Projects: Hyundai’s Kuwait Flagship Drives Big Video Walls May 30, 2016 by Dave Haynes This is the showroom at Hyundai’s flagship store in Kuwait, using a set of thin-bezel Sharp displays. There are two of these video walls in the showroom. The project was put together by Dubai-based 2point0 Concepts and a sister company, Kuwait-based DeLite Engineering. The screens are powered by 2point0’s own CMS, iSignage.
InfoComm Lists 361 Digital Signage Exhibitors – Some Who Actually Do Digital Signage May 26, 2016 by Dave Haynes InfoComm has never really been a big show for the software side of the digital signage business, and that’s a trend that continues in a couple of weeks in Las Vegas. There are 361 exhibitors that have associated themselves to the digital signage category, among many, in the exhibitor directory. But I don’t think there are …
Capital Networks Celebrates 25 Years In Business May 25, 2016 by Dave Haynes Digital signage is still a pretty young industry, so it’s interesting to come across a note that says one of the software companies active in the sector just turned 25. Capital Networks Limited was started in 1991 in suburban Toronto by Bill Trainor, who still runs the company. The company started as a software and …
E Ink Debuts 32-Inch Display That Can Wrap Around Bus Stop Post May 25, 2016 by Dave Haynes Turns out there are two interesting product releases coming out of E Ink this week at the display nerd show SID in San Francisco. I wrote a few hours ago about a new rich color e-paper display technology, but the company has also showed off a 32-inch flexible, lightweight display aimed at public transport and …
Sixteen:Nine Podcast: Neil Willis of Hypersign May 25, 2016 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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. …
