Here’s a nice example of how to present real-time data in a visually interesting way. This is the elevator lobby of financial news giant Bloomberg’s new Washington, DC offices – the entrance flanked by a pair of video walls. The office is a hub for about 250 staff in the US capitol. […]
Guest Post: Linda Hofflander, Skykit I’ve seen some really bad digital signage content in my 15+ years in the digital signage business. Lida Hofflander I’ve seen signage using long bullet-point lists on default PowerPoint themes. I’ve seen neon yellow text on a royal blue background, so bright it made my eyes hurt. […]
On Wednesday, noon Eastern, I’m doing the third digital signage webinar in a series with Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu Linux. This one’s on why Linux is the media player OS of choice for a pile of networks and CMS companies, and arguably the most active of those companies is BroadSign, which has about 50,000 players out there running Ubuntu. […]
Flight arrivals and departures displays were in the early days of digital signage something akin to a killer app – something that needed no ROI exercise to demonstrate the value, but something that also required specialty software and software/data integration expertise. […]
The digital signage business seems to inexorably going turnkey – with most vendors I chat with saying that’s the ask and end-users saying that’s how they want to see things play out. On a broad scale, that means integrators and the largest software firms are offering a full range of capabilities in-house or through sponsorships. […]
Samsung has launched a new P-Series line of smart signage displays that are the first shipping with the Tizen operating system – the OS the company is shifting most or all of its information devices over to. The series has seven models, including 55-inch, 49-inch and 43-inch displays with 700 nits, 55-inch, 49-inch and 43-inch displays with 500 nits and a 32-inch display with 400 nits. […]
NEC Display Solutions will start marketing and shipping commercial display panels early next year that that have low-cost Raspberry Pi computer modules in them, effectively making them a new variation on smart digital signage displays. This is a notable shift for NEC, which has stayed out of the embedded system on chip display business that Samsung, LG, Panasonic and Philips have all jumped on. […]
Guest Post: Luis Villafane, Maler Digital Signage So, if you are reading this article, you must have something to do with digital signage. We read articles that go on and on about how digital signage systems can do this, or can do that. We listen to podcast about service providers, content providers, hardware providers. […]
Guest Post: Sean Matthews, Visix Sales and marketing have been aligned in the corporate world for years, even integrated, in many respects. But what about customer service? Sean Matthews Forbes magazine says that, in today’s customer-driven era, customer service is no longer just a post-sale activity, but is part of the total buying cycle. […]
In a hyper-competitive market like digital signage software, it’s important for most companies to choose a vertical market and go after it with focused products. Here’s an example of a company that isn’t really in the signage software business, but has nonetheless developed a software product that is laser-focused on a vertical industry – in this case, construction sites. […]
Guest Post: Luis Villafane, Maler Digital Signage Here’s some very simple, experienced advice for anyone looking at starting a large digital signage network: get a nerd in the room when you’re talking to the people who sell digital signage software. That nerd will filter the bullshit. And trust me, there’s a lot of bullshit to filter. […]
Andy McRae of Dot2Dot explaining the sensor-driven video wall. I’ve been aware of the Digital Trends Showcase that’s been running for a few years now in Toronto, but schedules have never allowed me to go see what it was all about. […]
Those who reject the idea of fully automated vehicles on the road are missing the point – they’re already here. True, they’re not like the car from Knight Rider with its unfeasibly long list of features but they are backed and developed by innovative brands such as Ford, Volvo, Tesla, Google and Uber. It’s been a long journey to this point, perhaps longer than you think. […]
Leo Coates (center), and Haynes (far right) eyeballing bar options at recent Coates open house in Chicago. It’s a big reach for an Australian company to establish a foothold in North America, particularly in a hyper-crowded market like digital signage. But that’s what a Sydney-based company called Coates is doing, with aims at building up a client list in the QSR business. […]
Guest Post: Luis Villafane, Maler Digital Signage Some 16 years spent running corporate networks of all sizes has taught me a few things about content management software and the people behind those products. I’ve learned there’s some good stuff. Not perfect, but good. […]
