by D. Craig MacCormack | Feb 16, 2018 | Insights, News
Alexa and Watson may soon be getting company in the board room, thanks to Mark Zuckerberg. Facebook will debut two residential smart speakers—dubbed Aloha and Fiona—later this year, making the burgeoning voice assistant market even more crowded. [related]While Fiona...
by D. Craig MacCormack | Feb 15, 2018 | News
ISE 2018 organizers confirmed what managing director Mike Blackman alluded to last week as the show closed, saying the show set another worldwide record for pro AV trade shows with 80,923 attendees, marking a 10.3 percent increase over the previous record set of...
by D. Craig MacCormack | Feb 14, 2018 | Insights, News
[related]We think AV integrators have made inroads since a couple of years ago when they were smacked in the face with the realization about their struggles to market themselves, but motivational speaker Kindra Hall believes they can go even further in connecting with...
by D. Craig MacCormack | Feb 13, 2018 | Insights
I’m starting the crusade now: if ISE organizers are considering moving the show to a new home in 2020 anyway — as CI Europe speculates — it’s also the time to think about whether it makes sense to move the four-day spectacle to the summer, too. Our sister...
by D. Craig MacCormack | Feb 12, 2018 | News
Almost 80 percent of the respondents to a weekly Commercial Integrator survey say they’re seeing more products released at the annual Integrated Systems Europe show in February than at InfoComm in June. The record-breaking ISE 2018 crowd of more than 80,000 attendees...
