The free, open source digital signage platform, Xibo, is now available as something called a snap – a universal Linux app packaging format. Snaps are described as “containerized software packages designed to work across cloud, desktop, and IoT devices. […]
This is a 10-metre (30-ish feet) wide interactive LCD video wall in a Shanghai subway station that is using augmented reality to get passengers excited about a lemon iced tea product. When people stand in front of it, their faces appear on the screen in real time, adorned by lemon filters and a Vita Lemon Tea box at their mouths. […]
The next Digital Signage Federation Meet and Greet mixer is set for two weeks from today in suburban Chicago, at NEC’s offices out in the ‘burbs. The event on Aug. […]
A San Francisco-area company that specializes in mobile device management (MDM) software solutions has announced a business application, AirDroid Business, aimed at use-cases like kiosks and digital signage. […]
Love this – the main entry to an iconic old department store building in Philadelphia was updated with a digital canopy and flanking displays, and now runs gorgeous custom creative. The former Lit Brothers Department Store was a cultural landmark that operated for nearly a century in Philly before closing its doors. […]
Creative software giant Adobe continues to dabble in digital signage – first with its own Screens management software and now with display technology. The company will be at the SIGGRAPH gaming tech conference this week in LA showing off some skunkworks R&D tech that looks like transparent LCD and OLED screens got together overnight at a Vegas trade show, and had a love-child. […]
I’ve had three podcast interviews deferred this week for various reasons, so if I have one up next week, it has to happen soon. There’s a running idea list I keep of people I want to talk to, but I am always open to suggestions of new interview subjects. Most typically, the podcasts are with C-level people from companies. […]
Hat Tip @BradParler for tweeting on this … This seems like a really bad idea – running an interstitial-style ad for a new movie promo that completely takes over the digital menus at a McDonald’s somewhere in the U.S. Presumably, given it is an expensive spot and McDonald’s has a Happy Meal tie-in with the movie, this is happening in way more than one location. […]
I am not sure what the double-double crowd (Canadians will know what I mean) will think of a new Tim Hortons location opening up in Toronto’s financial district tomorrow. The Tim Hortons 130 King will be the company’s “first-ever innovation café. […]
Just about anyone involved on the sales or management side of digital signage these days knows that workplace communications has pretty quickly grown into one of the most active and interesting verticals. With QSRs, the other hot vertical, you’re doing menus and digital promo posters. In the workplace, all kinds of interesting things are possible, and can make a difference. […]
Montreal’s Broadsign has secured its first toehold into the Chinese digital out of home media market, winning a deal to be the CMS software platform for Oriental Sunrise Media Group. The deal is just a few licenses, for now, but one of the active screens run by the company is also one of Asia’s largest digital displays – measuring 3,788 square metres. […]
Planar has started making noise about what the display manufacturer says are screens that have the industry’s skinniest bezels. Planar and parent company Leyard says two new 55-inch models in the VM Series have a 0.88mm tiled bezel width. […]
Loto-Quebec was an early adopter for digital signage, putting screens in retail sites well more than a decade ago. Much of what the lotteries concern does is a basic set-up in convenience stores, but like other lottery companies they try to create a larger, special purpose presence in shopping malls and heavy foot traffic retail locations like Walmarts. […]
Guest Post: Curtis Campbell, Hughes Curtis Campbell Gone are the days of your mother sitting at the kitchen table with the Sunday paper, clipping coupons and making mile-long grocery lists, only to then spend several hours at potentially multiple stores to gather everything to feed the family. […]
When HDMI media player sticks like Amazon’s Fire TV first came on the market a few years ago, some smaller companies and enterprising digital signage nerds started playing around with it, wondering if it could serve as a very low-cost media player. […]
