Archive for June, 2011

GoodLife Fitness Zooms Into Digital

Monday, June 20th, 2011

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Montreal-based Zoom Media Group Inc., which is we believe, the world’s fastest growing fitness digital media company, has signed an exclusive digital media and advertising relationship with GoodLife Fitness, the largest fitness club chain in Canada with over 275 locations across the country. GoodLife and Zoom’s current partnership has included static billboards, sampling, and promotional […]

#InfoComm11 One Small Step For A Man

Saturday, June 18th, 2011

Geny Caloisi

  #InfoComm11 is over till next year. It’s been great. The last numbers we have said that around 33,200 people visited the show. The first two days were the strongest, winding down on the last day. There was a strong presence of Latin American companies looking to learn about new technologies and solutions. Their approach […]

#InfoComm11 Gets Tactile

Friday, June 17th, 2011

Geny Caloisi

Interactive touch screens displays are a recurring theme through out #InfoComm11. Vertical or horizontal, everybody was encouraging visitors to leave their fingerprints on their screens. The number of people that could interact with the displays at any one time varied from one, two, four up to 50 interactive points on the Microsoft Surface table. Samsung […]

#InfoComm11 Pink Podium

Friday, June 17th, 2011

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

This really doesn’t have anything specific to do with Digital Signage, but we noticed this nice public relations gesture from AmpliVox of Northbrook, Illinois, and thought it worth noting. AmpliVox offers this sturdy, one-piece pink plastic full size (46.5″ x 26″ x 26″) podium on rolling castors to any organization running an event to promote […]

#InfoComm11 Black Magic Enters DS Market

Friday, June 17th, 2011

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

It’s no magic but sheer planning that has Black Magic Design of Pepperell, Massachusetts, entering the world of digital signage. After buying Echolab video production studios, the company has expanded its products, and now not only services the AV sector but also has launched its routers for DS monitors. It has also launched Smart View […]

#InfoComm11 #AVtweetup

Friday, June 17th, 2011

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

The incredibly influential body of online folks known as #AVtweeps, usually hidden behind a twitter account and a sock puppet, came out in force on Thursday evening at the Rocks Lounge, Peabody Hotel… Like all tweetups it was almost self organising once the idea came about but hats off to Linda and Jessica (mainly we […]

Is #InfoComm11 Any Good?

Friday, June 17th, 2011

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

#InfoComm11 is truly a hard core AV show and so when we ask “Is #InfoComm11 Any Good?” we ask in terms of our industry: digital signage, digital out of home etc. We’ve made the trip in alternate years to Las Vegas and Orlando for quite a few years now and in all that time we […]

#infoComm11 LGE Poised For UK Growth

Thursday, June 16th, 2011

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

LG Electronics, having launched its digital signage solutions in the UK 18 months ago, is launching new products and looking for partners in terms of vendors and resellers to make a strong move in the UK and Ireland. “People know us in terms of phones and televisions, but we have to get better known in […]

Haivision Unleashes The Viper

Thursday, June 16th, 2011

Geny Caloisi

Haivision is showcasing the new Viper at #InfoComm11. The Viper, Haivision’s fifth-generation H.264 technology, is an ultra-compact, integrated appliance for capturing, streaming, reviewing, distributing, and publishing multistream HD and computer graphics content. The Viper simplifies the recording and streaming of multistream content through a high-resolution touch panel. Supporting dual DVI or DVI with HD-SDI inputs, […]

Say ‘Hello’ At The MMA Forum

Thursday, June 16th, 2011

JP Biamby

The Mobile Marketing Association kicked off a multi-day workshop and forum in New York City Wednesday. The conference which promises to have engaging social media platforms to allow attendees to network with each at and during the event is made possible by Eventscope. The Event attendees were sent an email with instructions on how to […]