Capital Networks Targets Rival Scala’s Customers With Trade-In Program April 1, 2015 by Super User Ask most people who sell signage software and they’ll confirm replacing incumbent software providers is a substantial part of their month to month business. Sometimes it is service quality. Sometimes one glitch too many. A push on pricing. Or even just personality clashes. The software guys sell against each other every day in a quest to …
VIA Rolls Out All-In Bus Signage And Infotainment System April 1, 2015 by Super User Putting screens in big things that roll and bump and jolt is a substantial technical challenge – the problems ranging from too much vibration, to dust and grime, to the inquisitive fingers and sharp objects of the general public. It’s possible to put the pieces together between rugged panels and industrial, solid state PCs – …
Android Signage Apps Can Now Readily Port To Google’s Chrome OS April 1, 2015 by Super User Things just keep getting more and more interesting with Google and its Chrome OS. Yesterday it was word about the Chromebit HDMI stick. Now there’s word that Google is now letting any Android developer port its apps, or games to run on Chromebooks and other Chrome OS devices, like Chromeboxes and Chromebits. That would mean if you are one …
Asus Shipping Sub-$100 Google Chromebit Digital Signage Stick By Summer March 31, 2015 by Super User The whole Google does digital signage thing just got even more interesting – with Google via Asus announcing the Chromebit, which is effectively a Chromebox as an HDMI stick. The units are expected to cost less than $100 USD. The Chromebits will have a Rockchip processor, 2GB of RAM and 16GB of eMMC flash storage. If …
Amazon’s Vision For Reimagined Retail Looks Awfully Familiar March 31, 2015 by Super User The tech site re/code has a piece up about how Amazon has patents that would change up how people buy goods in brick-and-mortar stores. Problem is, that idea’s been around for a decade or so. The site talks about recently filed patent applications that suggest shoppers would be able to pick items off shelves and leave the …
Will They Hear Crickets At Sign Expo’s “Dynamic Digital Signage” Park Next Week? March 31, 2015 by Super User A couple of contacts have sent notes recently asking if I was going to the International Sign Association’s annual trade show, which runs next week in Las Vegas. Nope. Can’t see any reason why I would. I did go to Sign Expo a couple of years ago, but that was with a client, on said …
Projects: Massive Curved Displays At Minneapolis Convention Center March 30, 2015 by Super User The Minneapolis Convention Center now markets to visitors using a pair of massive 5mm pixel pitch LED NanoLumens that curve around bulkheads at the facility. Installed late last fall, the NanoCurve displays cover an area 5 feet high by 90 feet wide. They were put in by Minneapolis-based Tierney Brothers Integration. The displays were schemed into …
How The Internet of Things Delivers Experiential Wayfinding March 28, 2015 by MohamedGhalayini Guest Post: Chris Wiegand, Jibestream The ‘Internet of Things’ is a popular term bouncing around the technology sector at the moment. In fact this section of the market is earmarked for extraordinary growth; predictions are putting it at the largest device market in the world by 2019. In its simplest form, the Internet of things …
BroadSign Gets Out Of Digital OOH Box March 27, 2015 by Super User BroadSign has for many years mined the digital OOH side of this business, to the point that you don’t really think of the signage software being used outside of advertising. But it is. Case in point: The Montreal company has announced a partnership it has worked with Scandinavian solutions provider LCD Media, which is operating primarily in …
Projects: Giant Convex Wall In UK Corporate Lobby March 26, 2015 by Super User This is what German display manufacturer Eyevis is touting as the largest convex curved video wall in Europe, set up at the new mass spectrometry headquarters of the analytical instruments company Waters Corporation in Wilmslow, Cheshire, UK. The 3.8 metres x 2.2 metres display wall welcomes Waters visitors in the reception area, and features 48 eyevis omniSHAPES rear …
