Read Through Mark Boidman’s Digital OOH Presentation Done This Morning At GO2018 May 9, 2018 by Super User There’s a pile of useful data in the presentation deck investment banker Mark Boidman did this morning at the Geopath/OAAA conference and expo in Austin. Boidman, if you don’t know him, closely tracks the digital OOH industry and the company he works for, PJ Solomon, does a lot of M&A advisory work in the sector. …
Reminder: DSF Mixer In Austin Tonight May 9, 2018 by Super User A last reminder that the Digital Signage Federation is holding a Meet and Greet mixer tonight in amazing Austin, Texas. It’s at the JW Marriott Austin, which is right downtown near the river. The address is 110 East 2nd Street. The bar opens at 6 PM and the presentation will begin around 6:40 PM. The …
16:9 Podcasts: Alan Brawn On Educating The Digital Signage Masses, & Talking Some Off The Business Ledge May 9, 2018 by Super User One hell of a lot of the people involved in some way with the digital signage business – as a vendor or end-user – have spent a day or more learning the fundamentals from Alan Brawn. With his son Jonathan, Alan runs a small San Diego-based consulting firm that has been heavily focused for the …
Google Announces Lean Version Of Android To Power “Things” Like Smart Displays May 8, 2018 by Super User Google yesterday announced a new service called Android Things, described as a minimal version of the Android operating system that is widely used in digital signage, on media players and in some display manufacturers’ system on chip displays. The intention for Android Things is IoT devices like smart appliances and personal assistants – the latter which …
FDA’s Food Menu Label Regulations Are Finally In Effect. What That Means For Digital Signage Vendors May 7, 2018 by Super User The US Food and Drug Administration’s much-discussed, often-delayed regulations for food menu labeling are now finally, formally, in place as of today. The FDA regulations require grocers and restaurants with 20 or more locations to list calorie counts for their menu items, and are seen as a way of harmonizing a mish-mash of different requirements …
Aisle-Topper LED Ribbons For Hershey In Big Box Retailing May 7, 2018 by Super User Not a huge fan of shelf-level LED strips because the resolution isn’t there for close viewing, and the little LED light chips will get the crap beat out of them, but I do like the big aisle-topper ribbon display implementation at a big-box store somewhere, by the LA-area company AWM Smart Shelf. To be fair, …
NoviSign Adds Sharp SoC Android Displays To Digital Signage Solution Set May 7, 2018 by Super User The Israeli digital signage software shop NoviSign now has its platform and media player running on Sharp’s Open Architecture system-on-chip displays. The company’s online Studio editor runs on the new Sharp 40 and 50-inch PN series 24/7 displays. “For the last several months, NoviSign’s engineering team has been working closely with SIICA to test NoviSign’s …
Freelance AV Tech Marketplace AV Junction Tops 1,000 Members May 7, 2018 by Super User AV Junction, the start-up that’s set up a dedicated online marketplace connecting AV freelancers with hiring companies like integrators, now says it has more than 1,000 entries in its database and is helping get work done globally. Founder Paul Weatherhead says he’ll have a booth at InfoComm 2018 in early June and will be launching software …
Industry Experts Rate Most Important Digital Signage Innovations And Considerations May 7, 2018 by Super User Hat Tip to Digital Signage Pulse for picking up on this … Samsung’s public information display group, presumably the European wing, did a survey with its digital signage industry panel following ISE 2018, asking 40 or so industry people what they saw and what excited them at the show. Not surprisingly, the bling of The Wall …
The Screen Guy And The Power Of Chocolate May 4, 2018 by Mitch Leathers Guest Post: Luis Villafane, Maler I was lucky enough to volunteer at my daughter’s school to talk about my job. I am saying lucky because most people don’t really know nor understand what I do … so to say the least, I really surprised them. Imagine how it is, that when we opened the new …
