AVIXA Pushes Out Details On Virtual Side Of InfoComm Show October 13, 2021 by Dave Haynes AVIXA has been working hard to convince both buyers and sellers that it is safe to be in Orlando in just a couple of weeks (Oct. 27-29) for its pro AV trade show InfoComm, but has announced fuller details on the virtual side of the show aimed at pro AV buyers and sellers who will …
Italian Outdoor Brand Includes Small LED Screen On Packaging For New Fragrances October 13, 2021 by Dave Haynes Hat Tip Tim Allan for making me aware of this post in Beauty Packaging, which is not exactly a regular read for me. The Italian Skiwear brand Moncler has resorted to the gimmick of putting what amounts to a low-tech digital sign on the bottles of its new fragrances for men and women. The woody, …
Streaming Place-based TV Spin-out Atmosphere Adds Canada, Australia and New Zealand To Service Coverage October 12, 2021 by Dave Haynes Austin-based streaming TV for business service Atmosphere is expanding beyond its U.S. operations, opening up new markets in Canada, Australia and New Zealand. The Austin-based company, which has a series of OTT streaming short-form TV channels geared to place-based media environments like restaurants, bars, gyms, hotels and doctors’ offices. The company says it already has …
Ex-Geopath Head Kym Frank Joins Intermx As Global Chief Experience Officer October 12, 2021 by Dave Haynes The location data and platform-provider Intermx has hired on former Geopath head Kym Frank in a newly-created role of Global Chief Experience Officer (CxO). Frank is very well known in digital OOH circles as the longtime, very knowledgeable head of the audience measurement bureau Geopath, but she resigned very abruptly at the start of the summer …
Canonical Launches Ubuntu Frame To Ease Development Work For Digital Signage, Kiosks October 12, 2021 by Dave Haynes The company behind the widely-used version of Linux – called Ubuntu – has released a new product aimed at developers who do digital signage and interactive appliucations. Canonical’s newly announced Ubuntu Frame is described as “a solution that allows developers to easily build and deploy graphical applications for interactive kiosks, digital signage solutions, or any …
While Many Displaycos Have Revised Or Cancelled InfoComm Plans, Philips Announces It Is All In For 2021 October 12, 2021 by Dave Haynes There has been a periodic drip-drip of announcements from AV companies saying they had decided to pull out of InfoComm at the end of this month because of worries about COVID-19, but in a different twist, PPDS (aka Philips) has pushed out an announcement saying specifically it WILL be there. The PR firm passing that …
More Evidence COVID Era Has Blown Up Demand For Self-Service Screens, This Time Out Of Canada October 8, 2021 by Dave Haynes Just about every piece of market research I come across that touches on digital signage is built around data developed in the US market, or sometimes from the EU. I never see research focused just on the Canadian market, but I just stumbled on some focused on self-service displays, aka kiosks. The survey suggests a …
SigmaSense Completes $24M Raise To Broaden Reach Of Its Touch Technologies October 8, 2021 by Dave Haynes Austin, TX-based touch technology firm SigmaSense has announced the closing of a $24 million Series B fundraising round the company says will be used to expand its reach in the touch, digital signage and HMI (Human Machine Interface) markets. The company does very slick sensing technology that goes well beyond the boink-boink basics of touchscreens …
Toronto Office Tower Uses Cascade Of LED Windows To Transform Otherwise Stark Lobby October 8, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is actually a couple of years old, but just came across a case study about a really nice lobby LED installation in Toronto. My first reaction to a video wall at the Globe and Mail Centre was, “I thought newspapers were running on financial fumes?” But digging into the case study, it appears Canada’s …
MicroLED Manufacturing Could Mark Shift Away From Chinese LED Dominance: Futuresource October 7, 2021 by Dave Haynes The UK research firm Futuresource Consulting – one of a small handful of companies doing legit research in the display industry – has pushed out a new market report looking at the fast-emerging microLED display market. The report suggests more than 60 companies will invest around $10 billion between them over the next few years, …
