In Toronto, At Least, Things Are Hopping January 29, 2015 by Super User I spent the last three days doing a series of show and tell visits with a vendor to the many digital signage software companies in the greater Toronto area. Those sessions all tended to to start with a little bit of “How are things going?” chatter, and the message back was uniformly that things were hopping. …
Christie Says 50K+ MicroTiles Now Lit Globally January 26, 2015 by Super User Christie has pushed out a news release that talks about an expanded warranty for its MicroTiles displays, but contains the more interesting information about the global footprint. The company says it has now shipped more than 50,000 units for roughly 1,000 installations worldwide. That’s, of course, a small number when compared to the commercial LCD market, …
InLighten Touts First Windows-Based Digital Signage Stick January 16, 2015 by Super User Buffalo-based software house inLighten has released what it touts to be the first HDMI stick for digital signage to run on Windows. The Argo, as it is called, is a companion product to another HDMI stick that runs Android, called the Apollo. “Argo was created for organizations that seek the savings in hardware and installation …
NRF: Is Memomi’s Digital Mirror The Fairest Of Them All January 13, 2015 by Super User I missed this in the two days I spent wandering the aisles of NRF, which is a shame because I’m intrigued by how it works. It’s billed as the world’s first digital mirror, which is a bit of a reach given eBay and The Big Space both have digital mirror things (admitted doing different stuff) …
NRF: Lexmark’s Shrug-Inducing Digital Signage Play January 13, 2015 by Super User The big printing hardware firm Lexmark debuted a digital signage product this week at the National Retail Federation show in New York – a digital endcap solution I’d best describe as shrug-inducing. It’s a template program that will generate a jpeg and push it to an LG monitor … and that’s about it. It’s not a …
NRF: Day I Impressions January 12, 2015 by Super User The National Retail Federation Big Show extended to three days this year, running a shortened five-hour session on Sunday. That meant retailers and brands could get a look on a free day or get three full days in when two was not enough. That also meant all kinds of sales guys were finding creative …
NRF: A Crowded Digital Signage Field Gets Even More Crowded January 12, 2015 by Super User The last time I was at the big National Retail Federation trade show in New York, digital signage was something you saw here and there – in small solo booths or as one of the interesting services wedged into the mega booths of major tech companies. What struck me, wandering the aisles of NRF 2015 …
JohnRyan Adds Portable Player Designed To Shrug At Hardware Type And OS, And Just Work January 8, 2015 by Super User The bank-centric digital signage solutions provider JohnRyan has released what it calls its Portable Player, a web-based media player application that’s touted as capable of driving digital signage media useable across all types of hardware and operating systems. The web-based player works with JohnRyan’s Quick Messenger digital signage content platform. Web based players from signage …
Forget Digital Billboards On Highways, Put Them In Cars! January 5, 2015 by Super User General Motors is touting a new OnStar feature, announced at CES, that would push hyperlocal advertising and promotions to equipped cars and, presumably, their dashboard screens. Called AtYourService, the opt-in feature would enable “information, convenience and money-saving values” to be automatically delivered to cars. For the launch, GM referenced how the service could push directions and …
HP Announces New $180 Windows Micro PC January 5, 2015 by Super User HP has announced a new teeny desktop PC that will raise the eyebrows of the crowd that’s endlessly looking to cut both cost and size out of digital signage projects. Timed to the CES show, the computing giant has announced its new $180 HP Stream Mini, which looks VERY similar in form and equal in …
