News Events: Wireless

Technology changes in the past three decades have been astonishing for both the meetings industry and for society in general. To see how far we have come, I felt it would be ...
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1. More free or low cost apps for events and trade shows"Information technologies of all types are doubling in capability every year" – Ray Kurzweil, Technology Pioneer and FuturistAnother ...
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Date of Celebration: 03/04/2008

Malaga’s Trade Show and Congress Centre will be hosting the EPC Technology Forum next Thursday, 3 April. Nearly 200 national and international trade professionals and experts in EPC/RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) – ...
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Meetings and tradeshow technology continues to advance with technology products becoming better, cheaper and easier to use. Innovation is bubbling with new options. Here are some of the major technology trends to ...
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I was interviewed in the November 2002 issue of PCWorld Magazine regarding the use of technology, and specifically PowerPoint, in presentations. Here is the interview in its unabridged form. Q. ...
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Google Wave is a free, realtime, online collaboration platform, now in beta distribution (by invitation only), to be released to the general public sometime this year. It combines elements of e-mail, chat, ...
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Looking back, HeBS believes that 2009 was a year not only of challenges, but also successes for the industry. While no hotelier is sad to see the end of 2009, HeBS believes ...
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In 2000, I made the following prediction at the CIC Forum in Washington DC: "Mobile phones will morph into widgets (wireless internet devices for geo-positioning, ecommerce and telecommunication)."I went on ...
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Times are changing. Web 2.0 technology is moving the balance of power from the speaker to the audience. A case in point is the recent South by Southwest Conference (www.sxsw.com) ...
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Back in September 2001, HeBS presented an article titled “Wireless in Travel and Hospitality: Hype or Necessity?” Today, just as in 2001, the media hype on anything mobile has not eased ...
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As the use of mobile event apps continues to explode, there is an increasing demand by attendees to have easy-access, barrier-free and, hopefully, cost-free Wi-Fi in the meeting space and in sleeping ...
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Date of Celebration: 06/02/2008

The Seville Congress Centre (CSC) will be hosting the 1st ITC Company Forum from 6-7 February 2008. With the participation of more than 200 Spanish ICT companies, the forum’s aim is to ...
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The advent of the iPhone two years ago was a game-shifter. Rich mobile web browsers with wireless broadband internet access (in the iPhone and its multitude of clones) are now common with ...
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As Meetings West celebrates its 20th Anniversary, it is a natural time to look back at the meetings technology developments occurring during this time.1987It is an understatement to say ...
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Over the years, the number of meetings, conventions and training seminars in which attendees take an active part, facilitating dialogue between speakers and their audience, has multiplied. Event agencies play a very ...
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Online registration has hit critical mass with more than half of meeting planners in recent polls using or soon to be using these multiple-benefit tools. There has been an explosion of useful ...
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“The price of computation has dropped 42% per year over 60 years — a trillion-fold fall since 1940” Bill Nordhaus, Yale.Technology will continue to evolve at a remarkable ...
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Many hoteliers do not realize how important it is to address the significant change in travel consumer behavior over the past several years, namely the emergence of a new breed of hyper-interactive ...
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The best way to find out what people are thinking is to ask them. Audience feedback can be essential in determining what the group wants, to measure comprehension, to encourage audience interest ...
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Oh, the Internet. For all it avails, attendees and planners still cringe at the idea of paying much for it—perhaps a shocked response to exorbitant Wi-Fi fees in a world that boasts ...
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Date of Celebration: 04/06/2008

HSM has chosen PowerVote’s audience polling system for the conferences to be held during ExpoManagement, which Madrid’s Municipal Congress Centre will be hosting from 4-5 June 2008.This is the third ...
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The Marbella-based event planning agency Party People has just presented its latest range of LED systems for versatile event ambience lighting.The LED lamps, integrating a wireless receiver and battery with ...
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Thanks to technology, corporate training sessions now have a valuable ally. Audience polling systems, using wireless keypads to answer questions programmed in PowerPoint, have opened the door to learning processes that are ...
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As a professional speaker and consultant focusing on events technology, I stay in hotels about 130 nights each year. I have strong feelings on what constitutes the "ideal" stay – especially in ...
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With mobile event apps, exhibitor demos, social media and email all sharing the same airwaves, WiFi networks at events are becoming more and more crowded by the minute. The result is like ...
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Date of Celebration: 11/02/2008

The Fira de Barcelona will be hosting the GSMA Mobile World congress, scheduled to be held from 11-14 February. Featuring the very latest in technology, services and developments, the congress will bring ...
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Date of Celebration: 16/04/2007

With less than a month to go until the fifth edition of IMEX in Frankfurt, one of the world’s foremost meetings and incentive travel exhibitions, organisers Regent Exhibitions have announced several updates.
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There are over three billion mobile phone subscribers globally. This is more than the number of flush-toilets and televisions combined! Eighty percent of the world’s population is within mobile phone coverage range ...
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The second in a three-part FutureWatch 2011 feature series.Tired of investing hours of employee time and thousands of dollars in printing thick documents for its quarterly trustees’ meetings, Abilene Christian ...
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Does it surprise you to hear that a convention center’s WiFi network does not always work? At EXHIBITOR2012 (a trade show for trade show professionals) held at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center ...
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The International Convention Centre of Barcelona (CCIB) has hosted, or is due to host, the congresses and conventions of a number of relevant international exponents of the technology, computer and telecommunications industries.
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SONO, a company providing full AV communication services with over 35 year of experience in the business, has recently delivered a number of projects involving permanent AV installations.SONO not only ...
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After four days of business contacts and more than 50 pre-programmed meetings between MICE suppliers and buyers, the participants attended a gala dinner held at MNAC on 28 October.Solfesa was ...
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Solfesa has just been named exclusive distributor of Ape Labs’ products in Spain.Established in 2009, the German company Ape Labs has developed a new lighting system, Mobilight and Apestick, with ...
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Over the last three years, we have not tired of saying that the crisis is not new to us, since we started up our company in times of crisis. Now the planet, ...
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Over the last two years, Event Planner Spain’s News and Events section has received close on 3,000,000 visits.Of the 360+ articles and press releases posted in 2011 by Event Planner ...
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On this occasion, AV Medios not only installed the necessary equipment for the event, but the company’s CEO Manuel Angel Berjon also delivered a keynote address.AV Medios is aware of ...
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