Sticking To Software Drives Big Growth Spike For Indoor Mapping Firm Jibestream March 26, 2016 by Super User Jibestream is a Toronto-based indoor mapping specialist company that has been working around the edges of the digital signage market for the past six or seven years, and some recent strategic shifts have really helped the company get marketplace traction, with triple-digit growth. The company has moved from a small space in the inner suburbs to much …
Hybrid Display Totem Bridges Digital And Print March 25, 2016 by Super User We all know the world is going digital and things like brochures and pamphlets don’t have a big future – but it’s not a shift that’s going to happen abruptly. Go to a car dealership or bank, or real estate presentation centre, and you are still going to see a lot of printed material being …
Finland’s Valota Brings Visualized Salesforce Data To Digital Signage March 24, 2016 by Super User One of my last meetings at DSE a week ago was a post-show Day 2 sit-down over a couple of beers (yay!) with the guys who run Valota, a Finnish software content company that is taking a different approach to subscription content feeds. They have Euro-centric versions of the standard news, sports and entertainment stuff …
Adobe Previews Smart Screens And Smart Bags In Concept Store March 24, 2016 by Super User Some clients and contacts have been telling me lately that creative production software giant Adobe is starting to get active in the digital signage space – a logical move as the creative they enable – like print and OOH advertising – shifts from analog to digital. The company has its big annual Adobe Summit on in Las …
InfoComm Gets European Help For Las Vegas Digital Signage Summit March 24, 2016 by Super User The big pro AV trade show InfoComm has for several years had some sort of digital signage educational conference running ahead of the exhibit hall opening, and there will be another one this year – with a European twist. The conference’s educational component – InfoComm will deal with the commercial/sponsor end of things – is …
Projects: Etisalat’s Screen-Filled Concept Stores March 24, 2016 by Super User Here’s a video look at what Dallas-based RMG Networks is driving in the retail wireless stores of the UAE-based telecom Etisalat. The wireless carrier has a range of screens around its larger stores, and is expected to kit out roughly 100 with digital signage by the end of this year. The concept stores have interactive …
DSE Recap Webinar Set For Friday AM March 23, 2016 by Super User The guys from Hughes asked me last week, when I was at DSE and getting a rundown on what they do and offer, if I could do a webinar with them the following week to re-cap the event. When I found out I didn’t need to present anything – just field a few questions and generally blabber away – …
Christie Hires Blackberry’s Ex Head Of Innovation To Run Software Team March 23, 2016 by Super User It’s very logical to think of Christie as a display hardware company, but if you stop and think about it, you realize it takes solid software to make those projectors and display cubes and LCDs and LEDs all run properly. The company has announced it has hired an ex-Blackberry guy to be its director of solutions software. …
German Charity’s Social Swipe Allows Direct Donations From Digital OOH Poster March 23, 2016 by Super User A UK reader kindly pointed me to this terrific charity program that combines a public-facing set of screens, a card reader and trigger-based content to drive donations to a German relief charity. The Social Swipe program allows people in public spaces to swipe a credit card to make a small donation to Miserior. Put together …
DSE 2016 Day Two Impressions March 18, 2016 by Super User The 2016 version of Digital Signage Expo is in the can, with the show already announcing next year will be the last week of March, with the trade hall open on the 29th and 30th. The numbers haven’t been pushed out by the show, but I can’t see it being logged as bigger than last …
