Neeraj Pendse Talks About Elo’s Deep History In Touch, And How To Make Interactive Truly Work May 1, 2019 by Super User Elo has been doing touchscreens for 40 years – way, way before marketers started cooking up phrases like customer engagement technology. Over that time, the company has shipped more than 25 million units. So Elo knows touch, and interactive. Based in Silicon Valley, the company has in the last few years made a pretty big …
Canada’s Mountain Equipment Coop Outsources In-Store Digital Signage To Cineplex April 30, 2019 by Super User Immediately on the heels of my rant about a sporting goods retailer doing digital signage badly comes word of another Canadian retailer – also kinda sorta in the same category – expanding and revising its in-store digital signage. Mountain Equipment Coop, or MEC, is very much like REI in the United States – with goods …
The Store With The Most Screens Doesn’t Necessarily Win April 30, 2019 by Super User Canadian sporting goods and apparel retailer SportChek has large footprint shopping mall and standalone stores across the country and has, for many years now, been an early and enthusiastic adopter of digital signage technology. On one hand, it has been great to see a retailer making a big investment in screens and related hardware and …
LCD TV Shipments From China Increased 10X In Past Year April 30, 2019 by Super User Chris Riegel, CEO of STRATACACHE, had a guest post on here a few weeks ago about the very rapid rise of China as a large-format LCD display manufacturer, and its implications. Here’s more evidence of that sudden rise: Business information provider IHS Markit has a new report out suggesting shipments of large format LCD TVs from China …
DSF Mixer Set For Seattle Next Week April 29, 2019 by Super User The Digital Signage Federation has one of its traveling meet and greet networking mixers set for next Wednesday in downtown Seattle. The event starts at 6 pm, and there will be cocktails, nibblies and a presentation about Amazon Spheres, the digital signage that locally-based Amazon did at its new downtown Seattle space. Not sure who …
Malware Takes Out Passenger Information Screens At Cleveland’s Airport April 29, 2019 by Super User The flight information (FIDS) and gate information (GIDS) screens went out of service last week at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport after a ransomware attack on the passenger-facing systems. The screens went dark a week ago, and the airport’s CIO said this morning that it was still working to get them all back online. Wow! Cleveland …
Viva Vision In Vegas – World’s Biggest LED Display – Starts Getting Facelift April 26, 2019 by Super User Anyone who’s been to Las Vegas a few times has probably, at some point, visited Fremont Street – the old school, downtown part of Las Vegas that is even weirder than the Strip. The big feature of that hotel and restaurant stretch is an LED canopy that runs a scheduled multimedia show. That canopy, called …
NEC’s Larson, LG’s Wicka Get Executive Promotions April 26, 2019 by Super User I tend to tell PR people I don’t do new hires and appointments stories because analytics clearly indicate 16:9 readers don’t care. But I make an exception for some notable ones. Betsy Larson is now Senior VP of Sales for NEC, getting a bump up from Vice President of Channel Sales. In her new gig, …
AOPEN Announces New Sets Of Windows-based Digital Signage Players April 26, 2019 by Super User Taiwan tech company AOPEN has announced a set of new media players aimed primarily at digital signage applications, including a couple that serve what would seem to be the diminishing demand for Windows. There are still lots of companies using Windows, but everything I hear suggests the industry is widely adopting Linux and Android devices …
Samsung Formally Opens New West Coast Briefing Center April 26, 2019 by Super User Samsung has formally opened its latest Executive Briefing Center (EBC) in Irvine, CA, which is in greater LA, in Orange County. The company already has showroom/conference/event spaces in New Jersey and lower Manhattan, but the 7,500 sq. ft. facility in Irvine is the first on the west coast. I am pretty sure the EBC has been open for …
