Gate Information Appears Through Wood Totems Airside At Spokane’s Expanded Airport August 1, 2024 by Dave Haynes I was just saying the other day, again, that if people want to see innovation and how digital signage can be applied across big footprint venues, they should go to a new or renovated airport terminal. Here’s a good example of that: custom display totems at the departure gates of Spokane International Airport in eastern …
Panasonic Sells 80% Stake In Projectors Business, But Staying In That Business July 31, 2024 by Dave Haynes A report from a few days back suggested Panasonic had fully sold its projectors business, however deal details now coming available indicate the Japanese electronics company has only sold a majority stake and intends to keep making and selling projectors. The Japanese financial investor Orix is said to be paying the equivalent of around $630M …
Screenly First Digital Signage CMS Software Company To Sign Multinational Secure By Design Pledge July 31, 2024 by Dave Haynes With the global IT outage a very recent memory, and still not fully resolved for some CrowdStrike customers, software security and IT best practises are now (or certainly should be) big discussion points across organizations and industries. Numerous digital signage CMS software providers have had announcements in the past year or two about attaining security …
Hey Google, Where’s The Digital Signage In Your New Manhattan Offices? July 30, 2024 by Dave Haynes The Wall Street Journal has posted an interesting video – like other newspapers, WSJ can’t just be words and pix these days – about Google’s newest office space in New York City, a huge office built inside of and on top of a historic rail terminal building on the lower west side of Manhattan. It’s …
Swiss OOH Media Companies Facing Existential Threat From Local Government Bans July 30, 2024 by Dave Haynes Filling the screen inventory with enough ads to pay their way is normally the biggest challenge for digital out of home media companies, but in Switzerland, the challenge is becoming existential – as the highest court in that country has cleared the way for municipalities to banish commercial advertising in public spaces. The ruling this …
UK University Team Develops Touch Screens That Can Be Squishy When Pushed By A Finger July 29, 2024 by Dave Haynes Researchers at a UK university have come with what they suggest is a new kind of touchscreen technology that’s squishy and responds to the user’s finger pressure, becoming softer or stiffer. Computer scientists at the University of Bath say the technology, dubbed DeformIO, has at least the potential to change how people interact with digital …
Happy Trails To A Retired Craig Marshall, Now Ex Of Omnivex! July 26, 2024 by Dave Haynes Happy trails to Craig Marshall, who retired this week after almost 25 years in the digital signage business, all with Toronto-based CMS software firm Omnivex. His now ex-boss Doug Bannister: We know Craig has formed countless relationships over the years with Omnivex customers, partners, and employees, which is why we are making this announcement today. …
Demand Appears To Have Dried Up For Large Commercial OLED Displays – Omdia Research Report July 25, 2024 by Dave Haynes Demand for OLED displays used for tablets and laptops has spiked this year, but the use of very large OLEDs as public information displays (aka digital signage) has all but evaporated, according to an analysis from the research firm Omdia. Overall, Omdia’s latest Large Area Display Market Tracker for 1Q24 says shipments of large-area OLEDs sized …
This New Wingstop In London Looks As Much Like A Blinged-out Nike Flagship As It Does A QSR July 24, 2024 by Dave Haynes A fast food chain specializing in chicken wings has opened up its largest UK operation, with an east-end London store that – because of all the AV bling – looks as much like a flagship Nike store as it does a QSR. What is described as the world’s largest Wingstop has tiled menu displays, big …
Christine Rogers Of AVI-SPL’s XTG Team On The Art Of The Possible With Experiential Display Projects July 24, 2024 by Dave Haynes Sixteen:Nine worked with German content partner invidis on its annual digital signage yearbook, which by a mile (or 1.6 km) is the most comprehensive annual look into the industry. That free yearbook has been available for the last few weeks, and we’re now making individual pieces available online – so readers get a sense of …
