Dan Hagen Of 10Net, On Building Digital Signage In The Pacific Northwest May 15, 2019 by Dave Haynes Dan Hagen is a relatively young guy, and a bit of an Energizer Bunny. I know of him as the 10net guy from Vancouver, but I was surprised to learn in a conversation that he has been involved in digital signage since before it was called digital signage. He was a funding founder of Mercury …
Day Two Impressions From SID Display Week May 15, 2019 by Dave Haynes Random insights, so far, from SID Display Week in San Jose, CA: The display industry is slowing down, with compounded annual growth expected to sit at around 4% for next eight or nine years: Touch Display Report forecast; LCD sales will be flat-ish, over that time, but OLED sales will grow steadily: also from Touch …
Screenfeed Adds Full Customization Capabilities To Its News Feeds May 14, 2019 by Dave Haynes News feeds from data providers have typically come in one of two ways: raw XML or other feeds that could be flowed into templates; or pre-designed, finished feeds with the look and feel already sorted out. Now Minneapolis-based Screenfeed has added new capabilities that allow top-to-bottom customizability for their customers. “News is, by its nature …
inLighten CEO Snyder Personally Donates $100K To Neighborhood Charity May 13, 2019 by Dave Haynes The Buffalo-based media and digital signage company inLighten normally keeps a very low profile, but they lifted the veil a little today to celebrate the good deeds of President and CEO Dan Snyder, who has personally donated $100,000 toward the construction of an assisted living/enhanced assisted living and memory care community in the community. “inLighten looks for …
Trying To Nerd Out, And Mostly Failing, At Display Week May 13, 2019 by Dave Haynes The Society for Information Display is a non-profit group run by display industry people, and it holds an annual trade show and conference that pulls in many to most of the top-level display engineers in that business. Display Week, as the event is called, is this week in San Jose, CA, and I am attending …
Big Oops! Huge LED Wall In Ruins At Mandalay Bay’s Arena May 13, 2019 by Dave Haynes There are endless theories, it seems, as to what happened – but what is without question is that the other day, an LED wall hung on a truss for events at the Mandalay Bay’s arena in Las Vegas collapsed. It seems to have been a relatively slow motion collapse, as opposed to a catastrophic crash. …
Spain’s TRISON Acquires UK-based Digital Signage Agency Beaver Group May 13, 2019 by Dave Haynes Big pro AV news out of Spain and the UK earlier today, with the TRISON Group announcing its acquisition of Beaver Group, which has done many of the better QSR and retail digital signage jobs in the UK in recent years. TRISON is Europe’s biggest digital signage-focused integrator – kinda like Diversified, but in Galician …
Seattle DSF Mixer Gets The Understory On Amazon’s Spheres May 9, 2019 by Dave Haynes It took going to Seattle to remember and realize a few things about the city and region. First, there are some really big, impactful companies out here – like Amazon, Microsoft, Costco, Boeing and a little coffee chain called Starbucks. Second, there’s more of a signage ecosystem than is maybe obvious. I am in Seattle …
Robert Heise On GDS Sets Itself Apart In An Increasingly Crowded Outdoor Display Field May 8, 2019 by Dave Haynes Most people think about northern Italy for wine, food, fashion and beautiful scenery, but it’s also home to some well-established technology companies like Global Display Solutions, or GDS. The company has been around for decades and built up a very solid business for rugged, industrial-grade displays for use-cases like bank ATMs. GDS expanded into digital …
Walmart Opens AI-Driven Intelligent Retail Lab Outside NYC May 6, 2019 by Dave Haynes Walmart has started testing computer vision and AI in a big way at an “Intelligent Retail Lab” lab on Long Island, outside New York City. The Walmart Neighborhood Market in Levittown, N.Y. has 1,000s of overhead cameras tracking the state and movement in the store aisles, as well as standard and interactive digital signage screens explaining …
