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Omnivex Launches Cloud Version Of Moxie Platform

Toronto-based Omnivex has launched Moxie Cloud, billed as an easy-launch, affordable hosted spin on its powerful Movie digital signage management platform. Moxie Cloud’s subscription includes a series of professional-looking templates to get content up even without designers or agencies. It also includes a weather feed and news from Thomson Reuters. […]

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Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 11:56 PM

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16:9: Digital signage software maker BroadSign Gets Out Of Digital OOH Box

BroadSign has for many years mined the digital OOH side of this business, to the point that you don’t really think of the signage software being used outside of advertising. But it is. Case in point: The Montreal company has announced a partnership it has worked with Scandinavian solutions provider LCD Media, which is operating primarily in retail in that part of Europe. […]

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Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 3:33 PM

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Armodilo Rethinks Retail Tablet Enclosures

  Tablet stand and enclosure manufacturer Armodilo Display Solutions will be rolling a slick new wall-mounted enclosure for tablets this spring that pretty dramatically rethinks the idea of sticking an iPad or other tab in a protective frame. The new set-up, called LITE, is based on Armodilo’s AURA kiosk design. […]

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Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 12:51 AM

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DOOH Networks: Video Walls As Retail Store Banners For Gap

Yorkdale is by most measures the top shopping mall in Canada. There are larger footprint ones, and ones that get more people through the doors. But the mall along Toronto’s teeming 401 highway is where most or all of the big retail brands put in a splashy flagship store. […]

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Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 3:30 PM

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DSrupted 2015 Taking Shape For Sept. 2015

I don’t think the mikes had even gone on for the first DSrupted last fall and a main sponsor was already talking about doing it again. Roughly six months out, I can say we are indeed planning to do it again. The one-day conference that looks at disruptive and emerging technologies is being shaped again for mid-September in Toronto. […]

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Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 9:25 AM

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Video: Responsive HTML5-Driven Menuboards Demo

I think there’s a broad school of thought out there that HTML5 is interesting, but visually pretty limited in what it can do in digital signage. It indeed has its limits and is no video replacement, but its ability to drive motion and incorporate video makes it a big step up from the static presentations that represent a lot of menu board systems out there now. […]

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Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 9:39 AM

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16:9: Digital Signage Software Maker BroadSign Loses Dan Parisien

By Dave Haynes. Dan Parisien got on a call with me this morning to let me know he’s leaving BroadSign this time next month – stepping down amicably after a 12-year rollercoaster run with the Montreal software company. He’s not planning to stay in digital signage, and intending after he leaves to sort out what he wants to do – though almost certainly in tech. […]

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Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 1:10 AM

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Post Number 4,000 (And Still Counting)

It is perhaps fitting that a major milestone for this blog comes in the immediate wake of a post about goofballs updating a digital sign with duct tape. More than nine years and 4,000 (as of this one) posts, there’s still no end of goofy stuff going on. All those posts since 2006 have followed an industry that has changed dramatically, and will continue to change. […]

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Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 1:55 PM

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Why Update A MenuBoard Digitally When You Have Duct Tape Handy?

  This is just all kinds of awesome – as relayed by a regular reader. It’s a digital display used by a BBQ/pulled pork food concession at the big international auto show in Toronto. […]

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Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 12:14 PM

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Stingray Acquires Montreal Solutions Provider Groupe Viva

One of the biggest players in the digital music services space, Montreal-based Stingray, has acquired another company in that city, Groupe Viva. The deal gets Stingray a team that has for years been handling a broad set of digital signage solutions for retailers and hospitality. […]

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Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 4:25 PM

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In Toronto, At Least, Things Are Hopping

I spent the last three days doing a series of show and tell visits with a vendor to the many digital signage software companies in the greater Toronto area. Those sessions all tended to to start with a little bit of “How are things going?” chatter, and the message back was uniformly that things were hopping. […]

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Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 3:17 PM

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