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16:9: Instagram And Facebook Say Abrupt API Changes Tied To Broader Privacy Concerns

Facebook’s newsroom page does NOT want to load for me – the loading circle thingie just spins and spins in Chrome – so I can’t read the company’s statement about why its Instagram wing made abrupt changes to its API yesterday that broke the functionality on a lot of third-party Instagram applications, including social media visualizations for digital signs. […]

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Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 2:35 PM

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Projects: Century-old Garden Center Group Takes (Some Of) Its Messaging Digital

This is a straightforward menuboard and messaging boards set-up at Notcutts Garden Centres Ltd  – which has 18 individual garden centres across England and has been doing this sort of thing for more than a century. The family-owned company cut over from pure print and some tablet-sized displays manually updated by thumb drive. […]

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Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 6:42 AM

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16:9: Instagram Changed Its API, And Now Your Version On Digital Signs Probably Isn’t Working

If your digital signage or digital OOH network calls and displays Instagram posts/pix, you may well have an issue because of API changes made by the social media company. The short story is – a lot of what you show may no longer show. If you don’t have logins for Instagram account you want to show, sorry. […]

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Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 2:10 AM

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16:9: DSF Mixer Set For Austin May 9th

The Digital Signage Federation is doing a Meet & Greet mixer in Austin, Texas on May 9th, and looking to get local and regional digital signage people showing up for good chats, a little education and possibly a Shiner Bock or two. The event runs at the JW Marriott in downtown Austin, starting at 6. […]

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Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 3:25 PM

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Interactive She Too Digital Wall Prompts On-The-Spot Donations

This is a nice charity campaign in Toronto’s underground PATH concourse system that weaves through much of the central business district – involving a video wall and a nearby station that enables on-the-spot donations. […]

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Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 10:08 AM

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RMG’s Board Chair Does Merger Deal To Take Company Back To Private

RMG Networks has done a definitive merger agreement with its board chairman  to take the company private, after several years operating as a public company. The deal opens a window for a third-party suitor to, in effect, make a “superior”  offer before this deal closes. The merger deal is with Greg Sachs, RMG’s Executive Chairman, under the company name SCG Digital, LLC. […]

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Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 7:39 PM

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Zotac Marketing Mini PC The Size And Shape Of Smartphone

I remember years ago somebody or other talking about how one day PCs were going to be the same form factor as smartphones. We are apparently there (though arguably we’re past that with stick PCs). The Hong Kong manufacturer Zotac is marketing a super thin and light PC that’s somewhere between a portable hard drive and smartphone in dimension. […]

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Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 10:29 AM

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DSF Hands Out Women Scholarship And Educator Awards, And The Names Have Familiar Rings

There were a couple of particularly nice little moments last week at the post-day one awards event at Digital Signage Expo – when a couple of people were recognized. […]

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Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 8:45 AM

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16:9 Podcasts – Reece Kurtenbach On Why Hyper-Competition Is Nothing New To Daktronics

Reece Kurtenbach now runs Daktronics, the company started by his father and a university colleague 50 years ago – and has grown up seeing it evolve from electronic voting systems from state politicians to the maker behind some of the biggest and most iconic LED display boards on the planet. […]

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Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 7:01 AM

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Ultravision Sues 37 LED Companies – Including U.S. Firms – For Patent Infringement

The Dallas-based LED display and lighting products company Ultravision has filed a patent infringement complaint at the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC), looking to get 37 companies barred from importing, selling or distributing what Ultravision considers infringing LED display products. […]

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Mon, Apr 2, 2018 at 7:59 AM

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16:9: Here Are The DSE 2018 Project And Creative Award Winners …

Here are the winners from this year’s awards program at Digital Signage Expo, announced and handed out Wednesday at a reception. […]

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Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 8:25 PM

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16:9: DSE 2018 – Day Two Impressions – Slooooooow

In the fall of 2008, just as the recession really started to reveal itself on the markets and elsewhere, Philadelphia was host to Digital Signage Expo East. Foot traffic would be politely described as modest. It was pretty much a ghost town. […]

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Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 8:25 PM

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16:9: DSE 2018 – Day One Impressions

The first day on the Digital Signage Expo trade show floor is in the can. The hall looked good and there at least seemed to be healthy-sized crowds. I definitely wasn’t having to fight my way through hordes, but the aisles all had decent traffic. […]

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Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 3:23 PM

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16:9: STRATACACHE Buys X2O Media From Barco

STRATACACHE has acquired Montreal CMS software shop X20 Media from the Belgian visual solutions firm Barco, four years after Barco bought the company in what at least some observers (like me) thought was a head-scratcher. […]

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Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 1:00 PM

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16:9: Best Mixer Yet!

Back at hotel room. Tired feet up. Kinda sorta mostly sober. […]

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Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 2:42 AM

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