AOPEN Formally Launches Commercial-Grade Chromebox August 10, 2015 by Super User Taiwan-based device-maker AOPEN has formally launched the commercial-grade Chromebox the company first previewed at Google’s booth months ago at Digital Signage Expo. Called the Chromebox Commercial, the device has long been awaited by software companies and integrators who are already working with Chrome, but were perhaps a little jumpy about the distinctly consumer-grade Chromeboxes already …
Projects: iGotcha Serves Interactive Tennis App For Canadian Bank August 10, 2015 by Super User Customers at select National Bank of Canada branches are getting a taste of pro tennis this month, through a mobile to digital signage interactive promotion put together by Montreal’s iGotcha Media. The promo in select branches supports the bank’s sponsor of the Rogers Cup pro tennis tournament that’s on right now in Montreal and Toronto …
DSE’s South American Road Trip Pays Off August 6, 2015 by Super User It looks like a partnership that saw Digital Signage Expo take its act to South America this summer paid off for Atlanta-based Exponation. The company is reporting that Digital Signage Expo South America (DSE SA) attracted 3,800 unique visitors to the event last month, a number pretty much the same as what the mother ship show does …
ScreenScape Builds Sports Video Clip Platform Into CMS Offer August 4, 2015 by Super User PEI’s ScreenScape Networks Inc. has worked a content deal with another Canadian company that specializes in packaging up sports highlights as YouTube-style videos. Victoria, BC’s SendtoNews is making digital content available to ScreenScape’s CMS platform customers through its own SportStation platform, on a pay-per-use basis. The partnership offers two levels of SportStation programming: A standard package will supply daily …
Toronto’s IdeaLab Debuts Turnkey Kiosk Rental Offer August 4, 2015 by Super User Anybody who has sold digital signage product and had conversations with brand marketers has probably had rent-versus-buy questions thrown at them from people who like what they saw, but only needed it for a few weeks, not a few years. That’s stopped many projects and ideas in their tracks, because the options to rent a …
New IoT Density Sensor Opens Up More Possibilities For Real-Time Messaging August 3, 2015 by Super User Via Engadget If you follow tech writing, you won’t scroll too far on any site before you run into an Internet of Things piece. It’s a massive subject, but here’s an IoT gadget you can quickly get your head around, as it might apply to digital signage and digital OOH. A teeny sensor from a …
Sharp Exits TV Market In Americas, But Not Commercial Display Biz July 31, 2015 by Super User China’s Hisense Group and Japan’s Sharp announced a deal today that sees Hisense buying all the equity and assets of Sharp’s TV factory in Mexico (for $23.7 million) and with that the rights to use the “Sharp” brand name and all its channel resources in both North and South American regions. In effect, Hisense is completely taking over …
DSF’s DSrupted Mixer Goes To The Mall July 31, 2015 by Super User The Digital Signage Federation is again getting involved with DSrupted, running a mixer the night before the conference at a restaurant-bar at Canada’s swishiest mall. The DSF Night Of Networking is at Moxie’s Grill & Bar, at Yorkdale Shopping Centre, from 6 to 9 PM on Sept. 15th. DSrupted is the next day. Come by for …
Combining Raspberry Pi & Windows 10 IoT To Make A (Very) Basic Digital Sign July 31, 2015 by Super User Microsoft’s developer site has a post and details up about how people determined to spend as little as possible on signage software and hardware could put a project together with a $45 Raspberry Pi single board computer and the new Windows 10 IoT Core operating system software. The developer details are over my head, but the …
Nice Tunnel, Shame About The Screens July 31, 2015 by Super User If you fly into Toronto via the little island airport just off downtown, it’s great in just about every way. Handy. Great view coming in and leaving. Fun carrier in Porter Airlines. But the island airport was always accessible only by what has to be among the shortest ferry rides in existence. The handy airport …
