Building Housing Samsung’s Regional HQ Offices In Kyiv Takes Indirect Missile Hit October 11, 2022 by Dave Haynes Among the many civilian and non-military sites hit by Russian missiles around Ukraine in the last couple of days was a 27-storey office block in Kyiv that is home to Samsung headquarters offices for the region, as well as R&D. The 101 Tower did not take a direct hit but there are many visuals circulating …
New NYC TikTok Offices Use LED Video Wall And Tubes To Reflect City’s Vibe October 7, 2022 by Dave Haynes Images from Interior Design … The hyper-popular social media app TikTok has opened new offices in New York that make a big nod to the vibe of that city, using a big lobby LED video wall and LED tubes to emulate city subway maps. The company expanded to Manhattan with 150,000 square feet of space, …
DSE Reboot Expecting At Least 4,000 Attendees; In Line With Old Show October 7, 2022 by Dave Haynes I had a catch-up this morning with a couple of the key folks pulling together the DSE reboot – Marian Sandberg and David Drain of Questex. The headline statement is that that show next month is a go and the crowd actually looks to be pretty decent, in terms of headcount. The show – now …
Carousel Provides Back-Of-House Employee Messaging Capabilities For Stores Of Large U.S. McDonald’s Franchisee October 7, 2022 by Dave Haynes When word was pushed out about the Australian software and solutions firm Coates Group winning a a global deal as the digital signage provider for McDonald’s, some industry people would have shrugged and said, “Well, good luck with that.” They didn’t question the deal, just whether it would play out that way – as world …
4,000 Sq. Ft. LED Tunnel Switches On With Credit Union’s Domination Campaign At Dulles Airport October 7, 2022 by Dave Haynes The airport advertising side of Clear Channel has lined a passenger tunnel at Washington’s Dulles airport with some 4,000 sq. ft. of LED display and block-booked its use, over several years, by a giant U.S. credit union. The new Concourse C Connector at Washington Dulles International Airport (IAD) is called the PenFed Tunnel because the …
Skykit Partners With Datadog On Real-Time KPI Dashboard Visualizations October 6, 2022 by Dave Haynes The Minneapolis CMS software shop Skykit has done what I think is a cagey little partnership with a company called Datadog, making it easy for customers who use the latter’s cloud security and monitoring platform to visualize status and activity dashboards on large displays around a workplace. Skykit Dashboard Connections, says PR, “are now available …
Some Digital Signs Are Up So High They Should Be Basketball Backboards, But This Screen Really Is A Backboard October 6, 2022 by Dave Haynes I have jokingly written a few times that some displays hung from ceilings in stores and workplaces are mounted so high, above normal sightlines, that the flat panel screens attached to poles were better suited to being backboards for pickup basketball. Now there’s a product on the market that is actually using flat panel displays …
ISE Opens Registration For Early 2023 Edition Of The Giant Pro AV Trade Show October 6, 2022 by Dave Haynes Registration has now opened for Integrated Systems Europe 2023, which is set to run January 31st to February 3rd in Barcelona, Spain. The biggest pro AV trade show on the planet has, as I type this, 656 registered exhibitors, with 216 of those identifying in some fashion as being in digital signage. Experience and common …
PPDS Parent Company TPV Sets Up Global Community Support And Giving Program October 5, 2022 by Dave Haynes The big electronic manufacturer TPV, which among many things makes the displays marketed under the Philips brand by PPDS, has created and launched a new foundation intended to provide technology as well as financial and volunteer support for deserving community projects around world. Called TPV Cares, the foundation “harnesses the talents of (TPV’s) teams and …
Spanish Tourism Hotspot Switches On 22M Digital Icon In Central Pedestrian Plaza October 5, 2022 by Dave Haynes This is a new digital landmark installation in the city center of Benidorm, a tourist magnet city along a Spanish stretch of the Mediterranean coastline – a 22-meter-tall cylinder clad in semi-transparent LED. The structure in a pedestrian plaza is used as sold advertising space, but also as part of the backdrop for public events …
