More Supply Chain Issues: Electronics Factory Hub Shenzhen Locked Down For (At Least) A Week March 15, 2022 by Dave Haynes As much as we all want to wish the pandemic away and go back to normal, COVID-19 continues to be a serious problem both for health and business. The latest big knock comes out of China, where lockdowns are again impacting the supply chain for electronics components. The local government of Shenzhen has locked the …
Electronic Shelf Labels Being Used In Big Retail To Drive Donations For Ukraine Relief Efforts March 14, 2022 by Dave Haynes There is lots of evidence of the digital OOH media community stepping up to support what’s going in Ukraine through free media on digital billboards and things like sidewalk ad totems. But now there’s a way to offer support and trigger donations in mass merchandise and grocery retail, using electronic shelf labels (ESLs). The firm …
Global Public Display Demand Almost Back To Pre-COVID Levels: Omdia March 14, 2022 by Dave Haynes Shipments of public displays – the terminology used in legit research circles for digital signage displays – have almost come back to pre-COVID levels, according to new numbers from the market research firm Omdia. Research analyst Tay Taehoon Kim on Omdia pushed out a brief on Linkedin that says global public display shipments grew 10.2% …
OnLogic Debuts Industrialized Raspberry Pi Micro PCs March 14, 2022 by Dave Haynes Math nerds would know that this is Pi Day, which celebrates the mathematical constant Pi … which is something that evidently winds up math nerds. So … Happy Pi Day! I note this because the New England industrial PC firm OnLogic has chosen the day to announce a new, finished product built around the Raspberry …
UK Custom Display Firm Literally An Anomaly For Market Focus March 11, 2022 by Dave Haynes One of my takeaways from the last pro AV trade show I was at – a couple of years ago now – was how there were one hell of a lot of companies selling indoor and outdoor display totems, all seemingly chasing the limited markets of DOOH advertising and campus and mall directories. A UK …
Need To Hide Electronics For A Digital Signage Screen? Stick Them In A Drawer. March 11, 2022 by Dave Haynes Product innovation tends to be subtle and incremental in categories like flat panel and LED mounting hardware, and it’s hard (trust me here) to write something interesting about new variations on articulating arms and micro-adjustment thingies. But I came across what seems like an interesting approach to the challenge of tucking media players and other …
Vendor Alert: Adidas Opening Tech-Filled “Halo” Flagship In Downtown Toronto March 10, 2022 by Dave Haynes Adidas is opening its first “halo” flagship store in downtown Toronto this summer – a whiz-bang immersive store that will likely be filled with visual displays, particularly if the first halo store in Dubai (photo above) is the inspiration. Retail Insider reports that the “concept store merges several of the Adidas sub-brands under one roof …
Portugal’s Moviik Wants More Digital Signage Firms Rolling In Its Queueing Software March 9, 2022 by Dave Haynes I have clear memories of talking to queue management hardware and software companies years ago at trade shows, who looked at me then like I was wearing a cocktail dress and heels when I suggested there was an interesting tie-up to be done with digital signage applications. They just didn’t see the relationship between the …
D’Alessandro Stepping Down At Diversified; Unisys Vet Hutto Hired As New CEO March 9, 2022 by Dave Haynes The (very) big pro AV integrator Diversified has a new person at the top, with word this morning that founder Fred D’Alessandro is slowing down and transitioning to a role as Executive Chairman, clearing the way for Unisys veteran Eric Hutto to be the newly-hired CEO. D’Alessandro, the announcement explains, “will now focus his energy …
Saccoman Steps Back From AdMobilize Leadership; Focused Now On NFTs And Crypto March 8, 2022 by Dave Haynes The Miami computer vision firm AdMobilize has announced big management changes, with founder Rodolfo Saccoman stepping back to just have a seat on the board and be an active advisor, while a pair of long-timers with the company take on CEO and COO roles. The executive changes, says PR, is the culmination of a transition …
