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Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Luka Birsa, Visionect

This week, I’m speaking with Luka Birsa, the CTO and co-founder of Visionect, a Slovenian tech company focused on solutions that use Electronic Ink. If you’ve got a Kindle or Kobo e-reader, think of that display but used instead for updated bus schedules at stops, or for telling people whether a meeting room is booked or free. Or on the back of an 18-wheeler. […]

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Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 12:04 AM

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16:9: Is Running Live TV Legal On Your Digital Signage Network?

Example-only photo. Typical of what scores of software companies offer. For as long as the term digital signage has been out there, end-users have been asking suppliers about the ability to insert live TV in a zone on the screen. […]

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Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 9:59 AM

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Three Hard-Won Lessons For Rolling Out Large QSR Digital Signage Projects

Guest Post: Gord Phillips Gord Phillips I remember thinking when I first started putting together what turned into Canada’s biggest digital menu board network: “This will be easy. I’m a professional engineer and pretty good at DIY.” That was 2007, and turns out, it wasn’t that easy. […]

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Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 2:36 PM

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16:9: E-Paper Hits The Road On German 18-Wheeler Billboards

If you drive busy highways, you’ve no doubt seen your share of the back doors of 18-wheel transport trucks. So what if that space was used for location-specific advertising and traffic tips? That’s the idea behind RoadAds interactive, a German company that is, in effect, putting eight giant Kindles on the back doors of a transport truck. […]

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Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 9:32 AM

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Connected Screen Demo Shows How Interactive Digital Signs Can Be Contactless Payment Terminals

The transaction processing company Ingenico is demonstrating a slick “connected screen” concept at the Toronto International Film Festival that allows people to just wave their Visa credit card at an LCD screen to make a donation. […]

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Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 11:00 AM

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Techorating to Improve Employee Morale and Customer Experience

While the term techorating might not exactly roll off the tongue, it is positioned to be an important aspect of the modern workplace. The idea behind this buzzword is simple. It involves leveraging technology, like digital signage, to ‘decorate’ an area e.g. […]

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Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 6:05 PM

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Stars Are In Toronto For TIFF, While Commuters Take Subway And Watch Tuff

Zaib Shaikh For the 10th year running, digital signage screens in Toronto’s subway system are being used as the medium for a film festival that pretty much coincides with the glitzy, celebrity-riddled Toronto International Film Festival. […]

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Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 3:56 PM

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BrightSign Does Total Player And Product Refresh

BrightSign has announced a complete overhaul of its digital signage player portfolio, and also unveiled a nice new feature that takes the time and hassle out of prepping and activating big lots of players. […]

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Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 10:42 AM

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16:9: LG’s Massive, Genuinely Immersive OLED Display Tunnel

The IFA consumer electronics show that’s been running the last few days in Berlin includes a mind-wobbling welcome tunnel to the LG booth, made up of 216 55-inch curved OLED panels. The OLED tunnel is five metres tall, 7.4 metres wide and 15 metres long, and the pixel count goes past half a billion. The content varies from deep space to deep ocean. […]

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Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 9:04 AM

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Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Wayne Rasor, FASTSIGNS

This week, I’m talking to a digital signage evangelist – Wayne Rasor, who runs the digital signage side of the business for FASTSIGNS, a traditional printing company that’s helping its 600-plus franchisees around the world stay competitive by going digital. […]

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Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 12:10 AM

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Digital Signage Network: How to Provide Targeted Advertising

LINKETT enables your digital signage network to collect real-time data to generate performance analytics. This is because it gives you (and your clients) a better understanding of how consumers respond to advertising content, so you can measure, improve, and report your campaign’s performance But it doesn’t stop there. […]

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Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 3:22 PM

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STRATACACHE Summer Buying Binge Continues; Firm Picks Up Giant Mothballed Datacenter

The CMS software and solutions firm STRATACACHE is continuing its summertime buying binge, announcing today that it has bought an old EDS building in Dayton, OH to use as its primary datacenter and network operations. The building has 113,000 square feet space, with raised floors, multiple back-up generators and enough space to host a 550-seat support desk. […]

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Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 9:00 AM

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16:9: Canada’s Busiest Highways Get Interactive At Travel Centre Stops

If you’ve even driven the 401 highway that runs up from Detroit through Toronto and almost to Montreal, you’ll have been thankful there’s a set of travel centres that provide the essentials to motoring: gas, coffee and clean restrooms. About 500,000 people a day pull in to these centres across the province. […]

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Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 7:50 AM

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16:9: Why And How To Engage The Bosses With Digital Signage

  Guest Post: Sean Matthews, Visix Sean Matthews You’ve hired some of the best and brightest people around to help you run your company. Use your corporate digital signage solution to support, encourage and inspire them as they steer your organization to success. […]

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Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 8:27 AM

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Thanks, As A Couple Of Records Fall

I’ve been curious for the last week or so, watching the page view and visits counters on this blog, seeing how August was, weirdly, a huge month for traffic on Sixteen:Nine. By last night, monthly traffic had busted the previous record traffic month by more than 10% … and the old record was pretty good. […]

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Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 9:59 AM

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