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16:9: LG Canada Exec’s Little Kids Help Fill COVID-Depleted Shelves at Toronto-Area Food Bank

If you are active in digital signage in Canada, there’s a good chance you know Mike Della Mora, the sales director for LG’s business solutions in Canada. I knew Mike is a great guy, but he and his wife Lindsey are clearly great parents, as well. Their little kids were written up in a Toronto-area newspaper because of their massive effort to gather contributions to the food bank in their area. […]

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Mon, Jul 19, 2021 at 11:30 AM

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16:9: Another Example of Spinning Light Wands Being Used Effectively in Retail

Here’s another example of those madly spinning LED light wands being used effectively as part of window displays – in this case a merchandising window at a Nieman-Marcus. As regular readers know, I am not a big fan of these things because of the moving parts and short-term novelty of them, and much of that has owed to how they have been demonstrated and pitched. […]

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Mon, Apr 26, 2021 at 7:30 AM

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16:9: Digital Signage Expo’s New Owners Already Hiring for Event Producer and Sales Roles

The B2B events company that acquired the assets of Digital Signage Expo recently appears to be serious about reviving the event in some fashion, with jobs posts already up on the Questex corporate site looking for several full-time people to develop and manage … something. […]

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Mon, Apr 5, 2021 at 5:15 PM

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16:9: SpinetiX Does Distribution Deal With Almo For Its Digital Signage Solutions

The big pro AV distributor Almo Professional A/V has announced a partnership that sees it starting to market and work with the Swiss software and hardware firm SpinetiX.   SpinetiX’s solution has been in the U.S. market for years and the company had a tight relationship with the solutions provider/integrator Convergent, out of Atlanta. […]

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Wed, Dec 2, 2020 at 3:08 PM

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16:9: BOE Buys Related Pair Of LCD Rivals; Now Has 25% Global Market Share For Flat Panels

Chinese display giant BOE Technology Group just got bigger, with the announcement yesterday that it will acquire roughly 81% of the stock shares of Nanjing CEC Panda Display and 51% of a sister company, Chengdu CEC Panda Display. […]

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Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 8:11 PM

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16:9: How COVID-19 Has Shaped Digital Signage Trends

Guest Post: Chloe Weaver, Allsee Technologies Towards the end of February, just as the number of countries with confirmed cases of coronavirus began to surge, I was researching key trends in the digital signage industry for 2020. […]

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Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 7:41 AM

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16:9: DSE Says 2020 Show On, Despite Any Attendee or Exhibitor Worries About Coronavirus

Digital Signage Expo’s organizers have pushed out a statement designed to reassure exhibitors and attendees that the 2020 trade show and conference is on as planned, despite any concerns out there about travel and crowds amidst concerns about the spread of the COVID-19 virus. […]

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Sun, Mar 1, 2020 at 7:11 PM

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16:9: Navori’s New BrightSign Signage Player Solution Loads, Runs Off SD Card

The veteran Swiss CMS software firm Navori Labs has announced an interesting new spin on making its application available on the widely used BrightSign media player line-up – a system on an SD memory card. […]

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Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 11:05 AM

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16:9: Now The Kinetic Coke Board Has Modules Stuck In Place

It is not my life’s work to detail the ongoing woes of a global brand’s Times Square ad display, but the Coca-Cola LED board in NYC is endlessly interesting. Last week, there was a maintenance crew doing something or other at the display that no longer does mechanical shape-shifting. […]

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Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 8:57 AM

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16:9: Visix Adds Built-In Voice Interface To Wayfinding Applications

 Atlanta-based Visix is now formally including a voice-activated wayfinding application – dubbed Voice User Interface (VUI) – in its digital signage software suite, allowing users to find their way around places like campuses with voice instead of touch. […]

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Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 12:08 AM

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16:9: OAAA Names IAB Exec To Head OOH Media Trade Body

The Out of Home Advertising Association of America (OAAA) has named Anna Bager, Executive Vice President of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), as its new President & CEO. Bager’s takes over in mid-September from Nancy Fletcher, who ran the organization for 29 years, and announced earlier this year she was retiring. […]

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Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 9:31 AM

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16:9: Ambitious New LA Skateboard Shop Uses Curved LED Wall To Drive Retail Experience

Readers will be shocked to read that I don’t know a lot about skateboards or skateboard retailing. Shameful, but true. I did not know, for example, that they can look like over-priced kitchenware stores, or a forgotten part of the Caesars Palace resort in Vegas. […]

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Fri, Jul 5, 2019 at 6:25 AM

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Spanish Football Club Celebrates Its Past With Projection-Filled Museum At Home Stadium

The Spanish La Liga football team Athletic Bilbao celebrates more than a century of top-level competition in a museum on the grounds of San Mamés stadium, where it plays home games. The museum in Bilbao has been equipped with more than 30 Christie laser projectors, using short throw lenses, to tell the club’s story through the years. […]

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Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 10:32 AM

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16:9: InfoComm Has A Big Digital Signage Zone, But Vendors All Over

InfoComm is less than a couple of months out and I have sorted out my air, hotel and press registration, which means I can now start to look at why I am going and what I will see that I have not already seen this year at NRF, ISE, ShopTalk and DSE. Probably not much, but I tend to have more time to poke around at this event than, certainly, DSE. […]

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Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 6:32 PM

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LED Head In ISE Booth Will Have Seemed Familiar To Ohio Convention-Goers

I’ll never know how I could be all through Hall 8 last week at ISE, and didn’t see this directly – but I didn’t. I heard about it, though – a giant LED head that one might politely say was “inspired” by a strikingly similar one done at the Columbus, Ohio convention center. […]

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Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 3:36 PM

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