When it comes to the PCs we use in our digital signage deployments, it seems as if the days of paying more than we want or facing getting less than we need seem to be over. Our shop has deployed over …

Avnet recently held our first webinar on Digital Signage Today, and the event was very successful. I was pleased by both the number and variety of questions asked by participants. However, one issue …

Man oh man. QR codes…. QR codes… Everywhere I look someone's talking about QR codes. No doubt about it, brands, agencies and advertisers are stampeding to deploy them, and they're …

It is an interesting time for ad agencies – they are constantly being bombarded with new digital media strategies from all angles, laced with promises of "getting ahead of the game." At the …

Budget-conscious colleges, universities and other higher education institutions are finding that dynamic digital signage not only helps them improve their campus-wide communications and emergency …

Have you ever thought about starting your own business? How many of you have done it? Several times I have heard someone say they thought their boss (or employer) was stupid and that they thought …

When I first started my career designing and manufacturing menu boards more than 30 years ago, adding value was a given. We designed, engineered and fabricated them from basic raw materials. When the …

If you want to invoke a reaction from your ordinary passive digital sign, try incorporating a QR Code in the layout and see what happens. The days of casually viewing digital advertising layouts may …

Several days ago I had a meeting with some of my old friends at Yum! Brands to discuss outdoor digital menu boards and order confirmation units. Most of my meetings are with people that know very …

The debate between SaaS (cloud-based) and on-premises digital signage software is a long and drawn out one. On one hand, cloud-based signage software and networks are diverse and flexible and allow …

I just returned from a three day trip to the CTIA Wireless 2011 conference in Orlando. I was there on behalf of the Digital Screenmedia Association to …

I have been designing and selling traditional menu boards to the Quick Serve Restaurant (QSR) market for more than 30 years and digital menu boards more than 10 years. My experience has been that it …

Yesterday, someone forwarded me a link to a curious video on YouTube, one that purports to show someone hacking the feeds to the digital signage displays in New York City's Times Square. If the video …

In just its few short years as an industry, digital signage is beginning to reach a new paradigm. Several years ago, the idea of having a network of screens with content that could be synched …

3D has been talked about heavily since last year's CES when in-home 3D TVs made a splash and 3D movies started their resurgence in a form. In the digital out-of-home space, the discussion has been …

Just before the end of 2010 I wrote an article that appeared in Mobile Commerce Daily that introduced the mobile industry to digital signage as a mechanism for creating mobile context. The first …

Looping content is dead – at least in the mind of Jason Cremins, the prolific CEO of Remote Media. For nearly the past year, he's been trotting the globe and speaking at all the necessary …

News in the commercial display market has traditionally gone to "he who can design the largest screen." But from a business perspective, there is a lot going on behind the bright glow of LCD. Here …

I was very happy to see that AMX released a digital signage TCO calculator, and even happier to see that it was a collaboration with industry guru Lyle Bunn (which to me hands this a lot of …

Over the past two years, I've spoken and written extensively about the trends and events that are facilitating a gigantic mobile revolution. The point of my efforts has been to educate the digital …