OptConnect Debuts Teeny Smart USB Modem For Devices On Network Edges July 10, 2024 by Dave Haynes This seems smart and attractive, but I will state upfront I don’t pay much attention to connectivity options for digital signage and DOOH jobs, so I am absolutely not an expert. Utah-based OptConnect, which is in the managed wireless business and has been nibbling around digital signage as an opportune market because of scale, has debuted …
Nice Product, Baffling Name July 9, 2024 by Dave Haynes Perhaps it is a function of me being an age-certified old fart, but I think if you are going to call something a table, it should at least bear some resemblance to what we all know to be a table. Here we have what I think is a nice product with an utterly weird product …
UltraLeap Halving Workforce; Selling Off Hand-Tracking And Focusing On Haptics Interactive Tech July 2, 2024 by Dave Haynes The UK firm focused on enabling touchless, mid-air hand and gesture controls using ultrasound waves and tracking has confirmed it is halving its workforce and offloading one of its two main lines of business. Ultraleap, based in Bristol, told staff last week it was having to do staff reductions because of what was described as …
ZetaDisplay Reaches Framework Deal To Update Screen Network On Stockholm’s Airport Express Train System July 2, 2024 by Dave Haynes The Swedish digital signage solutions provider ZetaDisplay has announced a “multi-year exclusive framework agreement” that would see its software driving the screens on the rail cars and platforms of the express rail service that runs between central Stockholm and the city’s Arlanda international airport. This partnership, says PR, will see Arlanda express switching to ZetaDisplay’s …
Velasea Partners With Industrial PC Maker Cincoze On PCs Built To Handle Weather Extremes June 26, 2024 by Dave Haynes I don’t write much about technology and distribution partnerships because those announcements are endless and are usually interesting only to the companies making the arrangements, but a tie-up between a couple of specialty computer manufacturers is notable because of a curious factor – the weather. The Las Vegas-area OEM systems builder Velasea, which started moving …
Windows 10 Support Ends Next Year, Providing Big Switch Opportunity For Google’s ChromesOS Flex June 25, 2024 by Dave Haynes The publication TechNewsWorld, whose coverage focus is pretty evident in the name, has a good reminder up about the looming end of Microsoft’s formal support for devices running its Windows 10 operating system. Many millions of PCs, including some used as media players for digital signage networks, see support ended for their OS in October …
Zoom-Zoom: InfoComm Videos Demo Curved Touch LEDs And Infinite Zoom Software June 21, 2024 by Dave Haynes Here’s a few videos from InfoComm last week that demo a curved, touched LED video wall, and interactive software that continues to genuinely blow my mind. This first one is a real world demo of curved yet multi-touch capable fine pitch display that is a collaboration between Planar and TSI Touch. For context, touch on …
Samsung Broadens Use Of SmartThings IOT Devices To Pro AV Applications June 17, 2024 by Florian Rotberg Guest Post: Florian Rotberg, invidis (This post first appeared on the German language site of content partner invidis) Samsung presented SmartThings Pro, a further development of the established IoT platform with B2B functions, at Infocomm 24. The focus is on more sustainable, better automated and more experience-rich digital signage concepts. A preview was already available …
BrightSign Opens Up Its Newest Media Player To Windows 10, 11 IoT June 7, 2024 by Dave Haynes The walls have been dropping on a lot of software and hardware products in this industry to meet demands for interoperability and to work with less proprietary, more common systems, so it is interesting but maybe not surprising to learn that the industry’s dominant media player manufacturer has opened up its platform to now include …
Samsung ESL Spin-Off Solum Partnering With NDI On Video-Over-IP Large Format Displays June 6, 2024 by Dave Haynes A Samsung spin-off company most known for its electronic shelf labels has taken the interesting step of partnering with Sweden’s NDI to develop new large format displays that are based on video-over-IP connectivity. SOLUM, self-described as the world’s leading provider of Electronic Shelf Label and Digital Signage solutions (not so sure about that second bit, …
