Interactive She Too Digital Wall Prompts On-The-Spot Donations April 4, 2018 by Dave Haynes This is a nice charity campaign in Toronto’s underground PATH concourse system that weaves through much of the central business district – involving a video wall and a nearby station that enables on-the-spot donations. PATTISON Outdoor and its digital innovation arm, Fourthwall, teamed up with local agency Jungle Media to promote CARE Canada’s She Too …
16:9 Podcasts – Reece Kurtenbach On Why Hyper-Competition Is Nothing New To Daktronics April 4, 2018 by Dave Haynes Reece Kurtenbach now runs Daktronics, the company started by his father and a university colleague 50 years ago – and has grown up seeing it evolve from electronic voting systems from state politicians to the maker behind some of the biggest and most iconic LED display boards on the planet. That’s Daktronics’ tech, for example, …
RMG’s Board Chair Does Merger Deal To Take Company Back To Private April 3, 2018 by Dave Haynes RMG Networks has done a definitive merger agreement with its board chairman to take the company private, after several years operating as a public company. The deal opens a time window for a third-party suitor to, in effect, make a “superior” offer before this deal closes. The merger deal is with Greg Sachs, RMG’s Executive …
Zotac Marketing Mini PC The Size And Shape Of Smartphone April 3, 2018 by Dave Haynes I remember years ago somebody or other talking about how one day PCs were going to be the same form factor as smartphones. We are apparently there (though arguably we’re past that with stick PCs). The Hong Kong manufacturer Zotac is marketing a super thin and light PC that’s somewhere between a portable hard drive …
Ultravision Sues 37 LED Companies – Including U.S. Firms – For Patent Infringement April 2, 2018 by Dave Haynes The Dallas-based LED display and lighting products company Ultravision has filed a patent infringement complaint at the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC), looking to get 37 companies barred from importing, selling or distributing what Ultravision considers infringing LED display products. Interestingly, the companies are NOT all China-based, with the named companies including Samsung, Barco from …
DSE 2018 – Day One Impressions March 29, 2018 by Dave Haynes The first day on the Digital Signage Expo trade show floor is in the can. The hall looked good and there at least seemed to be healthy-sized crowds. I definitely wasn’t having to fight my way through hordes, but the aisles all had decent traffic. The show is upstairs in a different south hall, with …
STRATACACHE Buys X2O Media From Barco March 28, 2018 by Dave Haynes STRATACACHE has acquired Montreal CMS software shop X20 Media from the Belgian visual solutions firm Barco, four years after Barco bought the company in what at least some observers (like me) thought was a head-scratcher. CEO Chris Riegel says he believes he is picking up a diamond in the rough, and wants to grow that …
16:9 Podcasts – Stan Richter On How SignageOS Bridges CMS Platforms With Different Hardware March 28, 2018 by Dave Haynes One of the big challenges on the technology side of digital signage is keeping up with all of the emerging hardware and software options on the market. It used to be a reasonably simple case of developing software in one OS or another and getting it running on a PC. But now there are Android …
NEC, BrightSign Pair Up On New Bundled Offer March 27, 2018 by Dave Haynes In what seems like a pretty smart move, among several lately, BrightSign has paired up with yet another tech company in the digital signage ecosystem to make its little purple media players part of the offer and solution. NEC Display Solutions of America will be offering a bundled signage solution involving an NEC commercial grade …
Report From ISA: Little Sign Of Digital Signage At Sign Industry’s Big Show, But Hints Of An Uptick March 23, 2018 by Jim Nista Guest Post: Jim Nista, Insteo Sign Expo, the International Sign Association’s (ISA) big annual trade show, is underway in Orlando. The ISA show focuses on the print and outdoor sign industry, with large format printers, CNC machines, light pole flags, architectural signage, and large outdoor LED. There’s even a section for bucket trucks for outdoor …
