ISE 2025 Sixteen:Nine ISE Mixer Sponsor Profile: StratosMedia January 20, 2025 by Dave Haynes It is just a few more sleeps before the 2025 edition of Integrated Systems Europe starts in Barcelona, with the digital signage community kicking things off on the eve of the giant trade show with a Sixteen:Nine networking mixer. The very sold out event – that took all of two hours – happens because of great …
Future Displays: Exploring The Display Technology Landscape Of Today And Tomorrow January 15, 2025 by Dave Haynes Who knows what displays will look like well into the future, but what we all see today is pretty much what we’re all going to see in five to 10 years – though their form and underlying technologies are most certainly evolving. And will continue to do so. This Future Displays report started out as …
Italian Solutions Provider M-Cube Now Using AI-Generated Music For In-Store Radio January 14, 2025 by Dave Haynes The Italian digital solutions provider M-Cube, one of Europe’s largest pro AV integrators, has started using AI-generated music for in-store radio in the luxury retail market that is its main customer base. M-Lab is described as an AI-powered music catalog designed exclusively for the retail industry, with all the music in M-Lab created using AI …
Barcelona’s nsign.tv Latest CMS To Build Computer Vision-based Audience Measurement Into Platform January 14, 2025 by Dave Haynes Barcelona-based CMS software firm nsign.tv has joined the growing list of providers that have built audience measurement directly into its solution, as opposed to aligning or integrating with a dedicated third-party computer vision platform. SaaS-based nsign.tv has launched Nsign People, which it says enables businesses to measure the effectiveness of their communications in physical spaces …
Userful Evolves Infinity Platform With Full Suite Of Workplace Visualization Tools, Including Signage Applications January 7, 2025 by Dave Haynes Calgary, Canada-based Userful has been steadily evolving its platform offer through the years, and is now positioning its offer “as a comprehensive suite of interconnected data visualization tools for both centralized and distributed operations” that includes a lot of workplace digital signage capabilities. Userful says its Infinity Platform gives users single license access to as …
Samsung, LG Reveal Newest Display Tech Ahead Of This Week’s CES Show January 6, 2025 by Dave Haynes The annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas starts tomorrow but some of the larger player in the sector – notably Samsung and rival LG – have as is custom already held their big press conferences and provided sneak peeks and showcases for trade press and VIPs. Companies like Sony, Hisense and TCL have big …
Nordic Hotel Operator Evaluating Transparent LCD-Driven AI Avatars To Handle Check-ins And Guest Questions December 30, 2024 by Dave Haynes A hotel operator in Scandinavia is evaluating one of those life-sized transparent LCD display systems and an AI-driven avatar to check in guests when no front desk staff is around to process registration and hand over room access cards. The AI greeter was first launched last month at the Aiden by Best Western Lolland hotel …
Samsung-Incubated Startup 10kM’s AI-powered Digital Signage Solutions To Be Showcased At CES December 30, 2024 by Dave Haynes I have this perhaps old-fashioned attitude that the quality and functionality of a software company’s website offers some clues to the quality and functionality of that company’s products and services, so I am not overly enthused by a Korean generative AI content start-up Samsung is showcasing soon at CES in Las Vegas. The Seoul firm …
Digichief Adds Library Of Start-up Stream’s AI-Driven Broadcast-Like News Feeds November 7, 2024 by Dave Haynes Longtime subscription content provider Digichief has done a distribution partnership deal that adds a set of start-up STREAM’s plug-and-play video feeds to its digital signage content feeds. “With STREAM, we are able to provide our clients with curated, vertical specific news and information, highly scalable and targeted for no volume deployments,” says Gene Hamm, Founder …
Taco Bell Has Processed 2M+ Drive-Thru Orders Using AI; Now In Use at 300+ US Stores November 7, 2024 by Dave Haynes Hat tip to kiosk expert Craig Keefner for pointing to this … Anyone wondering if voice ordering in QSR drive-thrus would mature and would get adopted by consumers can reference what Taco Bell is doing in the U.S. The CFO of Yum! Brands, which owns Taco Bell, KFC and Pizza Hut, said on a Q3 …
