Valotalive, Signagelive Partner On Real-Time Data Visualization Services August 25, 2015 by Super User A couple of “live” companies have put together a partnership to start using HTML5 in bringing real-time visualized content to digital signage screens, particularly in business environments. The deal – a global partnership – is between Finland’s Valotalive and the UK’s Signagelive. It includes packaged RSS news and weather feeds, as well as social media …
How JFK Is Using Real-Time Data Screens At TSA Screening August 24, 2015 by Super User Via TechCrunch Here’s another great example of the possibilities for using real-time data to drive screen content and make something faster, better or easier. In this case, the faster, better and easier has to do with TSA screening at airports. This tech won’t really achieve any of those three, but it will at least make …
Projects: Uniqlo Powers Digital Selfies Using In-Store Screens & WeChat August 24, 2015 by Super User Via AdAge The Japanese apparel retailer used in-store displays to interact with the mobile app WeChat to drive its brand in a recent promotion focused on the Chinese market. AdAge reports how the brand’s “Style Your Life” campaign helped more than double its number of WeChat followers, from 400,000 when the campaign launched last year …
Brazilian QSR Bob’s Targeting 1,000 BroadSign-Powered Menu Systems August 24, 2015 by Super User I was asked by a contact recently why there were not more North American companies active in the South American market, and my honest answer was that I didn’t really know, but suspected much of that had to do with companies up here not knowing the size of the opportunities, and the scale of the challenges with …
Come To DSrupted From The US, It’s Free (Almost) August 21, 2015 by Super User The mighty Canadian loonie has taken a big tumble in the last year or so, its value tied to oil, gas and mines. As demand slowed, there went the dollar that was bounding around par with the US dollar the last few years. If you are in America and have been thinking about coming up for …
Marketing: How Show And Tell Beats Read And Interpret August 20, 2015 by Super User I’m not going to get into the relative merits of the UK software firm Embed Signage’s latest round of enhancements to its signage platform, because there are way too many CMS apples out there to do apples to apples comparisons on, and as noted in the past, writing about minor, periodic software releases isn’t all …
AOPEN Adds Chromebase Commercial All-In-One To Chrome OS Line-up August 20, 2015 by Super User Taiwan’s AOPEN has followed up the recent release of its commercial-grade Chromebox with Chromebase Commercial all-in-one display, aka big-ass tablet. The solid state 22-inch display is billed as a versatile, tamperproof and zero maintenance device for such uses as Point Of Sale, small kiosks or retail end-caps. The unit is multi-touch panel with some degree of waterproofing …
Projects: Book Comes To Life In Silicon Valley Mall Display August 20, 2015 by Super User Speciality display maker Volanti Displays, based just south of Silicon Valley, teamed up recently with a nearby luxe shopping mall – Westfield Valley Fair – on a very different digital window used to promote the Michael Kors fashion line. The base idea was to borrow on the set-up of a shop window, but pull it into the middle …
DSrupted Name Tags In, Check August 19, 2015 by Super User There’s a bunch of little things that tend to get forgotten when you’re organizing an event in the fleeting moments between calls and the endless, endless stuff of a work week. So I’m please as heck DSrupted is still four weeks out and I have the name badges and lanyards for attendees in hand, the …
Real-Time Data As Content: TransitScreen Adds Live And Predictive Traffic August 19, 2015 by Super User Ask anybody, in pretty much any big city, about the state of their traffic, and they’ll have a one word answer: “Horrible.” Still, it’s very handy to know just HOW horrible traffic is on the routes in and out of urban centers and chokepoints, and the guys at Washington, DC-based TransitScreen have done a partnership to add …
