We all know the world is going digital and things like brochures and pamphlets don’t have a big future – but it’s not a shift that’s going to happen abruptly. Go to a car dealership or bank, or real estate presentation centre, and you are still going to see a lot of printed material being pushed at and happily received by customers. […]
One of my last meetings at DSE a week ago was a post-show Day 2 sit-down over a couple of beers (yay!) with the guys who run Valota, a Finnish software content company that is taking a different approach to subscription content feeds. […]
Adobe’s Marc Eaman demonstrates Smart Bag during Adobe Summit. Photo: Maralise Petersen. Some clients and contacts have been telling me lately that creative production software giant Adobe is starting to get active in the digital signage space – a logical move as the creative they enable – like print and OOH advertising – shifts from analog to digital. […]
Paris, 24 March, 2016 – JCDecaux SA (Euronext Paris: DEC), the number one outdoor advertising company worldwide, announces that it has renewed with SNCF Réseau, following a competitive tender, the occupancy agreement relating to “non-station” advertising space for a period of eight years. […]
Florian Rotberg speaking at a 2015 European conference The big pro AV trade show InfoComm has for several years had some sort of digital signage educational conference running ahead of the exhibit hall opening, and there will be another one this year – with a European twist. […]
Here’s a video look at what Dallas-based RMG Networks is driving in the retail wireless stores of the UAE-based telecom Etisalat. The wireless carrier has a range of screens around its larger stores, and is expected to kit out roughly 100 with digital signage by the end of this year. […]
SUNNYVALE, Calif., March 23, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Socionext Inc., a new leader in advanced SoCs for imaging applications, today introduced the world’s first single-chip SoC that can process decoding of 8K resolution HEVC video. […]
Brookings, S.D. – March 15, 2016 – Daktronics Inc. (NASDAQ-DAKT) has acquired ADFLOW Networks, Inc. […]
FRIENDSWOOD, TX–(Marketwired – Mar 22, 2016) – Data Call Technologies, Inc. (OTCQB: DCLT) (the “Company” or “Data Call”) is a company specializing in the production, curation, aggregation and delivery of news and information content for the Digital Signage and Corporate Communication industries. […]
Digital agency, Bayshore Solutions, announces the launch of the redesigned website for nationally recognized signage manufacturer, Creative Sign Designs (CSD). In addition to business-critical mobile user responsiveness, the redesign replaces a seven-year-old website with re-engineered site structure and navigation, clean image-driven design, and targeted vertical portfolios. […]
Eden Prairie, Minn., USA (March 2016) – Chief, an industry leader in AV mounting solutions has announced the addition of a Technology Solutions Group to better serve customers with digital signage rollouts from start to finish. Collaborative Support From Start to Finish The group will provide a full service offering to manufacturers, content providers and their end users. […]
The guys from Hughes asked me last week, when I was at DSE and getting a rundown on what they do and offer, if I could do a webinar with them the following week to re-cap the event. […]
It’s very logical to think of Christie as a display hardware company, but if you stop and think about it, you realize it takes solid software to make those projectors and display cubes and LCDs and LEDs all run properly. The company has announced it has hired an ex-Blackberry guy to be its director of solutions software. […]
A UK reader kindly pointed me to this terrific charity program that combines a public-facing set of screens, a card reader and trigger-based content to drive donations to a German relief charity. The Social Swipe program allows people in public spaces to swipe a credit card to make a small donation to Miserior. […]
Interactivity is a great way to get millennials and digital natives to appreciate substance. Take this story out of Hungary for example. Being nestled among Austria, the Danube River and the gateway to Eastern Europe, Hungary has no shortage of cultural history, and least of all musical history. […]
