Projects: Real-Time Generative Content At Paris’ Grand Palais April 7, 2015 by Super User One of the emerging trends in large format digital displays and walls will, I think, be generative, visualized content based on data and then dynamically rendered. It will happen because the investment goes in at the front-end but the content keeps refreshing itself, as opposed to needing to be re-thought and re-made regularly. And it …
DSrupted 2015 Site Live, Tickets On Sale April 6, 2015 by Super User The DSrupted 2015 website is now live, the agenda is out and ticketing is live for the event, Sept. 16th in Toronto. We’re pulling together our speakers and already have commitments from a couple of really, really good ones. Microsoft’s Mike Pell will talk about data visualization. He’s a Senior Designer in the Cloud + Enterprise …
TouchTunes Acquired By Private Investment Firm April 3, 2015 by Super User One of the larger digital OOH networks on the planet, Montreal’s TouchTunes Interactive Networks, has been acquired by a private investment firm, Searchlight Capital. TouchTunes is mostly known as a digital jukebox company, and has units plugged in at more than 71,000 bars and restaurants across North America and Europe. But the jukeboxes have screens and …
Triggered Content: What’s Old Is Somehow New Again April 2, 2015 by Super User More than 15 years in digital signage has, admittedly, left me a little jaded. What can excite a bunch of people barely gets a shrug out of me when I see it or read about it. Sometimes common sense tells you something won’t every really fly – like glasses-free 3D or most of the Stupid People …
TigerLogic Debuts Postano User-Gen Chrome App For Retail April 2, 2015 by Super User Portland, Oregon-based TigerLogic has developed and released a user-generated content application for kiosks that jumps on the rather abrupt explosion of development and interest in Google’s low-cost Chrome platform. The company’s interactive brand is Postano, and Postano Kiosk is now an app that can be downloaded from the Google Chrome web store. It’s designed for integrating user-generated …
Digital Signage Goes To College April 2, 2015 by Pat Hellberg Guest Post: Pat Hellberg, The Preset Group I have a son who is a junior in high school, which means in about a year and a half, he will be spending all of my money. College is coming … quickly. To find the right fit, we just spent spring break visiting schools in California. Our …
Sweden’s DISE Adds Support for Samsung SSP April 2, 2015 by Super User The Swedish software firm DISE is the latest to tweak its player software to run on Samsung’s Smart Signage Platform, which is built and marketed around the idea of having a System on Chip built into displays, removing the need for an external player. “You only need a network, a code and then you are …
Omnivex Launches Cloud Version Of Moxie Platform April 2, 2015 by Super User Toronto-based Omnivex has launched Moxie Cloud, billed as an easy-launch, affordable hosted spin on its powerful Movie digital signage management platform. Moxie Cloud’s subscription includes a series of professional-looking templates to get content up even without designers or agencies. It also includes a weather feed and news from Thomson Reuters. Moxie Cloud, says a release, is …
Acer To Ship 21.5-Inch Touch Chromebase April 1, 2015 by Super User Acer has announced plans to ship a giant 1080P tablet- called a Chromebase – by this summer, with touch and running Chrome OS. The unit is kinda sort a tablet and also kinda sorta an all-in-one display – in a 21.5-inch form factor. From the context of digital signage, this has endcap or podium display all …
Capital Networks Targets Rival Scala’s Customers With Trade-In Program April 1, 2015 by Super User Ask most people who sell signage software and they’ll confirm replacing incumbent software providers is a substantial part of their month to month business. Sometimes it is service quality. Sometimes one glitch too many. A push on pricing. Or even just personality clashes. The software guys sell against each other every day in a quest to …
