UPshow Acquired By Sports And Entertainment Platform; Back-Of-House Tools Being Spun Out As Independent Entity July 2, 2024 by Dave Haynes Chicago-based UPshow, which does what it calls on-premise entertainment and performance marketing platform for venues, has been acquired by a media platform that distributes live sports and entertainment content to the same kinds of venues where UPshow has built a footprint for almost a decade. Founded just last year, NYC-based EverPass Media launched initially as …
UltraLeap Halving Workforce; Selling Off Hand-Tracking And Focusing On Haptics Interactive Tech July 2, 2024 by Dave Haynes The UK firm focused on enabling touchless, mid-air hand and gesture controls using ultrasound waves and tracking has confirmed it is halving its workforce and offloading one of its two main lines of business. Ultraleap, based in Bristol, told staff last week it was having to do staff reductions because of what was described as …
ZetaDisplay Reaches Framework Deal To Update Screen Network On Stockholm’s Airport Express Train System July 2, 2024 by Dave Haynes The Swedish digital signage solutions provider ZetaDisplay has announced a “multi-year exclusive framework agreement” that would see its software driving the screens on the rail cars and platforms of the express rail service that runs between central Stockholm and the city’s Arlanda international airport. This partnership, says PR, will see Arlanda express switching to ZetaDisplay’s …
Dallas-area Hospital Using One Of Those Giant Hologram-ish Displays For Telemedicine July 2, 2024 by Dave Haynes A small 84-bed acute care general hospital in the suburbs of Dallas, Texas is using one of those transparent LCD shower stall-like enclosures as a way to run real-time doctor-patient consultations, even though the patients are at a clinic 30 miles away. It is a VERY expensive variation on telemedicine – the big difference being …
Uniguest’s Ad Feature On BBC Video Series Gives Interesting Look At Tuning Tech To Senior Living Communities June 28, 2024 by Dave Haynes Nashville-based Uniguest has for several years now been growing its solutions footprint in a vertical market I see few other companies interested in, despite the demographic information and opportunity staring them in the face. The company expanded its focus from hotels and resorts to also incorporate senior living communities, offering a range of solutions …
Walmart Canada Testing LCD Ribbon SmartShelves That Show Pricing AND Consumer Reviews June 27, 2024 by Dave Haynes Walmart’s Canadian operation is running an interesting trial program at its biggest store in the country – using LCD ribbon displays in the crackers section of the grocery department as digital price tags, but also as product reviews. The crackers section has 28 feet of ribbon displays, and pulls consumer product reviews – let’s assume …
Velasea Partners With Industrial PC Maker Cincoze On PCs Built To Handle Weather Extremes June 26, 2024 by Dave Haynes I don’t write much about technology and distribution partnerships because those announcements are endless and are usually interesting only to the companies making the arrangements, but a tie-up between a couple of specialty computer manufacturers is notable because of a curious factor – the weather. The Las Vegas-area OEM systems builder Velasea, which started moving …
Uniguest Expands EPOS Support As Its Tripleplay CMS Gets Headless June 26, 2024 by Dave Haynes Nashville-based Uniguest is going down the platform/headless path with its venue-focused CMS software Tripleplay, tying it directly in with a variety of Electronic Point of Sale (EPOS) systems to streamline menu updates for food services. The company has announced integrations for its IPTV and digital signage CMS for users of Venue Next, Shift 4, Kappture, …
Windows 10 Support Ends Next Year, Providing Big Switch Opportunity For Google’s ChromesOS Flex June 25, 2024 by Dave Haynes The publication TechNewsWorld, whose coverage focus is pretty evident in the name, has a good reminder up about the looming end of Microsoft’s formal support for devices running its Windows 10 operating system. Many millions of PCs, including some used as media players for digital signage networks, see support ended for their OS in October …
PRN Plans 100+ New Retail Media Networks Jobs In Owner STRATACACHE’s HQ City June 25, 2024 by Dave Haynes Premier Retail Networks (PRN) says it will be creating more than 100 jobs by opening a new “Sales Center of Excellence” that will be geared to rolling out and supporting in-store retail media networks in the U.S. and globally. The PRN Sales Center will be located in downtown Dayton, OH, which also happens to be …
