Archive for February, 2012

#dse2012 A Quick Look Ahead

Monday, February 20th, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

We’re looking forward to seeing what’s new at #dse2012 in Las Vegas March 7-8 in a few weeks time. Among some of the companies we know that are introducing new products or demonstrating new ways for using their products (and we know that there are many, many more), are: ViewSonic (booth #310) will announce its […]

#dse2012 Meet The Brazilians

Monday, February 20th, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

A delegation of 40 professionals of Brazil’s Digital Out-of-Home business will be out in force at next month’s Digital Signage Expo with the aim of being in touch with their counterparts from other companies and countries, participating in seminars, making contacts and exchanging experiences. The group visit is being organized by the Brazilian Association of […]

InfoComm India 2013

Sunday, February 19th, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

InfoComm India 2013 will be held from 17-19 September 2013 at the Bombay Exhibition Centre in Mumbai.

#dse2012 The Party Is Just Starting…

Friday, February 17th, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

The Preset Group industry #dsemixer sold out in what, less than 24 hours? That’s an event that we have been proud to sponsor (along with a couple of others) since its inception. It’s popularity just goes to show how good, and how useful networking, can be at industry events. Later that same evening is the […]

Analog Commercial Ad Slate Goes Digital….Finally?

Friday, February 17th, 2012

JP Biamby

The Association of National Advertisers made an announcement today that signals the end of the analog commercial video slate leading up to a commercial broadcast that you may have seen counting down on some screen somewhere. This static display of information that has been in use for the past 30 years will now transition to […]

Time To Reflect (And Take A Lower Offer)

Friday, February 17th, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

With the FOR SALE sign above Reflect having such an unrealistic number painted on it is anyone surprised they haven’t yet been acquired? There have been some interested suitors of course (we’ll come to that in a second) but all the interested money has been way below the asking price. Let’s start with, what we […]

Dynamax Moves Customer To The Cloud With IAdea

Friday, February 17th, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Dynamax Technologies has just announced that it has successfully helped its client Review Systems to replace SD card players with XMP-130 Wireless Media Appliances running their digitalsignage.NET cloud service. The XMP-130 media appliance was, we are told, selected for its extremely attractive price point. Combined with the digitalsignage.NET service, priced at GBP8 a month or […]

Loan Due On 28th February For USD 1.3 Million

Friday, February 17th, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Not that we make a habit of ploughing through SEC filings (okay, sometimes we do), here’s a seriously interesting filing from Broadcast International (click here) which tells us that they have a loan due, in less than two weeks (on 28th February) for USD 1.3 million. The Note is due on February 28, 2012. (ii) […]

Movies On Demand’s Multi-Platform Campaign

Friday, February 17th, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Captivate Network’s elevator screens, DigiCast’s National Café Network and cinema ads are part of an extensive campaign promoting Movies On Demand (MOD) during the current Awards Season. Cable systems are promoting cable’s Movies On Demand as the best place to see many award-winning and award-nominated titles, and MD distributor iN DEMAND is helping to spread […]

#dse2012 Early Registration Discounts Extended

Friday, February 17th, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Digital Signage Expo, International Tradeshow and Conference dedicated exclusively to digital signage, interactive technology and digital out-of-home networks, has extended its early registration discounts for its 2012 March 6-9 Annual Educational Conference program until Wednesday, February 22. The early booking discounts are significant. For instance, a ‘Gold Passport’, which provides registrants with the opportunity to […]