by John Sciacca CEDIA has an interesting social-media campaign going on right now. It's a Tweet-up, old school versus new school. And people are encouraged to side-up as they see themselves and then battle it out in the Twitter-verse as to why they do the things they do when it comes to technology, business, sales,

by John Sciacca At the Control4 dealer meeting a few weeks ago, one of the things they had the class of dealers do was tell some things that had allowed them to remain successful in this challenging economic environment. (The word “challenging” being the kinder, gentler way of expressing it; using that word in

by John Sciacca Last year about this time I went to a Sony press meeting in Beverly Hills. I remember this because, well, they put me up in the SLS, one of the swankiest hotels I’ve ever been to. A hotel that used M16’s as lamps. A hotel with bizarre, shape-shifting, animal-to-man artwork displayed on flat p

by John Sciacca Dealer summits, events, and road shows are nothing new; many manufacturers travel the country, setting up regional shop to tout their latest wares and have some face time with dealers. Since 2008, Control4 has been has been putting its own spin on this concept, and I had the opportunity to attend t