Guest Post: John C. Wang, IAdea Editor’s note: Sixteen:Nine is preparing a large report on the state of the Android signage market, and talking to industry leaders about what they’re up to and where they see things going. Instead of just notes, IAdea’s John Wang kindly wrote a full post on his POV. […]
It has been three-plus years since the first Android-driven digital signage players and supporting software platforms came on the marketplace. Pretty quickly, there were more than 70 options out there. Some companies like BroadSign have seen some big success in going down the Android road, whereas not much has happened for some other companies that put in the time and resources. […]
Denver-based Four Winds Interactive sent me an invite and details on something called Forward, The Digital Experience Conference – a new event it is putting together for this fall in the mile-high city. I’ve been to conferences organized or structured around vendors, and they can tend to be very long days hearing more and more and more about the product and applications. […]
Webinars and online hangouts are anything but new ideas, but Denver-based Four Winds Interactive appears to be going at the idea with a different spin – aiming at C-level people with executive talks that aren’t just directed by sales people or sales engineers. […]
Photos by Thomas Story and Henniker Photography Last fall the skin care firm Murad opened a 1,500 square-foot storefront on W. 3rd Street in Los Angeles that serves as the brand’s global flagship retail location. For a little shop it has a LOT of digital – and nicely executed at that. […]
Guest Post: Pat Hellberg, The Preset Group I have a son who is a junior in high school, which means in about a year and a half, he will be spending all of my money. College is coming … quickly. To find the right fit, we just spent spring break visiting schools in California. […]
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. […]
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. […]
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. […]
Guest Post: Ryan Gushue, ENPLUG How perfect of a match are digital signage and social media? Moving on from the outdated SMS text message integration, social media provides for a more personal, customizable way to get viewers involved through your display. […]
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. […]
Digital signage is pretty heavily a software-driven business, but I can’t really think of many – if any – signage CMS companies that are are based in or near Silicon Valley. […]
This is soooooo clever. Blinds.com, an online seller of guess what, has a very sharp guy named Brad Parler who has put together an internal corporate communications network like none other I have seen in digital signage. Forget about bland Excel charts or leaderboards that are just names and numbers. […]
You know that argument you hear from vendors, that serious end-users with a lot of scale will never go with free software solutions and entry-level hardware? It’s probably true in a lot of cases, but not always. And I think things are shifting, in part because of who is now working with free. […]
I suppose it’s only appropriate that a company from Milan is going to go at digital signage software a little differently. One – The team called their product Voome Jade. Two – It’s built to run on SpinetiX boxes and LG’s WebOS commercial smart displays – two products you’d not likely include in lists of mainstream digital signage hardware products. […]
