The Top 10 Digital Signage Trends Coming Out Of ISE: Invidis February 12, 2024 by Super User 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 Super User 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 Super User 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 Super User 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 Super User 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 Super User 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 …
German Railway’s Passenger Info Screen Hacked; Porn Shown Instead Of Rider Information August 2, 2022 by Super User German content partner Invidis has a post up about yet another example of what can happen when a digital signage network has security gaps. In this case, a screen at the Oberbarmen stop of the Wuppertal suspension railway was showing naughty content instead of information intended to inform and guide passengers. Wuppertal is up near …
Broadsign’s SOC Compliance Certified, But It’s Maybe Not The SOC You Think July 21, 2022 by Super User I don’t tend to write often about software certifications because I don’t want readers falling asleep and waking up with keyboard marks on their faces. But once in a while it’s worthwhile, particularly when something new and potentially confusing comes up. Like Broadsign getting SOC 2 certification. The digital signage industry has spent almost 10 …
