Minicom B. posted an article on Digital Signage by Minicom - Nov 26, 2009, 3:39 am
This week has been definitely a digital signage week in the business scenery of India. The Expert Tour event, hosted by Emarson IT Solutions, caused a lot of media noise. Depending on the source, prog...
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Minicom B. posted an article on Digital Signage by Minicom - Nov 25, 2009, 1:43 am
As we said couple days ago – the Tour’s next stop was in India. And, according to the pictures, many people managed to “light the candles on the knowledge” that was shared that evening. Ne...
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Minicom B. posted an article on Digital Signage by Minicom - Nov 24, 2009, 1:52 am
India went through a hard time the past two years. In two days it's exactly one year ago since the Mumbai attacks which put the whole country in a state of paralyzing shock which is felt since the...
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Minicom B. posted an article on Digital Signage by Minicom - Nov 23, 2009, 7:37 am
Content creation for digital signage is all about impact. Actually, content for Out of home advertising as a whole, also not digital, is all about impact. For me the best adds always are when creative...
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Minicom B. posted an article on Digital Signage by Minicom - Nov 19, 2009, 9:22 am
On November 1st, we broke the 1000 days until the Olympic games in London. For this occasion, a “giant electronic information band at the top of the iconic BT Tower in London. The 360 degree LED arr...
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Minicom B. posted an article on Digital Signage by Minicom - Nov 18, 2009, 5:06 am
“If you have knowledge, let others light their candles on it” is a quote without clear origin. The resources on internet ascribe it to both Margaret Fuller and Winston Churchill. But, whoever the ...
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Minicom B. posted an article on Digital Signage by Minicom - Nov 17, 2009, 7:32 am
From the picturesque town called Hilversum, in Netherlands, our digital signage agent sent us info about this installation. It is in fact digital signage installation, but not very dynamic...
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Minicom B. posted an article on Digital Signage by Minicom - Nov 16, 2009, 7:35 am
Good news, I think! Seems our industry is slowly climbing up out of the depth of the credit crunch. How I know? Many positive sounds around me. Positive about new investments after divesting loss gene...
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Minicom B. posted an article on Digital Signage by Minicom - Nov 13, 2009, 1:30 am
Jenny Holzer is the American conceptual artist. Ms Holzer is the first female artist with solo exhibition at Biennale di Venezia. As it is nicely written in Wikipedia: The main focus of her wor...
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Minicom B. posted an article on Digital Signage by Minicom - Nov 11, 2009, 3:18 am
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Minicom B. posted an article on Digital Signage by Minicom - Nov 10, 2009, 4:13 am
No, we are not talking about the green digital signage - we are talking today about the American band Green Day and their nice, transformable and digitalized stage. The event took place on las...
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Minicom B. posted an article on Digital Signage by Minicom - Nov 9, 2009, 5:56 am
It really is a vicious circle; good content helping our industry to grow. The blog at Rise display in a way underlines this (I couldn’t resist support the posting and react) and made my posting here...
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Minicom B. posted an article on Digital Signage by Minicom - Nov 5, 2009, 8:18 am
In the pretty town Nimes, France, is the textile and decorations shop MacDan. In this colorful shop, our digital signage agent spotted the following installation (see the picture below...
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Minicom B. posted an article on Digital Signage by Minicom - Nov 3, 2009, 10:12 am
And now – to take the Digital Signage Expert Tour – you don’t have to invest money into visiting the shows, or even move from your comfortable chair! Why is that? Simple reason – we brought th...
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Minicom B. posted an article on Digital Signage by Minicom - Nov 2, 2009, 10:31 am
The signage business as a whole is all about impact. How can we catch our customers? I just want to give you a couple of tips concerning clips you produce. 1. Always remember the ‘two times rule’....
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Minicom B. posted an article on Digital Signage by Minicom - Nov 2, 2009, 8:50 am
Talking about digital signage at entertainment venues… Eleventh time in a roll jazznojazz festival was taking place last weekend in Zurich. Compared to the previous year, next to the Chick Corea and...
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Minicom B. posted an article on Digital Signage by Minicom - Oct 30, 2009, 10:52 am
There is so much news every day on all of the different quality websites about Digital Signage that it is sometime a daunting task just to sift through it all. Last week however I saw an article that...
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Minicom B. posted an article on Digital Signage by Minicom - Oct 29, 2009, 9:14 am
German magazine Horizont published today very interesting interview with Dirk Hülsermann, Director of Business Development at Neo Advertising and president of OVAB Europe. Title of the article is “...
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Minicom B. posted an article on Digital Signage by Minicom - Oct 28, 2009, 7:29 am
Siel-Satis-Radio is one of the two big digital signage events in France. L'Affichage Dynamique had a significant place at this years show, which took place October 20-22 in Paris, although the ult...
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Minicom B. posted an article on Digital Signage by Minicom - Oct 27, 2009, 4:43 am
Wow. Talking about creativity! Talking about impact! In case you missed it; last week there was an announcement about Bus.tops (see bus-tops.com). They invented THE most creative use of screens, to re...
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Minicom B. posted an article on Digital Signage by Minicom - Oct 26, 2009, 5:02 am
Last night, or early this morning on central European time, U2 held a concert in Los Angeles’ Rose Bowl Stadium. So, what special about it, concert like any other? Well this one had two points which...
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Minicom B. posted an article on Digital Signage by Minicom - Oct 22, 2009, 3:18 am
  Unique content on our blog yesterday - we were doing the LIVE coverage of Munich OVAB Europe Digital Signage conference –Ronni Guggenheim was tweeting from that event! Since this blog...
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Minicom B. posted an article on Digital Signage by Minicom - Oct 21, 2009, 1:20 am
Servus aus Munchen, where the DS industry from all over the world gathers for the OVAB Munich DooH conference. Yesterday, the day before the conference, the OVAB board met for its quarterly meeting, h...
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Minicom B. posted an article on Digital Signage by Minicom - Oct 20, 2009, 7:35 am
When I think about digital signage in Italy, my first thought is: so many museums with an urgent need for some signage, preferably digital! Imagine Uffizi in Florence with running presentations about ...
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Minicom B. posted an article on Digital Signage by Minicom - Oct 19, 2009, 8:09 am
Last Friday I was on a business trip to Frankfurt. Arriving there and meeting my contact at the Frankfurter Bahnhoff, I was surprised. Surprised in two ways. The railway station really took my breath....
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Minicom B. posted an article on Digital Signage by Minicom - Oct 15, 2009, 8:37 am
We talked already about it in one of our previous posts, but lets repeat it: The business climate is a mean of the balances of the business situation and the expectations. According to ...
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Minicom B. posted an article on Digital Signage by Minicom - Oct 13, 2009, 8:44 am
What does it take to digitize traditional billboards and posters? What are the principles of communication at the Point of Sale? Does industry need Audience Metrics Standard – standard for qualifyin...
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Minicom B. posted an article on Digital Signage by Minicom - Oct 12, 2009, 8:51 am
Somehow the last weeks a lot of online postings aiming at our industry wrote about signage at airports. About a raise of ad sales on airport screens, new creative initiatives which are being built and...
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Minicom B. posted an article on Digital Signage by Minicom - Oct 8, 2009, 3:08 am
I have been advocating for long time the theory and fact, that the real, long term future is in the East. CeBIT Turkey once again underlined my view. Although, coming from the west, all looks rather l...
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Minicom B. posted an article on Digital Signage by Minicom - Oct 6, 2009, 1:44 pm
After all the shows I walked last week I thought I should afford myself a bit a different exhibition experience, so I flew to Istanbul to CeBIT Turkey, where our partner Saben, in partnership with Min...
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Minicom B. posted an article on Digital Signage by Minicom - Oct 6, 2009, 9:25 am
 For the tenth time, the CeBIT Eurasia is taking place in the Istanbul, from 7th to 10th of October. Great opportunity to present DS Vision Wall – multiscreen video wall, which supports 3, 4, 6, or...
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Minicom B. posted an article on Digital Signage by Minicom - Oct 5, 2009, 5:48 am
As we are looking for the people who can offer added value and unique views to digital signage industry and to our readers, we are pleased to welcome today our new blogger - Piet Hein Goossens. Pie...
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Minicom B. posted an article on Digital Signage by Minicom - Oct 5, 2009, 5:28 am
So, when asked to start my own postings about content and creation at the Minicom blogspot, I didn’t hesitate to say yes immediately. Having a passion for content and creation this is the perfect pl...
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Minicom B. posted an article on Digital Signage by Minicom - Oct 2, 2009, 2:27 pm
I just returned home after a long week of exhibitions. I gave already my view about Digital Signage Show in London - see our blog. I continued from there to Viscom in Düsseldorf and have to admit tha...
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Minicom B. posted an article on Digital Signage by Minicom - Oct 1, 2009, 12:39 pm
How do fight a persistent trend? What is the best strategy for getting your message across? How do you overcome the disconnect between what designers design and the practical reality of every day us...
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Minicom B. posted an article on Digital Signage by Minicom - Oct 1, 2009, 11:20 am
The VISCOM trade fair started successfully. Reed Exhibitions as the organizers of the VISCOM did also an excellent job on attracting people who have been not familiar so far with the Digital Signage a...
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Minicom B. posted an article on Digital Signage by Minicom - Oct 1, 2009, 8:37 am
A quick report from the London Digital Signage Show. It's a marathon this week - three European exhibitions in a single week in London, Düsseldorf, Madrid..... why can't the show organizers ...
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Minicom B. posted an article on Digital Signage by Minicom - Sep 30, 2009, 10:25 am
VISCOM, the leading visual communications trade fair, will start tomorrow in Düsseldorf. The organizers expect a successfull show with more than 10.000 visitors. "The fact that the number of exhibito...
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Minicom B. posted an article on Digital Signage by Minicom - Sep 30, 2009, 5:21 am
Experts are on the European tour this week! First stop – London, Olympia - Digital Signage Show Europe. Date: September 30 – October 1. Second stop – Düsseldorf, Germany - viscom d�...
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Minicom B. posted an article on Digital Signage by Minicom - Sep 29, 2009, 10:45 am
Last Friday, here in Zurich, we had a pleasure of taking part in the Night of the Research (Ger. Die Nacht der Forschung). This is one of those special events when the future of world’s science “s...
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Minicom B. posted an article on Digital Signage by Minicom - Sep 25, 2009, 2:19 am
NEC invited its partners to the Oktoberfest. No doubt it is a unique experience, particularly if you like beer and Bavarian food. Thank you at this place to NEC which really know how to host, includin...
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Minicom B. posted an article on Digital Signage by Minicom - Sep 24, 2009, 5:32 am
This morning, I made a visit to the road traffic licensing department, well known Strassenverkehrsamt, in Winterthur. Two huge screens, on which were running all kinds of useful information, like ...
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Minicom B. posted an article on Digital Signage by Minicom - Sep 21, 2009, 1:30 am
Talking about Poland & digital signage… Yesterday was the final of European Championship in Basketball, which was held in various cities in Poland. The Polish championship organizers proved to b...
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Minicom B. posted an article on Digital Signage by Minicom - Sep 17, 2009, 7:19 am
We are attending today the "Digital Signage Trends" conference in Warsaw, organized by PDSA, the new Polish digital signage association. Once again, a great event organized very professionally. The a...
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Minicom B. posted an article on Digital Signage by Minicom - Sep 16, 2009, 3:25 am
At the Laureus Charity Night in Zurich last weekend digital signage was a built-in part of the show. Some 25 displays around the location were used to support the fund raising event with background in...
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Minicom B. posted an article on Digital Signage by Minicom - Sep 15, 2009, 4:47 am
Yes, another one! This time, the host is the beautiful city of  London, and the show is The Digital Signage Show Europe. As at all previous ones, the tour is “an educational framework, helping v...
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Minicom B. posted an article on Digital Signage by Minicom - Sep 14, 2009, 12:51 pm
I travelled today to IBC and on top of agenda was obviously the digital signage pavillon which was widely advertized and pushed all over. When I finally found it at the rear end of hall 8 I thought I ...
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Minicom B. posted an article on Digital Signage by Minicom - Sep 14, 2009, 3:53 am
The autumn semester is approaching, so I made a tour over my favourite bookstores. Next to the new colours in technical section, I was happy to see that they finally digitalized! A screen of the avera...
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Minicom B. posted an article on Digital Signage by Minicom - Sep 10, 2009, 9:57 am
We already reported about the screens that were seen at one of the IKEA shops in Switzerland. This time, the dark side of the installation is captured. On the pictures one can see what is in the backg...
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Minicom B. posted an article on Digital Signage by Minicom - Sep 9, 2009, 2:05 am
Real-time 3D digital signage – without any glasses? Imagine the following: stunning 3D effects running on 46’’ xyz 3D display, connected by CAT5 cable using HDMI extender! And you can see it wit...
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