoft’s operating system. The company that most comes to …
Photos And Videos: How Windows/Crowdstrike Issues Affecting Airlines And Airports July 19, 2024 by Super User It is VERY difficult these days to discern what is real and what is the cheeky fakery of someone who knows their way around image and video editing tools. But poking around online for a while reveals some real examples of problems brought on by the Windows/CrowdStrike issues that developed overnight. Most notably, in the …
Running Digital Signage Networks On Windows? Pour A Three-Finger Drink Instead Of Morning Coffee Before Reading This July 19, 2024 by Super User People on the America side of the Atlantic are sipping coffee and taking in news this morning that enterprise devices running Windows on networks – like digital signage media players using that OS – were blue-screened if they also were using security software from CrowdStrike It is not a Windows error directly, but one caused …
Have Your Power BI-driven Data Dashboards Stopped Working On Networked Screens? If So, Here’s The Likely Reason July 15, 2024 by Super User Signagelive CEO Jason Cremins has an interesting post up on Linkedin making the industry aware of a problem some digital signage networks may now be having: displaying real-time data dashboards powered by Microsoft’s Power BI. Microsoft has raised minimum browser support requirements to properly show a URL tied to a Power BI dashboard visualization, so …
M&A: EU Touchscreen Tech Firms i3-Technologies And CTOUCH Join Forces July 9, 2024 by Super User A pair of interactive tech companies in the Benelux region have joined forces, with Belgium’s i3-Technologies acquiring the Dutch firm CTOUCH. From PR: The acquisition of CTOUCH aligns with i3-Technologies’ mission to provide interactive, inspiring and integrated solutions that foster collaboration and engagement in educational, corporate, and public sector environments. CTOUCH’s expertise in sustainable touchscreen …
