DSE 2015 Booth Field Guide: Visionect March 2, 2015 by Dave Haynes Ursa Primozic, Visionect Booth 2828 (E Ink) Why do people going to DSE need to put your company on their Must See list of booths? Visionect has 9.7’’ and 13.3’’ electronic paper development kits at DSE 2015. These development kits are out-of-the-box digital signs that use E Ink’s electronic paper displays and are running on Visionect’s …
DSE 2015 Booth Field Guide: Convergent March 1, 2015 by Dave Haynes Kris Konrath, Convergent Booth 1427 Why do people going to DSE need to put your company on their Must See list of booths? We’re a digital signage veteran and one of the few companies in the industry that provide a single source solution. As a systems integrator, we integrate best of breed technologies into flexible, …
Google Isn’t Just At DSE, It Has 40X40 Booth March 1, 2015 by Dave Haynes Here’s an image that should raise your eyebrows if you develop and market software in the digital signage eco-system: the DSE floor map, with a rather large Google booth in the second row, right behind NEC. Last year, Google had a little corner inside the Intel booth – taking up about as much space as a …
DSE 2015 Booth Field Guide: Sharp Electronics February 26, 2015 by Dave Haynes Gary Bailer, Sharp Electronics Booth 1918 Why do people going to DSE need to put your company on their Must See list of booths? As one of the top selling brands for Large Format Commercial Displays, Sharp Electronics has the #1 revenue share for 60”+ Commercial Displays, and is the #1 selling brand for 55”+ …
JohnRyan Opens Silicon Valley Software Development Center February 26, 2015 by Dave Haynes Digital signage is pretty heavily a software-driven business, but I can’t really think of many – if any – signage CMS companies that are based in or near Silicon Valley. In an interesting twist, Minneapolis-based JohnRyan, which I tend to think most people in this industry regard more as an agency-style solutions provider, has opened up …
Projects: Extremely Clever Corporate Comms At Blinds.com February 26, 2015 by Dave Haynes This is soooooo clever. Blinds.com, an online seller of guess what, has a very sharp guy named Brad Parler who has put together an internal corporate communications network like none other I have seen in digital signage. Forget about bland Excel charts or leaderboards that are just names and numbers. The Blinds.com guys took their …
Press And Marketing Tips Ahead Of DSE 2015 February 26, 2015 by Dave Haynes I have been going to DSE since 2005, and writing a blog that included coverage of said show since 2006 – so I have seen a LOT of press releases and direct marketing pieces over the past decade. And I’ve drawn some conclusions. First – many companies time their BIG ANNOUNCEMENTS for the opening day …
New Tech: A Smart Projector That Screws In Like A Lightbulb February 26, 2015 by Dave Haynes Pico projectors have been around for a few years now, offering up a way to do projections onto surfaces using something much smaller and lighter than a conventional conference room projector. A Pico projector costs $200 and up and is not much bigger than a smartphone. Now there’s a Kickstarter campaign out for a little …
Post Number 4,000 (And Still Counting) February 20, 2015 by Dave Haynes It is perhaps fitting that a major milestone for this blog comes in the immediate wake of a post about goofballs updating a digital sign with duct tape. More than nine years and 4,000 (as of this one) posts, there’s still no end of goofy stuff going on. All those posts since 2006 have followed …
Why Update A MenuBoard Digitally When You Have Duct Tape Handy? February 20, 2015 by Dave Haynes This is just all kinds of awesome – as relayed by a regular reader. It’s a digital display used by a BBQ/pulled pork food concession at the big international auto show in Toronto. It appears the concession went out of stock on an item, and in the absence of having the tools or even …
