Four Winds Rebrands As Poppulo; Gets Even More Focused On Workplace As Its Vertical November 9, 2022 by Dave Haynes Well this is interesting – Four Winds Interactive has rebranded as Poppulo, the name of the Irish firm it merged with last year, along with another firm called SmartSpace. Four Winds founder David Levin just sent out a mass email that lays out the news and thinking (there’s also a press release): As you know, …
DSE Mixer Sponsor Profiles: Seneca Details How It Powers World’s Top Digital Signage Projects November 9, 2022 by Dave Haynes Just a week out now from the reboot of DSE in Las Vegas, and the return of the used-to-be annual Sixteen:Nine networking mixer, which is seriously sold out. The event happens because of eight great sponsors who help cover the considerable costs, and my countless hours trying to get my little label printer to do …
Display Industry MicroLED Buzz Calming From Roar To Hum: DSCC Report November 8, 2022 by Dave Haynes The industry buzz about microLED as a digital signage display technology has calmed from a roar to more of a hum, according to a new report from the market research and analysis firm Display Supply Chain Consulting. “MicroLED was initially presented as an ideal display technology for all applications but the hype has faded,” suggests …
Digital Signage, Queue Management Tech Help Screen Athletes At USA Special Olympics November 7, 2022 by Dave Haynes The 2022 Special Olympics USA Games in Orlando used a nice combination of queue management and digital signage technologies to manage a healthy athlete screening program set up to process as many as 12,000 athletes over the seven-day run of the event. Special Olympics worked with the creative technology shop edgefactory, based in Orlando, on …
Shake Shack Adding Self-Service Kiosks Across Full Chain; Introducing More Drive-Thru Displays November 7, 2022 by Dave Haynes Hat Tip to Kiosk Manufacturing Association’s blog for spotting this … The U.S. burger chain Shake Shack is making big investments in digital to deal with shifting consumer expectations and the challenges of hiring and keeping staff. QSR Magazine has a detailed story up about how the chain is investing in self-service kiosks across its …
AV Magazine Had Its Big Awards Night This Weekend In London; Here Are The Winners … November 7, 2022 by Dave Haynes UK-based AV Magazine holds a big, splashy and boozy (from the looks of it!) black tie awards night annually to identify and celebrate jobs well done in the pro AV sector, with a focus on the UK and EU markets. The latest edition of the awards was this past weekend, and here’s the list of …
Some 500 Sync’d Drones Take Over NYC Skyline To Market Candy Crush; Residents Unimpressed November 7, 2022 by Dave Haynes Residents in big cities have raised objections to things like river and ocean barges with LED boards on them, and big digital boards on roadways, so I suspect synchronized drone arrays in the sky used specifically for product marketing are not going to be greeted warmly if they start appearing regularly. The technical feat of …
Integrator Solutionz Buys Spinitar; Rolls Into Its “Family Of Companies” November 4, 2022 by Dave Haynes Southern California systems integrator Solutionz has acquired a competing firm, Spinitar, with plans to rebrand and roll it into Solutionz’ operations. Under the direction of Solutionz CEO Bill Warnick, says PR on the deal, Spinitar will rebrand as a member of the Solutionz family of companies and continue operating in its current footprint throughout California …
Creative Realities Gets $2M Loan To Speed Up Software Development Tuned To Automaker And Dealers November 4, 2022 by Dave HaynesDigital signage solutions firm Creative Realities, Inc. has tweaked its deal with a main lender to secure a $2 million term loan it says will be used to speed up an “active software development project” expected to spin out as much as $5 million in annuals revenues within a couple of years. That timeline would …
ScreenCloud Launches Own Optimized OS For Digital Signage, And Dedicated Playback Device November 3, 2022 by Dave Haynes UK-based CMS software company ScreenCloud has taken the interesting step of building its own variant of the Linux operating system – dubbed ScreenCloud OS – to power a lean, efficient software and hardware digital signage solution it says can handle the scale, functionality and cost demands of the enterprise clients it now targets. The company started …
