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US Senator Raises Consumer Privacy Concerns After Clear Channel’s Radar Comes On Screen

A prominent US Senator – Al Franken of Minnesota (Democrat) –  is going after outdoor giant Clear Channel Outdoor and another giant – AT&T – over news this week that the companies are leading a group teaming up to aggregate anonymous smartphone data to generate location and demographic analytics and hyper-target advertising on conventional and digital OOH ad signs. […]

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Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 5:42 PM

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16:9 in-Depth: What Is Beacon Technology And Why It’s Here To Stay

Guest Post: Milla Tomova & Nadia Terzieva, 2point0 Concepts You’ve probably heard about Bluetooth beacon technology, and wonder what it’s all about. Simply put, these gadgets are awesome, cheap and have a myriad of applications for your business. […]

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Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 9:42 AM

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16:9: Deeper Technical Dive Into Chromebits For Digital Signage

Guest Post: Tony Downey, Clickspace TV. I was just about ready to deploy a Chromebit “in the wild” when I read ‘My Chromebit Digital Signage Experience on this blog. Dave went through the ins and outs of an above-average consumer getting digital signage running on a single Chromebit and the trials involved. […]

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Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 12:22 PM

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16:9: How Big Is The Digital Signage Market?

Guest post: Mark Hemphill, ScreenScape This blog pointed out recently, once again, how there are a lot of bad statistics out there that try to describe the size and scope of the digital signage market. We agree that a lot of what gets referenced seems meaningless to us, as well. But the question come up often: How big is the digital signage market? […]

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Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 9:39 AM

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DSE 2016 Booth Field Guide: Omnivex

Omnivex Corporation, Booth 2521 Why do people going to DSE need to put your company on their Must See list of booths? Unlike traditional digital signage software, the Omnivex digital signage platform is a single solution that adapts to unique and changing requirements of all types of customers. […]

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Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 11:08 AM

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16:9: Video Walls Explained: Decoding The Various Tech Approaches

GUEST POST: Tim Griffin, Userful We all understand the Wow Factor that comes from a beautiful, people-stopping video wall. But few people, even within the digital signage industry, understand what’s going on behind those bright, shiny screens. […]

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Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 10:39 AM

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16:9: Commoditized Future Of Digital Signage Business Is Not For Faint-Hearted

Guest Post: A Jay, Mvix It is always fun to write about competition (and no I don’t mean the upcoming March Madness), specially when it relates to a seemingly growing industry like digital signage. Industry analysts suggest the market boasts as many as 600 digital signage content management providers, with dozens more being added to the clutter every month. […]

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Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 1:50 AM

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16:9: My Chromebit Digital Signage Experience

When the little Asus Chromebit HDMI stick was finally released last fall, I was anxious to get my hands on one to see what an $85 USD device could offer as an entry-level digital signage player. I also wanted to see what Google’s Chrome Device Management Console was all about, particularly after a stripped-back version was released for single use applications like kiosks and signage. […]

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Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 12:09 PM

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Closer Look At Philips’ New Android SoC Display Series

Last week at ISE I spent about 30 minutes getting a detailed demo from an Italian company, Tailoradio, that had developed a signage platform called VideoMood to operate on Philips’ new D-Line series of displays, which have embedded players running Android. I was impressed with what Luca Santini, Tailoradio’s CTO, walked me through with the newly minted system. […]

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Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 3:14 PM

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16:9: DSE 2016 Booth Field Guide: BroadSign

BroadSign, Booth 2510 Here’s what Stephanie Gutnik, Director of Marketing and Business Development at BroadSign, says about the Montreal company’s Digital Signage Expo plans for this year: Why do people going to DSE need to put your company on their Must See list of booths?  The BroadSign digital signage software platform has never been more front and center at a trade show than it is this year. […]

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Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 2:51 PM

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Dave Haynes’ ISE Impressions: Day 1

Integrated Systems Europe is one big trade show – far bigger than InfoComm and many multiples the size of Digital Signage Expo. It has a similar flavour to InfoComm, in that you have lots of companies showing what they do in other areas of pro AV – like microphones and conference systems – that have few ties to signage. […]

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Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 5:21 PM

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16:9: The Deadly Attraction Of The Next Big Thing: ARM-based media devices

GUEST POST: Charles Regula, VIA Technologies The tech industry has trained consumers to be fixated on the next big thing. That superphone you bought two years ago very likely does everything you could need, and does it well. […]

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Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 12:01 AM

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16:9 comments on the acquisition of Elevate DIGITAL by CIVIQ Smartscapes

The private equity firm that owns, among many things, CIVIQ Smartscapes, has acquired Chicago-based outdoor interactive station rival Elevate DIGITAL. CIVIQ is the design and manufacturing company that’s part of a consortium putting interactive kiosks on the streets of New York City’s boroughs. […]

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Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 8:58 AM

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16:9 on the Effectiveness of DOOH: 18 Surprising Statistics About Digital Signage

GUEST POST: Irfan Khan, SkyKit As a savvy businessperson, you know that digital signage is a huge, well-established market. You see screens everywhere: promoting a new product in the store, advertising deals outside pharmacies—perhaps even touting diaper rash cream – as one sign in my hometown has done for at least the last five years. […]

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Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 7:07 PM

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Planar Debuts Slick Tablet App To Visualize Video Walls During On-Site Planning

Portland-based Planar Systems has released a cool little mobile device application that makes it easy for systems integrators, architects and project teams to work out and visualize how a video wall might look in a specific environment and space. […]

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Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 4:32 PM

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