Anthony, Real Digital Media Pair Up On New Transparent Display Doors November 18, 2015 by Super User Another set of companies has entered the competition to win the eyeballs, hearts and budgets of grocers, convenience store operators and consumer brands with connected, transparent LCD displays embedded in cooler and freezer doors. Sarasota, Florida-based signage software firm Real Digital Media and Anthony, which makes display equipment for refrigeration systems, are launching a new product …
29 Options For Free Digital Signage Software November 17, 2015 by Super User Free is one of the oldest tools in the marketing sales kit. Get your first one free! Buy one, get the next one free. Start your free trial today! You know the drill. And you likely know that in most cases, it’s not really free. There’s a catch. Or a limitation. This is not a …
The $85 Asus Chromebit Now Shipping; Google Halves Device Management Fee For Digital Signage Apps November 17, 2015 by Super User The Google-backed Asus Chromebit is now on the marketplace in the U.S. and select countries, with the U.S. version priced at $85 for what’s billed as a computer on a stick. The device is an HDMI stick that plugs into any monitor or TV with that port. It has built-in WiFi and runs on a Rockchip …
Christie Acquires Allure Global Solutions November 16, 2015 by Super User Christie has announced its acquisition of Allure Global Solutions, the Atlanta software and services firm that has been largely focused on signage and POS systems for the cinema and sports and entertainment industries. The company will now be known as Allure, a Christie Company. “Christie and Allure have shared customers, most notably in the cinema market, …
Projects: GM Canada Rolling Out Screens Across Auto Dealership Network November 15, 2015 by Super User A well-planned and executed video can get a pile of marketing mileage for a company, or team of partner companies, and I suspect this piece about a digital signage deployment now rolling out in Canadian GM auto dealerships will do that nicely. I have direct experience going dealer to dealer selling the digital signage dream …
Adflow Gets U.S. Patent Grant On Interactive Retail Technology November 15, 2015 by Super User The guys up the street from me at ADFLOW Networks have announced a new patent grant for the process of lifting and looking at products in retail environments. The longtime signage CMS firm, based in Burlington, Ontario, says U.S. Patent No. 9,152,986 for “lift and touch” technology simplifies the complex problem of maintaining and updating content related to …
Projects: Lowe’s Goes Virtual To Squeeze More SKUs Into NYC Stores November 12, 2015 by Super User Commercial space is insanely expensive in Manhattan, so if a big box store wants to have a footprint in New York City it has to slim down the number of SKUs it has on hand and get creative with how products are marketed. One of the ways the DIY chain Lowe’s is doing that is …
Impressions From SEGD Xlab November 12, 2015 by Super User A few people have asked me directly or by email what I thought of Xlab this year, which made me realize I didn’t really write about the event that ran a week ago in New York. It was the fifth iteration of an event developed by the Society for Experiential Graphic Design, or the less involved …
Joan E Ink Door Signs Honored In CES Innovation Awards November 11, 2015 by Super User The massive CES trade show in Las Vegas is just weeks away, and ahead of it each year, the newly renamed Consumer Technology Association runs an innovation showcase for selected products. There are dozens of honorees, for all kinds of tech and gadgets, and among them for 2016 is the Joan Meeting Room Assistant (or Joan), …
Live Data Is Great, But Clutter, Not So Much November 11, 2015 by Super User I really like the automated content approach and utility that start-up TransitScreen is bringing to digital signage, however I can’t help but think the cluttered layout rule that applies to every other kind of digital signage should apply with this stuff, as well. In short, there’s way too much going on at once on those screens. …
