Digital Signage 2008

Jan 2008 – The digital signage business is set to become very competitive, with a number of innovations likely to come to market over the next couple of years and new target markets opening up, says Kevin Lawrence, senior vice president, sales, for Helius, which was acquired by

Jan 7, 2008 – At the same time, Digital Signage and Digital Home applications require long reach connectivity because the source content may be located tens of “DisplayPort opens up more opportunities for our graphics processors especially for Digital Home and Digital Signage applications by

From Luxtera Showcases World’s First DisplayPort Optical Interconnect

Feb 2008 – In February 2008, leading digital signage software vendor Scala announced [1] an agreement with IAdea to develop the world’s first open network architecture between IAdea’s media player appliances and the PC-based Scala Content Manager server software. Before

From IAdea – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

IAdea is a company in the digital signage industry known for development of industrial-grade media player appliances.

In February 2008, leading digital signage software vendor Scala announced[1] an agreement with IAdea to develop the world’s first open network architecture between IAdea’s media player appliances and the PC-based Scala Content Manager server software. Before this event, digital signage systems were proprietary and interoperability between different vendors were not possible. The interoperability was based on the Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language, an W3C open standard for audio video applications.

The name IAdea is pronounced “idea.” Two initial capitalized letters “IA” stands for “information appliance,” a term referring to purpose-specific electronic devices used for information access.

Feb 5, 2008 – MONTREAL, QUEBEC — (MARKET WIRE) — 02/05/08 — BroadSign International, Inc., a leading worldwide provider of hosted software for managing digital signage networks, today announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire privately-held Navori International SA (Navori).

From BroadSign Acquires Navori Digital Signage Network

Feb 13, 2008 – Kolkata, Feb. 12 Elevator News Network (ENN), in association with Helius Inc of Canada (a global player in business-class data broadcasting), on Tuesday launched digital signage services in Kolkata. The service (to be introduced in phases) will be available, according to Mr Asok Sharma

From ENN launches digital signage in tie-up with Helius Inc

Feb 20, 2008 – RoninCast for Automotive will be showcased at the Digital Signage Expo held at the Las Vegas Convention Center on February 27-28, 2008. Wireless Ronin Technologies is the Presenting Sponsor of the 2008 Digital Signage Expo. For more information or to register to attend the

FromLaunches RoninCast for Automotive at Digital Signage Expo in Las

Feb 25, 2008 – James Kruper is the president of Analytical Design Solutions Inc., which develops KioWare kiosk software. To submit a comment about this article, please e-mail the editor. As the owner of a company that publishes kiosk system software and develops custom self-service kiosk applications

From Self-service and digital signage can coexist

Feb 27, 2008 – Harris Digital Signage solutions are designed to scale from supporting small, multi-screen implementations at a single venue to enterprise Harris solutions support the complete digital signage content delivery chain, including creation, production, media asset management, sales,

Fromto Showcase Expanded Portfolio of Digital Signage Solutions for Network

Feb 27, 2008 – Colleyville, TX (PRWEB) February 27, 2008 — Transworld Media, a digital advertising company, today announced it has selected Real Digital Media’s (RDM) NEOCAST® digital signage solution to manage point-of-purchase programming and advertising for their nationwide convenience store

FromMedia Begins Rollout of Digital Signage Network for Convenience

Mar 13, 2008 – 13 Mar 2008, 1123 hrs IST, PTI. PUNE: InfoSignz Technologies, a digital signage and narrowcasting solution provider, has launched a free version of their digital signage management platform. This is the first time, when a completely integrated solution is offered at absolutely no cost.

From InfoSignz Technologies launches free digital signage platform

Mar 16, 2008 – Aaron Bennett, VP of sales and marketing for ISV (independent software vendor) Preferred Digital Signage (PDS), believes digital signage can be sold to any organization looking to sell something. His pitch is simple: Digital signage can be used to turn uneducated sales staff into sales

From Lead The Digital Signage Revolution

Apr 9, 2008 – SCOTTS VALLEY, CA–(Marketwire – April 9, 2008) – MediaTile announced today that it will be delivering digital signage best practices information in networking and content management at next week’s KioskCom Self Service Expo / Digital Signage Show, and at the 2008 NAB SHOW in Las Vegas

From MediaTile to Unveil Digital Signage and Kiosk Networking and Content

May 8, 2008 – The 46-inch display was built for use in transit centers, bus shelters, shopping malls, and at point-of-sale retail locations as a replacement for poster advertisements. By Antone Gonsalves. Samsung Electronics on Wednesday said it has started mass production of a 46-inch “high-bright”

From Samsung Making ‘High-Bright’ Digital Signage Panel

May 28, 2008 – CampaignManager is an easy to use software platform for managing digital displays such as plasma screen TVs, Kiosks or LCD displays and projectors. CampaignManager can control a single screen in your office, or a thousand public screens around the world simply from your own desktop.

From CampaignManager 2008 for Digital Signage

Jun 1, 2008 – The distributed architecture of Cisco ACNS Software is intended to reduce WAN traffic by intercepting requests for web and video traffic and serving those requests at the network edge from the local cache or file system. This architecture allows for delivery of rich web content and

FromDigital Media System Deployments for Digital Signage With Cisco ACNS

Jun 21, 2008 – Harris Corporation (NYSE: HRS) and VBrick Systems have leveraged their multimedia expertise to create a powerful, combined solution that delivers digital signage and live streaming video over various communications networks. Customers across the commercial, government and education

From Harris Corporation and VBrick Combine Digital Signage and IP Computer

Aug 29, 2008 – Had Vishal Borker’s brother Sameer got a job straight out of engineering college in 2005, Vishal wouldn’t have pushed himself hard enough to start NextBiT Computing. He had always wanted to work with consumer electronics and this gave them the chance. And a break with Sky’s future

From gCoSign technology remotely managing digital signage networks

Oct 2, 2008 – TRED — an Albuquerque-based start up that formed in 2006 — has developed low-powered digital signage as an alternative to liquid crystal displays (LCD) and light-emitting diode (LED) technology. The company received $850000 from Flywheel Ventures and from the Japanese company,

From TRED Displays to launch indoor digital signage in Chicago

Oct 29, 2008 – KUALA LUMPUR: Samsung launched its latest Professional LCD monitor series, the UX/n, which is used in multivideo wall displays in exhibition halls, sports venues and/or shopping malls. With the product, the company aims to take digital signage solutions to the next level — improved

From New LCD series boost for digital signage

Dec 7, 2008 – The Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. (PLDT) has ventured into a new service: an end-to-end fully-managed digital signage network. Called PLDT Sweetspots, the product provides management services for remote content uploading and updating, customer touch points’ content receivers,

From PLDT launches digital signage network solution