The Belgian company PresentationPoint, which marries PowerPoint-based presentations to a digital signage platform, has released a new cloud-based service called SignageTube. […]
Manchester, UK-based digital signage CMS provider NowSignage has announced a full integration with Microsoft’s Power BI product – a business analytics tool set popular in business environments. The company says its integration is an industry-first, but five seconds on Google reveals several companies have some degree of integration with things like visualized data widgets. […]
The big distribution firm SYNNEX, which describes itself more formally as a business process services company, has partnered with Microsoft to “build and power a cloud-connected digital signage solution. […]
Microsoft and the US grocer Kroger have partnered on a new connected store product – built around shelf-edge screens and cloud computing – called Retail as a Service (or RaaS). The idea is to streamline shopping for things like groceries, using smart shelves and things like portable scanners. […]
Microsoft has bankrolled and installed a series of high-profile product demo stations at eight Best Buys across Canada – presumably their primo, high-traffic stores. Each of the stores has the same installation of three kiosks, which use proximity sensors to activate marketing spots and adjust how the demo experiences operate based on the number of participants and their engagement time. […]
Ahead of the launch of Rare’s Sea of Thieves for Xbox One and Windows 10 on March 20th, Microsoft chose Piccadilly Lights to share enticing videos of the game and encourage pre-orders. The UK gaming industry is the fifth largest in the world; in a competitive space with no shortage of games on offer, how do gaming brands reach their target audience? […]
There are extremely varied opinions on what the presence of companies like Google, Adobe and Microsoft mean to the digital signage industry. On one hand, there are people who see these kinds of companies, from outside the formal business, as the ones who will eventually take over. […]
Microsoft has killed off its motion-sensing Kinect – a camera-based gadget tied in with the tech giant’s consumer Xbox gaming boxes. […]
When I get asked about digital signage installations that I think really have it together, I tend to talk about Microsoft’s retail stores, and more recently, the crazy one by many 100s video wall at the check-in counters at Orlando’s airport. Turns out both projects were pulled together by Synect Media, a Seattle-area agency that is as much an integrator as it is a creative design studio. […]
Even digital signage nerds miss industry stuff right in front of their eyes. When I was in New York a few weeks ago, I finally had a chance to see the flashy Microsoft store on 5th Avenue, at 53rd, just down from Trump Tower. I was immediately looking inside at the visually dominant back video wall, and the near seamless digital side walls. […]
This week I am speaking with Randy Pagnan, the RP in RP Visual Solutions, an Anaheim, California company that’s in the business of designing and manufacturing the special structures that hold signature digital signage projects in place. […]
Mike Pell of Microsoft was one of the speakers last fall at the DSrupted conference. I was really happy he agreed to speak because he had a lot to say about visualized data needing to be insightful first, and then, possibly, pretty. He’s released a set of visualizations he calls “Datascrapers” that has been inspired by New York City’s skyscrapers. […]
This would have cost Microsoft a couple of bucks – a massive five-level shop on 5th Avenue in New York that is, happy to see, even more about screens than the 110 other screen-heavy stores it already has operating out in the market. This one has 22,000 square feet of space, and the signature is a 3 by 15 (looks like) video wall/totem at the back-center if the street-level entry. […]
Microsoft’s developer site has a post and details up about how people determined to spend as little as possible on signage software and hardware could put a project together with a $45 Raspberry Pi single board computer and the new Windows 10 IoT Core operating system software. […]
I’ve written quite a bit lately about how data and particularly data visualization can and will play a large role in some future signage projects, and Mike Pell of Microsoft is coming to DSrupted in September to reinforce that, from the point of view of an expert. […]
