The digital signage year that was (so far): The top stories of 2011-and-a-half

More than a dozen digital signage industry figures comment on the top stories of the first half of 2011.

What to expect from your digital POP deployment

A digital signage R & D director outlines similarities and differences between digital and traditional POP displays.

TouchSystems adds news touch series for kiosks and public displays

July 19, 2011

Touchscreen pioneers TouchSystems has announced the addition of the TouchSystems TE Open Frame Series to its expanding product line. According to TouchSystems…

AdVu takes Acquire to the Holiday Inn

July 19, 2011

AdVu Advertising Networks has installed the first of what it says will be many AdVu Players at the local Holiday Inn Express in Wesley Chapel, Fla. The screen…

Wireless Ronin digital signage gets Ford tough

July 18, 2011

Wireless Ronin Technologies Inc., a Minneapolis-based marketing technologies provider, announced it is one of three providers that will offer a digital signage…

Interactive digital signage kiosk promos carmaker Skoda and its museum efforts

July 18, 2011

Slovenia-based outdoor public LCD systems specialists Infinitus d.o.o. recently announced a dual print/digital signage deployment for Skoda Auto in Prague…

Weather-responsive DOOH campaign selling water guns, checkers in the UK

July 17, 2011

U.K. multichannel retailer Argos is incorporating digital out-of-home advertising into a new £4 million "order online today, enjoy today" ad campaign – with…

Noventri digital signage alights at MD airport

July 17, 2011

The Hagerstown (Md.) Regional Airport recently deployed Noventri Digital Signage to better communicate to passengers within the airport terminal.

ScreenScape gets $6M shot in the arm

July 17, 2011

Canadian IT solutions provider Hartco Inc. recently announced that it was investing $6 million in Canadian DOOH firm ScreenScape Networks Inc., an online…

MediaTile shifting from turnkey to SaaS for digital signage kiosks

by Christopher Hall — w, t

The HumanKiosk company will focus on software and bring in partners for hardware and branding.

Retailers turning to tech-enabled touch points

July 14, 2011

Seventy percent of retailers are empowering their employees with technology-enabled touch points — including digital signage and self-service kiosks — to help…

3-D DOOH network to launch new 3-D smartphone in UK

July 14, 2011

Inition, a 3-D production and technology specialist firm, announced today that it is rolling out what it says is "Europe's largest bespoke in-store…

Watchfire building new digital billboard for Killeen, Texas

July 13, 2011

Burkett Media, a rapidly growing independent billboard company in Austin, Texas, recently picked Watchfire Digital Outdoor to manufacture its third digital…

Gefen rolls out 2 new digital signage media players

July 13, 2011

Digital connectivity solutions provider Gefen has announced the availability of two new digital signage media players, expanding the range of solutions it…

NV3 launches 3rd-gen digital signage and charging kiosks

July 12, 2011

Today from its headquarters in Baltimore's Emerging Technology Center, NV3 Technologies announced the availability and deployment of its third-generation NTC…

QSR displays: Why professional-grade smokes consumer TVs

A display expert explains why it's a mistake to ask consumer-grade TVs to do a pro's job.

The value of digital signage software isn't in its price

by Jeff Hastings — CEO, BrightSign

A few weeks ago, ABI Research announced that the global market for digital signage will grow from nearly $1.3 billion in 2010 to almost $4.5 billion in 2016.

SeeSaw inks digital signage deal with AOL's Patch hyperlocal news sites

July 11, 2011

Digital place-based media company SeeSaw Networks today announced that it has partnered with AOL's Patch to distribute hyperlocal content on SeeSaw's digital…

DSE2012 accepting speaker proposals

July 10, 2011

Organizers of the annual Digital Signage Expo show are accepting speaker proposals for the 2012 show's educational conference.

Digital signage 'catalyst' for bank-wide renovations at Huntington

July 10, 2011

American Banker recently took a look at how Ohio's Huntington bank is undertaking "a locally-focused branch renovation that will use lots of video and digital…