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From VCR To CMS, Visix Marks 40 Years In Business

There are a few companies like Capital Networks, Scala, Rise Vision and Omnivex that have been around the digital signage industry for 25 years or so, but I don’t think there’s another company in the ecosystem that can top the 40 years that Visix has now been in this business. The Atlanta-based CMS software firm got its start in 1980 as Tech Electronics, Inc. (TEi). […]

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Tue, May 12, 2020 at 9:07 AM

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Intuiface Gets ISO Audit To Confirm Customer Data Is Locked-Down Secure

The French interactive software firm Intuiface now has a shiny new certificate on its office walls saying it is ISO certified. This at first glance gets about a 2 rating on an Exciting News-O-Meter, but it is interesting because the rationale of going through a lengthy, expensive and documentation-laden audit exercise ties to locking down a platform. […]

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Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 9:48 AM

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Cenareo Develops Free Chrome Extensions That Launch Health Safety Messaging In New Tabs

The French CMS software firm Cenareo (formerly known as CityMeo) has developed a free Chrome browser extension designed to push educational reminders about Covid-19  issues.   The idea is that when a user opens a new tab in the heavily-used browser, it starts with a splash page with up-to-date health information. […]

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Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 9:21 PM

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UK DOOH Startup In Shambles After Founders Scrap With Investors, Admit Cloning IP

It is as difficult to keep up with digital out of home buying platforms as it is tracking digital signage CMS software companies, so I don’t feel all that bad about knowing absolutely nothing about the UK startup Bidooh. […]

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Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 8:15 AM

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16:9: Why You Should Care: LA’s Enplug Completes Detailed SOC 2 Data Security Audit

This is over-the-top nerdy, but I am posting this not because of the news, but because of the explanations from the software vendor as to why you should care. […]

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Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 7:46 AM

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16:9: AVIXA’s Latest Impact Survey Confirms Pro AV Business For Many Has Dried Up, Mass Layoffs

The latest COVID-19 Impact Survey, based on feedback last week from more than 325 Pro AV people globally, confirms what we all pretty much know – the pandemic continues to hammer businesses all over. […]

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Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 8:00 PM

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16:9: Digital Signage Solution Tweaked To Enforce Social Distancing At Retail

When I load up with my sanitizer and wipes, and grab my mask, to go out on a grocery or hardware run, I almost invariably end up in a line-up outside the store – with social distancing markers on the sidewalk and a cashier turned bouncer controlling access at the door. One person leaves, and then one person goes in. […]

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Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 5:05 PM

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SNA Displays Launches Free DIY Tool That Helps Visualize LED Projects At Ideation Stage

The direct view LED firm SNA Displays has launched a visualization tool that allows anyone from an integrator to architect to virtually design display projects in a variety of standard and custom environments. The new online, interactive tool was, understandably, built for SNA Displays’ prospective clients and its partner network, but is also available for anyone to use. […]

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Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 10:06 AM

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16:9: 22 Miles Offers Free Mobile Wayfinding App For Pandemic-Struck Healthcare Industry

The wayfinding-centric digital signage CMS firm 22Miles has announced a set of offers aimed at helping organizations in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. […]

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Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 8:39 AM

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16:9: Signagelive Launches Free Broadcast Player Companies Can Use To Reach Work From Home Staffers

UK-based Signagelive has announced a free – for now – service that enables companies to broadcast messages to opted-in staff members who are working from home during the pandemic. The Signagelive Broadcast Player allows for full-screen playlists or multi-zone layouts to be created and published to a weblink. The weblink can then be shared with a team for them to view on their devices. […]

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Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 10:56 AM

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16:9: Digital Signage CMS Yodeck Offers Cloud Service Free To Healthcare Sector For 2020

The Raspberry Pi-focused digital signage CMS Yodeck is offering up its cloud-based management platform free of charge to hospitals, pharmacies and other health-oriented organizations on the “front lines” of the COVID-19 pandemic. […]

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Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 10:05 AM

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16:9: Rise Vision Develops Free Chrome Browser Extension For Coronavirus Safety Tips

As well know, digital signage isn’t all that relevant right now when many to most of the “places” were screens are fixed are empty, and most everyone is at home. That will change, with time. But for now, companies like Rise Vision are thinking about ways that signage-like communications can still happen for people whose only screens are their home PCs and laptops, or TV. […]

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Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 1:20 PM

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16:9: Hypersign Launches New All-In Digital Signage As A Service, Or DSaas

Spartanburg, SC’s Hypersign has read its market and put together a business bundle it calls DSaas, which is short for Digital Signage as a service. The bundled program, which seems to be coming up more and more in digital signage (see Planar from Wednesday for another variation on this), allows end-users to put everything they need into a budget-friendly OpEx monthly payment. […]

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Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 7:29 AM

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ScreenCloud’s Mark McDermott On How A Pandemic Changes How Workplace Messaging Is Done

ScreenCloud has been around for five years now – a pure software startup that aimed to bring web technology fully into digital signage. Now the London-based company has roughly 100 staffers in the UK, US and Thailand, and is evolving from having an SMB focus into servicing enterprise business. […]

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Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 11:16 PM

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16:9: VuWall Makes Video Wall Control Software Free For COVID-19 Responders

Montreal-based video wall control software firm VuWall has offered up its VuWall2 solution as a free download to community, government and other organizations that need to create big visual dashboards to stay on top of pandemic response measures. As the current situation caused by COVID-19 remains fluid, managing the overflow of information has become a complex challenge. […]

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Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 10:56 AM

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