Bryan Fairfield is the CEO of Nanonation, which delivers digital signage and interactive for a fascinating range of clients – from Louis Vuitton to Harley Davidson to Raising Nebraska, a hands-on learning center celebrating and explaining farm life. […]
The Taiwan-based electronics manufacturer NEXCOM has released its own, free digital signage management software, called PowerDigiS – aimed at the retail SMB market. The toolset is web-based and would seem – at least on paper – to be more than the barebones scheduling platforms I’ve seen a few times when hardware guys get into the signage software game. […]
Guest Post: Elena Lathrop, CrownTV Elena Lathrop Digital signage is only as effective as the content it displays. Screens are nothing but a medium, while content has the power to shape the customer experience and inspire action. You may have a few promotional graphics and social media feeds to share on your screens, but how do you create truly compelling digital signage content? […]
“Before we fabricate anything,” says Bill Dunn, as we’re walking into LG MRI’s 120,000 manufacturing plant, “we know that display is going to thrive, not just survive. […]
Donor walls are a big part of many hospitals – used to thank companies and individuals who support the organization’s work and facilities. For years, these walls were plaques or printed graphics, but lately, they’ve gone digital, and this has to be one of the bigger ones out there. […]
The UK cloud-based signage software firm embedsignage is the latest company to add support for ChromeOS devices. The player, available off Google’s Chrome store, will run on Chromeboxes or the more recently introduced Chromebits. […]
Nanonation CEO Bryan Fairfield Raising Nebraska is a 25,000 square foot, interactive digital-heavy exhibit on the state fairgrounds that’s designed to help visitors better understand and appreciate that state’s big industry, its advances, and the impact it has locally and globally. […]
A small Swedish company now has dozens of lawsuits circulating in the digital billboard industry, suing those media companies for patent infringement, based on a suite of patents related to using a computer to remotely control digital signs. The company is called T-Rex Property AB, and has been around since 2003. […]
The wayfinding-centric signage software firm 22 Miles, Inc., based in Silicon Valley, has issued a statement responding to the lawsuit last month by Four Winds Interactive, of Denver. The statement issued April 8th says the lawsuit, alleging patent infringement and related activities, is meritless and that the company will vigorously defend itself in court. […]
When Google Alerts popped up a press release this morning celebrating “NAVORI QL PROFESSIONAL AWARDED BEST DIGITAL SIGNAGE SOFTWARE ON CROWDREVIEWS.COM,” I was fairly amazed the Navori guys would make hay over an award from a highly dubious crowd-sourced review site. But they didn’t. The news release was generated by the highly dubious review site. […]
Guest Post: Trey Hicks, Visix There are many powerful arguments to be made for using digital meeting and conference room signs for shared spaces in any organization – whether it’s an office, healthcare facility, conference center, college campus or K-12 school district. 1 – Integrative Room signs bring your calendar right to your door, and your door to your calendar. […]
It’s starting to look like the whole thing about the QSR business going to digital menu boards, because of FDA regulations, is going away. The QSR industry isn’t waiting on rules requiring that its menu-boards show calorie counts. Major operators are just going ahead and doing it. […]
Touchscreen room sign. Source: Visix Anyone who sells digital signage solutions, or is charged with putting together a digital signage plan for their organization, knows it is not always the easiest sell. The benefits are definitely there, but they’re often a little soft and elusive. […]
Guest Post, Richard Fortin, ITES Media Richard Fortin The digital signage industry has been growing quickly in the last few years. Big players in retail and large companies have both adopted this method of communication. It is, regardless, a fairly young industry that evolves rapidly and this creates misconceptions. […]
Here’s the audio track (below … click on the red Soundcloud arrow to get started) for that webinar I did Friday with the media solutions folks at Hughes. I joined Senior Marketing Manager Curtis Campbell and Mike Tippets, the VP of Media Solutions at Hughes, to share our collective thoughts on what we saw a couple of weeks back at Digital Signage Expo. […]
