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16:9: If Your (Digital Signage Software) Pitch Is All About Simple, Easy And Affordable, You’re Dead

If your company is in the digital signage software business, and your big pitch through this trade show season and beyond is all built around what you have being simple and easy to use, you’re a dead company walking. Scores of companies say their content management system is some variation on simple, easy, friendly and affordable. Those are great attributes. […]

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Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 9:51 AM

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Signagelive To Debut Content Marketplace At ISE

UK-based CMS developer Signagelive is launching a digital signage content marketplace next week at Integrated Systems Europe in Amsterdam. That marketplace, aimed at subscribers to the SaaS platform, will have some 500 pre-built digital signage content elements, ranging from layout backgrounds, pre-built applications to functionality widgets. […]

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Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 7:53 AM

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Pharma Uses 13 Big LED Elements For Trade Show Booth

We’ve come a long way from the days when it was nice to see or hear about companies in other fields using a screen or two in their trade show booths to help tell the brand and product story. Here we have a major pharma making digital the centerpiece of its presence at a show, with 13 different large scale LED elements. […]

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Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 12:47 PM

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16:9: 456 digital signage exhibitors at ISE 2017 in Amsterdam next week

Integrated Systems Europe starts next week in Amsterdam, with the trades show hall letting in the crowds starting Tuesday. It’s the biggest pro AV show in the world, and digital signage is just one component. But a big one. […]

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Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 10:09 AM

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Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: NRF Special Edition With RDM, Unefi, Show Impressions

This is a special edition of the 16:9 Podcast – special because the format’s a little different and because I’m turning this around too quickly to get it polished up by the guy who sound engineers these things. So no music. Maybe a bit more background noise. […]

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Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 11:24 AM

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16:9: AOPEN Now has Sub-$200 Commercial Grade Chromebox; $350 Chromebase Tablet

Taiwan-based AOPEN started showing off a pair of new commercial-grade Chrome devices yesterday at the NRF show – a smaller, much cheaper solid state Chromebox and a tablet-sized Chromebase. The latter, the Chromebase Mini, is a 10.1 inch all-in-one touchscreen that would compete with commercial-grade tablets and small system on chip displays. […]

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Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 11:07 AM

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16:9: Getting Set For NRF 2017

The National Retail Federation’s big annual trade show starts up on Sunday in New York, and I was very happy to learn it should be mid 40sF and sunny when I get in. I have been at that show other Januarys when the winter wind coming off the Hudson chilled anyone to the bone. […]

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Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 3:54 PM

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Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Mike Blackman, Integrated Systems Europe

Integrated Systems Europe is coming up at the start of next month in Amsterdam, and Mike Blackman is the guy who has built ISE up to be the largest pro AV show on the planet. It’s also the biggest digital signage show in terms of footprint and exhibitors, though signage is just one element of the event. […]

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Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 5:14 AM

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16:9: ISE Is Five Weeks Out; 65K+ Expected For Massive Systems Integrator Show

Integrated Systems Europe is now five weeks out and it is time to start looking over plans for the big trade show in Amsterdam, primarily what companies are there that aren’t normally seen closer to home in North America. […]

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Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 11:03 AM

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16:9: Globalshop and DSE Do Two Shows-One Badge Deal For 2017

It went in one ear and out the other at the time, but in re-listening to my podcast with Digital Signage Expo show director Andrea Varrone she mentioned how Globalshop was on at the same time as DSE in Las Vegas, and that attendees could get into both shows – with one badge. […]

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Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 1:14 PM

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Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Andrea Varrone, Digital Signage Expo

Digital Signage Expo is coming up in late March in Las Vegas. It will be the 14th version of the big trade show and conference. I sat down with DSE Show Director Andrea Varrone when she was up in Toronto last week, to run through what people should expect to see in 2017 at and around the show.. […]

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Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 7:06 AM

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DSE 2017 Same Week As Bar, Retail And Pizza (Yup, Pizza) Trade Shows

It’s almost always been the case that the week Digital Signage Expo is on in Las Vegas is generally a pretty quiet week around the convention center and the city. Not in 2017. […]

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Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 1:15 PM

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CorpComm, EduComm Expos This Week In CubsTown

The CorpComm Expo and sister EduComm Expo trade shows are on this week in Chicago – running Tuesday and Wednesday at the Chicago Navy Pier. Not going, but I’m sure those who are will be happy to learn Chicago will be unseasonably mild (and sunny) this week, making what could be a hellishly cold walk out on the Lake Michigan pier to the hall quite pleasant. […]

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Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 1:20 PM

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16:9: Digital Signage Expo Opens Registration For March 2017 Vegas Show

The 2017 edition of Digital Signage Expo have opened for registration online at www.dse2017.com The show is at the Las Vegas Convention Center March 28-31 (with the exhibit hall open March 29-30). […]

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Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 9:09 AM

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16:9: New York Digital Signage Week (Ok, Days For Me)

Halfway through a whirlwind trip in and out of New York for a few events associated with what’s been dubbed New York Digital Signage Week. It’s a compilation of events and cocktail parties and open houses, some that have been on for years, and others that have developed around this DS week theme. […]

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Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 6:34 AM

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