Projects: Have A Look At The Largest Outdoor LED Wall in South China August 1, 2016 by Dave Haynes Massive LED billboards are by no means found only, these days, in world capitals and insane places like Las Vegas. This is a an 1,855 square metre LED wrapped around a building in the south China city of Shantou, up the coastline from Hong Kong (if that helps). Touted as the largest outdoor LED in south …
Stratacache Buys Vertigo’s Drive-Thru Display Business From Civiq July 29, 2016 by Dave Haynes Dayton, Ohio-based STRATACACHE has acquired the Outdoor Digital Menuboard product line and intellectual property from Civiq Smartscapes, which picked that up when it bought Vertigo Digital Displays a few weeks ago. Civiq is in the smart cities-interactive public screens space, and I wouldn’t think there’d be much of a chance it would one day branch into outdoor displays …
Projects: Me To We’s First Bricks & Mortar Store Packs In A Lot Of Digital July 29, 2016 by Dave Haynes Most small footprint retail spaces tend to have little or no digital inside its doors, but a new socially-conscious store in Toronto’s Eaton Center goes big with digital display to tell its store and drive interest and reactions. The just opened Me To We store was developed is the first bricks and mortar presence for …
16:9 Podcast Series, John Wang, IAdea July 27, 2016 by Dave Haynes In this episode, John Wang, the CEO of Taipei-based IAdea, talks about the roots of his company, which primarily makes commercial-grade media players and all-in-one devices for the digital signage market. He recalls starting up the business right out of school in Taiwan, and unfortunately timing that startup right when the first Internet bubble burst. Wang …
BroadSign Goes Public With Patent Battle Plans July 26, 2016 by Dave Haynes The Montreal-based digital signage software firm BroadSign has taken the somewhat unusual approach of announcing to its industry brethren that it’s going after a company it regards as a patent troll. In a note from CEO and principal shareholder Burr Smith, the company says T-Rex Property AB has, since 2012, filed 59 cases (and counting) against digital …
Has Samsung End Of Life’d Its Short-Lived Transparent OLEDs? July 26, 2016 by Dave Haynes If you were at InfoComm last month, one thing you may have noticed oddly AWOL was the transparent OLED technology the company showed earlier in the year at ISE in Amsterdam, and also at Digital Signage Expo. I heard quietly at InfoComm from a Samsung contact that OLED, in Samsung’s view, wasn’t ready for the …
Raffi Vartian Leaving Signagelive July 25, 2016 by Dave Haynes I rarely write about staff changes in organizations, particularly hires, since I don’t really care, and my web stats confirm few others do. But … once in a while I get word on a change that’s notable, and today I learned Raffi Vartian is leaving Signagelive after roughly five years with the company. HQ is …
The Future Of Digital Signage Is Built-In July 25, 2016 by Mike Kilian Guest Post: Sean Levy, MediaSignage In some ways, digital signage grew up without going through puberty. This space has certainly experienced the growing pains of a nascent industry, but many of the predicted growth spikes to the industry failed to play out the way some big observers suggested it would. Instead, we have seen a market …
US Political Conventions Go Big On Digital And Social July 25, 2016 by Dave Haynes The lights go up on the US Democratic National Convention in Philly today, a few days after the rival Republicans wrapped up their own national convention. I’ll reserve comment on the politics, because as a Canadian I get to watch the very curious goings-on from the bleachers. I said to my wife one night that …
Projects: Virtual X-Ray Scans Mazda 3 At Trade Show July 22, 2016 by Dave Haynes A Colombian company came up with a very clever idea for showing what’s under the hood, and more, of a new Mazda 3, for a marketing show in Bogota. Vinilo Lab put a 65-inch display panel on a track that slid along the front of the car display, creating the effect that the monitor was scanning …
