Strategy Institute releases agenda for fall investor conference in NYC June 27, 2011 by Dave HaynesThe Strategy Institute’s Investor Conference Oct. 17-18 in NYC now has a fairly robust agenda plotted out, and it’s being sent around looking for attendees. What caught my eye: Garry McGuire of RMG is doing the Day 1 keynote, called Digital Out-of-Home Media 2.0: The Next Generation Is Interactivity There’s a panel on network operations which …
Tickers and zoned screens need to be the exception, not the rule, in digital signage June 24, 2011 by Dave HaynesI was struck at InfoComm by the way technology, good creative and actual thinking were resulting in some really strong content on big fella video walls and totems around the trade show. It’s nice to see how far the industry has moved in really thinking through an idea and execution. On the other hand, I …
Numbers show digital signage display giants differ in North America and globally June 24, 2011 by Dave HaynesA week after getting home from InfoComm I am starting to actually dig into some of my notes, materials stuck on USB drives by PR people, and downloaded conference presentations. I was a little late getting to the DisplaySearch conference and missed much of host Chris Connery’s opening presentation, which had some really interesting stats …
Who is at the target-rich HITEC show? Almost no one in DS June 21, 2011 by Dave HaynesTrade shows should be target-rich environments, so any digital signage vendor looking to crack the hotel and restaurant sector would logically have people and probably a booth at the big Hospitality Industry Technology Exposition & Conference (HITEC) on right now in Austin, Texas. So who is actually there? I know Four Winds Interactive does a …
InfoComm follow-up: Salitek's 16 by 4 video wall June 20, 2011 by Dave HaynesVideo walls, I both heard and saw, are big business at the moment for the AV crowd that packed InfoComm last week. There were a few BIG walls here and there but the one that caught my eye was one from Chicago’s Salitek, which used 64 Orion zero-bezel plasmas in a 16 wide by four …
InfoComm 2011 Wrap-up June 20, 2011 by Dave HaynesBack at world HQ, where it is 20 degrees F cooler and my thoughts extend beyond sources of water and/or beer. Orlando did not seem as hot and humid as it did two years ago, but still … The final event numbers for InfoComm 2011 eclipsed 33,000, so this is a show that is roughly …
InfoComm 2011: Day 2 Impressions June 16, 2011 by Dave HaynesOh my aching tootsies. The Orange County Convention Center is one big building and InfoComm fills a lot of one of the halls. A lot of walking. A lot of standing. Who knows what actual crowd counts are, but Day 2 seemed pretty much as busy as Day 1 at this massive show for the …
InfoComm 2011 – Day 1 Impressions June 15, 2011 by Dave HaynesResting my aching feet and back after a day of wandering about and chatting through the first of three days at InfoComm in Orlando. The international reception across the road promises the chance to “partake” (who still uses that word???) of drinks and snacks. Thirsty me is highly likely to partake. Day 1 at least …
InfoComm DisplaySearch Conference: More AM notes June 14, 2011 by Dave HaynesMore notes from the morning session of the DisplaySearch conference. The Corning session was a bit of a letdown – more of an explanatory thing about how Gorilla Glass is made and little about the future of glass as a display surface. The Intel session was was pretty much just a run-through of what Intel …
InfoComm preview: bring on the gadgets June 7, 2011 by Dave HaynesI finally got my act together sufficiently to book flights down and back to Orlando for InfoComm next week. I think I have been at everyone of these for about five years now, and it is always an interesting, completely different experience from the digital signage-centric shows. This is a show for the ops guys …