Day 1 is done and dusted at Integrated Systems Europe in Amsterdam, and I am happily back at my hotel, dodging extracurricular bad behavior in the hopes of actually-maybe getting a decent sleep. Crowd – Looked busy, but not stupid-busy. I wasn’t fighting my way through or around mobs to get at stuff. […]
Denver-based Four Winds Interactive has grown to date based on a small group of inside-ish investors, but that has changed with news of an Austin, Texas private equity company taking a non-controlling position with the digital signage SMS software company. […]
If you’ve been to the Salesforce headquarters in San Francisco, or certain resort casinos, you will have seen and been blown away by giant virtual waterfalls that appear on LED walls and wash down, over and around things like entryways. It’s kind of amazing, and way beyond much of what you see on big digital canvases – like big 4K stock videos or graphics. […]
Stratacache has bought yet another building – with the newest property pegged as the future head office for the digital signage solutions company. The building is the tallest in Dayton, Ohio – where CEO Chris Riegel lives and has aggressively been expanding the core company and a succession of acquired software and hardware that fall under the “group of companies. […]
Austin, TX-based Lifesize, which does video collaboration and meeting productivity solutions, platform, has announced an integration with UK-based ScreenCloud that extends digital signage content to connected screens in meeting rooms and around the office. The company primarily markets cameras, microphones and conferencing phones, as well as a management platform. […]
Networking hardware giant Cisco appears to be slipping back, a little, into digital signage, touting a new capability that lets Cisco Webex video devices show digital signage messaging instead of what it calls the “default half-wake state. […]
Silicon Valley-based BrightSign continues to evolve its go-to-market position – having pretty quickly transitioned from a company known for reliable but proprietary little purple media player boxes and software, to a very open platform that’s doing partnerships all over the place lately. […]
People who pay attention to this sort of thing – who it could be argued have too much time on their hands – had a sense that when the Digital Signage Organisation (DSO) was announced recently to support the industry in Europe, some sort of ties would be developed with AVIXA, the international pro AV organization that represents the industry and owns both InfoComm and Integrated Systems Europe. […]
Here is some serious irony for you … A NYC reader who has a deep background in out of home advertising periodically sends me images and videos of that ill-fated Coca-Cola display in Times Square – the one that used incredibly-complex robotics to deliver visual effects that could have just been done in the creative. […]
Traditional digital out of home street furniture units – like transit shelters and free-standing digital kiosks – are increasingly becoming hubs for smart cities, and the biggest outdoor media company on the planet is making is adapting with a new initiative in its home country, France. […]
The Scandinavian cruise line Hurtigruten is building a pair of ships that will feature 57-foot tall LED in a seven-storey atrium area, running live video of the surroundings, as well as pre-planned content triggered by the ship’s location. […]
DC-area CMS software firm Mvix has announced a data integrations portal with more than 150 business data sources and integrations – enabling end-users to automate the presentation of content from sources as diverse as HubSpot and court dockets. […]
No end of PR on solutions looking for problems find their way daily to my Inbox, so I’m always happy when I read about a new product or functionality that addresses and appears to resolve a common problem. […]
This is a very ambitious, digitally-rich flagship store for Chinese health and beauty brand Nu Skin, opened recently in Shenzhen. Toronto-based Shikatani Lacroix Design (SLD) worked with consulting firm MetaThink to build a store intended as an experience center that reflected the company’s story and brand culture, and showcased products. […]
The Digital Signage Organisation (or DSO) has been formed and announced as a new entity intended to support the European Digital Signage industry. The organization’s President is Simon Jackson – who is Vice President, Strategic & Vertical Sales EMEA for NEC Display Solutions, and was previously President of the Digital Signage Federation Europe (DSF-E). […]
