How Advertising Will Evolve With Smart And Connected Cities January 10, 2017 by authortest Guest Post: Kenneth Brinkmann, Posterscope USA The rise of connected cities provides three major opportunities for the OOH industry. First, our industry will have much greater access to more accurate real-time location data thanks to connectivity of all objects. If we look ahead into 2020, Gartner estimates that 25 billion objects will be connected to the …
Start-up Wants To Replace Stamped Metal License Plates With Smart Digital Displays January 9, 2017 by Super User A San Francisco-based company is showing an interactive digital license plate debuts today at the North American International Auto Show, which opened this week in Detroit. The rPlate is touted as the first upgrade in 125 years on license plates – a multi-functional display that can do things like DMV registration automation, hyper-local messaging, telematics and vehicle …
STRATACACHE Acquires Another Rival CMS Firm, Real Digital Media January 9, 2017 by Super User Chris Riegel is continuing to buy up competitors in the digital signage software space, with news bright and early this morning that his Dayton, OH-based company STRATACACHE has acquired Sarasota, FL-based Real Digital Media. Both are content management software firms with similar products – though Stratacache has a much bigger headcount and sells much more …
Panasonic, IBM Team On Watson-Driven Smart Mirror For Hotels January 8, 2017 by Super User Panasonic and IBM were showing a smart mirror/digital concierge last week during CES, at an offsite demo area run by IBM. The Panasonic Digital Concierge uses the IBM Watson artificial intelligence platform as part of a digital envisioned as being installed in the rooms of, let’s assume, higher-end hotels. The idea is that a guest …
Intel Unveils Compute Card & Five New NUCs At CES January 7, 2017 by Super User A little lost in the blizzard of gadget announcements coming out CES in Las Vegas this week was word from Intel of a new family of NUC computers and a new credit-card sized computer moduls that could very conceivably plug into a flat panel display to use in digital signage. Intel was showing the propeller-head …
Enplug Partners To Build Mobile Social Gaming Into Digital Signage Platform January 5, 2017 by Super User A couple of LA companies have put together a partnership that would see mobile social gaming integrated with a digital signage platform’s offer. The deal gives clients running on Enplug’s cloud-based network the ability to participate in multiplayer tournaments with other gamers in public locations like restaurants, bars, gyms, retail stores, cafes, shopping malls, and …
Is This The Most Digital Signage-Rich Store In Canada? January 4, 2017 by Super User There’s always some other place with more, but in my travels, I’ve just come back from the most digital signage-rich store I’ve seen to date. The Best Buy at Heartland Town Centre in Mississauga, a city part of the greater Toronto metropolis, has screens everywhere. I wouldn’t say it was incredibly well done. Or cohesive. …
LG Showing Wallpaper OLEDs And Stacked OLED Columns At CES January 4, 2017 by Super User LG Display is evidently pushing all in on OLED displays this year, announcing a series of new displays that will be showing at CES this week and almost certainly at ISE in Amsterdam in a month. LG Display will show off paper-thin 65-inch and 77-inch UHD OLED displays for TVs that can be attached to …
Projects: Taipei’s Bus Stops Get Smart January 4, 2017 by Super User Much of the buzz about smart city initiatives involving public displays has been around ambitious and expensive standalone info-stations like the 600 or so now operating in New York City, but there’s also stuff that’s quite a bit more pedestrian and easily integrated with existing structures. This is in Taipei – one of some 85 …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Rich Ventura, NEC Display Solutions January 4, 2017 by Super User Rich Ventura now has the launch codes and the secret handshake instructions to act as the 2017 chairman of the Digital Signage Federation. He’s been active in the organization for several years, and has big plans for the year ahead. He’ll go into that in the latter half of this podcast episode, but we spend …
