Digital Signage Organisation Forms, Focusing On European Industry January 21, 2019 by Dave Haynes The Digital Signage Organisation (or DSO) has been formed and announced as a new entity intended to support the European Digital Signage industry. The organization’s President is Simon Jackson – who is Vice President, Strategic & Vertical Sales EMEA for NEC Display Solutions, and was previously President of the Digital Signage Federation Europe (DSF-E). Joining him …
Digital Signs Of The Times: Shutdown Time Counters And Birdbox Challenge Warnings January 18, 2019 by Dave Haynes The digital signage CMS software company Rise Vision produces a lot of free, ready-to-use templates for its big base of 9,000-plus customers, and while most of them are things like welcome messages, promotions, menus and calendars, the company’s creatives have also produced things that are more public service-oriented, like anti-bullying messages. Reflecting how things have …
Best Western Rolls Out Smart, webOS-based Screen Network To 2,400+ Hotels January 18, 2019 by Dave Haynes LG is seeing what must be one of the largest deployments yet of smart digital signage displays – one or several webOS-based smart commercial screens in more than 2,400 Best Westerns across the US and Canada. Typically, Best Western guests will see one to three displays at each property, providing travelers with instant access to …
Broadsign Fights “Patent Troll” To Draw As Both Sides Drop Actions January 17, 2019 by Dave Haynes Montreal digital OOH software shop Broadsign has fought its way to a draw with a company widely labelled as a patent troll – getting released from current action from T-Rex Property AB while agreeing in turn to dismiss the counter lawsuit it filed against T-Rex. A Broadsign press release says: T-Rex acquired patents in 2006 relating …
Cranky General Public 1 – Smart Screen 0 January 16, 2019 by Dave Haynes I’ve always assumed that smart city information stations located away from a city’s major plazas and thoroughfares would get the living shit beat out of them by tipsy or angry members of the general public. Putting $30,000 (or whatever) units on a sidewalk in Jackson Heights or the Bronx just … seemed … risky. So …
Nike’s House Of Innovation In NYC Great On Experience, Terrible On Screens January 16, 2019 by Dave Haynes When I was at the NRF show this week in New York, I bumped into numerous industry friends – some who encouraged me to get away from the exhibit venue and head over to the new-ish Nike “House of Innovation” flagship on 5th Avenue. It was mind-blowing, I was told. So I grabbed an Uber …
LG Now Actively Marketing Its Transparent LED Film For Glass Surfaces January 16, 2019 by Dave Haynes LG has started actively marketing the transparent LED film, for windows and architectural glass, it has been demonstrating at trade shows for the last couple of years. The film is only 1.5mm thick (about the thickness of a dime coin) and pushes more than 1,000 nits of brightness in each 668×480 mm panel. Each of those …
What You’re Getting Wrong About Digital Signage – And What To Do About It January 14, 2019 by sixteenninewpadmin Guest Post: Geoff Bessin, Intuiface You’ve been careful. You’ve studied all the angles. Thought about your audience, quality content, the project’s goals, hardware. You’ve given your digital signage project everything you have. It’s now deployed, left on its own like a child leaving his/her nest to face the world. Ask yourself this. What did you …
Look Ma, No Peripherals – This Touchscreen Embeds Payment Tech In The Display January 11, 2019 by Dave Haynes One of the biggest payments tech companies around has found a display provider to partner on interactive kiosks that embed payment capabilities in the actual screen, instead of beside it or virtually using phones. France’s Ingenico Group, which describes itself as the global leader in seamless payment, will work with German kiosk solution provider Pyramid …
New Hotel At ISE Venue To Be Projection-Mapped During Show January 10, 2019 by Dave Haynes The brand new nhow Amsterdam RAI hotel, which is adjacent to the site of next month’s Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) trade show, will be projection-mapped each day during the event. Specially-created content will be projected onto the 25-storey, 650-room nhow Amsterdam RAI from 3 to 8 pm each day throughout ISE week. The projection mapping …
