One of the emerging trends in large format digital displays and walls will, I think, be generative, visualized content based on data and then dynamically rendered. It will happen because the investment goes in at the front-end but the content keeps refreshing itself, as opposed to needing to be re-thought and re-made regularly. […]
The Swedish software firm DISE is the latest to tweak its player software to run on Samsung’s Smart Signage Platform, which is built and marketed around the idea of having a System on Chip built into displays, removing the need for an external player. “You only need a network, a code and then you are ready to display your content,” explains the firm in a news release. […]
Toronto-based Omnivex has launched Moxie Cloud, billed as an easy-launch, affordable hosted spin on its powerful Movie digital signage management platform. Moxie Cloud’s subscription includes a series of professional-looking templates to get content up even without designers or agencies. It also includes a weather feed and news from Thomson Reuters. […]
Ask most people who sell signage software and they’ll confirm replacing incumbent software providers is a substantial part of their month to month business. Sometimes it is service quality. Sometimes one glitch too many. […]
Putting screens in big things that roll and bump and jolt is a substantial technical challenge – the problems ranging from too much vibration, to dust and grime, to the inquisitive fingers and sharp objects of the general public. […]
Things just keep getting more and more interesting with Google and its Chrome OS. Yesterday it was word about the Chromebit HDMI stick. Now there’s word that Google is now letting any Android developer port its apps, or games to run on Chromebooks and other Chrome OS devices, like Chromeboxes and Chromebits. […]
Dayton, Ohio-based Stratacache continues to push its business ops into new regions, announcing today it has opened an office in Bangalore, India and has plans to hire as many as 15 people. Bangalore makes a lot of sense for the signage CMS firm as it is India’s tech capital and has a couple of universities that are said to rival MIT. […]
The tech site re/code has a piece up about how Amazon has patents that would change up how people buy goods in brick-and-mortar stores. Problem is, that idea’s been around for a decade or so. The site talks about recently filed patent applications that suggest shoppers would be able to pick items off shelves and leave the store without stopping at a cashier or self-checkout kiosk. […]
BroadSign has for many years mined the digital OOH side of this business, to the point that you don’t really think of the signage software being used outside of advertising. But it is. Case in point: The Montreal company has announced a partnership it has worked with Scandinavian solutions provider LCD Media, which is operating primarily in retail in that part of Europe. […]
When I walk the DSE show floor I tend to wander up to booths for companies I knew little or nothing about, particularly if they’re doing something that gets my eyebrows up a bit. […]
A Texas start-up called Signagely has started marketing its digital signage offer, which ranges from a $159 Chromebox at the top end to a $39 Kindle Fire TV HDMI stick they’ve got working as a basic player. The start-up’s website doesn’t have a lot of detail in it on the company background, or what’s different here. […]
Microsoft has confirmed its new Windows 10 operating system will be made available free to developers working on the low-cost Raspberry Pi micro PC board. The Pi 2 is among a series of small footprint Internet of Things, or IoT, devices that will be offered a version of the new OS. […]
When I eventually found my way over to the Google booth last week at DSE, I expected to see a Rise Vision pop-up stand and a bunch of hardware devices. I did not expect to see eight different software companies there showing how their web players sit on top of Chromeboxes to drive digital signs. […]
The big buzz out of DSE 2015 was, not surprisingly, the substantial presence of online giant Google – which had a 40 by 40 foot booth attracting large crowds on the first of two trade show hall days. I didn’t get over there until late morning, and quickly saw the area was somewhat swarmed by trade hall attendees. […]
Monster Media has filed a claim against the Boston-based software firm Aerva, in the New York Southern District Court, alleging willful patent infringement. Monster is asserting a patent for retrieving and then displaying social media content on screens. The patent was acquired by Monster when it acquired Locamoda. […]
