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Projects: Interactive Screen Puts Augmented Reality Layer In Holiday Postcards

This is a nicely targeted and executed interactive application aimed at children and their parents shopping this season at the Indooroopilly Shopping Centre in Brisbane, Australia. Customers entering a Christmas interaction zone at the mall are greeted on a screen by various Christmas characters, such as Santa, a reindeer and a snowman. […]

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Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 8:34 AM

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UK Digital OOH Firm Exterion Media Cuts Over To BroadSign’s Platform

Montreal’s BroadSign continues to pick up nice software licensing deals in the Digital Out Of Home sector, particularly in Europe. The latest is 2,000 ad displays already out in the field, owned and run by Exterion Media, Europe’s largest privately held OOH firm. “We tested several platforms prior to the decision. […]

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Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 10:24 AM

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16:9: IntuiLab’s Interactive Touchscreen Toolset Now Includes Rich Data Tracking Capabilities

The French interactive software firm IntuiLab has pushed out a new version of its IntuiFace platform – which enables people to develop touchscreen applications without having any real coding skills – that layers in what it calls enterprise-class data tracking capability. […]

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Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 1:04 PM

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16:9: Start-up Testing Virtual Dressing Room Mirror At Polo NYC Flagship

Via TechCrunch … A San Francisco-based, VC-funded startup called Oak Labs is running a trial on a slick virtual mirror in the dressing room of the Ralph Lauren Polo NYC flagship store on Fifth Avenue in New York. […]

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Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 10:16 AM

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16:9: All The Known Options For Free Digital Signage Software

Free is one of the oldest tools in the marketing sales kit. Get your first one free! Buy one, get the next one free. […]

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Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 11:47 PM

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16:9: The $85 Asus Chromebit Now Shipping; Google Halves Device Management Fee For Digital Signage Apps

The Google-backed Asus Chromebit is now on the marketplace in the U.S. and select countries, with the U.S. version priced at $85 for what’s billed as a computer on a stick. […]

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Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 8:47 AM

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16:9: GM Canada Rolling Out Screens Across Auto Dealership Network

A well-planned and executed video can get a pile of marketing mileage for a company, or team of partner companies, and I suspect this piece about a digital signage deployment now rolling out in Canadian GM auto dealerships will do that nicely. […]

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Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 10:22 AM

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16:9: Adflow Gets U.S. Patent Grant On Interactive Retail Technology

The guys up the street from me at ADFLOW Networks have announced a new patent grant for the process of lifting and looking at products in retail environments. The longtime signage CMS firm, based in Burlington, Ontario, says U.S. Patent No. […]

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Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 1:05 AM

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16:9: Lowe’s Goes Virtual To Squeeze More SKUs Into NYC Stores

Commercial space is insanely expensive in Manhattan, so if a big box store wants to have a footprint in New York City it has to slim down the number of SKUs it has on hand and get creative with how products are marketed. One of the ways the DIY chain Lowe’s is doing that is by using interactive touch tables and walls at its two Manhattan stores – in Chelsea and on the Upper West Side. […]

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Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 4:13 PM

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16:9: Signage Solutions Company Puts Vertical Focus On Marijuana Shops

When start-up digital signage software and solutions companies ask me for advice on how to go to market, I tend to STRONGLY encourage them to find a vertical market and make it their own. I don’t know the folks at EYECHRONIC.TV, but I have to admire how they’ve identified an emerging vertical and gone all-in to serve it. […]

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Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 12:10 PM

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New Johns Hopkins Study Backs Up Value Of Adding Calorie Counts To Menus

A new study by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health suggests U.S.-based chain restaurants that voluntarily list calorie counts on their menus are compelling diners to eat less, something that arguably backs up the federal edict to get calorie counts on all US fast food menus by the end of next year. […]

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Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 12:35 AM

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Projects: A&W Canada Goes Digital With Menus

A&W Food Services of Canada Inc, or A&W as we’re going to call them, has announced it is going digital with its menus at the roughly 850 stores across the Frozen North. The rollout has already started, running on software and services, like creative, from Cineplex Digital Networks, aka EK3. […]

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Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 4:59 PM

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16:9: ScreenHub Joins Crowded Digital Signage CMS Market With Platform Touted As Free

It is fairly remarkable that a teeny little tech sector like digital signage has 100s of software options for doing variations on the same thing, and even more remarkable that as observers like me steadily suggest the numbers will thin out, they instead keep growing! I don’t get it. […]

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Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 4:46 PM

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16:9: Taggalo Mashes Up Beacons, WiFi And Video Analytics To Tell Retailers What Shoppers Are Up To

The Italian/UK start-up Taggalo has launched a new gadget and service it says blends three technologies to provide retailers and brands richer insights about consumer behavior and interests in the aisles. The device combines a camera that does face pattern detection, a sensor for WiFi tracking and a Bluetooth beacon. […]

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Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 3:55 PM

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16:9: Google Says ChromeOS Here To Stay; Chromebit Called Signage In A Stick

The guy who runs Google‘s ChromeOS AND Android programs has followed up on a tweet last week and in more detail reiterated that despite the buzz in tech blogs, ChromeOS and therefore Chrome devices are not getting killed off. […]

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Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 2:34 PM

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