Enplug Shows Off Its Millennial Take On Digital Signage July 15, 2015 by Super User I’ve known about the LA start-up Enplug for a few years, and followed with curiosity the journey of millennial friends who got a company going in a rented house and gradually started to build it up and get some attention. I hopped off a plane Tuesday (upgraded by surprise, yay!), grabbed a rental, and went over …
Rouge Media Powers Up Smartphone Charging Station Digital OOH Ad Network July 14, 2015 by Super User Toronto-based mediaco Rouge Media Group has launched a network of ad displays built into charging stations for mobile devices and located in a wide variety of high traffic locations. A targeted 1,000 stations will be installed across North America, in places like restaurants, bars, college campuses, spas and beauty salons. Each station features a digital screen that …
LED Signmaker Watchfire Acquires Digital Signage SoftwareCo Aerva July 14, 2015 by Super User LED signmaker Watchfire Signs has acquired digital signage software firm Aerva, in a deal that closed early this month. Based in Danville, Illionois – west of Indianapolis and south of Chicago – Watchfire builds large-format outdoor LED boards, servicing everything from media companies to schools and communities. I’d assume whatever software has shipped with Watchfire product …
DSrupted: Why You Should Attend – Reason #1 July 13, 2015 by Super User DSrupted is a conference I am running – all day Sept. 16th in downtown Toronto – focused on the disruptive technology that is or will be changing the way digital signage gets done. Here’s the first of a week-long series of reasons why – whether you are in or around Toronto, or further afield – you …
DSrupted: Mike Pell On Data Visualization And The Age Of Smart Signage July 10, 2015 by Super User I’ve written quite a bit lately about how data and particularly data visualization can and will play a large role in some future signage projects, and Mike Pell of Microsoft is coming to DSrupted in September to reinforce that, from the point of view of an expert. Pell speaks regularly about data visualization and has …
US FDA Pushes Back Menu Labeling Requirements By Year July 9, 2015 by Super User Hat tip to Raffi Vartian at Signagelive for flagging this … The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has postponed by a year federal menu labeling requirements, with the FDA saying it needs to provide more clarification on rules and regulations that are not necessarily being warmly greeted by all affected parties. “Industry, trade and other …
Enplug Launches What It Calls 1st Public App Market For Digital Signage July 9, 2015 by Super User LA-based Enplug has launched what it calls the industry’s first Public App Market – the highlight of the signage content and solutions company’s upcoming software release, called DisplayOS 4.0. The App Market pitch is that it brings the smartphone app store idea to digital signage – allowing users to poke around the Enplug App Market and selecting from a variety of content-focused …
Directable Puts Digital Signage On Sony’s Android TVs July 8, 2015 by Super User A Reno, Nevada company called Directable has announced it is now marketing a digital signage solution that has been tested and approved for use with Sony’s new line of Android TVs. As with some other Android solutions out there, you get moving on this by getting the TVs, connecting them online, and then hitting the …
Meet Veronica, Revel’s Digital Mannequin July 8, 2015 by Super User Ted Rosenbaum from Fargo, ND-based RevelDigital called the other day to tell me about Veronica, a digital mannequin the CMS and solutions company is using to showcase its capabilities. It has touch, beacons, pattern detection, NFC and on and on, all pretty much running off a slinky silver fashion mannequin. The goggles have LEDs in them and …
Research Suggests Android Picking Up Steam In Signage, Embedded Markets July 7, 2015 by Super User The embedded business unit of VIA Technologies in Taiwan – which has a big office in Silicon Valley, as well – has done a worldwide survey of end-user customers to get a sense of where they’re at with using Android. Some 93% of the roughly 250 respondents indicated they are either currently using or are …
