Archive for January, 2013

Inaugural Megapixel Summit Educationally Focused

Monday, January 21st, 2013

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

We’ve been hearing a lot about the Megapixel Summit being held over a day-and-a-half January 28-29 in Amsterdam, in association with #ISE2013, so went directly to Chris Chinnock to find out just what this event actually is and why it’s being held. As might be expected since Chinnock is president of Insight Media University, a […]

DSMA Digital Signage Forum, Taipei

Sunday, January 20th, 2013

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

The Digital Signage Multimedia Association (DSMA) are holding their annual Digital Signage Forum on Friday June 7th in Taipei, Taiwan (this is during COMPUTEX TAIPEI, June 4 – 8, 2013). The DSMA was previously the ‘DS-SIG‘, which was formed some 5 years ago in Taiwan as an informal ‘special interest group’ representing 150+ member companies.

That $60 Million Fraud Scheme (MediaTile And All)

Sunday, January 20th, 2013

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Back in May 2012, when we wrote ‘Scotts Valley Money Manager Charged in $60 Million Ponzi Scheme‘ it was just a certain John A. Geringer who was implicated but we noticed just before Christmas that his two partners at the GLR Growth Fund have now been accused of being involved. Chris Luck, founding managing general […]

Digital Info Tech Ltd. vs Info Tech Digital

Sunday, January 20th, 2013

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Are we missing something here? Dominic Brookman, Director, Digital InfoTech Ltd. in administration since 17th January 2013. Dominic Brookman, Director, InfoTech Digital Ltd. since 22nd November 2012.

Hiperwall Looking For Sr. Account Executive, EMEA

Sunday, January 20th, 2013

Andrew Neale

Hiperwall are looking for a Sr. Account Executive, EMEA based, preferably, out of Munich, Germany. CEO Jeff Greenberg told us “Hiperwall has been profitable every year of our existence and just completed 2012 with 100% growth over 2011. Our US team has successfully expanded our business internationally, but now we need an all-star closer to […]

Trains, Robots And Computers

Sunday, January 20th, 2013

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Our technical team have been in Cologne since Sunday 13th January, yours truly since Tuesday and we only get to leave a week later, late Sunday evening (20th January), snow allowing (as I look out of the warehouse we have habited all week all I see is snow, snow and more snow, both on the […]

Gores Group Harris Broadcast Departures

Saturday, January 19th, 2013

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

There’s rumours of more departures from The Gores Group’s ex Harris ‘Broadcast Communications Division’ but one that is confirmed is Rebecca Walt. Rebecca became VP, Digital Retail Strategy at The Integer Group (an Omnicom company) in September 2012. Rebecca of course joined Harris back in late 2009.

Build-a-Bear Connects Interactive Experience With EPICOR Retail Systems

Friday, January 18th, 2013

Dmitry Sokolov

Infusion’s Build-a-Bear Workshop project has been getting significant amount of press, and for a good reason. The install, now rolled-out across 6 stores and poised for more, is a fun, multi-station interactive experience  that is fully-integrated into Build-a-Bear store design.  It incorporates multiple interactive stations, a variety of inputs (Kinect, touch, hybrid of both, as well as physical and proximity […]

#ISE2013 Dynamic Digital Displays Europe

Friday, January 18th, 2013

Andrew Neale

Dynamic Digital Displays Europe, will be exhibiting at #ISE2013 and they have hinted they might be making some exciting new project announcements at the show. D3 is a global technology company that designs, engineers and manufactures turnkey LED display solutions and as a total solutions provider, their extensive industry experience is recognized across a worldwide […]

#ISE2013 MegaPixel Summit Agenda

Friday, January 18th, 2013

Andrew Neale

The agenda for the #ISE2013 MegaPixel Summit is now complete. The Megapixel Summit taps into a growing trend to create large display solutions with resolution well in excess of full HD. Such solutions are becoming more and more popular in digital signage, visualization, simulation, rental and staging markets and other professional and corporate markets. The […]