Leyard Debuts Series Of Light, Skinny Carbon Fiber LED Displays June 2, 2016 by Dave Haynes When I was over at the ISE show in Amsterdam a few months ago, I remember seeing a Shenzhen company that had a set of lightweight, skinny and flexible LED display products that I thought would make the NanoLumens guys think, “Gee, that looks familiar.” But the company was one I’d never heard of, so …
NBA’s Raptors Visualize Data From IBM’s Watson To Build Team’s Future June 2, 2016 by Dave Haynes The NBA’s Toronto Raptors had a good playoff run once their key guards remembered how to shoot, but the ownership and management team is also using less obvious cues and clues from visualized data to build the club’s future. In mid-season, the team launched IBM Sports Insights Central, a data viz set-up using MultiTaction’s software and hardware …
Raspberry Pi Digital Signage Webinar Replay June 2, 2016 by Dave Haynes If you missed Canonical’s webinar yesterday on using Raspberry Pis and Ubuntu Linux for digital signage, you can hit this link and get a replay of the one-hour session. I blabber on for a bit at the start as I host the thing, but the attraction is Viktor Petersson, who runs Screenly, a signage CMS built around the low-cost micro …
ONELAN Joins Ranks Of CMS Firms Supporting SOC Panels June 1, 2016 by Dave Haynes The UK-based CMS software firm ONELAN has joined the ranks of companies that have developed to and support System on Chip (SOC) all in one commercial display panels. ONELAN has announced its CMS 3.0 solution can be installed on and run on either a Samsung Smart Signage display or LG’s webOS platform. The company also says these …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Stu Armstrong of ComQi June 1, 2016 by Dave Haynes In this episode of Sixteen:Nine Podcasts, I’m speaking with Stu Armstrong, President of the Americas for ComQi, a CMS software and services company with offices in London, New York and Toronto. Stu talks about the opportunities and challenges of working with the retail sector, and how after many years, signage is getting some serious traction …
Digital Meeting Room Signs Start-up Gets $7M Series A Raise June 1, 2016 by Dave Haynes I keep reading and hearing how venture capital is hard to come by these days, in digital signage and well beyond, but one Boston-based company has scored a $7 million investment to drive its business in digital meeting room signs. Yup, that boring little killer application that sells itself as soon as people see it. …
Six Tips On Creating Effective Playlists For Digital Signage June 1, 2016 by Niel Rieger Guest Post: Mark McDermott, ScreenCloud Personalization has long been recognized as the key to cutting through noise in our over-saturated digital world. In digital signage, where you have just seconds to grab attention against the passer-by’s friends, iPhone or work schedule, it’s even more crucial. Let’s say your audience is in the 50-65 year-old cohort. You’ve …
Vertigo Digital Displays Acquired By Smart Cities Firm CIVIQ May 31, 2016 by Dave Haynes Toronto-based outdoor display fabricator Vertigo Digital Displays has been acquired by CIVIQ Smartscapes, the relatively new company that is supplying “connected urban infrastructure technologies” in emerging “smart cities” like New York. CIVIQ Smartscapes is the named owner, but the real owner is JMC Capital Partners, the private equity firm behind CIVIQ. The deal means Ralph Idems and …
IT and AV, Another Look May 31, 2016 by David Kaszycki Guest Post: Alan Brawn, Brawn Consulting Over the last 15 years, there have been countless articles written about the convergence of AV and IT. In the mid-90s, some held out that AV and IT were distinct and there was no reason to converge. Live and let live was a common theme in the day and …
DSrupted 2016? Nope. May 30, 2016 by Dave Haynes Several people have asked me if I will be organizing a third version of DSrupted, a conference focused on emerging and disruptive technologies in the signage market. The short answer is No. And here’s the longer answer: The 2015 and 2015 conferences generated very positive feedback, and the events confirmed my sense that there is …
