Digital Art Gallery Start-Up Skips Hardware R&D By Using Smart Signs October 27, 2015 by Super User A digital artworks startup, one of several that have popped up in the last couple of years, has realized it could dodge a lengthy, painful and expensive R&D phase by forgetting about custom display hardware and simply using a smart sign display. Digital art platform provider Blackdove is using Samsung’s smart signage system on chip displays as the delivery vehicle …
Projects: Microsoft Opens Massive Flagship Store in NYC October 26, 2015 by Super User This would have cost Microsoft a couple of bucks – a massive five-level shop on 5th Avenue in New York that is, happy to see, even more about screens than the 110 other screen-heavy stores it already has operating out in the market. This one has 22,000 square feet of space, and the signature is a …
How Four Winds Used Own Product To Boost Morale, Culture And Employee Engagement October 26, 2015 by Super User If there was a highlight for me from last week’s Forward conference in Denver, it was probably the opening session run by David Levin, the CEO of Four Winds Interactive, which put the event on. I’d tend to think of these kick-off sessions as welcomes and walk-throughs of what to expect, and not a bunch …
How A Company Saved $500 Million By Using Digital Signage October 23, 2015 by Super User In my old newspaper editor days, I verbally slapped around my reporters if they did something called Burying The Lede – putting the big news at the end of the story, if they got it in there at all. I needled a guy from EY (aka Ernst and Young) the other day at the Four Winds …
Impressions From Four Winds’ Forward Event October 23, 2015 by Super User Sitting at Denver’s airport, lamenting how I managed to book a flight with a time window that pretty much mirrors the time window for tonight’s Blue Jays-Royals game. No WiFi on plane, so I am pooched. Go Jays. The first stab by Four Winds Interactive at a thought leadership conference wrapped today at noon, after a …
Four Winds Opens Impressive New HQ Digs October 22, 2015 by Super User Denver’s Four Winds Interactive showed off its new digs last night, as the kickoff to its 2-day conference called Forward. The place is a BIG step up on the funky but overcrowded place the company was in the last few years, and wildly removed from the old house the guys who were there in the …
CRI Finds Lenders, Completes ConeXus World Deal October 21, 2015 by Super User Creative Realities has found lenders and therefore pulled the finances together to complete the acquisition of the digital signage deployment firm ConeXus World Global, turning ConeXus into a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company. To do the deal first announced in August, CRI got a $3.0 million accounts receivables financing facility with “a nationally-established lender” (as opposed to a …
Starbucks Adding Outdoor Video Displays In 2,400 US Drive-Thrus October 20, 2015 by Super User My suspicion is that the guys who specialize in outdoor displays are already all over this, but if not, they’ll be very interested in news that Starbucks is adding daylight-readable displays to some 2,400 drive-thru lanes in the United States. The screens will do promotion, as well as order confirmation and a show a live …
Save $200 Today On An Xlab Ticket October 20, 2015 by Super User If your work in digital signage sees you in meetings where the client or the bosses start talking about their aspirations for transforming a space, or creating an experience, you kinda sorta need to get to New York in a couple of weeks for an event called Xlab. The day-long event is organized by the Society …
Projects: Red Rock Bets On Fine Pixel Pitch LED Walls In Sports Book Upgrade October 20, 2015 by Super User The Red Rock Resort on the western outskirts of Las Vegas has replaced an aging projection wall in its sports book area with a giant 1,730 square feet of 2.5 mm fine pixel pitch LED modules, creating what’s touted to be the largest installation of its kind in North America. The displays also have three …
