South Korean Government Pumping $67 Million USD Into Country’s Digital Signage Industry: Report December 28, 2015 by Super User South Korea’s ICT ministry said Monday it will spend 78.9 billion won (or $ 67.3 million USD) to nurture the digital signage industry in that country, apparently seeing the sector as a growth engine. The report, in the Korea Herald, says that the ministry will, through 2018, plans to expand support for start-ups involved in …
London’s Transport Authority Testing Interactive E Ink Bus Stop Schedules December 24, 2015 by Super User London’s transport authority has started testing real-time electronic paper bus stops – solar-powered displays that can connect in to data that reflects cloud-predicted arrival times. The first unit is at a stop at Waterloo Bridge, and three more e-paper bus stops are due to be installed in January at Parliament Square, Piccadilly Circus and Sloane Square. …
Projects: GE Aviation Opens Tech Experience Center In Dubai December 22, 2015 by Super User Here’s a look inside GE Aviation’s new Middle East Aviation Technology Center, which opened last month in the Dubai Airport Free Zone area. The facility – in one of those parts of Dubai where foreign companies are encouraged to set up shop – is there to support customers and help them optimize aviation operations in the region, …
Looking Ahead TO DSE 2016 December 21, 2015 by Super User The annual Digital Signage Expo is less than three months out now, so it’s time for me to have a look at what’s up with the event this year, as well as start planning the annual Preset Group Mixer. The latter is already somewhat in hand – the venue secure and several sponsors lined …
Projects: East-Central China Mall Gets Massive Flying LED Ribbon December 20, 2015 by Super User A new retail project in Zhengzhou, in the east-central part of China, ups the game on the idea of filling the ceiling of a large area with an LED display. Called the Flying Ribbon, and located in the city’s HuiYi Times Square commercial complex, the project is 1,100 square metres of LED curtain that floats over …
Media Companies Investing In An Increasingly 9:16 World December 17, 2015 by Super User If you have been around digital signage for a few years, you know about the struggles sign networks that were based around portrait mode had in finding and using content. Just about everything out there was landscape, and precious little was made in their chosen 9:16 format. So these networks would either do serious edits on …
Projects: LA DIY Florist Uses Digital Signage To Amplify Customer Experiences December 17, 2015 by Super User People who go into one of the two Los Angeles locations of Fleurish can design and build their own flower arrangements in what is billed as the first ever design-it-yourself flower studio. The stores get everything from individuals, to classes, and all the way to bachelorette parties (pre-cocktails, I assume). The stores use digital signage in a …
Is Eddystone The Game-Changer For Beacons In Retail? December 16, 2015 by Nir Doron GUEST POST: Paul Croubalian, The Customer Experience Group For 132 years, the Eddystone lighthouse has stood on the treacherous Eddystone Rocks in Devon. Its light has shown out over the waters warning mariners and saving them from impending doom. Now, its namesake sets similar sights on saving retailers, restaurants, hotels, et al. Eddystone just might be the …
Projects: Star Wars Premiere Red Carpet Walk Flanked By Giant MicroTiles Walls December 16, 2015 by Super User The world premiere in Los Angeles of the long-awaited Star Wars: The Force Awakens? had a massive red carpet area, including a walkway with almost 400 of Christie’s MicroTiles displays. Christie’s Coolux Pandoras Box Media Servers powered a variety of displays, including 388 MicroTiles on the walkway walls and 18 Christie LCD panels in other red carpet and photo …
inLighten Cited As Best of Best Product In Worship Sector December 16, 2015 by Super User Congratulations to one of this blog’s loyal sponsors – inLighten – which has been cited as among the ‘Best of the Best’ Hot Products for 2015 by Religious Product News. If that’s a head-scratcher for you, bear in mind that there are 1,000s and 1,000s of houses of worship out there, across many faiths, and a …
