Quividi Shuffles Exec Team, With New CEO And Co-Founder Back As President January 13, 2020 by Super User The French computer vision firm Quividi – which has been marketing video analytics into the digital signage and DOOH ecosystems for many years – has shuffled its management team, naming a new CEO, shifting its longtime CEO to the board, and bringing back a founder. Laetitia Lim is the new Chief Executive Officer, with Ke-Quang …
STRATACACHE Partners With Japanese Digital Agency To Accelerate Access To Market January 13, 2020 by Super User STRATACACHE has announced a strategic technology partnership with a big, influential Japanese ad and digital agency – Hakuhodo DY Holdings – that will give it accelerated access to the digital retail market in that country. Hakuhodo has business ties with a lot of large household brands, like auto and electronics makers. This deal gives the …
Hacked Billboard Had Unlocked Equipment Shed, Used Laptop As Media Player January 13, 2020 by Super User A digital billboard in the Detroit area was hacked last fall, with ads replaced by a very naughty video. Probably like most people, I assumed a couple of teenaged boys with strong computer chops somehow got at the media player and made the change, for the sake of some giggles. I was right, though the …
It’s Not A Digital Signage Show, But NRF 2020 Has A Lot Of It On Show This Week In NYC January 13, 2020 by Super User I am skipping the NRF retail show in NYC this week – every 2-3 years is enough for me – but there are plenty of digital signage vendors there, some making a very large investment. STRATACACHE had a very large booth last year and it appears to be much the same for 2020 – we’re …
AMOLED DisplayCo Has 1,000 Screen “Tree” At CES 2020 January 10, 2020 by Super User This is a decorative tree, with leaves made out of flexible AMOLED screens, that has been set up this week by display manufacturer Royole at its CES 2020 stand. The company also has a smaller version at Shenzhen’s stunning airport terminal that went live this past summer. The company says the “tree” has some 1,000 …
Government Office In West China Adds 140 Sq. Meter LED Lobby Screen January 10, 2020 by Super User This is an utterly massive LED screen in what must be the lobby of Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps’ Command Center. It is a 1.2mm Ledman chip on board display (COB is a different production method from most of the LED display you see out there) and has a resolution of 12,480 by 7290. That …
Still Have Screens On Windows 7? It’s Really Dead In Five Days January 9, 2020 by Super User The New England firm Advanced Kiosks – which makes and sells guess what – has pushed out an interesting email blast reminding end-users out in the world that if they have devices on kiosks that are running Windows 7, they are about to be using an unsupported, dead product. Says the company: You may not …
Planar’s CES 2020 Stand Includes 219″ 0.6mm LED; Jumbo 120″ LCD January 9, 2020 by Super User Portland, OR-based display-maker Planar Systems has a stand at CES 2020 this week and while I have not seen PR, there are tweets out there showing a couple of giant screens and tech advances. Planar has a 0.6mm pitch LED display measuring 216″ diagonal and delivering 8K. Weirdly, the booth image says the display is …
Mvix, BrightSign Partner On Flat Fee Digital Signage Bundle January 9, 2020 by Super User The DC-area CMS software firm Mvix has entered into a partnership with hardware manufacturer BrightSign that see’s a one-time only software price attached for end-users and solutions providers who want to use the little purple media players. “Unlike most CMS vendors who charge for a monthly or annual subscription, we’re offering a simple one-time fee …
LA’s PORTL Marketing Real-Time Kinda-Sorta Hologram Projection Screen Tech January 9, 2020 by Super User An LA start-up called PORTL is marketing what it calls the world’s only completely self-contained life-sized, single-passenger, 4K resolution hologram projection machine. The marketing pitch is that a person – like a performer or political candidate – could be captured on a white screen in one place, and that person’s life-sized, three-dimensional image be replicated …
