Photos And Videos: How Windows/Crowdstrike Issues Affecting Airlines And Airports July 19, 2024 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 …
IT Security In Digital Signage: Audio From Digital Signage Summit Europe 2024, With Google, Trison UK June 5, 2024 by Dave Haynes I managed to talk the AV team running the main conference room at the recent Digital Signage Summit in Munich to give me the audio off the board for three of the sessions I either moderated or spoke on. The first was focused on IT security, which I will admit is NOT an area I’m …
Planar Meets Tight Cybersecurity Standards For Pair Of “Smart” Connected Display Families May 8, 2024 by Dave Haynes Security questions are now pretty central to planning and sourcing technologies for display networks, however the focus would quite logically be on the most obvious points of vulnerability – the software, servers and play-out hardware. But what about the displays, if they’re connected and termed as smart? Specialty display manufacturer Planar has announced a couple …
The Top 10 Digital Signage Trends Coming Out Of ISE: Invidis April 15, 2026February 12, 2024 by Dave Haynes My friends at German content partner Invidis have a good post up today rounding up ISE and the top 10 digital signage industry trends emerging from the recent show. I am shattered after wrestling my snowblower this morning through 30 cm of snow that’s perfect (wet and heavy) for making a snowman (the guy who …
signageOS Gets Its Software Infrastructure SOC 2 Type II Certified January 22, 2024 by Dave Haynes A lot of CMS software platforms have responded to the concern and needs of the IT people who gate-keep the introduction of third-party applications, and done the work to meet tight security certifications. That’s also been done now by the Czech/US company signageOS, which does middleware and what it calls digital signage software infrastructure. The …
Oh The Irony: A Windows Pop-Up Error Message On The Big Screen Of A Microsoft Store January 18, 2024 by Dave Haynes Pop-up Windows error messages on digital signage and digital screens has been a source of regular amusement in this industry for many years, but it is particularly funny when the pop-up message is on a big screen above the entry to a Microsoft store. This is in New York – at the Fifth Avenue location …
Mvix Joins Growing List of Software Firms Attaining High-Level Security Certifications January 10, 2024 by Dave Haynes It seems like high-level security certification is starting to become a baseline requirement – as is pretty much the case with credible device management – for CMS software companies, with another company announcing it has done the substantial work to get ISO 27001 and SOC2 certifications. Mvix, based in the Washington, DC area, says attaining …
Philly’s Airport Rolling Out TSA Wait Time Screens Across Terminals July 12, 2023 by Dave Haynes Flashy, big dollar video walls and experiential installations at renovated airports tend to get the attention of industry writers and observers, and that makes sense, but there is a whole subset of very pedestrian – even boring – deployments that are just as important to making passenger experiences enjoyable. Like TSA screening status boards at …
Chinese Hackers Suspected Of Compromising Digital Signs In Taiwan; Messages Slam Pelosi’s Visit August 8, 2022 by Dave Haynes If you follow world news, at all, you will have been aware of the uproar surrounding the short visit to Taiwan last week by U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Among the many things that happened around the visit – one that deeply upset the Chinese government – was the apparent hacking of some …
