Some very big technology companies have come into the digital signage business through the years, and with the exception of the display guys, most have either exited or their efforts kinda petered out. Every so often I stumble across something that suggests Cisco is still in signage, but I don’t see it. […]
Mark McDermott thinks he can get employees to pay attention. Since founding ScreenCloud, a global digital signage platform helping more than 8,500 businesses communicate content via digital screens, he’s been determined to rethink how teams communicate during the workday, given that 54 percent of U.S. office workers believe that distractions affect their performance. […]
The French interactive software firm Intuiface has done an interesting tie-up with Taiwanese digital signage hardware manufacturer IAdea, offering a combined solution for end-users and integrators who don’t to get locked into specific meeting room signage platforms. […]
The subscription content firm Screenfeed is launching a new automated alert product that will automatically interrupt regularly-scheduled screen content to make viewers aware of impending emergencies, as they develop. The system can be configured to make, for example, screens in a public school system flash alerts when a tornado threat comes up. […]
December 10, 2019 – Los Angeles, CA – Enplug, a leading cloud-based digital signage software provider, today announced deployment of its digital signage platform in three separate organizations within the University of Southern California. USC is in the process of implementing technology throughout its campus to modernize outdated, legacy communications processes. […]
This is bad on an epic level – a big direct view LED in the main rail station in Rotterdam. The big screen (photo provided by a reader) should be showing Dutch train schedules. It is instead showing diagnostics, including the IP address on the station’s network for the media player. […]
If you have ever gone through the process of looking for a condo or house in a development that’s still just a hole in the ground or an empty field, you’ve probably spent time in a presentation center looking over drawings, plans and maybe even miniature models of the development. […]
The Raspberry Pi micro PC has been on the market for several years now, and is in its 4th generation. A handful of companies have developed CMS software applications for the Pi – some I’d say more successfully than others. […]
Guest Post: Lillyan Wamaitha, Mvix Lillyan Wamaitha It’s important to understand the necessary ins and outs of owning and operating digital signage if you want yours to succeed. The smart decision is to wait to install until your goals are clearly defined, content ownership protocols are established, and you have a budget for content management. […]
Digital signage projects have grown a LOT in scale in recent years, but the numbers of projects that involve 10,000-plus screens are still pretty limited. So it’s interesting to see news that Topgolf Entertainment Group has kitted out each of more than 50 venues with 200 or more displays. […]
Digital signage media player manufacturer BrightSign has developed new capability that puts a voice command solution – called BrightVoice – on select devices. The interesting wrinkle is that BrightVoice solution is hosted locally on the BrightSign player, and doesn’t need an internet connection to function. […]
Another wayfinding/mapping option has emerged in the marketplace – this one a collaboration between software developers in Spain and Pakistan. I had a note from Nabeel Salem, a Pakistani developer who has been doing software and game development for the last 10 years. Earlier in the year, a developer gig came up for building an interactive wayfinding solution for a shopping mall. […]
Proprietary vs. Off-the-Shelf … when do you customize (software/hardware) vs. buy the product everyone else uses? […]
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It’s a bit mind-wobbling to still see start-ups and early stage companies entering the hyper-crowded digital signage CMS software market, even more so when the company gets a healthy $7 million investment from a group of venture capitalists. Raydiant is a two-year-old cloud-based signage CMS that was at first marketed as Mira Technologies. […]
