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16:9: Google’s Evolving Future In Digital Signage

  Google booth at DSE 2015 The digital signage ecosystem has developed at least two distinct camps, with distinct points of view, about the presence of tech giant Google in this relatively teeny industry. On one hand, there are people like me who think a company with a huge impact and footprint on the everyday working and personal lives of billions is hard to dismiss and ignore. […]

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Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 12:58 PM

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Projects: Microsoft Opens Massive Flagship Store in NYC

This would have cost Microsoft a couple of bucks – a massive five-level shop on 5th Avenue in New York that is, happy to see, even more about screens than the 110 other screen-heavy stores it already has operating out in the market. This one has 22,000 square feet of space, and the signature is a 3 by 15 (looks like) video wall/totem at the back-center if the street-level entry. […]

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Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 1:11 PM

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How Four Winds Used Own Product To Boost Morale, Culture And Employee Engagement

If there was a highlight for me from last week’s Forward conference in Denver, it was probably the opening session run by David Levin, the CEO of Four Winds Interactive, which put the event on. I’d tend to think of these kick-off sessions as welcomes and walk-throughs of what to expect, and not a bunch more. […]

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Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 11:01 AM

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16:9: How A Company Saved $500 Million By Using Digital Signage

In my old newspaper editor days, I verbally slapped around my reporters if they did something called Burying The Lede – putting the big news at the end of the story, if they got it in there at all. […]

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Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 7:58 PM

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Save $200 Today On An Xlab Ticket

If your work in digital signage sees you in meetings where the client or the bosses start talking about their aspirations for transforming a space, or creating an experience, you kinda sorta need to get to New York in a couple of weeks for an event called Xlab. […]

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Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 10:21 AM

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16:9: If You Can’t Beat Them, Domain-Squat Them?

A Utah-based signage software company has taken the interesting and questionable step of buying and registering the unused domain suffixes of many key competitors. […]

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Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 9:19 AM

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Open Source Concerto Digital Signage Platform Gets Commercial SaaS Version

  Some of the people who developed the open source digital signage platform Concerto, when they were students at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, have now developed a commercial wrapper of Concerto aimed at users who want a low-cost, intuitive system, but don’t want to manage servers. […]

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Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 8:53 AM

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16:9: Small Screens For Big C-Store Moments

GUEST POST: Henrik Andersson, Instorescreen Thousands of convenience store owners and operators will be in Las Vegas next week for the annual NACS trade show, an event built heavily around helping these businesses find new ways to maintain and build their bottom lines. […]

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Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 9:48 AM

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16:9: Newad Adds 1,500 Screens To Canadian Digital OOH Network

Montreal’s Newad has announced plans to grow into what would be one of the largest digital OOH networks in Canada, with a goal of 4,000 digital ad boards switched on by the end of 2016. That announcement comes several weeks after Newad acquired the majority of Zoom Media’s major networks in Canada. […]

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Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 11:58 AM

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16:9: Mvix Launches All-In $259 Digital Signage Player & Software Bundle

The Sterling, Virginia-based signage firm Mvix has launched a new hardware/software bundle that gets users a teeny Intel-based player and lifetime software for just $259. […]

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Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 1:57 AM

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16:9: How To Go Interactive In Digital Signage

GUEST POST: Mark Janke, DeviceWorx There’s a reason so many digital signs out there have fingerprints all over them – consumers expect that pretty much any screen they see and use will be interactive, just like their phones and tablets. But only a fraction of the digital signs now operating in the field are set up for interaction. […]

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Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 1:02 AM

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Projects: Rockwell Puts Its Merchandising Screens On Rollers

Here’s an interesting digital merchandising set-up I bumped into at my local Canadian Tire store – a big dedicated store within a store zone for the power tool maker Rockwell. What caught my eye were screens on both sides that were set up on roller tracks, so that they could be pulled left or right to get explanations about different products laid out in front. […]

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Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 8:13 AM

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Four Winds Firms Up Speakers, Agenda For Next Month’s Forward Conference

I checked in with Four Winds Interactive to ask how things are going with plans for the conference the software company is running next month in the company’s hometown city, Denver.  Called Forward – the Digital Experience Conference, the event is designed to educate and inspire people who are grappling with the explosion of digital content and tech out there, and how to apply it effectively to their organizations. […]

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Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 5:21 PM

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16:9: Capital Networks, OPTiFi Partner On New DOOH Audience Analytics Tech

Digital signage and broadcast software company Capital Networks has entered into an interesting partnership with a small company that enables consumer behaviour metrics by picking up on smartphone signals. […]

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Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 10:36 AM

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DSrupted Speaker Preview: Brad Parler On Shaping Behavior With Great Content

Brad Parler is coming up from Houston, Texas in a couple of weeks to talk at DSrupted.com about better, more effective content. Here’s a sneak peek at what he’ll be talking about at the Sept. 16th event – a shorter version from an interactive conference he spoke at recently, down in Houston. […]

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Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 2:37 PM

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