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Still Three Months Out, ISE Says 2017 Show Is Biggest Ever

Integrated Systems Europe is still three months, but the organization behind it is already touting how this will be the biggest ISE yet, with a jump in show-floor space, and the number of exhibitors and halls. The trade show, in Amsterdam, will see 135 first time exhibitors and more than 3,000 square metres of additional show-floor exhibition space compared to ISE 2016. […]

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Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 8:31 AM

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Giant Three-Sided LED Tower OK’d For LA’s Sunset Boulevard

City councillors in West Hollywood in LA have chosen a winner in a design competition for a digital OOH ad structure that will be seen by motorists and pedestrians along the famed Sunset Boulevard. Called the West Hollywood Belltower, the three-sided vertical structure is anything but a digital billboard stuck on of a pylon. […]

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Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 8:12 AM

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Top 7 Digital Signage Uses in Convention Centers

Guest Post: David Kaszycki, Aerva David Kaszycki Most convention centers around the world have installed some form of digital signage throughout their facilities. From large LED signs out front to information displays inside meeting rooms, convention centers are quickly becoming a category leader in the digital signage industry. […]

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Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 4:10 PM

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16:9: Next DSF Webinar Focused On The Boring Stuff That Really Matters

A lot of webinars I see promoted in this industry don’t seem to stray much off a common set of themes – the why XX is important or how to do YY stuff. So it’s interesting to see the Digital Signage Federation promoting a Nov. 16 “Hangout” panel discussion about Accelerated Environmental Life Testing for Digital Kiosks and Displays. […]

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Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 9:03 AM

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SEGD Offering BOGO Deal For Next Week’s Xlab in NYC

The annual Xlab conference is next week in New York, and the Society for Experiential Graphic Design people behind it are doing a last minute push to gets bums in all the seats at the theatre down in Chelsea where it’s run. […]

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Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 3:22 PM

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16:9: France’s Telelogos Puts CMS App On Philips’ Android Smart Displays

  The French digital signage CMS firm Telelogos has joined the relatively small but building list of companies that have developed solutions for Philips’ new D-Line series of system on chip smart displays, which run on Android. The Media4Display software integration with the all-in-one display series is done using an app, available from Telelogos  or at www.professionaldisplayapps.com. […]

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Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 9:26 AM

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16:9: Digital Signage Summit Part Of InfoComm’s New York Event Nov. 9-10

Much of the industry attention will be on NYC next week and the whole NY Digital Signage Week thing (will be in and out  of that on an overnighter), but there’s another industry event planned for two weeks later in the city. […]

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Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 4:06 PM

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E Ink Displays And RFID Cards Guide, Educate Visitors At Estonian National Museum

The Estonian National Museum is using a clever mix of electronic ink displays and RFID to allow visitors to learn about Estonian culture in their preferred language. The museum has put in more than 600 E Ink displays  – from Kindle-sized up to 32-inch units – to use for visitor information. Each display application interacts with RFID tickets, which are provided to visitors. […]

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Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 2:14 PM

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Samsung Launches Online Information Portal For Pro Displays

If you do product research, planning or consulting in digital signage, you will know it can be a bit of a struggle to poke around the Web to find all the information needed for things like displays. There are B2C sites and B2B sites, and sometimes neither have what you need. […]

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Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 9:28 AM

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16:9: SoftwareCo RMG Adds LED Display Side To Business

There are lots of digital signage display companies with software solutions, but it’s pretty rare to read about a signage CMS company touting a display solution. That, however, is what RMG Networks has announced. […]

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Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 8:58 AM

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16:9: This Digital OOH Network Has Gone From Zero to 1,300 Sites Since April

Photo: Bridget Baker/Willamette Week I don’t know how many fledgling out of home media companies – let’s just say MANY – have tried to make a go of putting digital OOH ad screens in bars. Most have failed, learning the hard way that the media ad sales is harder than it looks, and that getting revenues to reliably surpass operating costs is a tough, endless task. […]

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Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 12:10 AM

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Projects: New DC Bloomberg Offices Greet Visitors With Dynamic Visuals

Here’s a nice example of how to present real-time data in a visually interesting way. This is the elevator lobby of financial news giant Bloomberg’s new Washington, DC offices – the entrance flanked by a pair of video walls. The office is a hub for about 250 staff in the US capitol. […]

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Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 7:55 AM

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16:9: Inside Secrets For Making Great Digital Signage Content

Guest Post: Linda Hofflander, Skykit I’ve seen some really bad digital signage content in my 15+ years in the digital signage business. Lida Hofflander I’ve seen signage using long bullet-point lists on default PowerPoint themes. I’ve seen neon yellow text on a royal blue background, so bright it made my eyes hurt. […]

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Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 5:59 AM

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Webinar: Why World’s Largest Digital Signage Networks Use Linux

On Wednesday, noon Eastern, I’m doing the third digital signage webinar in a series with Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu Linux. This one’s on why Linux is the media player OS of choice for a pile of networks and CMS companies, and arguably the most active of those companies is BroadSign, which has about 50,000 players out there running Ubuntu. […]

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Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 2:37 PM

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ScreenFeed Makes FIDS Displays A Subscription App

Flight arrivals and departures displays were in the early days of digital signage something akin to a killer app – something that needed no ROI exercise to demonstrate the value, but something that also required specialty software and software/data integration expertise. […]

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Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 10:56 AM

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