Projects: Canada’s Busiest Highways Get Interactive At Travel Centre Stops September 6, 2016 by Dave Haynes If you’ve even driven the 401 highway that runs up from Detroit through Toronto and almost to Montreal, you’ll have been thankful there’s a set of travel centres that provide the essentials to motoring: gas, coffee and clean restrooms. About 500,000 people a day pull in to these centres across the province. There are 23 …
STRATACACHE Summer Buying Binge Continues; Firm Picks Up Giant Mothballed Datacenter September 6, 2016 by Dave Haynes The CMS software and solutions firm STRATACACHE is continuing its summertime buying binge, announcing today that it has bought an old EDS building in Dayton, OH to use as its primary datacenter and network operations hub. The building has 113,000 square feet space, with raised floors, multiple back-up generators and enough space to host a …
Why And How To Engage The Bosses With Digital Signage September 2, 2016 by Stu Armstrong Guest Post: Sean Matthews, Visix You’ve hired some of the best and brightest people around to help you run your company. Use your corporate digital signage solution to support, encourage and inspire them as they steer your organization to success. Seven Traits to Thrive Harvard Business Review identified seven traits that companies most need in …
Samsung’s New Smart Signs To Start Shipping With Tizen OS; Signagelive Says Good To Go September 1, 2016 by Dave Haynes Samsung is moving its new version of its Smart Signage platform for commercial displays over to its own operating system Tizen, with Tizen OS-powered displays commercially available to partners, resellers and end-users by the middle of this month. That means if you want to use the new version 4.0 release of SSP displays with a CMS, …
LG Adds Kiwi Firm To List Of Signage Firms Supporting Its Smart WebOS Displays September 1, 2016 by Dave Haynes Via ComputerWorld NZ The Auckland, NZ-based firm Labyrinth Solutions has developed a version of its Contrego digital signage CMS to run on LG’s WebOS-driven commercial digital signage panels. Labyrinth says the new System on Chip (SoC) media player, running Contegro, will do all the regular stuff, but will also do advanced digital signage functions like touch. “We are currently working …
STRATACACHE Buys Monster Warehouse Space In Suburban Dayton August 31, 2016 by Dave Haynes Were there any question Chris Riegel is serious about the growth he expects at STRATACACHE in the next two or three years, consider this: the software and services company now owns a 380,000 square foot distribution facility on 50 acres in suburban Dayton. And the address will be One Stratacache Way. The company will be moving …
Projects: 86-Foot LED Columns Create Digital Fence Slats In Denver Office Lobby August 31, 2016 by Dave Haynes The lobby and common area of the Wells Fargo Center has been transformed by a series of 86-foot-high floor-to-ceiling LED columns that create a series of gorgeous ambient art pieces. Developed by New York-based ESI Design, the programming is designed to give a sense of seeing Colorado’s natural beauty through fence slats. The custom content modes, says ESI, include: …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Jim Nista, Insteo August 31, 2016 by Dave Haynes Jim Nista and I have had lotsa long, interesting talks over trade show cocktails in Las Vegas or Orlando about the state of the industry and what needs to happen, particularly as it relates to content. Unfortunately … or perhaps fortunately, when I really think about it (hic) … they were not recorded. But the …
An LED Video Wall That Hand-Cranks Into Place August 30, 2016 by Dave Haynes I didn’t know Belgium’s display giant Barco now had super-thin, flexible LED displays, but the company has tweeted out a video show how fast and easy it is to hang a strip of 11mm pixel pitch LED in an open area (it is marketed as 10mm, but is 10.83mm, for those keeping score). The product was …
Lock Down Your iPad Kiosk, Or This Sort Of Thing Happens August 29, 2016 by Dave Haynes If your business is putting consumer tablets out in public areas, it’s really important you take the necessary steps to ensure the device is locked to only offer up the experience that you intended. If you don’t, you get bemused people who know their way around software and devices, who see if they are indeed …
