Lotsa Travel, Few Posts The Next Couple Of Weeks October 21, 2024 by Dave Haynes Posts will be limited the next couple of weeks because of travels – as I am heading to LA and then on to Taiwan this week and next – doing a pile of site visits and interviews for a big, and in hindsight overly-ambitious special report I am pulling together, to come out in January, …
Fixed: Pattison Crafts New Screen Layout To Deal With Screwball Hoarding Around Subway Screen October 21, 2024 by Dave Haynes You may recall a couple of weeks ago a post about the screwball workaround at a Toronto subway platform that saw construction hoarding built around part of a track information and ad display on the platform. It is a display managed by Pattison Outdoor, and the construction work was news to the media company. So, …
Korean Solutions Firm VECT Clearing Securities Hurdles To Do IPO October 21, 2024 by Dave Haynes Language, location and how private companies keep their financials to themselves means it is quite rare to come across data on how digital signage solutions companies do in other parts of the world, so it was interesting to come across a news report about a Korean firm that is planning to go public. It was …
Big 3 By 5 Meter Kinetic LED Tower Now Shape-Shifting At LG-Backed Korean Cultural Space October 21, 2024 by Dave Haynes Here’s a real world example of that kinetic LED tower that LG has shown this year at ISE and then InfoComm, an installation at a new cultural space in the Korean port city of Incheon. It is a bit of an inside job, so to speak, in that the venue – called Museum L – …
E Ink, Hanshow Launch 13.3-Inch Full Color E-Paper Display For Retail October 18, 2024 by Dave Haynes This is what’s at least described as the first commercial application of a full-color electronic paper display in a retail environment – at an Aeon China store in Changsha. I put the “described” qualifier in there because there often ends up being another example, done somewhere else. Whatever the case, it is certainly indicative of …
DIGICHIEF Debuts New API-Driven Content Feeds For Local Health Conditions October 18, 2024 by Dave Haynes Long-time subscription content provider DIGICHIEF has developed an interesting data partnership with a company that does what it calls healthcare intelligence to provide screen network operators with geo-targeted health information, like the prevalence of colds and flu in an area. It’s a collaboration between Lexington, KY-based DIGICHIEF, using APIs from IQVIA, which operates out of …
Optisigns Debuts Its Own $300 Pro Media Player, Paired With Its CMS Software October 18, 2024 by Dave Haynes Houston-based OptiSigns has developed and launched a third media player to a hardware line-up that pairs with its digital signage CMS platform – a $300 Pro version that slots in between an entry-level Android HDMI stick and a high-end 8K-ready unit. The OptiSigns Pro Player is a ruggedized unit, passively-cooled little box that can do …
Chicago Highway Billboards Hacked; Ads Swapped For Anti-Semitic Messages October 17, 2024 by Dave Haynes Let’s assume the IT team at Outfront Media is CLOSELY reviewing its software security in the wake of a hack Wednesday of several digital billboards in the Chicago area, with booked ads replaced by anti-semitic messages linked to the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict. A Palestinian flag was used as the background for messages that were overtly anti-Israel. You …
Another Hologram-ish Shower Stall Product Surfaces, But Done A Bit Differently October 17, 2024 by Dave Haynes The huge GITEX tech trade show is on right now in Dubai and among the acres of bling – it’s Dubai, so there’s no end of that – is a Lithuanian video conferencing company doing its own take on those transparent displays I unfortunately liken to shower stalls. During GITEX GLOBAL 2024, says PR, TrueConf …
Wi-Charge Adds A 9-Inch Shelf-Edge Display To Its Battery And Cord-Free Product Line October 17, 2024 by Dave Haynes The Israeli tech firm Wi-Charge has added a 9-inch flat panel display to its product line – larger than earlier models but like those, powered over the air without using cables or batteries. Nine inches may seem small to digital signage people who now regard 55-inch flat panels as being small-ish, but these are intended …
