Mvix Joins Growing List of Software Firms Attaining High-Level Security Certifications January 10, 2024 by Dave Haynes It seems like high-level security certification is starting to become a baseline requirement – as is pretty much the case with credible device management – for CMS software companies, with another company announcing it has done the substantial work to get ISO 27001 and SOC2 certifications. Mvix, based in the Washington, DC area, says attaining …
MSG Abandons Plans To Replicate The Vegas Sphere In London January 9, 2024 by Dave Haynes It appears any aspirations to replicate the Las Vegas Sphere in London, UK have been abandoned – with news that Madison Square Garden (MSG), the parent company of Sphere Entertainment, has withdrawn its planning application. The company has complained that the project had become a political football, and it was evidently not enjoying being kicked …
Add How Buildings Can Move To Your List of Planning Considerations For Big LED Displays January 9, 2024 by Mikell Senger GUEST POST: MIKELL SENGER, SNA DISPLAYS Both in terms of scale and beauty, the construction world continues to produce more and more amazing structures. As a mechanical engineer and senior project manager for SNA Displays, I’m very fortunate to be a part of projects with complex construction elements, and I’m constantly marveling at the work-product …
Samsung Teases Frameless Transparent MicroLED Display At CES January 8, 2024 by Dave Haynes Photo Credit – Sam Rutherford/Engadget CES is this week in Las Vegas, and while a hell of a lot of the reporting that comes out of the giant consumer tech show will involve stuff that will never really be available to buy and use, there are glimpses as always of what’s coming somewhere down the …
Bluefin Launches New Flex-OS Displays That Run Built-in Brightsign or Android, Or Use External Player January 8, 2024 by Dave Haynes Atlanta-based specialty display manufacturer Bluefin has broadened its product line to offer more flexibility in what play-out hardware and software can be used with its range of retail-centric shelf-edge and header displays. The company now has an LCD display line-up called Flex-OS that ranges from 27 to 55 inches in standard formats, but also include …
Cybersecurity Firm Deploys Some 150 Sony Pro Displays For Multiple Uses Across Global Offices January 5, 2024 by Dave Haynes Here’s an example of a company heavily adopting display technology across its workplaces, and standardizing on a manufacturer for everything from control room video walls to menu displays in the break areas. The cybersecurity company ReliaQuest has offices in Tampa, Salt Lake City, Las Vegas, Dublin, London and Pune, India, and has recently deployed roughly …
Ladies And Gentleman, Elvis Is Coming Back To The Building … Virtually, In London Later This Year January 4, 2024 by Dave Haynes Via AV Interactive … Ladies and Gentleman, Elvis may have left the building and planet, but he’s coming back … sorta. Hat Tip to AV Interactive for reporting that Elvis Presley is being virtually raised from the dead to perform as a hologram-ish projected entity at a new immersive attraction targeted to open later this …
LCD Flat Panel Production Starting To Make Shift From China To India: DSCC Prediction January 3, 2024 by Dave Haynes The display-focused research and consulting firm DSCC has an interesting (albeit nerdy) set of predictions up about what might happen in the next 12 months with the LCD, OLED and LED display businesses. I won’t go through them all, as you can read yourself (I think you might have to register). But here are two …
McDonald’s In Barcelona Adapts Queue Management-Style Window Screens To Enforce Order For Scooter Delivery Pickups January 3, 2024 by Dave Haynes I was intrigued two or three years ago to learn about a QSR operation – I forget which one – that was using digital signage displays in the back-0f-house food prep area to let staff know the anticipated arrival time of delivery vehicles that were tied to GPS and apps, notably Uber Eats. Now that …
CES Is Imminent, And The Big Consumer Brands Are Once Again Previewing Interesting But Dubious Concept Products January 2, 2024 by Dave Haynes The giant consumer-focused tech trade show CES is next week in Las Vegas, and there will be all kinds of digital signage and pro AV people going and enduring the line-ups and even-higher-then-normal prices for rooms and transport. The show doesn’t have a whole bunch to do with commercial AV, other than offering glimpses of …