Bloomingfail: 50 Gorgeous LG OLEDs Largely Hidden By Fixtures At NYC Flagship’s New Pop-Up Shop September 28, 2018 by Dave Haynes The 59th Street NYC flagship of Bloomingdale’s is using two walls of LG commercial OLEDs as feature backdrops for its new new rotating pop-up shop, called The Carousel. The idea behind The Carousel @ Bloomingdale’s is to tell “culturally relevant stories driven by guest curators, each with a unique theme and an unexpected mix of products …
SICOM Acquired By Global Payments In $415M Cash Deal September 28, 2018 by Dave Haynes SICOM Systems, which provides digital signage, POS and other software solutions into the QSR and fast casual restaurant sect ors, has been acquired by Global Payments, which does payment technology and software solutions. Global, based in Atlanta, paid roughly $415 million in cash for the transaction. The S&P 500-listed company says, in a press release, it …
Stretch LCD Columns Bring Digital Branding To Flagship Jewelry Chain Stores September 26, 2018 by Dave Haynes A little ironically, I am on my way to Montreal on an in-and-out speaking thing as this post goes up about work Montreal’s iGotcha Media is doing with Birks, which has been operating luxury jewelry stores in Canada for many, many decades. Birks is using vertical video walls to subtly underscore its brand in flagship stores. …
VIA Launches New Android 8.0, AI-Ready Digital Signage Player September 25, 2018 by Dave Haynes Taiwan’s VIA Technologies has done a significant upgrade on its line of ruggedized Android digital signage players, releasing what it calls the VIA ALTA DS 3 Edge AI system. The $400 MSRP units are run off the Qualcomm Snapdragon 820E Embedded Platform and Android 8.0. Previous versions, while powerful, were several generations back at Android …
Transparent And High-Bright LCDs Paired To Create 3D-ish Display September 25, 2018 by Dave Haynes Transparent LCD has been around for years now, but UK-based Crystal Display Systems has put a different spin on their use by marrying a transparent screen with a regular light-backed LCD in the same display case. The company calls the system ClearVue 3DP – using what it calls polarmatch technology. “The high brightness panel and transparent …
How To Ensure Your Workplace Digital Signage Project Is Successful And Avoid Pitfalls September 24, 2018 by Jason Cremins Guest Post: Jason Cremins, Signagelive Every company or organization regardless of their size or number of employees has a need to communicate openly and effectively with their teams. The challenge is that for many companies a sizeable percentage of their workforce do not have a copy email or access to an Intranet and for those …
CRI Buys Allure Global From Christie, Less Than Three Years After Christie Acquisition September 24, 2018 by Dave Haynes Christie Digital Systems seems to be going back to its core business – having wound down the digital signage creative shop Arsenal Media (which become Christie 360) and now selling off Allure Global, the cinema and QSR-focused digital signage solutions provider. Allure’s new masters are the guys at Creative Realities, also known as CRI. In …
Cineplex Wins Digital Menu Boards Deal For European Subway Shops September 19, 2018 by Dave Haynes Toronto-based Cineplex Digital Media (aka CDM) has been engaged by the European wing of Subway to “design, deploy, support and operate a network of digital menu boards at Subway locations across Europe.” The digital signage wing of Cineplex, the dominant movie chain in Canada, is providing strategic creative content, consulting services and marketing initiatives to Subway, …
Custom Digital Art Floods LED-filled Barcelona Mall To Drive Experience September 19, 2018 by Dave Haynes I’ve consulted with shopping mall groups, and they often talk about their aspiration to use digital to create memorable experiences. A lot of what I have seen done in malls is not all that memorable, and ultimately driven more by getting incremental ad dollars from big screens on walls. But sometimes you bump into projects …
Hongwei Liu On What Works And Doesn’t In Digital Wayfinding, And Mappedin’s Rapid Growth September 19, 2018 by Dave Haynes Wayfinding is one of those core technologies that make consumer lives better and easier – helping people locate where they want and need to go in places like shopping malls, airports, health care facilities and higher ed campuses. There are numerous software companies that include wayfinding capabilities in their platforms, but only a handful that …
