Arsenal Plans To Pour On the Content At InfoComm June 6, 2012 by Dave Haynes Denys Lavigne and the other folks at Arsenal Media will just about have the InfoComm floor to themselves next week when it comes to creative content services, which is a pretty nice situation given that floor will be filled with pro AV people who know how to get content to screens but are generally stumped …
Elo Filling InfoComm Booth With Real World (Yay!) Touch Applications May 30, 2012 by Dave Haynes It looks like Elo TouchSystems has lined up an interesting set of partners to show some real world applications for its gear at InfoComm in a coupla weeks. Silicon Valley-based Array Interactive will demo a NASA campus way-finding application (above) that will be shown on a 55 inch Elo touch display. The guys at Toronto-based Jibestream Interactive Media …
CODACAN Media Summit Agenda Defies Logic May 11, 2012 by Dave Haynes The CODACAN digital media summit is next Thursday in Toronto, and I have been weighing whether I have the time to tear downtown to sit in. The email I got this morning pretty much cemented the case for not bothering. Fully half of the three-hour event designed to raise mindshare and understanding of the medium …
A Good, Full Day At Canada 3.0 April 25, 2012 by Dave Haynes A conference focused on digital innovation and issues in Canada sounded pretty intriguing when I first heard about Canada 3.0. Then I saw it was in a hockey arena complex in a town of 31,000 a good two hours outside of Toronto. Huh? Turns out it works. I spent the day at the 2012 Canada …
Events: DisplaySearch Digital Signage Conference Agenda Now Out April 19, 2012 by Dave Haynes The technology market research firm DisplaySearch is again holding a one-day conference at the front-end of InfoComm this year, billed as an “event to prepare yourself for discussions about OLED, transparent displays, glasses-free 3D, and touch technologies during InfoComm.” Says the pitch: “Meet leading developers, suppliers, integrators, customers, and industry analysts of digital signage applications. Get …
DSE Moves Site … Now At Other End Of LVCC April 18, 2012 by Dave Haynes The floor plan for the 2013 version of Digital Signage Expo suggests the show has changed halls. The traditional location over by the food court and Starbuck’s in the North Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center has been replaced by a new location in the South Hall. Officially, South Hall 1. If you are like …
CETW Moving Back To Las Vegas In 2013 April 2, 2012 by Dave Haynes Customer Engagement Technology World is heading back to Lost Wages for 2013, after a two-year stint in San Francisco. The show will go in May 2013, the spring version running roughly six months after the fall version set for November in New York. I sent a note to Lawrence Dvorchik, the General Manager for CETW, on …
DSA Names Industry Excellence Winners March 29, 2012 by Dave Haynes The Digital Screenmedia Association has handed out the winners of its DSA Industry Excellence Awards, which honors the best digital signage, mobile and self-service kiosk technology deployments across all vertical market segments. The awards were given out last night at a function tied in to the CETW show that wraps today in San Francisco. Network …
Immersive Labs Helps Drive Pepsi’s SXSW Zeitgeist March 23, 2012 by Dave Haynes New York-based Immersive Labs is back from what sounds like a very cool few days working with PepsiCo at the massive SXSW interactive conference in Austin, Texas, which I am thinking I need to start attending. The startup – which does a face pattern detection-ad serving and analytics mash-up for digital OOH – was invited …
DSE Doing Another Speed-Dating Weekend March 19, 2012 by Dave Haynes The Digital Signage Expo people have sent out a note rounding up sponsors for a DSE Spring Industry Forum, to be held May 20-23 in Ft. Lauderdale. This event could, therefore, be held in Bill Gerba’s backyard, though I am not sure all the crime scene tape is gone yet. The event – I was …
