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Freshwater Digital Packages $125 Monthly For Turnkey Digital Signage Solution

The digital signage business seems to inexorably going turnkey – with most vendors I chat with saying that’s the ask and end-users saying that’s how they want to see things play out. On a broad scale, that means integrators and the largest software firms are offering a full range of capabilities in-house or through sponsorships. […]

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Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 10:13 AM

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Projects: National WWII Museum Issues Digital Dog Tags

I was in New Orleans for a few days last week, and felt lucky to have the time to tour the National World War Two Museum that has become a huge attraction in that city. It has been around for a few years , and recently added some new digital wrinkles I thought were worth sharing. […]

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Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 9:42 AM

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Samsung Starts Shipping New P Series Of Tizen-powered Smart Displays

Samsung has launched a new P-Series line of smart signage displays that are the first shipping with the Tizen operating system – the OS the company is shifting most or all of its information devices over to. The series has seven models, including 55-inch, 49-inch and 43-inch displays with 700 nits, 55-inch, 49-inch and 43-inch displays with 500 nits and a 32-inch display with 400 nits. […]

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Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 8:52 AM

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16:9: NEC Makes Its Displays Smart Using Raspberry Pi

NEC Display Solutions will start marketing and shipping commercial display panels early next year that that have low-cost Raspberry Pi computer modules in them, effectively making them a new variation on smart digital signage displays. This is a notable shift for NEC, which has stayed out of the embedded system on chip display business that Samsung, LG, Panasonic and Philips have all jumped on. […]

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Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 8:24 AM

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Back At HQ

And we’re back … Have been traveling much of the last two weeks, so posts have been spotty, and there’s stuff to catch up on. Look for posts on Samsung’s system on chip platform going to the Tizen OS, NEC adding Raspberry Pi support for its displays, an upcoming webinar with Canonical and BroadSign, the WW II Museium in New Orleans, and several other things. […]

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Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 7:50 AM

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Your Digital Signage Project Needs A Point, And A Plan

Guest Post: Luis Villafane, Maler Digital Signage So, if you are reading this article, you must have something to do with digital signage.   We read articles that go on and on about how digital signage systems can do this, or can do that.  We listen to podcast about service providers, content providers, hardware providers. […]

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Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 6:11 AM

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How To Unify Sales, Marketing And Customer Service With Digital Signage

Guest Post: Sean Matthews, Visix Sales and marketing have been aligned in the corporate world for years, even integrated, in many respects. But what about customer service? Sean Matthews Forbes magazine says that, in today’s customer-driven era, customer service is no longer just a post-sale activity, but is part of the total buying cycle. […]

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Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 8:01 AM

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How to Optimize DOOH Ads in Real-Time

In any out-of-home advertising campaign, you want to play the perfect ad, at the perfect time, at the perfect place – but too often, advertisers don’t know what the highest performing combinations are until after their campaign is over. In online advertising, campaigns are constantly adjusted and optimized to ensure maximum performance, and it should be the same for DOOH. […]

linkett.com
Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 1:58 PM

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How to Sell Digital Signage to Management

Management can sometimes be hesitant to adopt new technology, and rightfully so. It is management’s responsibility to make sure any investment made is worth the company’s time and effort and not a waste of resources. […]

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Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 1:04 PM

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16:9: NanoLumens Adds Super Fine Pitch, Front-Serviceable LED Display To Lineup

Atlanta-based NanoLumens made its name with lightweight, flexible indoor LED displays, but like other display manufacturers has in the past two years gone hard after the fine pixel pitch LED market. It’s hard to win on price against a sea of Chinese manufacturers, so Nano is marketing based on slightly more esoteric attributes like performance, serviceability and footprint. […]

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Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 6:22 AM

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Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Kurt Dupont, PresentationPoint

We’re talking PowerPoint this week, the presentation software that has usually been regarded with abject horror by people who’ve been around the digital signage industry for years. While using PowerPoint templates to generate slides for signage systems is the fast lane to mediocrity, that’s not what Belgium’s PresentationPoint does with its software. […]

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Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 12:19 AM

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16:9: UK Access Control Firm Adds Construction Site Digital Signage Offer

In a hyper-competitive market like digital signage software, it’s important for most companies to choose a vertical market and go after it with focused products. Here’s an example of a company that isn’t really in the signage software business, but has nonetheless developed a software product that is laser-focused on a vertical industry – in this case, construction sites. […]

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Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 8:43 AM

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NEC Display Solutions Announces Raspberry Pi Integration

NEC Display Solutions has announced that it will be sharing an open platform modular approach with Raspberry Pi, enabling a seamless integration of Raspberry Pi’s devices with NEC’s displays. Originally developed to promote the teaching of basic computer science in schools and developing countries, the original Raspberry Pi delivered good performance at a very low cost. […]

commercialintegrator.eu
Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 4:48 AM

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16:9: If You’re Hearing Digital Signage Software Pitches, Get A Nerd In The Room

Guest Post: Luis Villafane, Maler Digital Signage Here’s some very simple, experienced advice for anyone looking at starting a large digital signage network: get a nerd in the room when you’re talking to the people who sell digital signage software. That nerd will filter the bullshit. And trust me, there’s a lot of bullshit to filter. […]

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Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 12:54 AM

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Digital Trends Showcase Touts Possibilities For Sensor-Driven Video Walls

Andy McRae of Dot2Dot explaining the sensor-driven video wall. I’ve been aware of the Digital Trends Showcase that’s been running for a few years now in Toronto, but schedules have never allowed me to go see what it was all about. […]

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Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 11:23 PM

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