GUEST POST: TARA PARACHUK, ARMODILO If you are a retailer looking to engage your customers with digital technology, NRF was the place to be! Retail’s Big Show 2016 showcased a variety of ways retailers can learn more about their customers from their current emotional state to every possible type of analytics you can imagine. […]
A Pleasant Hill, CA startup called Squizz has started a $250,000 crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo to bankroll inventory and new features, and stimulate some sales and PR buzz in the process. The campaign has a variety of levels, from $10 to $10,000 for something akin to a franchise or reseller set-up. […]
Orlando-based Monster Media has reached a settlement in the patent infringement action it filed in New York courts last summer against Portland,OR-based TigerLogic Corp, over the use of methods that put real time social media posts on digital signs. The terms of the settlement are, as you might expect, confidential. […]
Diversified Systems, based in Kenilworth, New Jersey, has announced a simple, logical rebranding as Diversified – bringing three related companies under the single, tightened-up brand. Diversified is made up of Diversified Systems, Diversified Media Group (DMG), and Skyweb Digital Media. […]
Panasonic is about to join several other major display manufacturers in marketing commercial display panels with built-in System on Chip media playback capability. Starting in April, AF1 series displays (42, 49 and 55-inch sizes) will have an ARM 1GHz quad-core processor with 1 GB of RAM and 8 GB of internal storage. […]
Scala has formally joined the list of companies developing solutions that run on Google ChromeOS devices, releasing a version of the Scala Enterprise Player that will work on a Chromebox, and in theory at least, on Chromebits and Chromebase all-in-ones. […]
Austin, Texas-based Signagely has rebranded as Metascreen, and opened up a free-forever tier to its web app-driven digital signage CMS. Founder Nick Kristoffersen says the name change was a simple case of coming to grips with the hard time people were having with pronouncing and spelling Signagely. I don’t think Signagely is all that hard, but I like Metascreen better anyway. […]
If you have been around digital signage for a few years, you know about the struggles sign networks that were based around portrait mode had in finding and using content. Just about everything out there was landscape, and precious little was made in their chosen 9:16 format. […]
One of the first things a good digital signage consultant is going to ask a client is: “Who is your audience?” That can sometimes be easily defined, or be really hard, when it comes to catch-alls like mass transport or shopping malls. […]
A landmark Viennese church, St. Stephen’s Cathedral, is working with an Austrian outdoor media to generate donations through a digital screen set up in Stephansplatz, a public square. The media firm Gewista has set up a screen that takes 2 Euro donations, to be put towards ongoing renovations to the old church. […]
The arts quarter of the amazing city of Montreal has been a visual treat for a few years, owing to various temporary and permanent installations that use lighting and projection. But that gets amped up starting tonight, with a program that runs through the end of January. […]
Here’s a great example of how digital signage projects – no matter how modest – can succeed because the people or person behind it exercised solid thinking and common sense, and coupled that with some creative talent. I saw a Tweet about a church using Rise Vision’s open source content management platform and Raspberry Pi 2s to light up its on-premise messaging. […]
We’ve seen, for at least the last couple of years, startups and retailers taking different, often interesting stabs at interactive mirrors in retail environments. They’ve tended to be about the dressing room experience, but the athletic wear retailer Lululemon went in a decidedly different direction with a test installation at its New York flagship store. […]
Touchscreen tables are powerful tools for collaboration, interactivity and engagement. Customers in a retail store can use them to learn more about a product or service. An enterprise can use one to allow multiple users to collaborate on the same projects in one physical space – anything from architectural drawings to seismic imaging. […]
Guest Post: Till Carlos, OnSign.TV I have a terrible sense of orientation. Perhaps skipping geography class to grab coffee might have contributed to that but in my defense the coffee was very good! Why am I telling you this? You see, people like me have a tendency to get lost easily. […]
