RMG Networks Posts $8.3M Operating Loss For Quarter May 8, 2014 by Dave Haynes RMG Networks posted its quarterly financials today, a rough set of numbers the company is attributing to weaker ad revenues and higher operating costs pinned to adding to and changing sales and marketing efforts. The company reported an adjusted operating loss for the last quarter of $8.3 million, compared to a pro forma operating loss of $2.6 …
First Look: RMG Networks’ New Executive Briefing Center May 8, 2014 by Dave Haynes Executive Briefing Centers and Customer Experience Centers – both essentially showrooms on steroids – are not terribly new to a lot of technology sectors, but they’re quite new to the digital signage space. Probably because … 1. Few companies could afford to build them. 2. The competition wasn’t. That’s started to change as the industry …
Is LG’s Chromebase A New Kind Of Digital Sign? May 7, 2014 by Dave Haynes LG Electronics will start selling a new all-in-one computer/display that runs Google’s Chrome OS and has some potential as a small business digital signage unit. The $350 21.5-inch HD monitor has pretty much the same built-in computing specs as the $179 Asus Chromebox that was released in February and talked up by Intel and Google at Digital Signage Expo. …
First WordPress, Now Joomla Being Used for Digital Signage May 6, 2014 by Dave Haynes I wrote last year about a Chicago guy who had figured out a way to turn the WordPress blogging platform into a content management system and presentation platform for digital signage. Now we have someone using the other popular open-source blogging platform – Joomla – to drive screens with scheduled ads. It actually uses a …
3M Officially Bails On Digital Signage Business May 6, 2014 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 …
