Full List: Digital Signage Expo Content & Project Award Noms December 17, 2013 by Super User Digital Signage Expo announced a couple of big piles of finalists for its Apex Awards and Content Awards, to be handed out in a few weeks at the annual trade show in Las Vegas. The Apex Awards are for innovation in the development and deployment of technology while the content awards are for guess what. …
Projects: WestJet’s Christmas Miracle Interactive Station December 16, 2013 by Super User This thing has 27 million-plus views, but if you’ve not had a look, here’s a clever mash-up of interactive screen, live video conference and rapid-fire event planning put together for Canadian air carrier WestJet.
19 Slices Of Raspberry Pi For Digital Signage December 13, 2013 by Super User Posts about using the $35 Raspberry Pi for a digital signage project tend to generate a lot of reader interest, and some work I’ve been doing has required me to poke around a bit to see what all is out there. Turns out there are many I didn’t know about. So here’s a round-up of …
AV Tech Giant Milestone Changes Hands; Acquired By Private Capital Group December 12, 2013 by Super User Milestone AV Technologies – the Minneapolis-are company that markets AV brands like Chief, Da-Lite and Sanus, has been acquired by Pritzker Group Private Capital. Milestone was purchased for an undisclosed price from The Duchossois Group, which will keep “a significant interest in the business and continue to have representatives serve on the board of directors.” “Our …
Mash-up From Oslo Uses XBMC And Raspberry Pi To Make Digital Signage December 12, 2013 by Super User Norwegian start-up Tellystream has released a digital signage platform aimed squarely at the vast market of small business end-users who don’t have much enthusiasm for recurring monthly fees or what, in their general view, are unnecessarily expensive displays and playback devices. This system works on Samsung Smart TVs (the consumer versions, not Samsung’s Smart Signage …
Projects: Raven’s New Lobby Design Builds In Digital Wall December 11, 2013 by Super User Raven Industries in Sioux Falls, South Dakota has redesigned its lobby and built in a nice angular wall of Christie MicroTiles. The company designs and manufactures technical products like precision agriculture (beats me), high performance plastic films and sheeting, and aerospace and surveillance technology. For the lobby, the architect schemed in a 45-degree angle, white-faced wall …
Projects: FirstOntario Lights Up Credit Union Screens December 11, 2013 by Super User FirstOntario Credit Union has started rolling out a branch-level digital signage network using ADFLOW Networks and intended to promote banking services to customers and prospective accounts. New branches have been outfitted with a minimum of two screens per location, installed in waiting areas, teller locations and vestibules (don’t see that word often anymore). Screens display multiple …
Hisense Latest DisplayCo To Debut Giant Quasi-Tablets December 11, 2013 by Super User Chinese TV manufacturer Hisense is the latest company to release a big quasi-tablet that could be used for digital signage, though the caution here is that these are TVs and not commercial panels. However, the Hisense smart TVs run Android 4.2.2 and run the Marvell ARMADA 1500 media processor, which is what’s driving those Google …
A New Look, And Most Of It Works December 10, 2013 by Super User For the last few weeks I have been fiddling with a new look for this blog – one that’s very reminiscent of my old newspaper days. With a center masthead, “earlug” graphics to each side, and a big top ad banner. It was supposed to go live this weekend, but the guy helping me … …
Cisco Still Doing Digital Signage Deals, Despite Reports It Left Space December 9, 2013 by Super User The conventional wisdom is that Cisco is no longer in the digital signage space, having bingo’d the internal team that was marketing its product more than a year ago. However, the more accurate story is that the networking giant still markets and sells that capability. It does so through a partnership with Dallas-based AppSpace, which …
