Browsing Google Chrome And The Physical Web April 19, 2017 by Charles Regula Guest Post: Doug Thompson, Fidgets Chrome 57 has launched, and with it in-browser support for the Physical Web. Now, when a user goes to conduct a search or enter a web URL, any nearby Physical Web addresses will appear just below the address bar as seen in the above graphic. It adds another piece to the proximity …
Peerless-AV Adds New Set Of Customizable Indoor Kiosks April 19, 2017 by Dave Haynes I tend to think of Peerless-AV as one of the big guys when it comes to display mounting solutions that come off walls and bolt to ceilings, but the Chicago-based company also has a pretty broad set of enclosure systems that serve as freestanding kiosks. If you’ve been to a trade show lately, you’ll know there …
What Indoor LEDs Now Look Like From Behind April 19, 2017 by Dave Haynes The connector cables and fiddly bits seem to be going or gone from the latest generations of indoor LED displays. This is the back of an AOTO display that was in the company’s booth at InfoComm China. I watched a couple of guys tear down a big LED wall used for a press conference in a …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Martin Romanowski, Smartsign April 19, 2017 by Dave Haynes Martin Romanowski is the CEO of the Swedish CMS software firm Smartsign, which has been providing a digital signage solution all the way back into the late 1990s. His company is best known in Europe, and it has offices in eight countries and users in more than 30. Romanowski and I chatted at ISE in …
Data Integration Is What It’s All About These Days April 18, 2017 by DanielWaldron Guest Post: Loren Bucklin, ConnectedSign Data integration is really what sophisticated digital signage is all about these days – using real-time information to generate relevant, easily consumed visuals for screens. Done well for businesses, it can do things like help staff to keep the mission, vision and values of their company top of mind. For …
Impressions From InfoComm China 2017 April 17, 2017 by Dave Haynes Back from Beijing after several days spent talking and walking at InfoComm China, and waaaay too many hours on my butt flying home. Thanks first to John Wang and Amanda Sung of IAdea, and the rest of the folks from the Digital Signage Multimedia Alliance (of Taiwan) for working with InfoComm to have me over …
InfoComm China: An LCD Video Wall With Kinda Sorta No Visible Seams April 12, 2017 by Dave Haynes Probably the most interesting thing I saw in a quick walk around several halls at InfoComm China in Beijing on Wednesday was a Shanghai company called Pallas, which has tech that does a really good job of making the seams in LCD video walls visually go away. It uses something called active bezel tech – …
Taking Advertising In-House? Part 2 April 12, 2017 by Emily Carroll Guest Post: Brett Farley, NanoLumens Part 2: The Considerations of That In-House Network Selling the Media There are a number of different ways to sell your media network to advertisers and a clear strategy allowing for all the variances to drive toward your end game of maximizing your sales revenue need to be considered. Some …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Ke-Quang Nguyen-Phuc, Quividi April 12, 2017 by Dave Haynes A lot of companies have come in and out of video analytics for digital signage, but the one constant has been Quividi – a French company with an anonymous pattern detection product a lot of people will tell you is the gold standard for this tech. I sat with CEO Ke-Quang Nguyen-Phuc during a break …
Taking Advertising In-House? Think Long And Hard First! April 11, 2017 by Emily Carroll Guest Post: Brett Farley, NanoLumens Part 1: Think About It First … We’ve seen a trend where I work with large real estate ownership and management groups are either initiating their own advertising sales teams and networks, or having outsourced that function unsuccessfully, reclaiming ownership of that function and taking it back “in house.” These companies …
