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22 Miles Responds; Calls Four Winds Patent Lawsuit Meritless

The wayfinding-centric signage software firm 22 Miles, Inc., based in Silicon Valley, has issued a statement responding to the lawsuit last month by Four Winds Interactive, of Denver. The statement issued April 8th says the lawsuit, alleging patent infringement and related activities, is meritless and that the company will vigorously defend itself in court. […]

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Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 8:22 PM

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Sticking To Software Drives Big Growth Spike For Indoor Mapping Firm Jibestream

Jibestream is a Toronto-based indoor mapping specialist company that has been working around the edges of the digital signage market for the past six or seven years, and some recent strategic shifts have really helped the company get marketplace traction, with triple-digit growth. […]

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Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 2:11 PM

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Projects: The Avenues Mall In Kuwait Adds Multitouch Wayfinding

The Avenues mall in Kuwait is one of the largest shopping centres in the MENA region, with a new addition bringing the leasable area past 370,000 square metres. There are more than 400 stores, including a long list of premium retail brands. […]

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Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 8:57 AM

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Get The Picture About Effective Wayfinding

Guest Post: Tom Graczkowski, Saturn Digital Media  The old saying about a picture being worth 1,000 words rings especially true when it comes to producing effective wayfinding. From a very young age, we learn to identify colourful shapes and symbols for things like bathrooms and safety signs. It’s an approach that’s essential to good wayfinding work. […]

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Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 9:08 AM

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Did Indoor Wayfinding Just Get Easier For Android Signage Platforms?

This is one of those devil in the details things, but it would at least appear there is a slick new way for software companies offering Android digital signage software platforms to add indoor mapping for malls, campuses and other busy, confusing places. A company called Here is offering up indoor mapping capability to Android developers. […]

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Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 2:19 PM

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Projects: Wayfinding Stations As Art In Miami’s Aventura Mall

The very upscale Aventura Mall in Miami has added a set of seven interactive directories to help shoppers find their way around the 2.7 million-square-foot facility. There’s nothing all that new about digital wayfinding in malls, but what’s distinct here are custom enclosures designed by architects, by a gloriously named Brooklyn, NY  firm, Snarkitecture. […]

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Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 6:03 AM

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16:9: IKE Turns On Along Denver’s Downtown Pedestrian Mall

The Downtown Denver Partnership has replaced a set of analog MallRide signs along the bustling 16th Street Mall with five big interactive stations that are collectively called IKE – short for Interactive Kiosk Experience. The project, two years in the making, turned on Tuesday. A sixth kiosk is on an adjacent street. […]

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Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 12:04 PM

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Visix Adds Client-Branded Smartphone App And Beacons For Wayfinding

Atlanta-based Visix has added an interesting new element to its product offer aimed at corporate facilities and campuses – a brand-able wayfinding app for smartphones that can be tied to bluetooth low energy beacons. The app can be used as an extension of traditional kiosk-based wayfinding or as a stand-alone solution. […]

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Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 9:05 AM

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Wayfinding: Big Directory Or Little Screen?

I sometimes wonder about the long-term prospects for companies that do touchscreen wayfinding directories but limit the solution to those big screens. To me, and probably an awful lot of people, the real wayfinding tool is in the consumer’s hand – their smartphone. […]

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Tue, May 12, 2015 at 11:06 AM

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How The Internet of Things Delivers Experiential Wayfinding

Guest Post: Chris Wiegand, Jibestream The ‘Internet of Things’ is a popular term bouncing around the technology sector at the moment. In fact this section of the market is earmarked for extraordinary growth; predictions are putting it at the largest device market in the world by 2019. […]

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Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 11:40 AM

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