Four Winds Interactive did a very nice, polished job last fall with Forward, a two-day conference in hometown Denver that went well beyond the typical software company user conference. It was education instead of indoctrination. I went to it, and learned a lot more than what was on the company’s product roadmap. […]
Teeny PC maker Zotac has announced a PC on a stick to compete with Intel’s own Compute Stick, and arguably other devices like the Asus Chromebit and countless Android-ARM HDMI sticks. […]
Acer has added a 24-inch version of its Chromebase all-in-one desktop ChromeOS boxes, with a 10-point multi-touch option that would make it suitable as a retail or public spaces touchscreen or kiosk. Acer released a 21.5-inch version last year. […]
For two decades, Adobe Flash was the Holy Grail for designers creating motion graphics for the web and digital signage. Recently, however, the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) made HTML5 the new industry standard for digital creative. […]
CES is not in my trade show plans this or most years. The show this week is way too big and busy for my tastes – and the great majority of what’s going to be shown and hyped there isn’t all that relevant to signage. There will be display tech and micro PCs, but there will also be acres and acres of smartwatches and fitness trackers and back-up phone chargers, and on and on. […]
So how many techs does it take to plant a ruggedized touchscreen on a New York sidewalk? Many many, by the looks of it. The group behind those LinkNYC information stations/free WiFi hotspots/ad totems slated for NYC’s boroughs started installing the first ones this week, and photos have been posted by Civiq Smartscapes, and also by the tech blog The Verge. […]
This has been a record year for site traffic, and not all that surprisingly the biggest month for visits and page views coincided with Digital Signage Expo – a period when there are a lot of of announcements and things to cover. Looking at site stats, it’s clear that many people find their way to this site looking for options for their own digital signage projects. […]
South Korea’s ICT ministry said Monday it will spend 78.9 billion won (or $ 67.3 million USD) to nurture the digital signage industry in that country, apparently seeing the sector as a growth engine. The report, in the Korea Herald, says that the ministry will, through 2018, plans to expand support for start-ups involved in the business, and abolish unnecessary regulations. […]
Traveling through airports during the Christmas holiday period can suck the joy out of just about anyone – between line-ups, delays, many more rookie travellers than normal and general mayhem. So the people at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport put together an on-premise Happier Holidays campaign that uses temporary digital displays, among several tools, to inject some fun. […]
Unless something pretty big happens, this will be it for posts for a few days. The kids are coming home, and it’s time to slow down and enjoy all the trappings and indulgences of Christmas. It’s also a good time to say some Thank Yous as the year winds down. […]
Here’s a look inside GE Aviation’s new Middle East Aviation Technology Center, which opened last month in the Dubai Airport Free Zone area. […]
The annual Digital Signage Expo is less than three months out now, so it’s time for me to have a look at at what’s up with the event this year, as well as start planning the annual Preset Group Mixer. The latter is already somewhat in hand – the venue secure and several sponsors lined up. […]
A new retail project in Zhengzhou, in the east-central part of China, ups the game on the idea of filling the ceiling of a large area with an LED display. Called the Flying Ribbon, and located in the city’s HuiYi Times Square commercial complex, the project is 1,100 square metres of LED curtain that floats over a large area. […]
If you have been around digital signage for a few years, you know about the struggles sign networks that were based around portrait mode had in finding and using content. Just about everything out there was landscape, and precious little was made in their chosen 9:16 format. […]
People who go into one of the two Los Angeles locations of Fleurish can design and build their own flower arrangements in what is billed as the first ever design-it-yourself flower studio. The stores get everything from individuals, to classes, and all the way to bachelorette parties (pre-cocktails, I assume). […]
