NanoLumens Touts Three Years of Making It In America March 26, 2014 by Super User It is really hard for a North American company to compete with Chinese electronics manufacturers because buyers inevitably think price, but one of the foils to that is the whole “made right here” pitch. It’s a healthy element of the value proposition from NanoLumens, which has a great product but also has lots of Chinese …
Projects: Digital OOH Prankvertising At A UK Bus Top March 24, 2014 by Super User There’s been a run of brand-sponsored “prankvertising” videos that seem to revel in scaring the living crap out of people. They get a lot attention, but you have to wonder whether the buzz is worth all the negatives generated by stuff that borders on mean spirited and nasty. The ones I have seen are done …
Screenly Q&A: Optimization Crucial For Raspberry Pi Digital Signage March 24, 2014 by Super User I caught up by email this weekend with Viktor Petersson, the guy behind Screenly,which is arguably the most commercial digital signage management platform on the market that’s been built specifically around Raspberry Pi micro PCs. Certainly, there are other options, but in some instances Pi devices are supposed along with others, or the efforts are open-sourced, …
Projects: UK Hospital Network Adopts Smart Panels March 23, 2014 by Super User The Healthcare Messaging Group runs a communications service that publicizes essential healthcare, patient and hospital information on displays installed at primary locations within National Health Service hospitals in the UK, and the network has started cutting over to a solution that uses Samsung’s system on chip panels and Signagelive software. The Patient Information Initiative is …
Windows XP Is Going Away: The Problem And Your Options March 21, 2014 by Staff Writer “Microsoft deals new blow to XP diehards by pulling malware protection” – V3 magazine, January 2014 “Failure to migrate from Windows XP could torpedo your business” – Computer Weekly, January 2014 Guest Post:Nick Donaldson, AVNET Embedded The two headlines above, which appeared in leading industry publications recently, are not only noteworthy for their crispness of expression, but …
The Internet Of Everything Is Coming To A Bank Near You March 20, 2014 by MarkJanke Guest Post: Tom Pritzker, John Ryan Flashy new smartphones and wearable devices may have got much of the trade press buzz, but the real story coming out of the recent Mobile World Congress in Barcelona is the technology inside all those devices, and the implications for marketers. The microprocessors and tiny graphics chips driving the latest …
Barco Buys X2O Media In $21M Deal March 19, 2014 by Super User The Belgian display firm Barco has acquired Montreal’s X2O Media in a $21M (CDN$) cash deal. “X2O Media perfectly complements our offering and skills portfolio, and is an important step in our strategy to expand our portfolio beyond video and imaging,” says Eric Van Zele, CEO of Barco in today’s announcement. “Customers’ expectations regarding workflow and …
Time To Pave The Dynamic Digital Park March 18, 2014 by Super User It’s a month out from the ISA International Sign Expo in Orlando and it’s reasonable at this point to suggest attempts to drop digital signage into the traditional sign industry’s big North American show have not been all that successful. The “Dynamic Digital Park” off in one corner has lots of empty slots and the vendors who …
Infographic: 3 Steps To Successful Digital Signage In Retail Banking March 18, 2014 by Super User I like infographics. They’re relatively new to the online world but anyone who came out of the newspaper business can tell you they really come out of the late 70s and through the 80s, arguably started by USA Today. Where was I … oh yeah … here’s a nice one pulled together by NanoLumens which doesn’t pump …
Aussie Mall’s OOH Ad Plan Is All Digital, No Print March 18, 2014 by Super User Here’s an interesting little story out of Melbourne, Australia that shows how digital is genuinely displacing conventional print: the city’s new Emporium shopping centre will have Australia’s biggest external digital sign, more than 30 digital advertising panels, and no print advertising. From the trade publication ProPrint: Australia’s largest retail advertising media company, oOh! Media, has won …
