Four Winds Opens Impressive New HQ Digs October 22, 2015 by Super User Denver’s Four Winds Interactive showed off its new digs last night, as the kickoff to its 2-day conference called Forward. The place is a BIG step up on the funky but overcrowded place the company was in the last few years, and wildly removed from the old house the guys who were there in the …
CRI Finds Lenders, Completes ConeXus World Deal October 21, 2015 by Super User Creative Realities has found lenders and therefore pulled the finances together to complete the acquisition of the digital signage deployment firm ConeXus World Global, turning ConeXus into a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company. To do the deal first announced in August, CRI got a $3.0 million accounts receivables financing facility with “a nationally-established lender” (as opposed to a …
Starbucks Adding Outdoor Video Displays In 2,400 US Drive-Thrus October 20, 2015 by Super User My suspicion is that the guys who specialize in outdoor displays are already all over this, but if not, they’ll be very interested in news that Starbucks is adding daylight-readable displays to some 2,400 drive-thru lanes in the United States. The screens will do promotion, as well as order confirmation and a show a live …
Save $200 Today On An Xlab Ticket October 20, 2015 by Super User If your work in digital signage sees you in meetings where the client or the bosses start talking about their aspirations for transforming a space, or creating an experience, you kinda sorta need to get to New York in a couple of weeks for an event called Xlab. The day-long event is organized by the Society …
Dusho Signs On As Exec With Smart City Digital OOH Play CIVIQ October 20, 2015 by Super User I don’t normally write about new hires at companies because the stats show readers generally (and sometimes profoundly) don’t care, but news of one of the better known guys in the signage business getting back in the spotlight is worth some attention. Former BroadSign CEO Brian Dusho has been hired by CIVIQ Smartscapes to head its Digital Out …
Projects: Red Rock Bets On Fine Pixel Pitch LED Walls In Sports Book Upgrade October 20, 2015 by Super User The Red Rock Resort on the western outskirts of Las Vegas has replaced an aging projection wall in its sports book area with a giant 1,730 square feet of 2.5 mm fine pixel pitch LED modules, creating what’s touted to be the largest installation of its kind in North America. The displays also have three …
If You Can’t Beat Them, Domain-Squat Them? October 20, 2015 by Super User A Utah-based signage software company has taken the interesting and questionable step of buying and registering the unused domain suffixes of many key competitors. TruDigital has a variety of .biz, .info, .org, .net and .us domains for a pile of companies, including The Marlin Company, BroadSign, Real Digital Media, Four Winds Interactive, Wondersign, MVIX, Elo, Rise Vision, …
Projects: Armodilo Keeps Eatsa’s Screens Good Looking And Up October 19, 2015 by Super User Remember that cool automated QSR in San Francisco that was reminiscent of a ’50s automat diner? Turns out the ordering screens come from just up the road from me in St. Jacob’s, Ontario, from the nice folks (and loyal 16:9 sponsors) at Armodilo Display Solutions. Here’s a post by Armodilo about the install at Eatsa, which …
IntuiLab Turns On Interactive Toolset For ChromeOS Digital Signage October 19, 2015 by Super User The French firm IntuiLab has developed and announced a version of its interactive screen tools to work with low-cost Chromeboxes and all-in-one Chromebase displays. The hook to the IntuiFace platform is its ability to enable slick, highly interactive HTML5-based experiences without the designer, developer or network operator need to know much of anything about coding. The ChromeOS …
Yay, I’m Finally Going To ISE October 19, 2015 by Super User With flights booked and lodgings sorted, I’m all set to finally go to Integrated Systems Europe 2016, which is billed as Europe’s biggest AV and systems integration show. Every January, I get emails asking if they’ll see me at ISE in Amsterdam, and every year I’ve said, “Nope.” This year, I’ll say, “Yup.” I’m not …
