Registration Now Open For 2017 Sixteen:Nine DSE Mixer January 23, 2017 by Dave Haynes OK, release the hounds, start your engines, or … umm … whatever. Ticketing is now available for the 2017 Sixteen:Nine DSE Mixer, March 28th in Las Vegas. If you are a longtime reader and industry person, you are probably nodding knowingly. If you are an industry and 16:9 newbie, you are probably having an “OK, sooo …
NRF2017 Impressions: Lotsa Actionable Analytics January 17, 2017 by Dave Haynes NRF is not a digital signage show. There are lots of signage vendors at the show – with booths or just walking around. It’s a retail tech show full of stuff that will be largely unfamiliar if you live and work in the digital signage bubble. But it’s a valuable show to walk if retail …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: NRF Special Edition With RDM, Unefi, Show Impressions January 17, 2017 by Dave Haynes This is a special edition of the 16:9 Podcast – special because the format’s a little different and because I’m turning this around too quickly to get it polished up by the guy who sound engineers these things. So no music. Maybe a bit more background noise. The levels are anything but level. But it’ll …
AOPEN Now has Sub-$200 Commercial Grade Chromebox; $350 Chromebase Tablet January 17, 2017 by Dave Haynes Taiwan-based AOPEN started showing off a pair of new commercial-grade Chrome devices yesterday at the NRF show – a smaller, much cheaper solid state Chromebox and a tablet-sized Chromebase. The latter, the Chromebase Mini, is a 10.1 inch all-in-one touchscreen that would compete with commercial-grade tablets and small system on chip displays. You could imagine it being used …
Getting Set For NRF 2017 January 13, 2017 by Dave Haynes The National Retail Federation’s big annual trade show starts up on Sunday in New York, and I was very happy to learn it should be mid 40sF and sunny when I get in. I have been at that show other Januarys when the winter wind coming off the Hudson chilled anyone to the bone. NRF …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Mike Blackman, Integrated Systems Europe January 11, 2017 by Dave Haynes Integrated Systems Europe is coming up at the start of next month in Amsterdam, and Mike Blackman is the guy who has built ISE up to be the largest pro AV show on the planet. It’s also the biggest digital signage show in terms of footprint and exhibitors, though signage is just one element of …
Panasonic, IBM Team On Watson-Driven Smart Mirror For Hotels January 8, 2017 by Dave Haynes Panasonic and IBM were showing a smart mirror/digital concierge last week during CES, at an offsite demo area run by IBM. The Panasonic Digital Concierge uses the IBM Watson artificial intelligence platform as part of a digital envisioned as being installed in the rooms of, let’s assume, higher-end hotels. The idea is that a guest …
Intel Unveils Compute Card & Five New NUCs At CES January 7, 2017 by Dave Haynes A little lost in the blizzard of gadget announcements coming out CES in Las Vegas this week was word from Intel of a new family of NUC computers and a new credit-card sized computer moduls that could very conceivably plug into a flat panel display to use in digital signage. Intel was showing the propeller-head …
Italy’s inVRsion Bringing Virtual Reality Into Retail Store Planning January 3, 2017 by Dave Haynes I’m starting to become a bit of a believer in virtual reality as being relevant beyond gaming and some highly specialized applications, and looking forward to checking out an Italian start-up called inVRsion at NRF in New York mid-month. The company seems pretty focused on how VR could be used for business purposes, as opposed …
ISE Is Five Weeks Out; 65K+ Expected For Massive Systems Integrator Show January 2, 2017 by Dave Haynes Integrated Systems Europe is now five weeks out and it is time to start looking over plans for the big trade show in Amsterdam, primarily what companies are there that aren’t normally seen closer to home in North America. There are 445 companies listed in the digital signage category for the show, and of course …
