This Teeny PC Would Run Digital Signage On Windows, Linux OR Android October 19, 2015 by Super User The substantial crowd out there that is endlessly looking for gear that drives capital costs out of digital signage projects will undoubtedly be intrigued by a planned Kickstarter campaign to develop a tiny x86 microcomputer that would run Windows, Linux OR Android 5.0. The units would cost roughly $100 USD in volume. That’s substantially more than a …
Nielsen Research Confirms No One-Spot-Fits-All For Effective Creative October 19, 2015 by Super User One look at the movies and a listen to the radio when you’re in another country will confirm suspicions that interests and tastes vary around the globe, and the same holds true for advertising, according to new Nielsen research. Nielsen’s latest Global Trust in Advertising Survey asked 30,000 online consumers what advertising themes are most impactful, …
NYC OKs Plan To Kick Taxi Cab Screens To The Curb October 16, 2015 by Super User One of the higher profile digital out of home networks around just got its plug pulled. Screens in the back seats of some 14,000 New York City and borough cabs are being unplugged after the city’s Taxi and Limousine Commission approved a pilot program on Thursday that will start by replacing a percentage of the screens …
Open Source Concerto Digital Signage Platform Gets Commercial SaaS Version October 15, 2015 by Super User Some of the people who developed the open source digital signage platform Concerto, when they were students at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, have now developed a commercial wrapper of Concerto aimed at users who want a low-cost, intuitive system, but don’t want to manage servers. If end-users want to use Concerto at no cost, they’ll need your …
Projects: Christie’s Experiential Networks Adds Emagine Cinema October 15, 2015 by Super User Christie is continuing to roll out its Christie Experiential Networks digital signage/digital OOH program in cinemas across the US, among the latest the Emagine Palladium theatre in Birmingham, Michigan. The new moviehouse is part of Michigan-based Emagine Entertainment, and is among 200 or so Christie plans to have installed this year with a lobby-based, ad-supported network. …
The Virtual Dressing Room Goes To The Museum October 14, 2015 by Super User The virtual dressing room thing right in a retail environment escapes me a little bit (being old, male and clueless never helps), but a software company that specializes in this stuff recently showcased an interesting, very different use for the tech at a famed museum. Zugara was one of a short list of companies asked …
Industry Weapon Says It’s Now Driving Signage On Chromeboxes October 14, 2015 by Super User Pittsburgh’s Industry Weapon has formally joined the list of companies that have developed applications to work with Google ChromeOS-driven Chromeboxes and all-in-one Chromebases. The company, known for many years as a top Cisco partner, says the devices will work with its SaaS-based CMS platform, called CommandCenterHD. One of the big attractions to ChromeOS, the company …
Projects: Moscow Lights Up Giant 370-Meter Wide Projection Map Show October 12, 2015 by Super User Via AV Interactive This is one BIG projection mapping projected – described as a world record for this kind of tech. The 370-metre facade of the Ministry of Defence in Moscow was bathed in light from 142 digital projectors across six towers. For the metric impaired, that’s roughly four football fields wide. It was for a recent …
Signage Buyers Growing More Sophisticated, Says Four Winds CEO Levin October 12, 2015 by Super User Four Winds Interactive is having its first big conference in Denver next week – an event called Forward that is something of a departure from typical software company events that are mostly about product education, sales and contract retention. The agenda for this event is instead populated mainly by outside speakers, albeit most of them partners or major …
ComQi Paper Takes Different Look At Corporate Comms Signage Strategy October 9, 2015 by Super User NY-based software and services firm ComQi has pushed out a white paper that gives a different look at what corporate communications digital signage is all about. It covers off the traditional stuff – like staff messaging and directories – but also gets into some far less travelled turf like policy compliance and KPI dashboards. Two …
