Sixteen:Nine Podcast: Neil Willis of Hypersign May 25, 2016 by Super User Neil Willis is the CEO and founder of Hypersign, a digital signage software company located in Greenville, South Carolina. In this Sixteen:Nine Podcasts episode, Neil talks about a long career path that had very humble beginnings – working in the air force in Arkansas and sweeping floors at a big box store on weekends to …
E Ink Debuts Advanced Color ePaper, Aimed At Digital Signage Market May 25, 2016 by Super User E Ink has announced what would seem to be a big breakthrough in its drive to bring full color to electronic paper, and the first target application for what’s called Advanced Color ePaper (or ACeP) is digital signage. The company is touting how, for the first time ever, an electrophoretic display (EPD) can produce full …
Webinar: Digital Signage Meets IoT, Using Raspberry Pi May 24, 2016 by Super User Posts on doing digital signage projects using low-cost Raspberry Pi single-board PCs continue to generate crazy amounts of traffic on this site, so I continue to take an interest. A CMS solution called Screenly generates a lot of interest on 16:9 and on Raspberry Pi forums, as did recent news that Screenly was switching its operating …
Convergent Is Back, With New Management Team, Focus On Genuine Turnkey Offer May 20, 2016 by Super User Atlanta-based solutions provider Convergent has re-packaged its marketplace offer and given it a new handle: Digital Signage As A Service, or DSaaS. That kinda sounds like a ski resort in Austria, but I assume people will talk it up as Dee-Sass and all will be fine. The company, at the same time, has announced a new …
Google’s Android And Chrome Grow Tighter, But Not Enough To Cross Over In Digital Signage May 19, 2016 by Super User Google announced at its annual I/O conference today that Android mobile apps from its Google Play app store will now run on ChromeOS devices like Chromebook laptops. Google is making the Play store, and the gazillion Android apps you can get on it, work on the Chrome operating system, which is also developed and supported …
Your Best Digital Signage Opportunity Might Be The One You Already Won May 19, 2016 by Danica Trapara Guest Post: Michael Tutton, Crown Content I was brought once into a big digital signage project to provide content for a $250,000 display set-up, two hours before it was all set to go live. Sounds crazy, right? It was. In the months leading up to that launch, the installers didn’t push for answers on content. …
Fine Pixel Pitch LED Sales Grew 366% In 2015: IHS Research May 18, 2016 by Super User The arrival on the market of fine pixel pitch LED displays has sparked a big jump in shipments globally, but the competitive landscape is so crowded that total revenues have only jumped slightly, according to a new marketplace report by the research firm IHS. Total unit shipments for all pixel-pitch categories in the direct-view LED video …
IoT And Digital Signage: The Invisible Elephant In The Room – Part 3 (Conclusion) May 18, 2016 by Sue MacCutcheon Guest Post: Tim Strähle, Adversign Media This is the final part of a three-part series about retail detail signage and the Internet of Things. It’s based on excerpts from a broader white paper by the digital signage CMS firm Adversign Media, which markets Viewneo. It is available here. Digital signage: smarter through IFTTT IFTTT follows a simple concept that …
Screenly’s Raspberry Pi-Powered Platform Shifting To New IoT Version Of Ubuntu Linux May 18, 2016 by Super User Ubuntu has long been one of, if not the, go-to variants of the Linux operating system for digital signage media players, but that’s been on “real” x86 computers. Now there’s work underway to pair the new Internet of Things-focused version of the open-source software with Raspberry Pi micro-PCs, and run a digital signage platform off it. …
Sixteen:Nine Podcast: Jason Cremins of Signagelive May 18, 2016 by Super User In this Sixteen:Nine podcast episode, I had a chat with Jason Cremins, the founder and CEO of the UK-based firm Signagelive. His company has been one of the very early adopters of emerging technologies that have really changed how digital signage is pulled together and run – from cloud hosting and distribution, to HTML5, to …
