No listing on NASDAQ OTC yet for GSBC March 19, 2007 by Dave Haynes Unless they have come up with a different handle, the guys humping GSBC did not manage to list on the NASDAQ over the counter board today, as an enthused salesman told me last week was going to happen. Well … now where am I supposed to spend my life’s savings??? This is particularly disappointing because in trying …
A monster TV from Italy March 18, 2007 by Dave HaynesThe gadget blog Gizmodo has a post about a 205″ LED monitor meant for indoor use. That’s about twice the size of the biggest LCDs and/or plasmas wheeled out at CES a couple of months ago. The screens are made by Tecnovision, which is primarily in the outdoor LED board business. Evidently, they see a …
Montreal conference tracking nicely, organizer says March 17, 2007 by Dave HaynesI spoke with Denys Lavigne, who runs Montreal’s Arsenal Media and is behind the digital signage show set for there in a week and change. Lavigne says he has roughly 70-75 attendees signed up and expects to cap out at somewhere south of 100. He baked in room for more, but is not really hoping …
Now GSBC really is calling me March 14, 2007 by Dave Haynes Amazing. Some very nice but frenzied guy just called me from some Hong Kong boiler room to confirm that I had received the e-mail about GSBC — the world dominating digital signage play — and did I want to talk to a senior analyst from Paragon International Placements so I could throw some money at this …
GlobalShop Roundup March 14, 2007 by Dave HaynesSelf Service World has a round-up on the gadget side of last week’s GlobalShop show. The stuff sounds newer and more interesting than a lot of it actually was, but if you are new to this industry, it will prove useful. I thought the crowd was a lot more than 14,000, but I stopped counting …
Microsoft also chasing digital signage patents March 12, 2007 by Dave Haynes Steve Ballmer and the sorta cool kids at Microsoft have sniffed, wet their fingers and stuck them in the wind, rubbed soil between fingers, spun a dead cat at full moon, and determined digital signage is the next industry they should try to get into and, maybe, take over. That makes 3M, Cisco, Google and Microsoft …
ClearChannel hangs big boards in O'Hare March 10, 2007 by Dave HaynesI try really hard NOT to travel through O’Hare Airport, and usually succeed, so I have not yet seen the new LED board network ClearChannel has put in there. The outdoor and communications giant recently announced its first, indoor digital billboard network – eight 6’x 8’ LED boards playing out 10-seconds spots, 24/7, on the United Airlines B and C Concourses. …
GSBC sends me crap I didn’t ask for after phone call I didn’t have March 9, 2007 by Dave Haynes This was in my Inbox tonight … twice. “Further to our recent telephone conversation regarding the above, I write to firstly thank you for taking the time to speak with me and expressing your interest in the media-tech company Global Satellite Broadcasting Corporation, who are about to be taken public onto the US before the …
GlobalShop: Day 2 March 9, 2007 by Dave Haynes I got over to the show a little early, grabbed my camera, and started to look around. It was evident, pretty quickly, that digital signage had been adeptly herded into a couple of rows in the Digital Store area. Beyond that, the show is companies selling fixtures and flooring and lighting and on and on. …
Screensaver=digital signage??? March 2, 2007 by Dave HaynesSaw a press release about a Dutch company that is humping a solution called Digital Signage to the Desktop,which made me very curious. “DSM First Global 1000 With Digital Signage to Desktops LONDON, March 2 /PRNewswire/ — At DSM, Digital Signage to its 21,000 Desktop Screens is an Alternative to Email DSM – A Netherlands …
