Health Screening Kiosk Network Rolls With BroadSign April 30, 2013 by Super User Health solutions provider Stayhealthy has completed the initial deployment of some 2,000 self-service, health screening kiosks in pharmacies across the U.S., using BroadSign as the content management platform. The Los Angeles-area company’s plug-and-play kiosks are FDA-cleared and let consumers measure key health indicators including blood pressure, heart rate, total body weight, total body composition, BMI and color …
BroadSign Marks 10 Years With An X April 24, 2013 by Super User Congratulations to my old colleagues at BroadSign, who are celebrating 10 years in business, which is three or four more than lots of people predicted when the company ran into a perfect storm of cash flow issues and a crippling, lingering recession in 2009. The company is leaner and smarter because of that, and from …
Symon Deal Closes; Now Called RMG Enterprise Solutions April 22, 2013 by Super User The reverse merger thing that has led in the last few weeks to RMG Networks being a listed company took another big step with the closing Friday of the acquisition of digital signage software firm Symon Communications. RMG Networks, which has primarily been in the business of selling Digital OOH advertising, is now touting in …
Canada Launches Start-Up Visa To Attract Entrepreneurs Through Fast-Tracked Residency April 1, 2013 by Super User There’s been lots of chatter in the last 2-3 years about the need change immigration laws to attract tech entrepreneurs and keep brilliant young minds in North America after they finish college in the US or Canada. There’s hasn’t been much progress in gridlocked Washington, but a new program has started today in Canada that …
Pattison Lights Up New LRT Platform Network In Edmonton March 27, 2013 by Super User Love the voiceover from the talent who apparently just came from a monster truck/demolition derby ad voiceover session ;-] Anyway, Pattison Outdoor Advertising has launched LRT-TV in oil and gas-rich boomtown Edmonton, Alberta (fascinating tidbit: I was born there in the late 1700s). The Digital OOH network is running at 10 light rail transit platforms …
Outcast Goes With BroadSign As Software Solution March 26, 2013 by Super User BroadSign seems to be well on the way from clawing itself back from the Chapter 11 brink a year ago, releasing a very nice Android solution at DSE and announcing a very large account win today involving Outcast Media, which does advertising and programming on gas pumps and fitness center screens. The combined network involves …
Visix Debuts Entry-Level Flanker Brand March 26, 2013 by Super User Visix has joined the list of digital signage software companies that have developed something of a “flanker” brand – a lower cost option for prospective customers who don’t have the budget or need for the full meal deal product. Called APPOINT, the product is aimed at categories like K-12 schools, small businesses, local franchises and clinics, …
Airport Digital Sign Topples, Kills 10-Year-Old March 25, 2013 by Super User Here’s a tragic reminder of how important it is to get a deployment team that knows what it is doing when it installs digital screens in public spaces. One child is dead and other family members badly injured after a flight information display wall fell on them all as they were passing through Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport …
Report: Panasonic Winding Down Plasma Display Business March 18, 2013 by Super User Japan’s Nikkei newspaper is reporting today that Panasonic may pull out of the plasma television business as part of downsizing efforts. Revenues from Panasonic’s TV business is projected to have dropped by more than half by 2015/2016. Panasonic planned to end plasma TV panel production at its main plant next year, reports Nikkei (via Reuters), adding …
NYFI Wins NYC’s Reinventing Payphones Contest March 17, 2013 by Super User A slim digital tower with swappable modules that makes free WiFi ubiquitous has won New York City’s Reinventing the Payphone – the winner weirdly selected based on a public vote via Facebook. Democratic, sure. Best method to award on merit, strategy and feasibility? Hmmm. Anyway, the NYFI is intended to be, says the city’s Tumblr blog, …
