One More Day In Taiwan October 31, 2024 by Super User This is what it looked like at about 8 last night under the canopy of the hotel I am at in Taipei this week … Lights flickered a few times in my room but that is it. Big hat tip to a couple of tech companies – Innolux and PlayNitride – who came in to …
Diversified Relocates From New Jersey To Plano, TX; Opens Tech-Filled New HQ October 31, 2024 by Super User One of the biggest AV/IT systems integrators in the U.S. has relocated from its first and longtime home in New Jersey to the Dallas area. The new global HQ of Diversified is in Plano, in the northern part of the DFW metro area, in digs that look a lot splashier than the squat building in an …
Super Typhoon Leon Making A Halloween Visit To Taiwan October 30, 2024 by Super User Today was supposed to be another big day in Taiwan visiting display manufacturers and talking about future technologies for a big report I am working on, but meetings are not likely to happen with a big, wet and windy guy named Leon passing through. Super Typhoon Leon is bearing down on the island country, and …
M&A: Eletromidia Brings Software Supplier 4YouSee In-House; Touchsource Bolsters Wayfinding Through Oppna Digital Deal October 26, 2024 by Super User A couple of acquisition stories this week – the larger of them coming out of Brazil, where the biggest DOOH media owner has acquired the largest CMS software platform provider in the LATAM region. Eletromidia reaches 22 million people daily through some 40,000 DOOH screens in malls, premium shopping malls, roadside screens in transit shelters, …
Preview: Pix From Launch Event For Future Stores In London October 22, 2024 by Super User That very ambitious, digitally-driven pop-up store on Oxford Street in London had a preview party the other night, ahead of its formal opening next week. Future Stores is a space that brands can lease for short-terms – if for example a consumer device company with, I dunno, AR eyeglasses, wanted to make a big splash …
Lotsa Travel, Few Posts The Next Couple Of Weeks October 21, 2024 by Super User Posts will be limited the next couple of weeks because of travels – as I am heading to LA and then on to Taiwan this week and next – doing a pile of site visits and interviews for a big, and in hindsight overly-ambitious special report I am pulling together, to come out in January, …
Korean Solutions Firm VECT Clearing Securities Hurdles To Do IPO October 21, 2024 by Super User Language, location and how private companies keep their financials to themselves means it is quite rare to come across data on how digital signage solutions companies do in other parts of the world, so it was interesting to come across a news report about a Korean firm that is planning to go public. It was …
DIGICHIEF Debuts New API-Driven Content Feeds For Local Health Conditions October 18, 2024 by Super User Long-time subscription content provider DIGICHIEF has developed an interesting data partnership with a company that does what it calls healthcare intelligence to provide screen network operators with geo-targeted health information, like the prevalence of colds and flu in an area. It’s a collaboration between Lexington, KY-based DIGICHIEF, using APIs from IQVIA, which operates out of …
Photos: Here’s A Look At That Solar-Driven Color Billboard Tech October 16, 2024 by Super User Here are some photos I asked for that show the public demo of that Israeli company’s very different approach to making billboards both digital and also sustainable. KA-Dynamic Color and a NYC partner Sign Expo got the OK to show a portion of its billboard tech in a park yesterday and again today (at the corner …
Sphere’s Owners Partner With Abu Dhabi Government To Put A Vegas-Scale Version In That Emirate October 16, 2024 by Super User Most observers will have long ago concluded that if another version of the Las Vegas Sphere was going to be built, it would likely be in the Gulf region – where big-money Wow Factors projects are regularly announced and often built. Sphere Entertainment, the live entertainment company that owns Sphere, has announced intentions to bring …
