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The Digital Signage Federation (DSF) awarded the first ever DSF Educator of the Year award to Alan C. Brawn, principal of Brawn Consulting, at the Digital Signage Expo (DSE) APEX [...]

The South by Southwest (SXSW) Conference and Festivals announced the winners of its 21st annual SXSWInteractive Innovation Awards in a ceremony emceed by previous winner Kotek. This year's ceremony celebrated, [...]

Byline: David Keene As NSCA approaches, NAB is just around the corner, and InfoComm looms large on the mid-year agenda, it's easy to get lost in branches. There's so much [...]

Byline: Mary Bakija and David Keene NSCA, CEDIA and the ICIA have announced the launch of the Electronic Systems Industry Relief Program and dedicated website (http://portal.nsca. org/relief/), in an effort [...]

Byline: Mary Bakija and David Keene Industry members across the country have recognized the need for immediate aid as well as long-term planning and assistance to help those in their [...]

Byline: David Keene WASHINGTON, DC-Systems contractors who work in public libraries and schools have long benefited from what is known as the E-Rate program. The program was created by the [...]

Byline: David Keene In 1996, when I joined SCN as editor not long after launch of the magazine at the 1994 NSCA Expo, Chuck Wilson had just joined the NSCA [...]

Byline: David Keene ORLANDO, FL-In an industry characterized by a mix of closely held private companies and important divisions of a larger public corporations, executives don't always see eye-to-eye on [...]

Byline: David Keene Behind the large number of trade shows and other trade events in this industry, there has been a constant and perennial drumbeat from some quarters about the [...]

Byline: David Keene If there is one theme running through the key industry trends, initiatives and events this spring and summer, it is this: Despite the vagaries of the larger [...]

Byline: David Keene In an industry where seat-of-the-pants business plans often substitute for research-driven ones, it's always good news when the ICIA's ICAT council releases market research. It's not that [...]

Byline: David Keene This is the busiest time of year in the systems world. As large projects are being geared up for the intense summer construction phase, systems contractors and [...]

Byline: David Keene Mackie Designs has agreed to an equity investment by an affiliate of Sun Capital Partners, a Boca Raton, FL-based private investment firm. Under the proposed transaction, the [...]

Byline: David Keene Attending the NAMM show in Anaheim in mid-January, I got that weird feeling. Deja vu all over again. The feeling started with the pure joy of so [...]

Byline: David Keene In his annual 'State of the Industry' seminar at the Fall Business Conference (November 6-9 in Stone Mountain, GA, see story on page 6), NSCA executive director [...]

Byline: David Keene Everyone in this industry is faced with the question of how to address vertical markets. After all, our industry is not so large that any one company [...]

Byline: David Keene With Extron's announcement that it is merging Inline into its operations, the long-standing and somewhat unusual relationship between the two competing but co-owned companies has taken another [...]

Byline: David Keene As we pass the mid-year mark, it's a natural time to assess the state of the industry-if only we could stop being distracted by the state of [...]

Byline: David Keene When InfoComm 2002 wrapped up June 14 in Las Vegas, 20,000-plus attendees headed home having just seen one of the year's most interesting trade shows-and one that [...]

Even the most jaded industry pro will remember (if they're old enough) the InfoComm show in Philadelphia in 1996. As it happens, that was the first InfoComm that I attended, [...]

Silicon Valley -- home of Netflix, Google, and any number of companies that have mastered the art of moving squilabytes of data through digital pipe with astounding speed and efficiency--is [...]

At last year's Digital Signage Expo, Intel and Google raised some industry eyebrows as they used the show in Las Vegas to try to place their stamp on the industry. [...]

NEW YORK, NY -- Harman announced that it will acquire Dallas, TX-based AMX for $365 million. The news was unexpected--as unexpected as was the December 19, 2012 acquisition of Martin [...]

I have been asked many times where one can locate greener AV products or with whom they can consult for greener designs and installs. Unfortunately, since AV equipment most often [...]

School districts have purchased more than 10 million iPads so far, while a growing number are providing students with Android tablets. Either way, districts face a tough question: How effective [...]

Sony sees endless uses for 4K in the B2B space and genuinely wants the format to take off. While the potential benefit to Sony of a 4K explosion is undeniable, [...]

Now on www.avnetwork.com by Tim Kridel It's time to start considering TV white spaces (TVWS) as a way to connect AV and IT gear, such as video surveillance backhaul and [...]

How often does a really new projection technology come along? And one that is coupled with a new capture technology (i.e. both the video capture, and the video playback, is [...]

Wonderful to see John Meyer has just received PLASA's 2012 Gottelier Award. John has been such a huge figure in pro audio, it's hard to know where to start to [...]

DALLAS, TX--Almo Professional AV kicked off the first of its new E4 AV Tour stops on September 13 at the Hyatt Reunion in downtown Dallas, TX. With a nice blend [...]

A few hours on the show floor at the Digital Signage Expo in Las Vegas should convince arm-chair experts that the LCD panel is not only here to stay ... [...]

LOS ANGELES, CA--The digital signage industry continues its rapid growth, with some analysts estimating there will be 20-plus million digital signs by 2015. There are many facets to this growth, [...]

GALVESTON, TX -- The 2nd Annual Moody Gardens Digital Cinema Symposium took place on January 9-10. Barco, teaming with museum cinema integration company D3D Cinema, hosted the event, and unveiled [...]

New York, NY -- Results of NewBay Media's first survey addressing displays and display signal routing, conducted last month via the Systems Contractor News and Rental and Staging Systems websites, [...]

SAN JOSE, CA -- It's been the best-kept secret for months, but now it's official. Dana Corey and Christine Morris, both formerly of Barco, have launched Prysm, a provider of [...]

Video projectors in higher education classrooms have been with us for long enough that it seems the penetration should be 100 percent by now. Not so. Nationwide, many colleges and [...]

HAUPPAUGE, NY -- Electrograph Systems, one the country's leading national distributors of AV gear to the professional, commercial, and high-end consumer markets, announced late last month that it will be [...]

Fredrikstad, Norway, is not a place that springs immediately to mind when thinking about the fast-evolving video projection industry. But there you will find Bard Eker at the projectiondesign factory [...]

The article profiles Larry Hornbeck, a scientist at Texas Instruments Inc., highlighting his inclusion at the magazine's 2017 Hall of Fame, his development of an optical semiconductor which is capable of steering photons with accuracy, and occupational achievements.

Several blogs on audio-visual systems are presented which includes relevence of providing iPads and tablets to students and multi-network campaign of Digital Place-based Advertising Association (DPAA).

The article reports on the development of new liquid-crystal display (LCD) technologies presented at the Digital Signage Expo in Las Vegas, Nevada.