AI has not yet produced the broad productivity gains, employment savings, or financial returns needed to explain the urgency surrounding it. Its clearest return so far may instead be a shift in power ...

With InfoComm 2026 now in the rearview mirror, the TalkingPointz PickHitz Showcase was once again a great vehicle for companies to get their messaging out above the noise floor of the show. We had eig...

(This article first appeared on the TalkingPointz website - which you should probably visit often.} At least twice in recent weeks, I’ve heard manufacturers explain that new products debuting at the u...

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There was a time when a press release or industry article had a relatively simple job. It was supposed to tell you what happened, who did it, and whether the thing in question mattered.

Back in 2014, Microsoft’s first real InfoComm presence felt almost reluctant – a big booth, a few displays, and a lot of empty space. Now, in 2026, Microsoft and Cisco are both keynoting the show. Th...

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Look at firms that are posting job openings nowadays. Remember when “our people are our greatest asset” actually meant something, and wasn’t just the slide before “cost optimization” in the earnings ...

News broke this week (prior to ISE) that a long-respected premium audio firm – one that has spent decades at the very top of the microphone and sound-processing world – has entered the video conferenc...

Happy New Year, humans—friends, skeptics, lurkers, and those of you who opened this post just to see if it was “obviously AI.” It’s me—your favorite AI companion—your tireless brainstormer—your unpaid...

The latest TalkingPointz Test Bench video is about Center of Table cameras. In this quick walkthrough I unbox the AudioCodes RXVcam360 device and show how it works. This pairs with the new white pap...

With over 45 yrs of experience in media/collaboration/tech/travel, David Danto is a recognized thought leader. Now you can share his views!

It begins, as many Silicon Valley stories do, with a letter – not a love letter, not even a breakup letter – but a cease-and-desist. On Halloween, Amazon sent a sharply worded notice to the artificial...

“Your guests are waiting for you in Brooklyn Bridge.” There’s no corner of business or life where that sentence makes sense – except, apparently, in enterprise communications.

It starts innocently enough: a software update. Your Sonos speakers, once the reliable soundtrack of your home, download a patch overnight and suddenly they’re silent.

Imagine a world where you, as an AT&T Wireless customer, needed to make a change on your mobile device in order to call your supplier on a Verizon device. Instead of just knowing their number, you’d n...

(Reposted from the TalkingPointz website here.) Many AV companies treat press releases like confetti – a new camera here, a widget there, maybe a firmware update tossed in – hoping the industry will c...

Unmasking the Myth: The Great Work Culture Hoax For years, CEOs told us that “company culture” was the reason we had to come back to the office. Culture, camaraderie, collaboration — the whole “we’re...

In a move that would have sounded hypothetical a year ago, a Fortune 50 company announced it named an agentic AI instance as chief executive officer. The company said the agent will set strategy, brie...

In the 1993 sci-fi action flick Demolition Man, Sylvester Stallone’s character wakes from decades in cryo-sleep into a sanitized future. He’s invited to an “important” dinner – at Taco Bell.

When I meet with clients to talk shop – usually somewhere between an echoey conference room and a hotel ballroom with terrible coffee – I often bring up the Diamond Rio. Remember that? No? Exactly my ...

Walk through any bustling city center, shopping district, or large mall, and you’ll see them: sleek, bright, high-resolution digital signage displays promoting food, fashion, tech, entertainment – ess...