Industry Weapon Says It’s Now Driving Signage On Chromeboxes October 14, 2015 by Dave Haynes Pittsburgh’s Industry Weapon has formally joined the list of companies that have developed applications to work with Google ChromeOS-driven Chromeboxes and all-in-one Chromebases. The company, known for many years as a top Cisco partner, says the devices will work with its SaaS-based CMS platform, called CommandCenterHD. One of the big attractions to ChromeOS, the company …
Projects: Moscow Lights Up Giant 370-Meter Wide Projection Map Show October 12, 2015 by Dave Haynes Via AV Interactive This is one BIG projection mapping projected – described as a world record for this kind of tech. The 370-metre facade of the Ministry of Defence in Moscow was bathed in light from 142 digital projectors across six towers. For the metric impaired, that’s roughly four football fields wide. It was for a recent …
Signage Buyers Growing More Sophisticated, Says Four Winds CEO Levin October 12, 2015 by Dave Haynes Four Winds Interactive is having its first big conference in Denver next week – an event called Forward that is something of a departure from typical software company events that are mostly about product education, sales and contract retention. The agenda for this event is instead populated mainly by outside speakers, albeit most of them partners or major …
ComQi Paper Takes Different Look At Corporate Comms Signage Strategy October 9, 2015 by Dave Haynes NY-based software and services firm ComQi has pushed out a white paper that gives a different look at what corporate communications digital signage is all about. It covers off the traditional stuff – like staff messaging and directories – but also gets into some far less travelled turf like policy compliance and KPI dashboards. Two …
Small Screens For Big C-Store Moments October 9, 2015 by Michael Tutton GUEST POST: Henrik Andersson, Instorescreen Thousands of convenience store owners and operators will be in Las Vegas next week for the annual NACS trade show, an event built heavily around helping these businesses find new ways to maintain and build their bottom lines. It’s also a chance for the brands and services that use the convenience …
Newad Adding 1,500 Screens To Canadian Digital OOH Network October 8, 2015 by Dave Haynes Montreal’s Newad has announced plans to grow into what would be one of the largest digital OOH networks in Canada, with a goal of 4,000 digital ad boards switched on by the end of 2016. That announcement comes several weeks after Newad acquired the majority of Zoom Media’s major networks in Canada. “The advertising industry is …
PRN Back In, IZ-ON Out, In Wake Of Stratacache Acquisition October 8, 2015 by Dave Haynes The PRN brand is back in the wake of the acquisition of the shopper marketing firm by STRATACACHE. That means the team based in San Francisco will toss out its IZ-ON Media business cards and letterhead and once again use the PRN handle, which was and maybe still is short for Premier Retail Networks. “The acquisition …
Special Report: The State of ARM & Android In Digital Signage October 8, 2015 by Dave Haynes There are dozens of digital signage software companies with content management systems built around or adapted to work with low-cost ARM-based media devices, and run on Google’s Linux-derived Android operating system. What started as a trickle of activity four years turned into a big wave within a couple of years. But almost as quickly as Android-based signage …
Coming Tomorrow: The State Of Android Digital Signage Report October 7, 2015 by Dave Haynes Client commitments greatly slowed research and production, but I’ve finally completed work on what I think is a thorough look into the state of the Android digital signage marketplace. I will upload it and make it available as a free, no-strings-attached download tomorrow off Sixteen:Nine. It’s 23 pages, so set some time aside. The report …
Chromebox Digital Signage Players Will Soon Double As Bluetooth Beacons October 6, 2015 by Dave Haynes There’s been lots of chatter about the interplay of digital signage and Bluetooth Low Energy Beacons, so it’s interesting to read that signage networks running on Chromeboxes will soon be able to use the players as the beacons, via Google’s emerging Eddystone protocol. That set-up enables Chromeboxes to shoot URLs to smartphones with Bluetooth enabled. …
