Four Winds Gets Top 50 Ranking Among Forbes’ Most Promising US Firms February 8, 2013 by Super User Denver-based Four Winds Interactive has been ranked #41 in Forbes magazine’s annual ranking of America’s Most Promising Companies, which is a list of 100 privately-held, high-flying companies. David Levin, President and CEO of FWi, was also pegged by the business publication as one of America’s Most Promising CEOs Under 35. The company, which does digital signage …
Christie’s Book Of Shapes Now A Free iPad App (Or PDF) February 1, 2013 by Super User For the purposes of full disclosure, this is a bit of a shameless plug. Christie has published and released The Book of Shapes – a “coffee table” style book that showcases projects around the globe that have used the company’s MicroTiles to somewhat reinvent the idea of video walls and digital display in retail and arhcitectuarl …
RMG Gets Unfocused Again, Taking Over Akoo’s Failed Mall Media Network January 31, 2013 by Super User News that RMG Networks has taken over the screens in shopping malls that were previously run by Akoo comes as a bit of a surprise, given that the San Francisco-based company had last year got out of verticals like fitness to focus solely on airline travel. Now the company is selling a huge network of …
ComQi Exits The Com Side Of Business Via Kramer Licensing Deal January 29, 2013 by Super User An email just came in that says Kramer Electronics and ComQi have done a “global strategic partnership agreement” that has the Com in ComQi effectively dealt to Kramer. The agreement, says a release timed for Integrated Systems Europe in Amsterdam, provides Kramer Electronics with exclusive manufacturing, sales and marketing rights for ComQi’s (former Minicom Digital Signage) …
New Digital Poster Runs, Updates Off Solar January 29, 2013 by Super User The marketplace potential for monochromatic signs probably has a relatively low ceiling, but nonetheless there are theoretically lots of basic paper signs that could be replaced with this newest generation of electronic ink displays if the ROI made sense. Plastic Logic and SERELC have developed and are now marketing a low-power outdoor digital signage solution …
Low Bandwidth, High Quality H.265 Video Gets Standards OK January 28, 2013 by Super User In what’s kind of a big deal for ops guys and people who pay the bandwidth bills, the International Telecommunication Union has approved the H.265 video encoding standard, which means the same piece of video can have its file size reduced by half without compromising quality. So if you are moving a lot of video …
Capital’s Android Player Among 2012 Best Of Picks January 25, 2013 by Super User Congratulations to the folks at Capital Networks – sixteen:nine blog and 2013 mixer sponsors – who picked up the Product of the Year award from Signage Solutions magazine for its Audience For Android player. Dallas-based Signage Solutions has made Best Of picks in 12 industry categories. You can find all the picks here …
Christie Adds Outdoor Panels To Lesser-Known LCD Product Line January 24, 2013 by Super User LCD flat panels are definitely not products readily associated with Christie, which is a big, big player based on its projector technology and more recently its MicroTiles. But the company also does LCDs – or at least takes LCD technology and does its own spin on that display tech. Christie has had LCDs for a …
IAdea Releasing Seven New Digital Signage Devices January 22, 2013 by Super User IAdea has added to its list of appliances tuned to the needs of digital signage projects, with seven new devices that bake in emerging capabilities like HTML5. The Taiwanese company (a Sixteen:Nine sponsor) has released the new devices to sync up with appearances at Integrated Systems Europe at the end of the month and Digital …
RMG Networks Merger Puts Digital OOH Network On Path To Going Public January 18, 2013 by Super User Reach Media Group Holdings, Inc. (aka RMG Networks) has done a merger agreement with a venture capital firm that will enable the Digital OOH company to go public this year. The deal is with SCG Financial Acquisition Corp, which has listings on NASDAQ and two over the counter exchanges, and does these sorts of special purpose …
