DSF Mixer Set For Austin May 9th April 4, 2018 by Super User The Digital Signage Federation is doing a Meet & Greet mixer in Austin, Texas on May 9th, and looking to get local and regional digital signage people showing up for good chats, a little education and possibly a Shiner Bock or two. The event runs at the JW Marriott in downtown Austin, starting at 6. …
16:9 Podcasts – Reece Kurtenbach On Why Hyper-Competition Is Nothing New To Daktronics April 4, 2018 by Super User Reece Kurtenbach now runs Daktronics, the company started by his father and a university colleague 50 years ago – and has grown up seeing it evolve from electronic voting systems from state politicians to the maker behind some of the biggest and most iconic LED display boards on the planet. That’s Daktronics’ tech, for example, …
RMG’s Board Chair Does Merger Deal To Take Company Back To Private April 3, 2018 by Super User RMG Networks has done a definitive merger agreement with its board chairman to take the company private, after several years operating as a public company. The deal opens a time window for a third-party suitor to, in effect, make a “superior” offer before this deal closes. The merger deal is with Greg Sachs, RMG’s Executive …
DSF Hands Out Women Scholarship And Educator Awards, And The Names Have Familiar Rings April 3, 2018 by Super User There were a couple of particularly nice little moments last week at the post-day one awards event at Digital Signage Expo – when a couple of people were recognized. The Digital Signage Federation awarded the DSF Geri Wolff Scholarship for the 2017-18 year to Sonia Darlison, a student at the University of Waterloo, in Ontario. The …
Ultravision Sues 37 LED Companies – Including U.S. Firms – For Patent Infringement April 2, 2018 by Super User The Dallas-based LED display and lighting products company Ultravision has filed a patent infringement complaint at the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC), looking to get 37 companies barred from importing, selling or distributing what Ultravision considers infringing LED display products. Interestingly, the companies are NOT all China-based, with the named companies including Samsung, Barco from …
Here Are The DSE 2018 Project And Creative Award Winners … March 30, 2018 by Super User Here are the winners from this year’s awards program at Digital Signage Expo, announced and handed out Wednesday at a reception. Arts, Entertainment and Recreation McCann Systems for 150 Media Stream Business and Government Services Dreambox Visual Communications for 22nd World Petroleum Congress Official Opening Ceremony Education and Healthcare Forge Media + Design for Holomodor …
DSE 2018 – Day Two Impressions – Slooooooow March 30, 2018 by Super User In the fall of 2008, just as the recession really started to reveal itself on the markets and elsewhere, Philadelphia was host to Digital Signage Expo East. Foot traffic would be politely described as modest. It was pretty much a ghost town. The story was 900 people in all, but that was doubted. There’s no …
DSE 2018 – Day One Impressions March 29, 2018 by Super User The first day on the Digital Signage Expo trade show floor is in the can. The hall looked good and there at least seemed to be healthy-sized crowds. I definitely wasn’t having to fight my way through hordes, but the aisles all had decent traffic. The show is upstairs in a different south hall, with …
STRATACACHE Buys X2O Media From Barco March 28, 2018 by Super User STRATACACHE has acquired Montreal CMS software shop X20 Media from the Belgian visual solutions firm Barco, four years after Barco bought the company in what at least some observers (like me) thought was a head-scratcher. CEO Chris Riegel says he believes he is picking up a diamond in the rough, and wants to grow that …
Best Mixer Yet! March 28, 2018 by Super User Back at hotel room. Tired feet up. Kinda sorta mostly sober. And reviewing proceedings from the mixer. From our own perspective and what we heard from attendees, it was the best one yet. We think we had about 350 people. We had about 100 no-sbows, but maybe 40 or 50 we sorted out at the …
