The 2010 DIGI Awards call for entries is in full swing. Whether your company focuses on content creation, digital signage products or your company has been involved in an amazing installation of digital signage… we want to know what you are doing! Do not be left out of the running! We have expanded our Categories [...]
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Last week's article on Digital Signage Mergers, Acquisitions and Bankruptcies generated a lot of commentary, some of which either corrected or clarified the observations I made in the post. Richard Lebovitz from Digital Signage Expo also yielded furthe...
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Today's post is light on words but heavy on visuals. Well, one visual anyway. You see, I've been working on updating our series about how to make great content for digital signage. In the process, I decided to whip up a little graph for those folks who...
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Dmitry over at Ingram sent me this Tweet last week “When will @RiseVision stop teasing and release their Google-based platform for #DigitalSignage?”. At my age I don’t get accused of being a tease that often, okay, never, so I got quite the chuckle from this (don’t get any ideas Dmitry!) and I realized it was [...]Click here to sign up for our free digital signage web service.(seriously, FREE, GRATIS, NADA, and it doesn't expire, really)
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Renting movies has become such much easier especially when you have a oovie kiosk. I saw one at a petrol station and thought to myself what a “great idea”. Basically, the kiosk allows you to rent the latest dvd movies and the process is really simple. All you do is select the movie from a [...]
Monday, September 27, 2010
We are about to secure a developer and designer to build out sample content for the Rise Vision Platform. This content will serve as both demonstration Presentations for newly installed displays, template Presentations for new users to build upon and, most importantly, all of the source code for the Presentations and their Gadgets will be [...]
Sunday, September 26, 2010
We recently received the first digital signage magazine published by an Australia company (alchemedia publishing) and this is really a good sign of the growth of digital signage in Australia. The great thing about the magazine was the case studies of digital signage implementations of local business in Australia. There is also the traditional advertisements [...]
Sunday, September 26, 2010
During the past few weeks, I've run into not one, not two, but three companies who are considering writing their own digital signage software. From scratch. We noted this phenomenon several years ago, when investigating the make-vs-buy question for kio...
Sunday, September 26, 2010
For a software company, we spend a surprising amount of time working with content. We don't make a lot of content in house -- hardly any, in fact -- but we're constantly testing, tracking and qualifying new technical formats and creative experiments in...
Sunday, September 26, 2010
While 2010 still finds us in the midst of a significant recession, the volume of deals being done in the digital signage industry is growing. These days, it's hard to go to a restaurant, hotel or retail store that isn't using some kind of place-based d...
Sunday, September 26, 2010
About 18 months ago, just as the true scope of the economic crisis was becoming known, many in our industry wondered how a global downturn would impact the adoption, acceptance and growth of digital signage and related technologies. Many predicted a ne...
Saturday, September 25, 2010
Earlier this week, fellow blogger Dave Haynes reported on an interesting study by Dynamic Logic. In the study, the company found that off-the-shelf TV commercials may sometimes work just as well as made-for-the-web videos on sites like YouTube, which o...
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Recently we have been getting a lot of questions in regards to users who want to build their own Gadgets. Before starting work on any sort of Gadget, a Developer should have a thorough understanding of the Google Gadget API. To ensure your Gadget works as expected in the Rise Vision Platform, Developers should get [...]Click here to sign up for our free digital signage web service.(seriously, FREE, GRATIS, NADA, and it doesn't expire, really)
Thursday, September 23, 2010
This week the Retail Expo was held in Sydney Australia from the 20 – 22 September 2010. Unfortunately we were not able to exhibit this year due to various projects and the workload, but we did decide to spend a bit of money on advertising in the inside retailing magazine which gets distributed at the [...]
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Digital Signage is applied indoor or outdoor for playing advertisement in video, audio and picture format. Take a retail enviroment for example. digital signage can help retailers inform customers about in-store specials, wayfinding and branding. It can stimulate the customers’ instant consumption needs. Meanwhile, retailers could save a lot of labour fees by such auto [...]
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Which model – lease digital signage solutions, or sell? We all know the bread and butter is the support contract which presumably would be attached to both models, right? Here is an ad from Electrone Americas Ltd. where they specifically call attention to the fact that they offer the hardware for lease. I guess it’s [...]
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
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Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Black Box Wizard Multimedia Extender LP Black Box has introduced a USB-line powered, CATx-based VGA extender kit. The Wizard Multimedia Extender LP’s transmitter plugs into a USB port on a host PC or player and extends that power over a twisted-pair cable link, transmitting low-voltage power via a spare wiring pair to its receiver. With [...]
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Digital Signage Training Now Available Digital signage is the fastest growing segment of the commercial audio visual and IT industries, the DOOH (Digital Out-Of-Home) advertising industry, and the at-retail marketing industry, and is a fast-growing component of transportation, corporate, education, and enterprise-wide communications. The newly launched Digital Signage Experts Group (DSEG) training addresses this growth, [...]
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
REGISTER TODAY! As digital signage continues to cement its place in the media mainstream, deployers are faced with the task of managing the content to run on their networks. While content management software (CMS) traditionally has been considered complex and expensive, today users are faced with a wide selection of options, including general purpose solutions [...]
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Saturday, October 2, 2010
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