3M Officially Bails On Digital Signage Business May 6, 2014 by Super User There was a time when 3M was the genuine deal in the the digital signage software business, but it has been a few years since the company and its product have made any real noise. The last muffled sounds came Monday as the manufacturing giant announced it had sold off “certain assets in connection with …
Bizplay Latest Find In Dutch Digital Signage Hotbed May 5, 2014 by Super User Maybe I just haven’t noticed, and it’s been like this for a while, but The Netherlands seems to have developed into one of those regional hotbeds for digital signage, in the same way Southern Ontario and the Twin Cities did earlier on. The latest of MANY companies I have numbed into that come out of Holland …
Digital Signage App Released For $99 Amazon Fire TV May 2, 2014 by Super User A developer has released an app, based off Rise Vision’s management platform, that turns the new $99 Amazon Fire TV set-top box into a digital signage player. Called My Rise Player, the app is predictably limited in its scope and capability, and has that “I got it to work” feel to it. But the point …
Facebook Makes It Easier To Get Its Social Content To Screens May 1, 2014 by Super User Much of the social media visualization done in digital signage has focused on Twitter feeds and particularly hash tags, but Facebook has released a new API that is intended to draw some of the attention to its own social streams. The Trending, Topic Insights, Topic Feed, and Hashtag Counter APIs were announced Wednesday by Facebook’s Public …
Who Writes This Stuff??? April 29, 2014 by Super User Who on Earth writes this stuff, and better yet, who approves it??? From a breathless email I just got from Intel Intelligent Retail Solutions: The beauty of digital signage is the ability to deliver the right message to the right audience at the right time. To realize this ambitious goal, digital signage needs new technologies …
ScreenScape “Democratizes” Digital Signage Device Management April 29, 2014 by Super User Remote monitoring and device management are seemingly boring subjects, but they’re usually the first things I ask about when I am working with a consulting client that’s looking for a content management system. There are many, many, many companies with products that make it easy to manage and distribute content, but I’m often surprised at how …
Noxel’s New Android Digital Signage Player Ships With BLE Inside April 28, 2014 by Super User The Singapore firm Noxel has done an interesting spin on an Android digital signage player – embedding a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) module inside the playback device. The company says that enables the digital signage network operator – like a retailer – to use the tech for indoor positioning and location-specific push messaging to smartphones. …
Buying Digital Signage Online Is About As Rock-Solid As Jello April 28, 2014 by Super User Somehow or other I bumped into a link for a SIIG digital signage player, as listed on Staples’ Canadian online store. First, I thought, who is SIIG? Then I thought, Staples sells digital signage??? SIIG is a Fremont, California device manufacturer that’s into all kinds of things, and has a streamer device it touts as …
Get DSrupted On Sept. 17th In Toronto April 28, 2014 by Super User All the pieces are in place and live now for a one-day conference I’m putting on in Toronto, called DSrupted 2014. The day will be focused on the opportunities and implications of disruptive technologies on the digital signage industry. DS=Digital Signage. Disrupted. So DSrupted!!! My God I’m clever. Anyway … The event is set for Sept. 17th, …
Social-Focused Digital Signage Start-Up Enplug Gets $2.5 Million Seed Backing April 18, 2014 by Super User LA-based startup digital signage start-up Enplug has done a $2.5 million seed round from what looks to be a broad range of tech investors, the money intended to broaden the company’s footprint. The funding, reports TechCrunch, comes from a number of investors, including Oaktree Capital Co-Founder Larry Keele, Juniper Networks Founding Member Rasoul Oskouy, Idealab Founder …
