DSF Mixer Set For Seattle Next Week April 29, 2019 by Super User The Digital Signage Federation has one of its traveling meet and greet networking mixers set for next Wednesday in downtown Seattle. The event starts at 6 pm, and there will be cocktails, nibblies and a presentation about Amazon Spheres, the digital signage that locally-based Amazon did at its new downtown Seattle space. Not sure who …
Malware Takes Out Passenger Information Screens At Cleveland’s Airport April 29, 2019 by Super User The flight information (FIDS) and gate information (GIDS) screens went out of service last week at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport after a ransomware attack on the passenger-facing systems. The screens went dark a week ago, and the airport’s CIO said this morning that it was still working to get them all back online. Wow! Cleveland …
Viva Vision In Vegas – World’s Biggest LED Display – Starts Getting Facelift April 26, 2019 by Super User Anyone who’s been to Las Vegas a few times has probably, at some point, visited Fremont Street – the old school, downtown part of Las Vegas that is even weirder than the Strip. The big feature of that hotel and restaurant stretch is an LED canopy that runs a scheduled multimedia show. That canopy, called …
NEC’s Larson, LG’s Wicka Get Executive Promotions April 26, 2019 by Super User I tend to tell PR people I don’t do new hires and appointments stories because analytics clearly indicate 16:9 readers don’t care. But I make an exception for some notable ones. Betsy Larson is now Senior VP of Sales for NEC, getting a bump up from Vice President of Channel Sales. In her new gig, …
AOPEN Announces New Sets Of Windows-based Digital Signage Players April 26, 2019 by Super User Taiwan tech company AOPEN has announced a set of new media players aimed primarily at digital signage applications, including a couple that serve what would seem to be the diminishing demand for Windows. There are still lots of companies using Windows, but everything I hear suggests the industry is widely adopting Linux and Android devices …
Samsung Formally Opens New West Coast Briefing Center April 26, 2019 by Super User Samsung has formally opened its latest Executive Briefing Center (EBC) in Irvine, CA, which is in greater LA, in Orange County. The company already has showroom/conference/event spaces in New Jersey and lower Manhattan, but the 7,500 sq. ft. facility in Irvine is the first on the west coast. I am pretty sure the EBC has been open for …
Movie Campaign Turns Mall Digital Kiosks Into Pikachus April 25, 2019 by Super User Digital OOH street furniture has long been a preferred medium for movie launches, but this is the first time I think I’ve seen them fully adapted to take on the character of a new film. This a mall kiosk in the UK, running on a JCDecaux screen, for a new movie called Detective Pikachu about …
Man Caught On Camera, In Act, Of Damaging LinkNYC Kiosks; Now Arrested April 25, 2019 by Super User A 41-year-old man has been arrested and charged in the wake of 42 LinkNYC digital OOH/smart city kiosks being vandalized and damaged around five NYPD precincts. The kiosks have cameras and at least one caught the man throwing a large rock at a unit, in daylight and as people walked by.
UK Digital Signage Matchmaking Event Set For Sept. 23-24 Outside London April 23, 2019 by Super User A UK events company is busily recruiting vendors and end-users for a digital signage matchmaking event in greater London this fall. The Digital Signage & Interactive Solutions Summit is one of those specialized events that sees vendors paying for access – both focused and relaxed – with interested, engaged buyers. So the organizers put it …
Broadsign Acquires DOOH Software Rival, And Neighbour, Ayuda April 23, 2019 by Super User There are times when mergers I hear about just send me into cross-eyed head-scratching mode, and others when my immediate reaction is: “Ok, that makes sense.” Broadsign acquiring Ayuda makes sense. Both companies are well established and much respected in the digital OOH sector. They serve the same kinds of clients but in different ways …
