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I had a short meeting with the charming Tara Dowdell, large cover glass product line manager for Corning Gorilla Glass, at this year’s #dse2013 to get a better idea of what the company is doing in the digital signage sector. Gorilla Glass is considered the ideal cover for interactive white boards, digital signage, and other […]

John Novak has joined Adaptive Technologies Group, comprised of Allen Products, ATM Fly-ware and Adaptive Video Walls and Displays, as director of business development. Adaptive Technologies is also a developer of state-of-the-art rigging and mounting solutions for a wide range of audio and video applications. In his business development role, Novak’s primary goal is to […]

We dropped on the Kokley #dse2013  booth (shared with Rose Displays that bought Kokley in Jan./13) mainly to chat with Todd Hoffman, Kokley president, and to see what’s new since we last talked. It turns out that Kokley developed an iPad service for Lowe’s Canada that makes it easier for customers to find the right light […]

Clark Brown, senior vice-president of sales, NEC Display Solutions of America, provider of commercial LCD display and projector solutions, was recently named a 2013 Channel Chief by CRN Magazine. CRN, a publication devoted to the worldwide technology reseller channel, recognizes the top executives in the industry directly responsible for driving channel sales and growth within […]

On March 20, The Screen will hold a special Breakfast Briefing at Kinetic’s new offices to mark the unveiling of the long awaited Route, the successor to Postar. One of the most ambitious media research initiatives ever undertaken, next generation Route has taken nearly five years and GBP 19 million of support from the industry […]

We’ve been asked to put together a list of the world’s ten largest networks and detail what software and screens run them. We will NOT allow non-networked networks, i.e. any systems that use sneakernet because by our definition they are NOT ‘networks’. We already have some ideas but we are happy to elicit responses as […]

Samsung‘s Smart Signage Platform was introduced to me by Michael O’Halloran, product manager LFD, and Kevin Schroll, senior manager, product marketing, LFD and digital signage, at #dse2013 in Las Vegas last week. Samsung’s Smart Signage Platform is ‘designed to simplify the digital signage deployment process while facilitating the growth of a new application ecosystem with […]

At LG Electronics booth at #dse2013 Jay Kang, senior marketing manager, gave me an extensive tour of the company’s wide range of offerings. Among them, I found that In-Plane Switching (IPS) technology offers a series of advantages for digital signage displays and, especially, a solution for a problem that I didn’t know screens encountered: a […]

Wandering around #dse2013 last week, it was difficult to miss the new NomadiX i-Walker – their “brand ambassadors” were present to greet you at the entrance and were diligently walking the floor of the hall. I’m not a great fan of mobile screens, even though I can well appreciate their value for street marketing. However, […]

It’s BroadSign’s Brian Dusho’s birthday today… We figure that he’s a similar age to a certain Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner (someone I am sure he models himself on) but then again perhaps not!