Did Indoor Wayfinding Just Get Easier For Android Signage Platforms? August 14, 2015 by Super User This is one of those devil in the details things, but it would at least appear there is a slick new way for software companies offering Android digital signage software platforms to add indoor mapping for malls, campuses and other busy, confusing places. A company called Here is offering up indoor mapping capability to Android …
Marketing: AOPEN Launches Product With Great Explainer Video August 13, 2015 by Super User I think AOPEN may have some challenges with the price-points for its new commercial Chromebox and Chromebase – they’re priced accordingly, but the market mostly equates Chromebox to sub-$200 devices. However, the Taiwan company does a very nice job with this explainer video showing the products, features and benefits and applicability. People who do mass deployments …
Ontario Lottery Uses Live Digital Signs For $1M Casino Draw August 13, 2015 by Super User Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation has for many years had a dedicated digital signage team – both tech and creative – running its screen networks across 19 slots and casino sites across the province. The team work with its longtime software vendor Capital Networks on a very different, very clever twist to casino messaging – …
Planar Acquired By Chinese LED Firm Leyard August 13, 2015 by Super User The blending of LED and display technologies and companies continues. Specialty, high-end display panel maker Planar Systems has been acquired by the Chinese high-end indoor LED firm Leyard Optoelectronic Co., Ltd. The companies have entered into a definitive merger agreement, that would see a U.S. affiliate of Leyard acquire all of the common stock of Planar …
Turn TVs Into Interactive Signs For $200 With New Gadget August 12, 2015 by Super User The same crowd that is endlessly looking to cut display hardware, playback hardware and software costs out of digital signage projects will likely be intrigued as heck by a new IndieGogo project that turns any TV with an HDMI connector into a touch and stylus controlled display. Called Touchjet Wave, it’s a device that clamps on …
Scala Boosts Speed, Performance In New Release August 12, 2015 by Super User Scala has issued a major version release of its Scala Enterprise digital signage platform, saying Release 11 adds a pile of speed and performance enhancements. In all, the company based outside Philadelphia says the new release has 25 new features and 265 enhancements. Nerd alert: the rest of this from the release will make all but propeller-heads …
Projects: Madame Tussauds Uses Giant LED Wall To Hoover In Times Square Tourists August 11, 2015 by Super User The Madame Tussauds wax museum in New York’s Time Square has put a massive 13 ft by 12 foot LED screen in a glassed part of the facade to pull in tourists passing by on 42nd Street. The LED is a big NanoLumens unit, running content via Scala software based on a concept developed by …
AOPEN Formally Launches Commercial-Grade Chromebox August 10, 2015 by Super User Taiwan-based device-maker AOPEN has formally launched the commercial-grade Chromebox the company first previewed at Google’s booth months ago at Digital Signage Expo. Called the Chromebox Commercial, the device has long been awaited by software companies and integrators who are already working with Chrome, but were perhaps a little jumpy about the distinctly consumer-grade Chromeboxes already …
ScreenScape Builds Sports Video Clip Platform Into CMS Offer August 4, 2015 by Super User PEI’s ScreenScape Networks Inc. has worked a content deal with another Canadian company that specializes in packaging up sports highlights as YouTube-style videos. Victoria, BC’s SendtoNews is making digital content available to ScreenScape’s CMS platform customers through its own SportStation platform, on a pay-per-use basis. The partnership offers two levels of SportStation programming: A standard package will supply daily …
Toronto’s IdeaLab Debuts Turnkey Kiosk Rental Offer August 4, 2015 by Super User Anybody who has sold digital signage product and had conversations with brand marketers has probably had rent-versus-buy questions thrown at them from people who like what they saw, but only needed it for a few weeks, not a few years. That’s stopped many projects and ideas in their tracks, because the options to rent a …
