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16:9 do LA LA LAND in LA LA Land (DOOH networks)

Me and the boss took a side trip to Los Angeles several days ahead of DSE, for a few reasons: Get the f#ck out of the cold and snow; Take some meetings; Let her see LA for the 1st time. We did some obligatory sightseeing, including the freak show sidewalk scene in Hollywood, where we ducked into a tourist shop for some water and I noticed there were LED screens EVERYWHERE. […]

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Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 10:23 AM

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16:9 List: Digital Signage Software Options For Chromebox & Google

When I eventually found my way over to the Google booth last week at DSE, I expected to see a Rise Vision pop-up stand and a bunch of hardware devices. I did not expect to see eight different software companies there showing how their web players sit on top of Chromeboxes to drive digital signs. […]

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Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 8:48 AM

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Call For Speakers: Taiwan, June 2015

The Digital Signage Multimedia Alliance in Taiwan has put out its 2015 call for speakers to its annual Digital Signage Forum in Taipei, which runs during the giant Computex tech show. The DSMA involves nearly 200 member companies in Asia, including technology and media companies. The annual forum takes place this year on Friday June 5 at the Taipei International Convention Center. […]

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Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 8:09 AM

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16:9: Digital Signage Expo 2015 Award Winners List

Here’s all the winners from the Digital Signage Expo install and creative awards held Thursday in Las Vegas … In the Apex install awards, there were about 80 entrants and 60 in content (which I think is kind of feeble on the part of integrators and other vendors – awards are great marketing tools, so PUT IN ENTRIES!!!) Anyway … Arts, Entertainment and Recreation Gold: Skylon Tower, nominated by GestureTek Silver: National Museum of Kazakhstan, nominated by Global Display Solutions Bronze: College Football Hall of Fame, nominated by Obscura Digital Business, Industry and Government Gold: NASA – Human Exploration Operations, nominated by GPO US Inc. […]

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Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 6:01 PM

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Dave Haynes: Digital Signage Expo 2015 Day Two Impressions

Back at home and already missing the big blue skies and shirt sleeves weather of LA and Las Vegas. Sigh. Day 2 at Digital Signage Expo was still bat outta hell mode for me, running around looking at stuff and steering clients here and there to see things and meet people. […]

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Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 1:03 PM

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16:9 from DSE 2015: Day I – General Impressions

Daylight is breaking here and it’s Day 2 of the trade show hall at Digital Signage Expo. This is the day I run around and really see stuff,I hope. Day 1 was meetings and catching up with people. […]

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Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 1:20 PM

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DSE2015: Sharp’s Wraparound LCD Display

This is just a concept, and may or may not ever be a full product from Sharp, but it IS very nice. It’s a convex LCD with interior direct light inside a column to illuminate the LCD. The application would be columns in retail or public spaces, replacing printed graphics or flexible LED displays that are much lower resolution. […]

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Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 10:27 AM

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16:9 from DSE 2015: Google Shows Its Digital Signage Offer

The big buzz out of DSE 2015 was, not surprisingly, the substantial presence of online giant Google – which had a 40 by 40 foot booth attracting large crowds on the first of two trade show hall days. I didn’t get over there until late morning, and quickly saw the area was somewhat swarmed by trade hall attendees. […]

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Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 9:10 AM

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AOPEN collaborates with Google on retail technology

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Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 5:50 AM

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VIA, Capital Networks Launch SMB Digital Signage Bundle

VIA Technologies, Inc and Capital Networks have been working together for a couple of years now, based around using VIA’s very nice, commercial-grade (read: not dodgy consumer crap) Android media players. […]

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Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 9:34 AM

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16:9: Christie Rolling Out Media Network To 200 US Movieplexes This Year

I realized Christie was getting serious about creating a media wing to its business when I ran into Alan High – who ran ClearChannel Outdoor – walking around an event with Christie on his badge. […]

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Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 9:13 AM

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Biggest, Best Preset Mixer Yet

We had about 340 people  out last night to the 6th annual Preset Group DSE Mixer at the Hard Rock Cafe in Las Vegas. That’s the biggest crowd ever. We had people hanging out in the lobby, ahead of the event. […]

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Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 8:57 AM

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Digital signage, food trucks and social media

Here’s a picture of a great way to combine digital signage, food trucks and social media. The food truck is from AYAM – if you haven’t heard of them they provide asian food products. In the picture you will see that they were running a promotion for Chinese New Year. […]

Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 11:12 PM

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16:9: Monster Media Taking Aerva To Court In Patent Dispute

Monster Media has filed a claim against the Boston-based software firm Aerva, in the New York Southern District Court, alleging willful patent infringement. Monster is asserting a patent for retrieving and then displaying social media content on screens. The patent was acquired by Monster when it acquired Locamoda. […]

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Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 11:26 AM

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DSE 2015 Booth Field Guide: IAdea

John Wang, Idea Booth 333 Why do people going to DSE need to put your company on their Must-See list of booths? IAdea is all about making industrial-strength Android-based devices for 24×7 digital signage use. In 2014, research firm IHS named us the 4th largest digital signage player company and #1 shipping Android. […]

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Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 10:23 AM

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