Archive for June, 2011

NFC Bootcamp Atlanta

Friday, June 10th, 2011

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

NFC Bootcamp Atlanta is put together by OTA Training Date: Wednesday; April 25 – 26, 2012 Time: 8am – 6pm Based in Dallas, Texas, OTA offers RFID training courses worldwide. They take great pride in providing state-of-the-art training tools, with up-to-date content in the best RFID training centers around the globe.

D3 LED Settles With Minkus

Friday, June 10th, 2011

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

It appears that Minkus Electronic Display Systems, Inc. is settling the ‘nobody’ vendors for peanuts while trying to screw any company of size so it came as no surprise to us to hear this week that another of the minnows in its litigation case had figured it was easier and cheaper to settle with them […]

#InfoComm11 Digital View, Booth 4691

Friday, June 10th, 2011

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Digital View, the professional signage technology company, which recently launched its Digital Signage Division in the USA, based in Southbury, Connecticut, is bringing a full range of sizes and options from 10″ screens upwards to InfoComm. Among its displays, it is showing interactivity; cloud hosted white label networking; new DisplayMark monitors which the company claims […]

The Tonys On Spectacolor From Times Square

Thursday, June 9th, 2011

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

The 65th Annual Tony Awards will again be simulcast live to Times Square on Sunday, June 12, in partnership with the Times Square Alliance and Clear Channel Spectacolor, in addition to simulcast co-sponsors Daktronics Inc., Cohen & Perfetto LLP and the Broadway Association. Both the Tony Awards Red Carpet courtesy of NY1 and the entire […]

#dsj2011 SignChannel Excitement

Thursday, June 9th, 2011

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Day 2 of #dsj2011 saw even more excitement around Scala’s debut of SignChannel and we learnt a little more about what is actually on offer. First off it’s obviously a MAJOR launch for Scala of their Japanese version of SignChannel – as previously noted managed completely by Hitachi. Scala were showing a full Japanese user […]

Christie Appoints New CTO

Thursday, June 9th, 2011

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

After the retirement of  Christie’s veteran Chief Technology Officer Bob Rushby early this year, the company has appointed Dr. Paul Salvini as its new CTO, reporting to Gerry Remers, President & COO, Christie Digital Systems Canada Inc, effective immediately. Rushby, co-inventor of Christie MicroTiles and passionate about technology and the enhancements it can provide to […]

Digital Signage Expo 2012, Berlin

Thursday, June 9th, 2011

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Digital Signage Expo is once again co-located with KIOSK EUROPE EXPO and is being held at The Station in Berlin June 12th to June 13th 2012.

#dsj2011 Sega Urinal Signage

Thursday, June 9th, 2011

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

A crowd pleaser here at #dsj2011 was the Sega urinal signage. Yes that’s right digital signage in the shape of a Sega games console stuck above a men’s urinal complete with a sensor. SEGA’s urinal game interface ‘Toirettsu’ (in English ‘Toilet’) encourages (a) peeing on target, (b) measures your urination amount and (c) helps keep […]

#dsj2011 Intel In It

Thursday, June 9th, 2011

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Intel had their usual very nice looking in-store mock up with a gesture based interactive display showing the future of signage… As was pointed out by several though in this future, one needs a full-time assistant to be shown where to stand and how to gesture to be able to extract interactivity from the display!!!

#dsj2011 Look But Don’t Touch

Wednesday, June 8th, 2011

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

NEC had a nice long, multi-display, multi-touch interactive media wall (phew!) at #dsj2011 which they called ‘Intelligent signage‘ – perhaps they too got bored calling it a ‘multi-display, multi-touch interactive media wall’. Ironically, the interactive area was roped off and only ever touched by one hand of the young lady booth assistant.. ‘Look but don’t […]