This week we’re talking content management software with Mark McDermott, the CEO and one of the co-founders of ScreenCloud, which offers a platform that looks, feels and works like much of what we do online with other subscription software tools. […]
Photo Credit: Field Agent There are multiple reports online, all picking up on a couple of reports, about a giant vending machine-like in-store pickup system being tested at a Walmart near the retailing giant’s head offices in Bentonville, Arkansas. […]
The Digital Signage Federation has a new logo. There were DSF members walking around last week with lapel pins sporting the new look. I’m told a badly needed refresh of the organization’s website is imminent. […]
L to R: Fred D’Alessandro, Scott McMullan, Bob Dungan, Kevin Collins New Jersey-based solutions provider Diversified (you may know them as DMG) continues to be in major growth through acquisition mode. The company last week announced the acquisition of Dallas, TX-based Media Management, an integrator that also has offices in Houston. […]
The US shopping mall giant Simon is rolling out a shiny new set of big 65-inch interactive directories to nine shopping centres, using a blend of touch and screen to mobile capabilities like NFC, beacons and text. The units, a press release suggests, also use proximity sensors that make the interactive component “come to life” when a shopper walks within a few feet of the screen. […]
The 2017 edition of Digital Signage Expo have opened for registration online at www.dse2017.com The show is at the Las Vegas Convention Center March 28-31 (with the exhibit hall open March 29-30). […]
Costco regulars will confirm my experience that all kinds of things turn up on the spartan shelves of the member-based warehouse retailer. But I don’t recall seeing any digital signage products for sale, as they are in Taiwan. That country’s 12 big box Costcos are selling 50-inch all-in-one kiosks, and sales results are so far beating original sales forecasts. […]
The Aussie firm Coates Group has formally started marketing its in-house virtual reality capabilities as a way to understand how digital signage and interactive screens could be integrated into the stores of its target vertical – fast food restaurants. […]
The Society For Experiential Graphic Design has its annual xLab conference on even as I type this, but I’m back at HQ and missing the event (but not missing flying out of NYC on a Friday evening … ugh). […]
Halfway through a whirlwind trip in and out of New York for a few events associated with what’s been dubbed New York Digital Signage Week. It’s a compilation of events and cocktail parties and open houses, some that have been on for years, and others that have developed around this DS week theme. […]
Guest Post: Luis Villafane, Maler Digital Signage I don´t like “feel good” business stories when I’m reading social media. I don’t want to read something that starts out with “Before you die … live” or “What I learned from my hard-working dad …” Put that stuff up, and you’re unfollowed by me pretty quickly. […]
I’m in and out of New York really quickly this week for NEC, LG and an SEGD tour, but a meeting fell through and now I have a few hours on Thursday morning – when it will apparently be raining (pfffft) – to duck into a few places between fixed commitments and an evening dash to JFK. […]
Sao Paulo, Brazil-based start-up OOZO TV is marketing a digital signage solution built around social media and ultra low-cost Raspberry Pi 3-driven media players. The company is touting what it calls a hyperlocal custom content solution that draws much of its content from real-time feeds from social media networks like Instagram. […]
Photo Credit: ONELAN Reserva About 18 months ago I put up a post about the handful of options I could find out there for putting little digital displays outside meeting room and conference room drawers. […]
Guest Post: Jami McGraw, Seneca Jami McGraw Perhaps the biggest attraction of shrinking a regular PC down to a tiny, candy bar-sized stick can be summed up in one word: clutter. A computer on an HDMI stick can plug into a port on the back of a desktop display or digital signage screen, and disappear. It’s clutter-free, and for a lot of jobs, seemingly an ideal solution. […]
