X2O Media Takes Old Founder To Court, Alleging Trade Secrets Used For His New Company September 1, 2018 by Dave Haynes Digital signage management software firm X2O Media is going after its old CEO in a Las Vegas court, claiming his new firm has misappropriated trade secrets. X2O is also claiming, as reflected in filings with the US District Court in Nevada, breach of contract and trademark infringement by Xentiant Technologies and its founder David Wilkins. …
16:9 Changes Afoot; May Be Disruptions Here And There August 29, 2018 by Dave Haynes I’ve been working with a terrific WordPress expert this summer to clean up Sixteen:Nine, get it on a modern, heavily supported theme, and move it to https (secure). That work is done and starting tomorrow the revamped site will start to replace the existing site. It will look very similar, but you may notice some …
Got An Opinion On SoC: Let Me Know Here August 29, 2018 by Dave Haynes Getting some great insights from CEOs and CTOs on the current state, pros and cons and future of System on Chip displays – all for an updated special report I am doing with my friends at SignageOS, in Prague. The report should be out in the fall, and we’re looking for as much feedback as …
Screens Help Tell Sporting World’s Post-9/11 Response In New Exhibit August 29, 2018 by Dave Haynes Digital plays a modest but important role in a new exhibit at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York City, with Comeback Season: Sports After 9/11 recalling the sporting world’s response after the 9/11 attacks. The exhibit, says a press release, highlights the vital role professional sports played in national mourning as fans rallied …
Refik Anadol Talks About How He Develops His Mind-Blowing Digital Data Sculptures August 29, 2018 by Dave Haynes If finding a free half-hour to talk is any indication, Refik Anadol is one busy, popular guy right now. That likely owes a lot to the mind-blowing data visualization work he’s been doing lately in public spaces. He’s a Turkish-born digital media artist who now has a busy studio in Los Angeles doing what he …
Coke’s Ballyhooed Shape-Shifting LED Board In Time Square Is Now Very Much 2D August 28, 2018 by Dave Haynes We will probably never get a public story about the three-dimensional, robotic direct view LED display that Coke spent an unknown PILE of money on for Times Square. If you were a contractor and influenced the decision to do that, you’re keeping quiet and saving face. If it is your tech, you are definitely not …
New NYC Pier 17 Destination’s Atrium Enveloped In Direct-View LED August 28, 2018 by Dave Haynes The same company that put together the sync’d LED messaging and ad displays at NYC’s busy Fulton Center has done a similar job at the new Pier 17 at the Seaport District in Lower Manhattan. The technology service provider ANC has installed and now manages a new digital media network that includes more than 2,000 square …
High Street Releases First Free Quarterly Report On What’s Hot (And Not) In Retail Tech August 27, 2018 by Dave Haynes The folks over at the boutique retail tech and experience consultancy HighStreet Collective have launched what will be a quarterly report measuring the top 12 technologies that are currently being used in brick and mortar retail – showing what’s getting some traction and what’s just not happening. It shows, not surprisingly, mobile and frictionless payment …
Mega-Mall’s Digital Directories Reduce Search Times From Minutes To Seconds August 27, 2018 by Dave Haynes Metrics on digital signage projects aren’t always that easy to find – sometimes, I think, because the results are shrug-worthy – but here’s an example of interactive directories going into a mega-mall and making a tangible difference in how people find their way around. The Mall of America in Minneapolis put in more than 100 …
Just As 4K Mainstreaming, And 8K On Far Horizon, 16K Displays Showing Up August 24, 2018 by Dave Haynes If you are still trying to wrap your head around the rationale for using 8K resolution in digital signage, you’ll be tickled pink to learn display manufacturers are starting to show large format 16K product. The Taiwan-based display firm Innolux will be showing off a 100-inch 16K S-UHD display at the end of the month …
