Hold Please April 1, 2025 by Dave Haynes When I was in Barcelona for ISE, I was quietly telling a bunch of industry friends I was going to make a big announcement on April Fool’s Day – because I’ve been a smart-ass all my life, and why change now. But … circumstances have deferred that for a few weeks. It’s still a thing, …
Samsung Loses Top Display Exec To Heart Attack March 26, 2025 by Dave Haynes Unfortunate news out of South Korea – the man running the Device Experience division of Samsung had a heart attack on the weekend and passed away Tuesday. As reported by German language content partner invidis, Samsung Co-CEO Han Jong-hee died suddenly at the age of 63. Han Jong-hee reportedly worked for Samsung since 1988, and …
Barcelona’s Admira Gets A Visit From Nerd God Steve Wozniak March 7, 2025 by Dave Haynes For the last couple of years, I’ve spent the morning before ISE opens up in a lovely, relatively serene part of Barcelona called Gracia, visiting a digital signage solutions company called Admira and seeing what its CEO/Founder Carlos Silva Santin is up to now. He has built up a very successful company that ticks along …
Daktronics’ Longtime Boss Reece Kurtenbach Steps Down From Company His Dad Co-Founded March 5, 2025 by Dave Haynes It would be reasonable to think that word from Daktronics that it had come to an understanding with its activist investors meant the company could focus entirely on making and selling big indoor and outdoor LED displays, but on the immediate heels of the investor fuss being resolved comes word that the company’s longtime President …
DOOH Expert Gutnik Having Off-Hours Fun Trying Stand-up Comedy March 3, 2025 by Dave Haynes I’m always mildly red-faced when asked what I have as hobbies or passions or off-the-wall interests, because I don’t have anything that would make someone snap back and say, “Oh wow, Really?” Is yardwork a hobby? I have three chainsaws! Buying wine, but then just drinking it??? Boring, but I’m at peace with it. I …
Here’s The Winner List For 2025 Global Digital Signage Awards February 18, 2025 by Dave Haynes I don’t have an overly useful file that lists all the winners from the global Digital Signage Awards from, wow, a couple of weeks back in Barcelona, so I will point you instead at a set of slides from the awards site that shows the various winners with images of the projects. Sixteen:Nine helps guide …
And We’re Back … February 18, 2025 by Dave Haynes Back from ISE in Barcelona and then a lovely week walking the amazing seaside cliff trails of the western Algarve in Portugal, and spending the rest of the time just looking out from a hotel patio at sunshine, rolling waves and the odd dolphin pod offshore. Glorious. Then we came home to the back-end of …
DSF Sets Next Mix And Mingle Networking Event For Feb. 27th In San Diego-Area January 29, 2025 by Dave Haynes Registration is now open for the next in a series of Digital Signage Federation Mix and Mingle events, which the DSF puts on in tandem with its ‘s regular, quarterly-ish board meetings. The upcoming one is Feb. 27 in Carlsbad, which is between LA and San Diego, but more in the orbit of the latter. …
Longtime Intuiface CEO Vincent Encontre Pivots From Reading Budget Docs To Watching Grandkids Grow Up January 21, 2025 by Dave Haynes Happy, happy trails to Vincent Encontre, the longtime CEO of the French interactive software firm Intuiface, who has retired. Vincent has a post up on Linkedin outlining how he has stepped down and is looking forward to doing things that don’t involve budget forecasts and software roadmaps. He also relates the company’s journey, particularly as …
DSF Adds Four New Board Members: Ault, Barnes, Dickson And Leedy January 6, 2025 by Dave Haynes I was wondering how I missed the announcement of the new members of the Digital Signage Federation Board and then I saw the date – the same day I was on the back-end of finally getting home from DSE (took 30 hours because I made the fatal error of trying to make a simple connect …
