Cineplex Digital Media Rolling Out Digital OOH Display Network in Canada’s Ivanhoe Cambridge Malls November 7, 2016 by Super User Cineplex Digital Media has announced it won an RFP process to install, maintain and operate a digital OOH display network at 21 Ivanhoé Cambridge shopping centres across Canada. The network involves nearly 230 digital displays at Ivanhoé Cambridge mall properties across Canada. The display solution is a combination of double-sided 86-inch “Floor Media” displays, as well as displays on …
Even Raspberry Pis Have Low Cost Knockoffs; Meet The $15 Orange Pi November 7, 2016 by Super User Hat Tip to Jason Cremins of SignageLive for noticing this on TechCrunch … The Raspberry Pi micro PC started as a program aimed at teaching UK schoolkids about computing, but has also taken off in the business market, including in digital signage, because it offers the prospect of a serviceable computer for $35-$45. Even $45 seems crazily …
Tech Manufacturing Giant Foxconn Merging Augmented Reality And Digital Signage November 3, 2016 by Super User Via Nikkei Asian Review Monster Asian technology manufacturer Hon Hai Precision Industry, also known as Foxconn Technology Group, has announced its funding of a newly-formed startup aimed at bringing augmented reality into digital signage. Foxconn Executive Vice President Lu Fang-ming did an augmented reality presentation, showing his image dynamically integrated into real-time graphics, at a demo Wednesday …
Soofa’s Color Epaper Information Stations Start Deploying On Boston Sidewalks November 3, 2016 by Super User Here’s one of the first sightings in the wild of a 32-inch color epaper display being used for public information. An MIT Media Lab spinoff called Soofa has started installing public information displays in Boston, running off nothing but solar power and updated using a 3G M2M wireless connection. Developed by Soofa, and running on …
BroadSign To Drive 3,500-Screen Ad Network For French Hypermarket Group November 2, 2016 by Super User A lot of the deals that get announced in press releases by software vendors aren’t big enough to get more than a shrug from people outside those companies, so I don’t tend to bother writing them up. But there are ones, here and there, that are big enough and sufficiently different to warrant some attention. Montreal-based …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Mark McDermott, ScreenCloud November 2, 2016 by Super User This week we’re talking content management software with Mark McDermott, the CEO and one of the co-founders of ScreenCloud, which offers a platform that looks, feels and works like much of what we do online with other subscription software tools. That’s because ScreenCloud grew out of Codegent, a software solutions company that was, and is, in …
Walmart Testing Giant Digital Vending Machine For In-Store Pick-ups November 1, 2016 by Super User There are multiple reports online, all picking up on a couple of reports, about a giant vending machine-like in-store pickup system being tested at a Walmart near the retailing giant’s head offices in Bentonville, Arkansas. The Buy Online/Pick-up In Store tower is a 15-foot tall multi-sided kiosk thingie that allows locals to order items online …
DSF Unveils New Look Logo October 31, 2016 by Super User The Digital Signage Federation has a new logo. There were DSF members walking around last week with lapel pins sporting the new look. I’m told a badly needed refresh of the organization’s website is imminent.
Diversified Continues Integrator Acquisition Binge October 31, 2016 by Super User New Jersey-based solutions provider Diversified (you may know them as DMG) continues to be in major growth through acquisition mode. The company last week announced the acquisition of Dallas, TX-based Media Management, an integrator that also has offices in Houston. That’s on the heels of several other acquisitions, of similar companies, in the past year or so. …
Simon Rolls Out Mobile-Friendly Interactive Stations Across US Malls October 31, 2016 by Super User The US shopping mall giant Simon is rolling out a shiny new set of big 65-inch interactive directories to nine shopping centres, using a blend of touch and screen to mobile capabilities like NFC, beacons and text. The units, a press release suggests, also use proximity sensors that make the interactive component “come to life” …
