If You Sell Digital Signage Solutions Into Food Services, You’re Now Competing With Coca-Cola June 26, 2019 by Dave Haynes Well this is pretty interesting – digital signage CMS companies chasing the food services businesses have long known they had many competitors, big and small, but they probably never envisioned Coca-Cola being among them. The beverage giant has announced a partnership on a digital marketplace, to launch this fall, “that connects its foodservice customers to …
Smart City Proposal For Toronto Waterfront Takes Pains To Explain Data Use And Privacy Protection June 26, 2019 by Dave Haynes Sidewalk Labs, a sister company to Google, has released an ambitious set of high level plans for a smart city district to be built on Toronto’s waterfront. The 1,500+ page master plan proposes that the company would fund up to $1.3 billion to transform a largely derelict 4.8-hectare waterfront property in an old docklands area into …
Why The Newest Raspberry Pi Made My Jaw Hit The Table June 25, 2019 by Bryan Crotaz Guest Post: Bryan Crotaz, Silver Curve You may have read about the Raspberry Pi 4 in the news. It’s big news for the whole world, from children’s code clubs, to office desktop use, to industrial applications such as digital signage. At Silver Curve, we adore the Raspberry Pi Foundation and the Pi micro computer. I only got …
Touch Taiwan Expects 40,000 For Show Focused On Emerging Display Tech Like Micro & MiniLED June 24, 2019 by Dave Haynes This seems to be the Year of the Trade Show around Sixteen:Nine. So far, I’ve done six, and number seven will be Touch Taiwan, in late August in Taipei. It is the biggest event of the year for Taiwan’s display industry, and should pull some 40,000 attendees Aug. 28-30 at the Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center. …
Spanish Football Club Celebrates Its Past With Projection-Filled Museum At Home Stadium June 24, 2019 by Dave Haynes The Spanish La Liga football team Athletic Bilbao celebrates more than a century of top-level competition in a museum on the grounds of San Mamés stadium, where it plays home games. The museum in Bilbao has been equipped with more than 30 Christie laser projectors, using short throw lenses, to tell the club’s story through the …
Junk Research: When Planning A Digital Signage Network, Remember To Consider The Breastfeeding Implications June 24, 2019 by Dave Haynes I get an email from Google each morning that is a summary of the news headlines it scrapes on the search term “digital signage” and I’d say 95% of what it finds is useless. It does not return stuff from Sixteen:Nine because this deemed “just a blog” and carries opinions. Instead, you get an endless …
New 4th Gen Raspberry Pi Has 4X RAM And Does Dual 4K June 24, 2019 by Dave Haynes The UK-based Raspberry Pi Foundation has announced the 4th generation of its micro PC board – a Raspberry Pi 4 that for a $35 barebones price has 4X the RAM of earlier versions, as well as a faster CPU and graphics, faster Ethernet, dual-band Wi-Fi, twice the amount of HDMI outputs, and two USB 3 ports. The $35 …
ComQi, AUO Team Up On Swappable, Upgradeable Smart Digital Signage Displays June 21, 2019 by Dave Haynes The NYC-based digital signage CMS firm ComQi is starting to show some tangible technical evidence of its ties to parent company AUO, the Taiwanese display manufacturer that acquired them last year. The two have announced an all-in-one display that it says provides all the streamlined and cost-trimming advantages of a smart display, with none of …
Debacle On 34th Street: One Very Big, Very Out Fine Pitch LED June 20, 2019 by Dave Haynes This is the Footlocker store on 34th Street in New York, across from Macy’s. An industry colleague sent me a photo showing the huge LED wall, intersected by an escalator, was out. Not good, but I figured, cut the guys a break – it could be a maintenance issue and maybe the screen was back …
MicroLED, Barely A Thing Right Now, To Explode In Growth As Manufacturing Tech Matures June 19, 2019 by Dave Haynes The tech research firm IHS Markit says the day will come when big microLED display walls will not just be affordable by Arab royalty, Russian oligarchs and NBA free agents. The global market for microLED displays is expected to grow to 15.5 million units by 2026, driven by steep declines in manufacturing costs, says the …
