What Digital Signage Could Learn From Lyft’s New Beacons And Dashboard Signs November 15, 2016 by Super User I was reading a piece this morning about how the ride-hailing service Lyft, Uber’s main rival in the US and Canada, was going to start using a mash-up of beacons, lights and apps to help passengers better connect with their drivers. This particularly intrigued me because I had a hell of time in New York recently …
Samsung Buys Harman In $8B Deal November 14, 2016 by Super User Samsung just announced it has acquired Harman International Industries for $8 billion, picking up a company that has multiple brands under its wing, including JBL, AKG and Harmon Kardon. While that may sound like the electronics Godzilla is going big on audio, there’s a lot more to Harman. In its press release, samsung says: Upon closing, …
Even Raspberry Pis Have Low Cost Knockoffs; Meet The $15 Orange Pi November 7, 2016 by Super User Hat Tip to Jason Cremins of SignageLive for noticing this on TechCrunch … The Raspberry Pi micro PC started as a program aimed at teaching UK schoolkids about computing, but has also taken off in the business market, including in digital signage, because it offers the prospect of a serviceable computer for $35-$45. Even $45 seems crazily …
Simon Rolls Out Mobile-Friendly Interactive Stations Across US Malls October 31, 2016 by Super User The US shopping mall giant Simon is rolling out a shiny new set of big 65-inch interactive directories to nine shopping centres, using a blend of touch and screen to mobile capabilities like NFC, beacons and text. The units, a press release suggests, also use proximity sensors that make the interactive component “come to life” …
Webinar: Why World’s Largest Digital Signage Networks Use Linux October 17, 2016 by Super User On Wednesday, noon Eastern, I’m doing the third digital signage webinar in a series with Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu Linux. This one’s on why Linux is the media player OS of choice for a pile of networks and CMS companies, and arguably the most active of those companies is BroadSign, which has about 50,000 …
ScreenFeed Makes FIDS Displays A Subscription App October 17, 2016 by Super User Flight arrivals and departures displays were in the early days of digital signage something akin to a killer app – something that needed no ROI exercise to demonstrate the value, but something that also required specialty software and software/data integration expertise. Companies like Omnivex and PresentationPoint did a lot of trade in FIDS solutions for airports …
NEC Makes Its Displays Smart Using Raspberry Pi October 17, 2016 by Super User NEC Display Solutions will start marketing and shipping commercial display panels early next year that that have low-cost Raspberry Pi computer modules in them, effectively making them a new variation on smart digital signage displays. This is a notable shift for NEC, which has stayed out of the embedded system on chip display business that Samsung, …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Kurt Dupont, PresentationPoint October 12, 2016 by Super User We’re talking PowerPoint this week, the presentation software that has usually been regarded with abject horror by people who’ve been around the digital signage industry for years. While using PowerPoint templates to generate slides for signage systems is the fast lane to mediocrity, that’s not what Belgium’s PresentationPoint does with its software. For the last couple …
Digital Trends Showcase Touts Possibilities For Sensor-Driven Video Walls October 7, 2016 by Super User I’ve been aware of the Digital Trends Showcase that’s been running for a few years now in Toronto, but schedules have never allowed me to go see what it was all about. This year was different, for a couple of reasons: 1 – I wasn’t already set to be somewhere else; 2 – It was in …
Estimote Puts Digital Signage System On A BLE Beacon September 17, 2016 by Super User Bluetooth beacons have been turned into interactive digital signage players by one of the largest manufacturers of the high buzz factor radio transmitters. The Polish start-up Estimote has announced a new product called Estimote Mirror, a dongle that plugs into the back of any display that has an HDMI and USB port (if they are next …
