Archive for May, 2012

MMD To Launch 10 Interactive Philips Touch Displays

Monday, May 21st, 2012

Andrew Neale

MMD will be launching ten new interactive Philips touch displays in June 2012… .. and they will be showcasing the new Philips touch line at #InfoComm12 along with a large Interactive Touch Video Wall and a Touch Table.

NEC To Unveil Newest Display Technology

Monday, May 21st, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

NEC Display Solutions plans to have about two dozen products on display at #InfoComm12, including the new P241W, its next generation 24” MultiSync display, and two video walls – one comprised of nine of its 55” X551UN displays, and another comprised of nine of its 46” X463UN units. In a meeting, an NEC representative can […]

How To Compete Against Intel’s Marketing Dollars

Monday, May 21st, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Last week as we sat in the comfort of our own blogger lounge and watched the comings and goings on the Intel stand† at #ScreenmediaExpo we started to think about how much Intel must spend on marketing itself in the digital signage space and what it gets out of it. It didn’t take long and […]

#ScreenmediaExpo @Vueinti For The High End Retailer?

Monday, May 21st, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

We really were quite entranced with Vueinti’s new product – so new that it doesn’t really have a name yet. A variation on the company’s Chrystal Box, the new product seems perfect for, eg. a perfume company with several brands. A shelf holds the products and, as one is picked up, a sensor triggers the […]

#ScreenmediaExpo High Four (Five) The @Poken

Monday, May 21st, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

#ScreenmediaExpo was almost over when this little guy popped into our view, and while he isn’t digital signage per se, we expect we’ll be seeing him around a lot of trade shows and events in the future. His name is Poken and he was born in Switzerland. If you are having an event, you can […]

#ScreenmediaExpo @eyevis Growing As Expected

Monday, May 21st, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

At #ScreenmediaExpo last week we had to go back to the eyevis display no less than three times to finally meet up with Peter Mytton-Bayley, southern regional sales and services at Eyevis UK. ”It’s been absolutely manic here,” said Mytton-Bayley – which reminded us of how busy the eyevis stand was when the Germany-based company […]

#ScreenmediaExpo Cisco Share ‘Customer Engagement’ Story

Monday, May 21st, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

There were two special presentations by Cisco during #ScreenmediaExpo: one on the company’s research, mainly in the UK, on how to ‘Catch and Keep’ the customer, given by Lisa Fretwell, senior director, IBSG Retail and CPG, Feltham, Middlesex, UK, and the other on ‘Creating Experiences in Space’ with examples from various digital media, given by […]

Diesel Flagship Store, NYC

Sunday, May 20th, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

YCD Multimedia just announced that Diesel, one of the world’s leading designers of high-end, ready-to-wear fashion apparel had selected YCD’s high impact MuVi Wall™ solution to manage and control a 6-screen video wall at Diesel’s flagship store on Fifth Avenue in New York City. Mounted on the landing of the second floor, the 2X3 video […]

#ScreenmediaExpo Twitter Analysis

Sunday, May 20th, 2012

Andrew Neale

Here’s some early #ScreenmediaExpo twitter analysis… Name Tweets Name Impressions DailyDOOH 154 DailyDOOH 626,897 signagelive 69 signagelive 123,202 Zytronic 40 CardiffBiz 100,286 ScreenmediaExpo 39 ChromaSign 80,630 DoohNews 33 ScreenmediaExpo 76,079 WestbaseTech 30 ScalaInc 48,906 ChrisHeap 29 DoohNews 47,287 SignageES 29 signanddisplay 31,576 ScalaInc 28 OutputMagazine 20,064 touchecomm 28 IdentiveGroup 15,420 The total number of references […]

Broad Signs For BroadSmiles

Saturday, May 19th, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

No official news from BroadSign on their Chapter 11 but we have it on good authority that all is well, the big shareholder we thought would buy the business has most probably bought the business and there were plenty of smiles from their staff at #ScreenmediaExpo where once again BroadSign were a title sponsor, had […]