Digital signage is still a pretty young industry, so it’s interesting to come across a note that says one of the software companies active in the sector just turned 25. Capital Networks Limited was started in 1991 in suburban Toronto by Bill Trainor, who still runs the company. […]
Neil Willis is the CEO and founder of Hypersign, a digital signage software company located in Greenville, South Carolina. In this Sixteen:Nine Podcasts episode, Neil talks about a long career path that had very humble beginnings – working in the air force in Arkansas and sweeping floors at a big box store on weekends to help pay the family bills. […]
Montreal-based media company Newad, which has a big digital out of home screen footprint through much of Canada, has announced a new spinoff company it says brings media targeting and a cost per view media placement model to digital OOH networks in this country. […]
Posts on doing digital signage projects using low-cost Raspberry Pi single-board PCs continue to generate crazy amounts of traffic on this site, so I continue to take an interest. […]
Google announced at its annual I/O conference today that Android mobile apps from its Google Play app store will now run on ChromeOS devices like Chromebook laptops. Google is making the Play store, and the gazillion Android apps you can get on it, work on the Chrome operating system, which is also developed and supported by Google. […]
Guest Post: Michael Tutton, Crown Content I was brought once into a big digital signage project to provide content for a $250,000 display set-up, two hours before it was all set to go live. Sounds crazy, right? It was. […]
Ubuntu has long been one of, if not the, go-to variants of the Linux operating system for digital signage media players, but that’s been on “real” x86 computers. Now there’s work underway to pair the new Internet of Things-focused version of the open-source software with Raspberry Pi micro-PCs, and run a digital signage platform off it. […]
Guest Post: Tim Strähle, Adversign Media This is part 2 of a three-part series about retail detail signage and the Internet of Things. It’s based on excerpts from a broader white paper by the digital signage CMS firm Adversign Media, which markets Viewneo. It is available here. […]
In this Sixteen:Nine podcast episode, I had a chat with Jason Cremins, the founder and CEO of the UK-based firm Signagelive. His company has been one of the very early adopters of emerging technologies that have really changed how digital signage is pulled together and run – from cloud hosting and distribution, to HTML5, to system on chip displays. […]
Guest Post: Debbie DeWitt, Visix A good Human Resources team is indispensable to the smooth running of a company or organization. Companies today are investing more in their HR departments1. They are often the interface between management and staff, and can make the difference in having an engaged workforce that knows what’s expected and wants to be there. […]
Photo: Vladimir Kudinov Guest Post: Brandon Harp, Barco/X20 Media The digital workplace has many different meanings, and as someone selling visual and software solutions into that space, I constantly find myself asking customers what the digital workplace means to them. Very few have clearly defined answers. […]
Stephen Randall is the EVP Social and Mobile at the out of home media firm Monster Media. Randall was doing mobile operating systems before they were ever called smart, as a co-founder of Symbian. He then started LocaModa, which was doing visualizations of user-generated content as far back as 2005, before social media was even a thing. […]
Guest Post: Luka Birsa, Visionect Luka Birsa Electronic paper is now making it possible to put digital signage in places and situations that were long thought too difficult and costly. […]
Photo: Retail Touchpoints Here’s something odd to end the week – a fast food chain and its marketing services vendor touting how it uses on-demand printing to get menus localized to each of 900 sites. […]
In this episode, I’m chatting with Nanxi Liu, the CEO of Enplug, a Los Angeles-based digital signage CMS company she started with a group of new friends after graduating from Cal-Berkeley, just four years ago.. […]
