LG’s Hidden Booth at Infocomm Features AI Avatar June 12, 2025 by Antonia Hamberger There’s been a lot of curiosity leading up to Infocomm this year around whether we’d finally see AI solutions that truly bring something new to the table for digital signage. Earlier in the year, at ISE in February, many were expecting a bigger AI splash. What we mostly got were early beta versions of generative …
PPDS Introduces Foldable All-in-One LED at Infocomm June 11, 2025 by Antonia Hamberger One of the main barriers to adopting LED walls in corporate and public environments continues to be cost. But one argument that seems to convince enterprises indecisive about the investment is transportability. With mobile and foldable displays that can fit through standard doorways and inside elevators, a single display can potentially serve multiple rooms, maximizing …
TCL Launches New Pro Display Brand at Infocomm June 11, 2025 by Antonia Hamberger While some Chinese manufacturers are absent at this year’s Infocomm for obvious reasons, the TV giant TCL has chosen Orlando to launch a new brand for North America: TCL professional. The brand focuses exclusively on pro displays and – in contrast to TCL’s Moka brand – will eventually offer a full line-up of signage solutions …
Ruth Fornell, Poppulo-CEO: “The Best Year in Recent History” June 10, 2025 by Antonia Hamberger Poppulo serves half of the Fortune 100 companies, making it the leading digital signage provider in the enterprise segment. Today’s brand was formed five years ago through the merger of digital signage solution provider Four Winds Interactive with Poppulo, an employee communications platform. In April, invidis’s Florian Rotberg spoke with CEO Ruth Fornell about its …
Poppulo Doubles Down on AI With Agents and Web Composer June 10, 2025 by Antonia Hamberger Following Korbyt’s launch of a new AI agent suite, Poppulo has made a simlilar announcement. The Denver-based CMS company has developed what it calls “Analyze Agent,” which is dubbed as a foundational model for a future set of task-driven agents. Once launched, these agents will then relieve users of a lot of the manual work …
Brightsign Expands with Series 6 Players, SoCs, and Edge-AI Support June 6, 2025 by Antonia Hamberger Brightsign has been a go-to name in digital signage since I don’t know how many years, with its purple media players powering some two million digital signage endpoints worldwide. The San-José-based company has traditionally focused on its hardware, its proprietary BrightsignOS, and maintaining partnerships with other CMS providers through its alliance program. Its own CMS …
Christie Launches No-OS, No-RF Displays at Infocomm June 6, 2025 by Antonia Hamberger While it’s true that many security-sensitive and business-critical environments prefer media players over SoC displays for digital signage, calling SoCs an insecure option would be a bit far-stretched. But Christie is obviously seeing a market opportunity in “non-smart” displays with no SoC and no RF. The US manufacturer is launching an LCD line-up called Secure …
We Tried Google Beam – the Closest Thing to In-Person Conversation Yet June 4, 2025 by Antonia Hamberger In late 2024, my colleagues and I were lucky enough to experience a technology that Google still kept shrouded in mystery at the time: Google’s Project Starline. Hidden in two demo rooms at the ChromeOS Experience Center in San José, this early glimpse into what is now officially known as Google Beam left us stunned. …
Korbyt Introduces AI Agents to Automate Content Creation and Delivery June 4, 2025 by Antonia Hamberger At DSS Europe in Munich a couple of weeks ago, one of the most talked-about topics was how digital signage software vendors can harness the power of AI. Many conversations centered on the potential for CMS providers to train AI models with their own data to create tailored, signage-specific tools – especially autonomous AI agents …
Day 2 DSSE – Lightning Impressions, Inc. Color E-paper And Making Smart Displays Do More May 23, 2025 by Super User Very busy second day at Digital Signage Summit Europe in Munich, and I got into my room at 1:42 AM. It is encouraging that I recall the time, cuz wine and weisse beer. A lot of people at this event, with the numbers amplified by how people can fly in to the city, walk out …
