Back at HQ after a couple of weeks away, out on Canada’s east coast. I am thinking about relocating the business, and life, there for a bunch of reasons, and spending some time out there was helpful. […]
Robin Carlisle is Global Head of Creative for Framestore Labs, a UK-based creative technology shop that specializes in making beautiful and cinematic real-time visuals. Framestore Labs is part of a larger company, Framestore, that has been doing amazing visuals for years. […]
Guest Post: Sean Matthews, Visix There’s really no escaping it – digital signage is here, and here to stay. It’s becoming so commonplace that people are starting to expect it when they enter a facility. Soon enough, places that don’t have digital signage will seem quaint and old-fashioned, or sadly out of touch with the times. […]
Steve Rickless, one of the founders of the UK firm Tripleplay, believes likes a lot of people that technology is converging, and thinks his company is in a good spot because it has already converged its technology. […]
Note: Not a shot from the Ohio drug chain. LA-based Provision Interactive Technologies continues to find clients that get excited about its technology that shows consumer floating products in mid-air, as a carrot to get shoppers to use a coupon center. The company has announced a deal to put its proprietary 3D Savings Center kiosks inside Discount Drug Mart stores around Ohio. […]
PatientPoint, a digital screen network already in 31,000 doctors’ offices and 1,000 hospitals in the U.S., has completed a $140 million investment round intended to make the footprint even larger. The money, the company says in a press release, will be used for existing programs, and for acquisitions and partnerships. […]
The French building infrastructure firm Legrand has acquired Milestone AV Technologies, the Minneapolis-based parent company of several big pro AV brands like Chief, Sanus and DA-Lite. […]
The meeting room signs market has grown to a point now that hardware manufacturers now make red and green LED colour bars part of the regular kit they sell with small, all-in-one displays. It wasn’t long ago, at all, that digital meeting room signs were pretty much done with consumer tablets or small open-frame LCDs. […]
I find, more and more, that some of the more successful companies in this business are a bit like stealth submarines. They run silent and deep, and you don’t hear much about them or see them around. That would apply pretty nicely to D3, a New York company that is in the LED display business. […]
NEC Display Solutions of America has stepped up in a big way to indirectly help sick and injured people in some of the poorest places on the planet, making a gift-in-kind donation of more than 2,000 commercial-grade displays to Mercy Ships, an international faith-based organization that uses hospital ships to perform life-changing surgeries. […]
Panasonic and TransitScreen have formed a strategic alliance that gives the North American wing of the Japanese tech company access to transport data to use in some of its smart city applications, marketed under a platform called CityNOW. […]
Four Winds Interactive is going ahead with a third edition of its annual Forward conference in Denver, the software company’s home city. The Oct. 10-12 event targets existing and prospective clients, but is also pretty good networking for vendors within FWI’s ecosystem. […]
The elevator that takes visitors to the observatory level of the Lotte World Tower skyscraper in Seoul is lined floor to ceiling, AND ceiling, with OLED displays that for the minute-long ride up immerse people in scenes of the Korean mega-city. […]
Users of Tightrope Media Systems’ Carousel Digital Signage Software can now integrate with any BrightSign player, extending integration possibilities from singular displays to wide-scale networks. […]
I’m banking podcasts so they’ll be ready to air over the next few weeks, while I’m on an extended road trip – some interviews and also some advance work that might see World HQ relocated next year. […]
