The European wing of NEC – NEC Display Solutions Europe – has done a partnership that sees certain NEC pro-grade digital signage displays ship with embedded Raspberry Pi modules, running Ubuntu Core Linux and pre-loaded with the Screenly’s CMS player software. […]
Montreal-based CMS software shop BroadSign has announced its cloud-based platform has been run through and certified for a tough set of security and privacy standards – noting it is the first in the digital signage DOOH industry to do so. The company, in a press release, says it has successfully completed the Service Organization Control (SOC) II and ISAE3402 audits. […]
Montreal-based Ayuda Media Systems has re-branded and somewhat spun off its programmatic advertising module as it own company, and under a new brand – Hivestack. […]
A lot of companies run by creatives and software developers have found their way into the digital signage business on the backs of projects they delivered, but I wouldn’t really see that happening with a company that’s all about online payments. […]
Pretty much every convenience store I’ve been in, for almost 20 years doing this stuff, has left me shrugging about their digital signage effort – but the program put in by a travel stop chain called Love’s is an exception. It looks really good. And smart. […]
So when I saw video of the University of Texas Longhorns’ football locker room, with LCD screens over every locker, it occurred to me that this was going to be something that would get emulated by other schools. Turns out that U of T borrowed on something another big football program, Texas A&M’s Aggies, did three years ago. […]
Guest Post: Luis Villafane, Maler It’s been a long summer… and I have fully enjoyed it. I have worked half-days since early June, and taken about five weeks worth of holidays. If I have to go to the beach again, I will literally jump out a window. […]
If you spend any time clicking around the internet, you are very quickly going to bump into a website that is using a slider – a piece of browser functionality that shifts text, images and video in and out of a web page. […]
If your company chases business in retail, you’ll know it’s a tough slog for a bunch of reasons, and you’ll also have heard and read no end of stories about how brick and mortar retail is in a death spiral. Turns out that’s not really true. The National Retail Federation says the industry may indeed be evolving, but it’s also growing. […]
Guest Post: Paul Vincent, Neuranet Most computer technologies come and go quickly, with few people outside of software engineering noticing. […]
If your digital signage screens are there to make something faster, better or easier for the people who are looking at them, you are doing good things. […]
Hat tip @davidweinfeld The woman who ran Twitter’s engineering division has joined Chicago-based Outcome Health as its chief engineering officer. Nandini Ramani, Twitter’s former vice president of engineering, told CNBC she loves the “mission-driven aspects of health care and also the re-energizing of an industry. […]
Traffic on a baby sister site to 16:9 – called MeetingRoomSigns.biz – has grown steadily since its launch in early 2016, as have the leads that come in from a form and then get kicked to site sponsors. […]
Washington, DC-based TransitScreen has built up a business tapping into and visualizing real-time mass transport and ride share data to pass along organized, easily digested information to people in buildings and public spaces. They’ve now added a new bolt-on feature that makes sense – information and directions to nearby services. […]
I’m nowhere near smart enough to properly explain this, but suffice to say a start-up that works with Raspberry Pis for a digital signage solution has come up with a way for users to rapidly set up video walls using a smartphone app and little visual tags that provide GPS coordinates. […]
