Projects: Lithuanian Cinema Trades Static For Digital April 1, 2014 by Super User Forum Cinemas UAB, the largest cinema chain in Lithuania, has cut over its menu boards and posters to a dynamic solution as part of a big modernization project. The cinema chain’s Vilnius moviehouse is now running Samsung’s Smart Signage solution, using Signagelive as the back-end management platform. The cinema’s end-to-end digital signage solution comprises six video …
Captivate Buys Office Media Network April 1, 2014 by Super User In what you’d likely call common-sense and inevitable, the two digital OOH networks that competed for the ad dollars aimed at the business crowd have become one. Captivate Network is buying Office Media Network for undisclosed terms of cash and stock. The strategic consolidation creates North America’s largest in-office media network and leverages the strengths …
Visionect Introduces E-Paper Digital Signage Solution March 31, 2014 by Super User Luka Birsa, the Chief Technology Officer for the Slovenian firm Visionect, sent me a note telling me about how his company has shifted its work with e-paper to the digital signage market. “I read your article on meeting room systems and it inspired us to develop a demo system for room booking, which can be mounted on …
Samsung’s 2nd Gen Smart Sign Out In May March 31, 2014 by Super User I am in a very chilly and white Calgary, Alberta, and heading to what may well be an even chillier and just as snowy Edmonton, on a quick Western Canada swing. The Calgary part of the trip was a presentation by me to a room full of regional Samsung integrators and partners, talking about where …
RMG Year-End Financials Show $14M Operating Loss, But Sales Gains March 31, 2014 by Super User RMG Networks Holding Corporation has announced its financials for Q4 and also for 2013, showing a big operating loss, but suggest at least in the narrative that things are heading in the right direction. It’s complicated because the reporting looks at the periods both before RMGN blended in Symon and listed on the stock market, and …
Popstar Networks Is Now NextDSS March 28, 2014 by Super User Building my list of companies in this eco-system took me to some research dead-ends with companies, notably the Kansas City-area software company Popstar Networks. The site was DOA, so I tweeted about wondering what became of the firm. Turns out last summer they were acquired by a client, Cinema Scene Marketing, and re-branded as NextDSS. …
Are There Really 300 Digital Signage Software Options? March 28, 2014 by Super User For the last few months I have, in free moments, been trying to build a list that identifies and categorizes the digital signage eco-system. It’s a big job and I even subbed out some of the work to someone in Croatia to spend a many hours searching, decoding and validating companies. So far, I have …
The Smart Digital Sign Developers Daydream About March 27, 2014 by Super User Bryan Mongeau runs the tech and developer teams at Broadsign and keeps an eye on the smart TV and all-in-one display markets in Asia, ever on the lookout for big-ass panels that would fully meet his aspirations for a truly smart digital sign. He spotted and sent along a Liputing post, via Engadget, about a …
Using Video To Get Your Message Out March 26, 2014 by Super User This is a visual medium, so I have regularly harped away about how few companies use video to market their products, services or successes. There’s some really good stuff out here and there, but it can cost a bunch of money to produce, and budget fears probably stop a lot of video ideas in their tracks. …
You’ve Got 60 Seconds To Find The Mind You Just Lost March 26, 2014 by Super User Here’s the scariest digital signage application I’ve seen in ages. From Digital Signage Today: The University of Southern California has become the first U.S. university campus to offer a burrito vending kiosk, reports The Daily Trojan. After installing its burrito vending kiosks at two gas stations in Los Angeles earlier this year, Burritobox selected USC for the site …
