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BS Alert from 16:9: The Crowd Now Reviewing Digital Signage Software, Mostly Using Martian

When Google Alerts popped up a press release this morning celebrating “NAVORI QL PROFESSIONAL AWARDED BEST DIGITAL SIGNAGE SOFTWARE ON CROWDREVIEWS.COM,” I was fairly amazed the Navori guys would make hay over an award from a highly dubious crowd-sourced review site. But they didn’t. The news release was generated by the highly dubious review site. […]

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Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 10:42 AM

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16:9: Are Retail Designers & Architects Not Feeling The In-Store Digital Thing?

There’s a really good blog on retail design I monitor through its regular tweets – with me looking mostly for featured projects that use digital displays in the design. I’ve been watching the feed for many weeks now – and seen scores of projects pop up, from around the world – and almost none of them have digital displays in them. […]

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Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 9:51 AM

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Five Reasons Why Your Organization Should Be Using Digital Meeting Room Signs

Guest Post: Trey Hicks, Visix There are many powerful arguments to be made for using digital meeting and conference room signs for shared spaces in any organization – whether it’s an office, healthcare facility, conference center, college campus or K-12 school district. 1 – Integrative Room signs bring your calendar right to your door, and your door to your calendar. […]

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Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 12:14 AM

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16:9: Are Your 4K Players Really True 4K?

Guest Post: John C. Wang, IAdea At every recent digital signage trade show, 4K or UHD (ultra-high resolution) has been a heavily promoted feature for next-gen displays. Research firm IHS recorded 95% year-over-year growth in 4K screen shipment in 2015. […]

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Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 6:41 PM

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16:9 Jobs: Digital Signage Retail Project Engineer, New York

I have a client that works with high-end retailers that needs to bring on a project engineer who can design and source solutions based on requirements of clients. Think video walls, integrated display fixtures … generally cool stuff, as opposed to mounting panels on walls. The gig is in New York City and Brooklyn, and can’t be done remotely. […]

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Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 8:56 AM

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16:9: Forget The Ad Model, Use Phone-Charging Kiosks To Keep Shoppers Shopping

I’m not at all sold on the idea of screens on phone charging kiosks being a successful digital OOH media model, but the charging kiosks themselves – used purely as services – are proving successful in retail environments. […]

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Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 8:24 AM

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16:9: LCD Or LED? For Digital Signage, It Depends

Guest Post: Alan Brawn, Brawn Consulting Believe it or not, digital signage is seen each day by over 70% of the population. Research shows that we spend an average of 8 hours per day in front of a screen of some type, including televisions, computers, tablets, smartphones, or increasingly… digital signage. […]

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Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 9:17 AM

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16:9: Forget The Rules, Subway Going Ahead With Calorie Counts On Digital Menuboards

  It’s starting to look like the whole thing about the QSR business going to digital menu boards, because of FDA regulations, is going away. The QSR industry isn’t waiting on rules requiring that its menu-boards show calorie counts. Major operators  are just going ahead and doing it. […]

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Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 4:21 PM

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TransitScreen Raises $800K To Chase Real Estate Tech, Smart Cities Business

Washington, DC-based startup TransitScreen – which mashes up open source data like transit and traffic conditions as feeds and finished screens – has completed an $800,000 seed capital raise. […]

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Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 1:52 PM

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Seneca Hosting Webinar On New Commercial-Grade Digital Signage Stick PC

Custom computer manufacturer Seneca is doing a webinar next week – Thursday, April 14 at 2 – on the little commercial-grade PC on a stick it recently announced. The Syracuse-based company describes the HDS as the first media stick form factor purpose-engineered for professional digital signage. […]

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Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 9:27 AM

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Projects: Sephora Switches On Digital-Laden Flash Store In Paris

Sephora has opened up a digital-heavy, small footprint shop in Paris that builds screens into the visual environment and uses different interactive tools to let shoppers get at what’s not physically stocked at the location. […]

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Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 2:30 PM

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16:9: UC View Debuts Raspberry Pi 3-Powered Digital Signage Player

I’ve heard widely varied opinions about the ability to run a digital signage application on a Raspberry Pi – the super-cheap UK micro PCs that emerged a few years ago. My general sense is that its applicability owes a lot to what you want to achieve on a screen, in terms of programming. […]

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Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 10:06 AM

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16:9: DSE Reports Slight Upticks In 2016 Attendee, Exhibit Space Numbers

The company behind the recent Digital Signage Expo says DSE set new records for attendees and floor space, and also saw a critical bump in the number of end-users walking the aisles. […]

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Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 8:51 AM

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16:9: Clear Is The New Black: How to Design Content for Transparent OLEDs

Guest Post: Jennifer Davis, Planar Systems Getting the most out of technology often requires learning some new techniques and ideas. When photography was first invented, people would need to stand still for minutes to capture a portrait, instead of the hours it took for a painter. When moving pictures were new, actors had to learn how to emote for the camera without using any words or sounds. […]

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Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 6:47 AM

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Check Out These Cool Data Visualizations From Mike Pell

Mike Pell of Microsoft was one of the speakers last fall at the DSrupted conference. I was really happy he agreed to speak because he had a lot to say about visualized data needing to be insightful first, and then, possibly, pretty. He’s released a set of visualizations he calls “Datascrapers” that has been inspired by New York City’s skyscrapers. […]

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Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 10:51 AM

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