Lift And Learn Retail Application Cleverly Doubles Up As Stock Level Counter July 4, 2024 by Dave Haynes People who have been in this industry for many years are likely amused, as I have been, when software and solutions companies demonstrate what they call new and innovative “lift and learn” applications for retail with the same kind of enthusiasm they’d have if they’d invented fire or figured out cold fusion. On-screen content triggered …
Thomas Philippart de Foy On How Appspace Has Stitched Itself Into Fabric Of Integrated Workplace Communications July 3, 2024 by Dave Haynes One of the things I noticed bombing around the two exhibit halls at InfoComm in June was how most of the digital signage software companies were located in one hall, and some of them not looking all that busy, while there were at least a couple of others in the other hall, and they were …
Boosted In-Store Digital Experiences Key To Future Retailing: Survey July 3, 2024 by Dave Haynes First spotted in AV Interactive … London-based it services and consulting firm Aura – through its retail experiences brand Aura Futures – as published results of a survey that suggest many retail decision-makers see richer, digitally-driven in-store experiences as a means to counteract declining foot traffic counts. The survey, run in April 2024, involved 301 …
Hat Tips For Achievements Away From Industry Jobs: Folks From Dise, LED Studio July 3, 2024 by Dave Haynes Tips of the hat here for efforts and achievements by a couple of industry folks who have very challenging outside interests. First, Emilia Kjellberg is a software developer at the retail-focused Swedish CMS firm Dise, and she is also now that country’s national champion for the long jump. I’m not sure if that puts her …
Mexico City Is 2025 Site For WOO’s Annual Out Of Home Ad Industry Conference July 3, 2024 by Dave Haynes The World Out of Home Organization certainly seems to take its global handle seriously, moving its annual congress to different continents each year. The 2024 congress was run early last month in Hong Kong and the 2025 one will be staged June 4-6 in Mexico City, the first time WOO’s main meet-up has been held …
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 …
InfoComm Buzz & Bullseyes Mixer Photo Gallery Now Up July 2, 2024 by Dave Haynes The photos from last month’s XUSC/Sixteen:Nine Networking Mixer at InfoComm have been uploaded and are accessible to view and download online. Thanks to event partner Bryan Meszaros for getting these together and posted! The full gallery is here …
FutureSource’s InfoComm 2024 Post-Show Report Now Out As Free Download July 2, 2024 by Dave Haynes The UK research firm Futuresource Consulting routinely generates post-show wrap-up reports that get into detail about what its analysts saw on the exhibit hall floor of events like ISE and the recent InfoComm show in Las Vegas. The InfoComm 2024 one is now out (here’s the download page), and while the free, information-rich deck covers …
New Sydney Retail Development Has What’s Touted As Biggest Curved LED Screen In Southern Hemisphere July 2, 2024 by Dave Haynes The shopping mall component of a flashy new mixed-use development in Sydney, Australia sports what is described as the longest digital, curved retail screen in the southern hemisphere. The Halo is a 40-foot wide LED that wraps around the bulkhead of the stairway into what’s called Mall 88, a retail precinct in Sydney’s Lower North Shore. …
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 …
