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Samsung’s New Smart Signs To Start Shipping With Tizen OS; Signagelive Says Good To Go

Samsung is moving its new version of its Smart Signage platform for commercial displays over to its own operating system Tizen, with Tizen OS-powered displays commercially available to partners, resellers and end-users by the middle of this month. That means if you want to use the new version 4.0 release of SSP displays with a CMS, that CMS needs to support Tizen OS. […]

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Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 9:02 AM

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16:9: LG Adds Kiwi Firm To List Of Signage Firms Supporting Its Smart WebOS Displays

Via ComputerWorld NZ The Auckland, NZ-based firm Labyrinth Solutions has developed a version of its Contrego digital signage CMS to run on LG’s WebOS-driven commercial digital signage panels. Labyrinth says the new System on Chip (SoC) media player, running Contegro, will do all the regular stuff, but will also do advanced digital signage functions like touch. […]

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Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 8:28 AM

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16:9: STRATACACHE Buys Monster Warehouse Space In Suburban Dayton

Were there any question Chris Riegel is serious about the growth he expects at STRATACACHE in the next two or three years, consider this: the software and services company now owns a 380,000 square foot distribution facility on 50 acres in suburban Dayton. And the address will be One Stratacache Way. The company will be moving about 50 people over from other warehouse sites around Dayton. […]

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Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 9:31 AM

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Projects: 86-Foot LED Columns Create Digital Fence Slats In Denver Office Lobby

The lobby and common area of the Wells Fargo Center has been transformed by a series of 86-foot-high floor-to-ceiling LED columns  that create a series of gorgeous ambient art pieces. Developed by New York-based ESI Design, the programming is designed to give a sense of seeing Colorado’s natural beauty through fence slats. […]

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Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 8:25 AM

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Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Jim Nista, Insteo

Jim Nista and I have had lotsa long, interesting talks over trade show cocktails in Las Vegas or Orlando about the state of the industry and what needs to happen, particularly as it relates to content. Unfortunately … or perhaps fortunately, when I really think about it (hic) … they were not recorded. […]

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Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 12:07 AM

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An LED Video Wall That Hand-Cranks Into Place

I didn’t know Belgium’s display giant Barco now had super-thin, flexible LED displays, but the company has tweeted out a video show how fast and easy it is to hang a strip of 11mm pixel pitch LED in an open area (it is marketed as 10mm, but is 10.83mm, for those keeping score).  The product was launched at InfoComm in June. […]

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Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 9:56 AM

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16:9: Lock Down Your iPad Kiosk, Or This Sort Of Thing Happens

If your business is putting consumer tablets out in public areas, it’s really important you take the necessary steps to ensure the device is locked to only offer up the experience that you intended. If you don’t, you get bemused people who know their way around software and devices, who see if they are indeed locked down. And if they’re not, they leave behind their mischief. […]

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Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 4:18 PM

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16:9: Projection-Mapped Advertising Goes Airborne Over NYC

Last week, New Yorkers might have looked up one night and seen a huge illuminated billboard floating along the west skyline, over the Hudson River. […]

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Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 8:26 AM

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16:9 Chromebit Update: Eight Months In, Still Ticking Along Happily

I don’t have the technical background to say this is indicative of anything, but my test so far of the little Asus Chromebit as a simple signage player has been positive. The little $85 Google-approved HDMI stick I bought has been running on a spare screen at World Headquarters/spare bedroom for eight months, and it just keeps ticking along. […]

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Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 3:55 PM

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Projects: Malaysian Mega-Mall Updates Its 60+ Screen Network

The giant Utama 1 Shopping Centre in suburban Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia is either the 4th or 6th or 7th largest mall on the planet, with 5 million square feet of space and a lot of people coming in the doors each day. The mall operator has been running a mall-wide digital signage network for the last 10 years, selling display “airtime” to mall tenants and 3rd-party advertisers. […]

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Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 11:38 AM

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16:9: Saudi British Bank Adds 60+ Screens In Riyadh Banking Center

The Saudi British Bank in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia has added a series of displays around its premiere banking center on Tahlia, the city’s high street. There are four video walls around the three-level branch, including a 4 by 3 curved wall. There are also tablets ands regular displays around the branch, intended to create a memorable customer journey, and touchscreen pods along the ATM area. […]

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Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 1:03 PM

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Experiential Design and Data Visualization: The Business Shift To Big Data

Guest Post: Hoa Tong, Array Interactive If you’ve been keeping current with the latest business industry practices the last decade, you’ve probably seen that many significant company decisions today affecting time, money, and outcome are no longer made based solely on executive counsel, trends, or even past experiences. They’re now made based on pure data that the company has obtained. […]

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Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 8:45 AM

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16:9: New Scala Board Is Unsurprisingly STRATACACHE-Heavy

STRATACACHE CEO/Owner Chris Riegel cleared out the board last week when he acquired rival software CMS firm Scala, and the company has now announced a new board, which does includes a Scala veteran. Gerard Bucas was the CEO of Scala from 2002 to 2011, and was as part of that a longtime board member. […]

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Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 3:30 AM

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Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Brian Fitzpatrick, Revel Media Group

Every so often I bump into a company that’s stayed well out of the spotlight, kept its collective heads down, and built up a thriving business – while most of the industry was unaware the company even existed. Consider Revel Media Group, which is based in the greater Salt Lake City area. […]

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Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 12:05 AM

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The Path To The Post-Search Era

Guest Post: Kaijus Asteljoki, Valotalive “Why?” That was the question, a good friend asked me recently. “Why do you do what you do? […]

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Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 9:11 AM

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