Mirza Surfaces With Giant Ventures Firm August 7, 2013 by Dave Haynes Anyone who has been around the digital signage space for a few years will know Haroon Mirza, who was a co-founder of the video analytics company Cognovision, which was then bought in 2010 by Intel. Haroon left this spring when Intel decided to consolidate its retail technologies in Chandler, AZ – a move that made …
Monster Media Acquires LocaModa July 30, 2013 by Dave Haynes Monster Media has bought LocaModa in a deal that sees the Orlando-based digital out of home media company better equipped to add social media integration, not to mention smarts, to its offer via the small but respected Boston company. Stephen Randall, who founded LocaModa back in something like 2005, will now be the Executive VP …
Good Advice Series – DMG, LocaModa Added July 18, 2013 by Dave Haynes There are now 10 or so videos up on The Preset Group Good Advice series, the latest some great comments from Tom Percich of DMG and Stephen Randall, or LocaModa. The archive is here: http://presetgroup.com/category/mixer-videos/ I still have 3-4 more to add in the next few days.
Good Advice Series Now Up To Seven; More To Come July 10, 2013 by Dave Haynes There are now seven Good Advice video vignettes up live on the Preset Group website – the latest ones Neil van Wouw from Japan’s Vanten K.K., Jim Nista from Insteo, Jim Vair from Capital Networks and Pierre Richer from NEC Display. Here’s Neil … Niel van Wouw, Vanten KK, @ 2013 Preset Mixer from studio10productions …
Harris Out At The New Harris July 9, 2013 by Dave Haynes The guy who ran the broadcast side of Harris, including digital signage, is now out and a new CEO is in place at the company now running independently as Harris Broadcast. Investor The Gores Group has appointed Charlie Vogt as CEO, effective today. Vogt succeeds Harris Morris, who was appointed president of Harris Broadcast when …
Preset Good Advice Video Series: Steve Harris of Cineplex July 4, 2013 by Dave Haynes The second Good Advice video is up on the Preset Group site, this one featuring Steve Harris of Cineplex Digital talking about stakeholders in digital signage projects. As mentioned yesterday, this is a running series of videos shot at the Preset Mixer earlier this year, before any of the interview subjects got unruly.
New Preset Video Series Features Advice From Industry Veterans July 3, 2013 by Dave Haynes When we held the Preset Mixer in Las Vegas in March 2013, we had a video crew there shooting the event and hauling some industry friends into an area where lights and cameras were set up. We wanted to do quick interviews, to be edited later, with folks, focusing on providing advice to people just …
Ansley Steps Down In Wake Of Symon Acquisition BY RMG June 23, 2013 by Dave Haynes It will not come as any shock that the guy who ran Symon Communications for many years did not stick around for long after the company was acquired by RMG Networks earlier this year. Charles Ansley is retiring in a couple of weeks, stepping down as President, RMG Enterprise Solutions. Ansley had been Chief Executive …
There’s No Free Lunch In Digital Signage … Except At Context Media June 5, 2013 by Dave Haynes While it’s pretty reasonable to attach the “no free lunch” adage to digital signage – as in anything free comes with some kind of cost – that’s probably not the case with Chicago-based Context Media, which is buying both lunch AND breakfast for its staff each day. The Chicago Tribune has a piece up about …
DSA Names New President, Exec Officers May 22, 2013 by Dave Haynes The Digital Screenmedia Association (DSA) has elected a new president, officers and representatives for its digital signage, mobile and self-service kiosks councils, with the body now being led by Bill Lynch. Can’t say I know him, but he Lynch is the vice president for mobile and self-service transaction company Reevex, which I also know diddly about other than …
