Alpha Modus’ Patent Offensive: Why a Retail Tech Startup Is Suing the Industry November 19, 2025 by Antonia Hamberger Alpha Modus isn’t a household name in digital signage or retail tech circles, but the North Carolina–based firm has become harder to ignore in recent weeks. After years operating quietly in the background, Alpha Modus has now filed 19 patent infringement lawsuits – and CEO Bill Alessi says that number is on track to hit …
Software Startup Arterio Says It Slashes LED Configuration Time to Minutes August 28, 2025 by Antonia Hamberger The range of sizes and formats for LED walls is virtually limitless. At one end are all-in-one displays delivered as standard products; at the other, highly complex custom designs built for specific spaces. Some come as ready-made solutions, while others demand extensive engineering work. Most LED projects, however, fall somewhere in between—tailor-made, yet built from …
DSE2012: PhenomBlue Bringing Interactive Surface To Las Vegas March 6, 2012 by Super User One of the names that popped up in the exhibitor list this week was Phenomblue, an interactive agency from Omaha. I had not seen them around this space and was pleased to see a company that works outside this sector taking an interest and actually investing in being at Digital Signage Expo. Here’s my Q&A …
Merger brings audio companies into digital signage video game July 8, 2011 by Super User Getting into the digital signage business on the vendor/supplier side these days involves getting up a learning curve and figuring out how what you have stands out in a really crowded marketplace. It helps, a bunch, if you have well established clients for other, reasonably related stuff. That’s why news of another company – actually …
Digital signage deployments get Zinger of a franchise model June 9, 2011 by Super UserGoogle Alerts popped up a notice on a news release recently about what was described as the “first digital signage franchise providing a “one-vendor” approach for installing and maintaining a digital signage network for small and medium size businesses.” Hmmm. I have seen a few franchise opportunities here and there through the years, offering up …
Posterscope names new head of US Digital OOH unit May 11, 2011 by Super UserMedia sales people who do the rounds of the big New York agencies have a new guy to get interested in their pots and pans. Martin Porter is the VP and Director of Hyperspace, the Digital OOH and technology specialty division of OOH planning giant Posterscope. Porter, a Brit, will be in charge of leading …
Italian virtual drapes aimed at interactive retailing May 4, 2011 by Super UserI’ve been trading emails for the last few days with Massimo Barbieri, the sales and marketing director for an Italian software firm, Hypersoft, that does some really interesting custom work for interactive retail stations. He got me interested by sending me a link to a drapes and curtains simulator that would allow a sales person, …
New cranky, funny but also insightful digital signage blog from UK: Loudscreen March 31, 2011 by Super UserWord of a new blog on the digital signage industry gets my excitement level about as high as when my wife says she’d like me to come with her to Ikea to look at cushions. I got one of those “I’ve got a new blog” emails from a guy yesterday, and I politely said I …
ScreenReach at Demo 2011, announces 800 screen interactive deal with RMG March 2, 2011 by Super UserIn the lead-up to DSE and our frantic planing for the Preset Group DSE Mixer we chatted with Paul Rawlings of ScreenReach Interactive, a UK company that does really interesting integration between mobile devices and screens, be they place-based or even in homes. Rawlings, a great young guy, was very happy to throw some resource …
Network selling ads on screens embedded in coin-op dryer windows February 19, 2011 by Super UserI’ve heard business plans here and there from people targeting coin-operated neighborhood laundries as a media venue, because of the lengthy dwell times. But it was the usual screens-on-walls thing. This is the first time I’ve seen a network that actually puts 8-inch digital screens IN the dryer windows. The Clean View Media Network is working …
