SpinetiX Does Distribution Deal With Almo For Its Digital Signage Solutions December 2, 2020 by Dave Haynes The big pro AV distributor Almo Professional A/V has announced a partnership that sees it starting to market and work with the Swiss software and hardware firm SpinetiX. SpinetiX’s solution has been in the U.S. market for years and the company had a tight relationship with the solutions provider/integrator Convergent, out of Atlanta. Not …
BOE Buys Related Pair Of LCD Rivals; Now Has 25% Global Market Share For Flat Panels September 24, 2020 by Dave Haynes Chinese display giant BOE Technology Group just got bigger, with the announcement yesterday that it will acquire roughly 81% of the stock shares of Nanjing CEC Panda Display and 51% of a sister company, Chengdu CEC Panda Display. The acquisition would see BOE having more than 25% of the global market share for large area …
How COVID-19 Has Shaped Digital Signage Trends July 29, 2020 by Dave Haynes Guest Post: Chloe Weaver, Allsee Technologies Towards the end of February, just as the number of countries with confirmed cases of coronavirus began to surge, I was researching key trends in the digital signage industry for 2020. Many reports predicted increasing affordability due to falling production costs, leading to increased adoption by high street stores to …
DSE Says 2020 Show On, Despite Any Attendee or Exhibitor Worries About Coronavirus February 28, 2020 by Dave Haynes Digital Signage Expo’s organizers have pushed out a statement designed to reassure exhibitors and attendees that the 2020 trade show and conference is on as planned, despite any concerns out there about travel and crowds amidst concerns about the spread of the COVID-19 virus. With our trade show and conference staging March 31- April 3, …
Navori’s New BrightSign Signage Player Solution Loads, Runs Off SD Card January 22, 2020 by Dave Haynes The veteran Swiss CMS software firm Navori Labs has announced an interesting new spin on making its application available on the widely used BrightSign media player line-up – a system on an SD memory card. The premise is that end-users or solutions providers need only get an SD card loaded with the the Navori QL …
Now The Kinetic Coke Board Has Modules Stuck In Place November 13, 2019 by Dave Haynes It is not my life’s work to detail the ongoing woes of a global brand’s Times Square ad display, but the Coca-Cola LED board in NYC is endlessly interesting. Last week, there was a maintenance crew doing something or other at the display that no longer does mechanical shape-shifting. On Tuesday, a reader grabbed some …
Visix Adds Built-In Voice Interface To Wayfinding Applications August 27, 2019 by Dave Haynes Atlanta-based Visix is now formally including a voice-activated wayfinding application – dubbed Voice User Interface (VUI) – in its digital signage software suite, allowing users to find their way around places like campuses with voice instead of touch. “The VUI uses speech recognition to understand spoken commands and questions, and will be familiar to any …
OAAA Names IAB Exec To Head OOH Media Trade Body July 22, 2019 by Dave Haynes The Out of Home Advertising Association of America (OAAA) has named Anna Bager, Executive Vice President of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), as its new President & CEO. Bager’s takes over in mid-September from Nancy Fletcher, who ran the organization for 29 years, and announced earlier this year she was retiring. Says the OAAA: Bager …
Ambitious New LA Skateboard Shop Uses Curved LED Wall To Drive Retail Experience July 5, 2019 by Dave Haynes Readers will be shocked to read that I don’t know a lot about skateboards or skateboard retailing. Shameful, but true. I did not know, for example, that they can look like over-priced kitchenware stores, or a forgotten part of the Caesars Palace resort in Vegas. This the new LA location of Palace Skateboards, self-described as one …
Spanish Football Club Celebrates Its Past With Projection-Filled Museum At Home Stadium June 24, 2019 by Dave Haynes The Spanish La Liga football team Athletic Bilbao celebrates more than a century of top-level competition in a museum on the grounds of San Mamés stadium, where it plays home games. The museum in Bilbao has been equipped with more than 30 Christie laser projectors, using short throw lenses, to tell the club’s story through the …
