Christie Tightens Up Its (Pixel) Pitch With New Indoor Velvet Display Tiles February 4, 2016 by Super User One of the technologies I want to have a good, long look at next week at the big ISE trade show in Amsterdam is indoor LED – which in the past year has gone from something of a fringe, wildly-expensive product to a mainstream display option marketed by numerous traditional display manufacturers. It was only …
Projects: UK Real Estate Firm Goes Paperless With Shopfront Listings February 3, 2016 by Super User Real estate firms putting screens in street-side windows is not new, but I’m not sure I’ve seen a spin on it like this letting agent (apartment rentals agency) in London. Kings Lettings’ new office in Shepherds Bush has a couple of high-bright 55-inch Samsung smart sign panels in the window, but each has a trio of …
The Deadly Attraction Of The Next Big Thing February 3, 2016 by Jeff Dumo GUEST POST: Charles Regula, VIA Technologies The tech industry has trained consumers to be fixated on the next big thing. That superphone you bought two years ago very likely does everything you could need, and does it well. But relentless marketing is telling you that your phone is ancient, and that you need a new …
CIVIQ Smartscapes Acquires Outdoor Interactive Station Rival Elevate DIGITAL February 2, 2016 by Super User The private equity firm that owns, among many things, CIVIQ Smartscapes, has acquired Chicago-based outdoor interactive station rival Elevate DIGITAL. CIVIQ is the design and manufacturing company that’s part of a consortium putting interactive kiosks on the streets of New York City’s boroughs. That consortium includes Intersection (Titan, Control Group and Google), Qualcomm and CityBridge. CIVIQ …
In Digital Signage, Old Can Be New Again … Apparently February 1, 2016 by Super User It was about a year ago at some trade show that I walked by a vendor booth that was trumpeting how lifting an item off a shelf would trigger content on a screen. And wasn’t that amazing!!! Well, it was kinda neat when I saw it for the first time eight or nine years earlier, …
Buck A Month Gets Digital Signage Operators Peace Of Mind January 29, 2016 by Jeff Dumo GUEST POST: Charles Regula, VIA Technologies Would you spend a buck a month more to buy into some peace of mind for your digital signage network? Sure you would … if you thought about it that way. But when it comes to sourcing devices for signage networks, most of the focus goes squarely to the …
Projects: Printer Duggal Drives Digital-Centric Audible Holiday Party January 28, 2016 by Super User Most print companies, big and small, have struggled to transition from traditional to digital, but New York-based Duggal is a good example of one that is doing a lot more than just converting lightboxes to LCD digital posters. Consider the project Duggal just did with Audible, the audio book company owned by Amazon. The holiday party …
Planar Debuts Slick Tablet App To Visualize Video Walls During On-Site Planning January 27, 2016 by Super User Portland-based Planar Systems has released a cool little mobile device application that makes it easy for systems integrators, architects and project teams to work out and visualize how a video wall might look in a specific environment and space. The PlanarView Visualization App allows users to take a photo of an area in, let’s say a building lobby, …
DSE Announces Apex Digital Signage Project Awards Finalists January 27, 2016 by Super User Digital Signage Expo has released its finalists for DSE 2016 APEX Awards, which highlight great project work from the previous year. It looks like a good bunch, and the numbers of entries was reasonably high (I don’t know why more companies don’t “get” the marketing value of awards). Only nine entries for food and bev …
Cineplex Wins Big DQ RFP For US, Canada Digital Menu Boards January 27, 2016 by Super User Cineplex Digital Media, previously known as EK3, has bagged the deal with American Dairy Queen Corporation to be the fast food giant’s “endorsed provider” of in-store digital merchandising solution, aka menu boards, in the US and Canada. The company says it won the deal “after an extensive audit and request for proposal process with over 30 …
