More Consolidation: PE-backed Workplace Solutions Firm Aura Buys UK Integrator Reflex August 5, 2021 by Super User More consolidation news, this time from the UK, where the workplace tech firm Aura has acquired the Reading-based full-service audio-visual integrator Reflex. Aura is a private equity-based company put together from a pair of companies, and is focused on workplace solutions for mid to large-size enterprise companies. Reflex has been around for almost 40 years …
Twin 58-Floor Office Towers In China Are Godzilla-Size LED Billboards At Night August 5, 2021 by Super User When people in New York City raised a major stink about a barge on the river acting as a floating LED billboard, my first thought was that if they were upset with that, they will go thermonuclear when a media company tries to emulate what’s happening in China. Entire office buildings and central business district …
Almo Resumes In-Person E4 Experience Road Show Events In US, Starting in Boston In October August 3, 2021 by Super User The AV distribution company Almo Professional A/V is resuming its schedule of AV road shows in cities across the U.S., with organizers undoubtedly hoping the rapidly-rising case counts among unvaccinated Americans will not force those efforts back to online-only. The company has been doing these regional events for years, but they have been online only …
Diversified Continues AV/IT Integrator Roll-Up, Acquiring HB Communications August 3, 2021 by Super User The North American AV/IT integrator business continues to consolidate, with the latest acquisition deal seeing NJ-based Diversified acquiring HB Communications, which is based up the turnpike in Connecticut. Diversified, by most measures the most active and knowledgeable big integrator in digital signage, says buying HB gives it even more of a footprint in the U.S. …
Sony Building Up Digital Signage CMS Partners In Android/SoC-Focused Collaborative Alliance July 30, 2021 by Super User Sony wasn’t an overly active or noticed player in digital signage for a bunch of years, but the company has been steadily trying to boost both its profile and its partnership programs in the last 18 months or so. The company recently announced something called the Collaborative Alliances program, which sounded a bit like a …
Netflix Mashes Up Reactive Street-Level LED Billboard To Scare The Crap Out Of Milanese July 27, 2021 by Super User Hat Tip to Damian Rezner at Warsaw’s Screen Network for referencing this on Linkedin. This is a pop-up marketing display in Milan for a horror series on Netflix – using a blend of an LED display, sensors and live actors to scare the crap out of people walking past. Set up as a plaza level …
InfoComm Digital Signage Mixer Good To Go With Full Set Of Sponsors July 22, 2021 by Super User It took all of about 36 hours, but I’m happy to report the digital signage mixer has a full set of sponsors and is good to go for late October in Orlando. Sponsors are needed to help cover the costs of the event – most notably in this case the cocktails. With all five in …
In-Person D=SIGN Digital Signage Conference Set For InfoComm In October … Plus A Sixteen:Nine Mixer! July 20, 2021 by Super User The Digital Signage Federation and the trade association AVIXA have paired up again to run an industry-focused conference at InfoComm 2021 in late October in Orlando. The D=SIGN digital signage conference is a pair of half-day programs on Oct. 26-27 at the Orange County Convention Center – done in-person unlike the virtual version done last …
LG Canada Exec’s Little Kids Help Fill COVID-depleted Shelves At Toronto-area Food Bank July 19, 2021 by Super User If you are active in digital signage in Canada, there’s a good chance you know Mike Della Mora, the sales director for LG’s business solutions in Canada. I knew Mike is a great guy, but he and his wife Lindsey are clearly great parents, as well. Their little kids were written up in a Toronto-area …
Giant Anamorphic Wave First Seen In Seoul Washes Into NYC’s Times Square July 19, 2021 by Super User The anamorphic illusions that have been popping more and more on LED boards in Asian megacities are now showing up in arguably the world capital of big displays – New York’s Times Square. This is a wave-based illusion – dubbed The WHALE – that’s running on the board I call the LED Board That Ate …
