Thanks, As A Couple Of Records Fall September 1, 2016 by Super User I’ve been curious for the last week or so, watching the page view and visits counters on this blog, seeing how August was, weirdly, a huge month for traffic on Sixteen:Nine. By last night, monthly traffic had busted the previous record traffic month by more than 10% … and the old record was pretty good. So thank …
Samsung’s New Smart Signs To Start Shipping With Tizen OS; Signagelive Says Good To Go September 1, 2016 by Super User Samsung is moving its new version of its Smart Signage platform for commercial displays over to its own operating system Tizen, with Tizen OS-powered displays commercially available to partners, resellers and end-users by the middle of this month. That means if you want to use the new version 4.0 release of SSP displays with a CMS, …
LG Adds Kiwi Firm To List Of Signage Firms Supporting Its Smart WebOS Displays September 1, 2016 by Super User Via ComputerWorld NZ The Auckland, NZ-based firm Labyrinth Solutions has developed a version of its Contrego digital signage CMS to run on LG’s WebOS-driven commercial digital signage panels. Labyrinth says the new System on Chip (SoC) media player, running Contegro, will do all the regular stuff, but will also do advanced digital signage functions like touch. “We are currently working …
STRATACACHE Buys Monster Warehouse Space In Suburban Dayton August 31, 2016 by Super User Were there any question Chris Riegel is serious about the growth he expects at STRATACACHE in the next two or three years, consider this: the software and services company now owns a 380,000 square foot distribution facility on 50 acres in suburban Dayton. And the address will be One Stratacache Way. The company will be moving …
Projects: 86-Foot LED Columns Create Digital Fence Slats In Denver Office Lobby August 31, 2016 by Super User The lobby and common area of the Wells Fargo Center has been transformed by a series of 86-foot-high floor-to-ceiling LED columns that create a series of gorgeous ambient art pieces. Developed by New York-based ESI Design, the programming is designed to give a sense of seeing Colorado’s natural beauty through fence slats. The custom content modes, says ESI, include: …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Jim Nista, Insteo August 31, 2016 by Super User Jim Nista and I have had lotsa long, interesting talks over trade show cocktails in Las Vegas or Orlando about the state of the industry and what needs to happen, particularly as it relates to content. Unfortunately … or perhaps fortunately, when I really think about it (hic) … they were not recorded. But the …
An LED Video Wall That Hand-Cranks Into Place August 30, 2016 by Super User I didn’t know Belgium’s display giant Barco now had super-thin, flexible LED displays, but the company has tweeted out a video show how fast and easy it is to hang a strip of 11mm pixel pitch LED in an open area (it is marketed as 10mm, but is 10.83mm, for those keeping score). The product was …
Lock Down Your iPad Kiosk, Or This Sort Of Thing Happens August 29, 2016 by Super User If your business is putting consumer tablets out in public areas, it’s really important you take the necessary steps to ensure the device is locked to only offer up the experience that you intended. If you don’t, you get bemused people who know their way around software and devices, who see if they are indeed …
Projection-Mapped Advertising Goes Airborne Over NYC August 29, 2016 by Super User Last week, New Yorkers might have looked up one night and seen a huge illuminated billboard floating along the west skyline, over the Hudson River. Industry friend Will Amos of Diversified sent me a smartphone video that was, as he advertised, crappy, and had him guessing way off in the distance was a plane towing an …
Chromebit Update: Eight Months In, Still Ticking Along Happily August 26, 2016 by Super User I don’t have the technical background to say this is indicative of anything, but my test so far of the little Asus Chromebit as a simple signage player has been positive. The little $85 Google-approved HDMI stick I bought has been running on a spare screen at World Headquarters/spare bedroom for eight months, and it just …
