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. […]
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. […]
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. […]
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. […]
Digital OOH street furniture has long been a preferred medium for movie launches, but this is the first time I think I’ve seen them fully adapted to take on the character of a new film. This a mall kiosk in the UK, running on a JCDecaux screen, for a new movie called Detective Pikachu about Pokemons, which are … I’m not really sure. Once again – I’m old. […]
A 41-year-old man has been arrested and charged in the wake of 42 LinkNYC digital OOH/smart city kiosks being vandalized and damaged around five NYPD precincts. The kiosks have cameras and at least one caught the man throwing a large rock at a unit, in daylight and as people walked by. […]
My ability to record podcasts went sideways 2-3 weeks ago, with some weird glitch that saw my online recording platform just flat refusing to acknowledge I had a microphone plugged in. Very puzzling, but after lots of trial and error and poking around, I found the issue. Check a box and a couple of weeks of endless frustration just disappeared. […]
A UK events company is busily recruiting vendors and end-users for a digital signage matchmaking event in greater London this fall. The Digital Signage & Interactive Solutions Summit is one of those specialized events that sees vendors paying for access – both focused and relaxed – with interested, engaged buyers. […]
The NYC-focused online publication Gothamist has a post up, with multiple photos, of the beating laid on some 30 LinkNYC smart city ad posters in Manhattan this past weekend. A very cranky New Yorker smashed a series of the big digital display kiosks in the West Village and Chelsea, along 6th and 8th Avenues and across 14th Street. […]
It’s no secret that Broadsign and Ayuda have had an interesting history. Founded around the same time, virtually just down the road from each other in Montreal, our two companies have had quite the rivalry. […]
An ambitious project that was intended to generate new revenues for Denver’s airport, and showcase the innovative LED technology of Panasonic, has run into big problems less than two years after it was first switched on. […]
InfoComm is less than a couple of months out and I have sorted out my air, hotel and press registration, which means I can now start to look at why I am going and what I will see that I have not already seen this year at NRF, ISE, ShopTalk and DSE. Probably not much, but I tend to have more time to poke around at this event than, certainly, DSE. […]
The global beauty company COTY is using free-standing blended reality kiosks to help demo and sell a line of nail polish products, and has seen 24% sales bumps at locations where they are plugged in. There are more than 400 units – marketing nail polish from the COTY brand OPI – in third-party stores around the world. […]
The companies who do the infrastructure that gets screens in place and make video walls look amazing are a huge part of the digital signage ecosystem, but don’t get all that much attention. One of the biggest – if not THE biggest – is Chicago-based Peerless-AV, which has been a major part of digital signage for many, many years. […]
Pro AV road shows have been a staple of distributors like Almo for many years, and the display companies have also done variations here and there, most notably the big showcases NEC and LG do each year in New York. But I don’t think I’ve seen one like what Samsung is starting this week. Today, actually. […]
