Attendees Coming All Over For DSrupted 2014 July 29, 2014 by Super User When DSrupted first started coming together I assumed the great majority of attendees would be from Toronto and the surrounding area. But a surprising number of people are coming in from much further afield – all the way from the US West Coast to little Price Edward Island in Maritimes Canada. I’ve also been trading …
Projects: Siemens UK Uses Screens For Internal Comms July 29, 2014 by Super User The UK offices of Siemens, the huge engineering and technology services company, are now using digital signage to improve the delivery of their internal communications. Eclipse Digital Media put the project together and uses ONELAN as the management and playback platform. Eclipse says it “carried out a period of consultancy with Siemens to establish the goals …
DSrupted: “Growth Hacking” Retail With Beacon Technology July 29, 2014 by Charles Regula Guest Post: Doug Thompson, Dot 3 Retail is the New Digital Battleground Physical world retailers will need to adopt the growth hacking strategies of their digital cousins if they’re going to survive. To some, growth hacking might just be a fancy name for online marketing. But at its core it represents the idea that marketing, …
Linutop Adds Kiosk Software For Raspberry Pi Digital Signage July 29, 2014 by Super User Add Linutop to the list of options for running digital signs using the teeny $45 Raspberry Pi micro-PC. The French software company has made its Linutop Kiosk available for Raspberry Pi devices. The software can handle secure Internet access Kiosks running HTML5 and digital signage systems using still images and MP4 video. The new version of …
Guest Post: Is Open Pluggable Still Relevant For Digital Signage? July 29, 2014 by Tara Parachuk Guest Post: Manuel Edghill, Digbil Is it time to yank OPS from the digital signage lexicon? Launched in 2010, a hardware standard named Open Pluggable Specification (OPS) was released, aiming to reduce digital signage market fragmentation and simplify device installation and maintenance. It has largely failed to achieve these objectives, due to high implementation costs, …
Failing To Plan A Digital Signage Project Means Planning To Fail July 26, 2014 by MarkJanke Guest Post: Tom Pritzker, JohnRyan The old proverb “If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail” may have a lot of miles on it, but it keeps getting used because it’s simple, sound advice. Big projects can go adrift quickly if good work and thinking doesn’t go into the early scoping and …
McGuire Out As CEO At RMG Networks July 24, 2014 by Super User News is out that Garry McGuire has resigned as President and CEO of RMG Networks, and an interim guy is in place, effective immediately. It is probably not all that shocking given that RMG’s last quarterly results statements redefined ugly, and the share price free-fell that day. While it has come back quite a bit, …
The Weird Box Emerges From Digital Signage Shadows July 24, 2014 by Super User CE labs has been a loyal Sixteen:Nine advertiser for at least a year now, providing playback and distribution gear, software and services in the digital signage space. The Dallas-based company is very good at keeping marketing materials fresh, and I was intrigued by a new set of ads promoting something they’ve dubbed The Weird Box. …
Projects: Aerva Driving Outdoor Digital Way Down Under July 23, 2014 by Super User Boston-based Aerva is working with a New Zealand reseller, nGage, on a deal that’s now powering outdoor digital screens for the media firm APN Outdoor. There will be five screens up around Auckland by the end of this month. Reports Aerva: In addition, Aerva’s AerWave software will also power APN Outdoor’s digital plinths and video …
TinyGreenPC Debuts Raspberry Pi Digital Signage Player July 23, 2014 by Super User TinyGreenPC has has been doing teeny solid-state micro PCs for a few years now, but the London, UK-based firm has announced a new digital signage player based on an the Raspberry Pi-ARM micro PC. The new player is a commercial-grade version of the hyper-popular Raspberry Pi, based on a partnership with Silver Curve and already set …
