Gail Chiasson, North American Editor
We spotted past and current executives of Broadsign International, Montreal, deep in conversation at the DSE, so shot this picture just for fun. Looks like any animosity there might have been is long gone – maybe! L-R are Rick Engels, CEO at Rudder Capital, Minneapolis-St.Paul, and past chairman, CEO and president at BroadSign; Brian Dusho, […]
Gail Chiasson, North American Editor
In New York, Titan has announced that after 13 months of intense negotiations, Titan and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority failed to reach an agreement on a restructured contract. The MTA is therefore ending its transit advertising contract with Titan and beginning a new one with CBS Outdoor, effective immediately. During the 2009 advertising recession, Titan […]
Gail Chiasson, North American Editor
In order to provide failsafe communications to some of Canada’s most important businesses, Mississauga, Ontario-based Dymax Inc., public spaces systems integrator, is using the SpinetiX HMP100 Hyper Media Player to display emergency text as part of an advanced conferencing, public address and voice evacuation system. “Already in use at a large number of sites today, […]
Gail Chiasson, North American Editor
Duluth, Georgia-based NCR Corporation announced that Healthy Advice Networks, U.S. leading provider physician office-based health education programs, is using NCR Netkey to power its PracticeWire service. PracticeWire delivers real-time health content to physicians throughout the nation, via wall-mounted digital screens through wireless broadband. NCR Netkey provides Healthy Advice Networks with a centralized, Web-based digital content […]
Gail Chiasson, North American Editor
The Digital Signage Federation was officially launched this morning during a sparcely attended press conference during which the the digital signage industry’s new trade association announced the appointment of an interim Board of Directors. Angelo Varrone, CEO, Exponation LLC, which produces the DSE, did a short, crisp job of announcing the interim Board of Directors […]
Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
The make up of the DSF Interim board is actually interesting. If DSE was NOT planning this for a while then hats off to them for quickly and efficiently putting a well rounded mix of folks together. The biggest talking point will probably be Ken Goldberg. He writes his reasons for joining here. Here’s the […]
The industry’s press had to get up early on Wednesday morning to attend the eagerly anticipated Digital Signage Federation (DSF) press briefing (held in Room N258, LVCC). We had earlier already told our readers that we believed that both Intel and BroadSign would be involved in the DSF and most probably be on the interim […]
Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
Nice to see that people listen – show organisers in this instance catching the Web 2.0, social media and UGC wave! At the entrance to the digital signage expo hall is a whole bunch of screens – cleverly designed we guess to showcase different shapes and sizes and different technologies. We have already made mention […]
Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
Some early numbers from DSE, #dse2010 in Las Vegas which starts proper today… A good turnout of about 150 folks yesterday (on the Tuesday) at the DOOH Advertising Summit. We didn’t attend any of the sessions (just the networking breaks) but what we heard from people was good. During one ‘show of hands’ at the […]
Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
The rumour we hear is that BroadSign will be one of the first to join the DSF and be involved in its interim Executive Board which will be announced a few hours from now in Las Vegas. Remember as always you heard it hear first.
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