IAdea Integrates Scala With Gear; Makes Combos SKUs February 25, 2013 by Dave Haynes The DSE announcements are coming fast and furious with the conference tomorrow and the trade hall opened Wednesday. Sixteen:Nine sponsor IAdea and Scala have announced they have made an arrangement to pre-configure the IAdea digital signage media players and digital signboards with Scala’s and order it as a SKU from IAdea. Digital signage integrators will …
Outta Here February 20, 2013 by Dave Haynes Going to DSE via AZ. Will spend 2-3 days looking at grand canyons and red rocks instead of my increasingly quirky MacBook, so posts will be few to none. See you next week in Las Vegas. photo credit: K. Sawyer Photography via photopin cc
First The Fountain, Then The Pile (Of Awards) February 20, 2013 by Dave Haynes My friends at Arsenal Media are a proud and humbled bunch as they head down in a few days to Digital Signage Expo to switch on the Fountain of Content and pick up a few armfuls of well-earned awards. Projects involving the Montreal-based company will win awards in 11 categories at the 2013 DSE Apex …
DSE Mixer Sponsor Profiles: Digital Signage Expo/Exponation February 20, 2013 by Dave Haynes All the sponsors of the Preset Group DSE Mixer have now been Q&A’d here, save one. Digital Signage Expo kindly stepped up this year to directly sponsor the Mixer, with Chris Gibbs explaining the evening was now firmly a part of the DSE week experience, and he wanted to support that. That was cool, since …
DSE PR: Announce Now, Not Next Week February 19, 2013 by Dave Haynes If form holds, there will be all kinds of product and deal announcements timed next week to coincide with the Digital Signage Expo trade show. All those announcements are aimed at people like me who do what amounts to coverage of the sector. That’s exactly the wrong time to make announcements, and here’s why: I’m …
Mixer Sponsor Profiles: Cineplex Digital Solutions February 18, 2013 by Dave Haynes The original DSE Mixer was a near impromptu thing held at a very strange but oddly cool place on the strip, with lots of red velvet, brass and flaming fire pools. I’d never been there when I told readers, “Hey, let’s go there!!!” So I walk in, and the first two people I see at …
Mixer Sponsor Profiles: Chief/Milestone AV February 17, 2013 by Dave Haynes If there is connective tissue in this goofy little sector, it’s the mount and rack companies with the gear that puts displays in place and makes deployments work, and who provide a lot of overall support for the industry. Companies like Chief are always investing directly in the trade shows, in educational work, and in …
Preset Mixer: Who’s Going (Chart) February 16, 2013 by Dave Haynes Here’s a look at how the nearly 350 people coming to the mixer breaks down in terms of what they do. The actual number of end-users is higher than that (I have a non-official list and also see how people are registered). But I wouldn’t expect a whole pile of end-users coming to DSE for …
Mixer Sponsor Profiles: Capital Networks February 15, 2013 by Dave Haynes I got into the digital signage space coming on 14 years ago, and the first software company I dealt with was Capital Networks. We bought dozens of their servers and software and put them in racks in office tower closets and machine rooms to drive a signal over coax to screens in elevators. Capital wasn’t …
Mixer Sponsor Profiles: NEC Display Solutions February 14, 2013 by Dave Haynes Next up in our profiles of Preset Group DSE 2013 Mixer Sponsors is NEC Display Solutions, the professional display and projection system giant from Japan, via suburban Chicago. President and CEO Pierre Richer was kind enough to A – throw some money at me to help with 2013 mixer costs, and B – field my five …
