Ballpark Home Of Toronto’s Blue Jays Getting $300M More In Fan Experience Upgrades August 10, 2022 by Dave Haynes There have been a number of sports and entertainment stadiums and arenas in North America that have been demolished or deemed outdated and then vacated in favor of flashy, very expensive n ew digs, so it’s almost refreshing to read that a 33-year-old building is getting renovated for $300 million instead of replaced with a …
So Much For Mission-Critical Displays … August 9, 2022 by Dave Haynes This is the drive-thru screen set-up at a McDonalds in the US midwest – seemingly beat up and suffering from the heat and UV damage of the sun. Yikes! The reader who sent me the photo says it has been like this for about a month – which seems a little nutty, given the mission-critical …
Some 6,000 7-Elevens May Have Had Digital Signs Hacked In Last Week’s Taiwan Cyber Attack: Report August 9, 2022 by Dave Haynes Whoa … the details either weren’t out or I missed the part in the first reports I saw that it wasn’t a few 7-Elevens with screens that got hacked with anti-US messaging last week, when US Speaker Nancy Pelosi made an official visit to that island nation. It may have been as many as screens …
Consumers, Unsurprisingly, Continue To Worry About Using Touchscreens: Research August 8, 2022 by Dave Haynes A lot of consumers continue to worry about germs on touchscreens and would welcome touch-free options, according to the results of a survey conducted across four countries. Research conducted in the UK, US, China and Japan – commissioned by UK-based Ultraleap, which markets touchless technology – suggests more than half of consumers in these markets (52%) …
Chinese Hackers Suspected Of Compromising Digital Signs In Taiwan; Messages Slam Pelosi’s Visit August 8, 2022 by Dave Haynes If you follow world news, at all, you will have been aware of the uproar surrounding the short visit to Taiwan last week by U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Among the many things that happened around the visit – one that deeply upset the Chinese government – was the apparent hacking of some …
German Railway’s Passenger Info Screen Hacked; Porn Shown Instead Of Rider Information August 2, 2022 by Dave Haynes German content partner Invidis has a post up about yet another example of what can happen when a digital signage network has security gaps. In this case, a screen at the Oberbarmen stop of the Wuppertal suspension railway was showing naughty content instead of information intended to inform and guide passengers. Wuppertal is up near …
Vegas Resort’s Giant Sportsbook Screen Taken Out By Heavy Rain, Even Though It’s Inside! August 2, 2022 by Dave Haynes Keeping spare components is rarely a bad idea when it comes to mission-critical technology, and I suspect either the supplier, integrator or operator was happy that was evidently done for the giant screen in the sportsbook of the Circa Resort in downtown Las Vegas. The city doesn’t get a lot of rain, but when it …
Raydiant Launches New Curated Streaming TV Content Via VideoElephant Partnership August 1, 2022 by Dave Haynes San Francisco CMS software firm Raydiant has taken the interesting step of introducing its own streaming TV app for third-party content, working with a video aggregator to make curated broadcast and web content available to supplement the programming schedules of end-user customers. Called RaydiantTV, the app that allows businesses to broadcast semi-live content to multiple …
Video Call Giant Zoom Broadens Digital Signage Capabilities With New Workplace Reservation Functions July 29, 2022 by Dave Haynes It tends to be complicated, time-consuming and expensive for pure-play digital signage software companies to add functionality outside the norms of digital signage, like a CMS adding point of sale software to its overall offer. But it is relatively easy for companies that do other kinds of software to get into basic digital signage, and …
Global Pro AV Revenues Forecast To Reach $263B For 2022: AVIXA July 28, 2022 by Dave Haynes With all the tumult out there – from contagions to inflation to war – it’s encouraging to read that the pro AV sector is actually rolling along nicely, with the global revenue total expected to reach $263 Billion for 2022. That’s the read from AVIXA’s 2022 Industry Outlook and Trends Analysis (also known as IOTA). …
