Global Digital Signage Awards Entry Window Now Open June 5, 2024 by Dave Haynes Entries are now being accepted for the 2025 global Digital Signage Awards, which will be announced and handed out at a dinner ceremony during Integrated Systems Europe in Barcelona early next year. Sixteen:Nine has been and continues to be a main sponsor of these awards and, like the past couple of years, the awards dinner …
Signagelive Adds US Patent To UK Version For What It Terms Real-Time Events June 5, 2024 by Dave Haynes UK-based CMS software firm Signagelive has been granted patents in the UK and now the US for the system, apparatus and method for sending commands and controlling networked devices. The technical name for the patents is system, apparatus and method for controlling networked devices and, in practical terms, it might mean if a competing CMS …
Dubai’s Elevision Expands Its Lift Screen Network To UK Market June 5, 2024 by Dave Haynes A digital OOH company that puts screens in high rise elevators is expanding from the United Arab Emirates to the United Kingdom, with Elevision starting to signing up and install displays in the lifts of residential properties. The Dubai-based company says it has 63 buildings already active, another 30 buildings signed and in the installation …
Screenfeed – InfoComm 2024 Digital Signage Industry Mixer Sponsor Profiles June 4, 2024 by Dave Haynes InfoComm is next week in Las Vegas, and Sixteen:Nine has partnered with Experience United Social Club to run what is a very sold-out networking event. This one is at a darts-themed bar called Flight Club, in the Palazzo complex. There will will be a little discussion about what was seen on the show floor, then networking …
STRATACACHE Announces 2nd Acquisition In 24 Hours – Toronto’s Dot2Dot Communications June 4, 2024 by Dave Haynes It is apparently M&A Day around STRATACACHE HQ, with news of a second company added to the larger business family – the small Toronto-area solutions provider Dot2Dot Communications. This is on the heels of STRATACACHE announcing its acquisition of the German services provider MasterPoint. The connective tissue with this new deal is quite strong and …
SignageOS Makes Power Consumption Calculator Web Tool Available To Model Energy Costs For Screen Networks June 4, 2024 by Dave Haynes The Czech/US firm SignageOS has launched a nice little spin-out website that enables businesses to model the amount of commercial power being consumed by the displays on digital signage or digital out of home ad networks. The Power Consumption Calculator website is essentially a web form that takes a series of inputs and produces an …
TouchSource Broadens Digital Footprint By Acquiring Healthcare Business Of True Sync Media June 4, 2024 by Dave Haynes Denver-based TouchSource, which does digital signage and wayfinding solutions focused on healthcare environments, has done a deal to acquire TrueSync Health, the healthcare business division of True Sync Media, which is also based in Denver. The TrueSync Health deal gives TouchSource a footprint of 100s of screens in patient waiting rooms across different healthcare system, …
STRATACACHE Adds European Retail Services Capabilities Via Acquisition of German Firm MasterPoint June 4, 2024 by Dave Haynes STRATACACHE has sorted out how it can expand its retail media network activity in western/central Europe, acquiring a Cologne, Germany company that specializes in digital signage systems integration, operation and field services. The Dayton, Ohio solutions company has acquired MasterPoint, giving the company an experienced team of project managers, technicians, engineers and installers to work …
Snap Install – InfoComm 2024 Digital Signage Industry Mixer Sponsor Profiles June 3, 2024 by Dave Haynes InfoComm is next week in Las Vegas, and Sixteen:Nine has partnered with Experience United Social Club to run what is a very sold-out networking event. This one is at a darts-themed bar called Flight Club, in the Palazzo complex. There will will be a little discussion about what was seen on the show floor, then networking …
Sync’d LED Torches Turn Stadium Seating Bowl Into One Big Display June 3, 2024 by Dave Haynes Back in 2012, the main stadium for the London Olympics had little nine LED light arrays attached to seats, which enabled ambient low-rez visuals to be part of the “experience” during things like the main ceremonies. Some 14 years on, the technology that could so that sort of thing has, of course, grown more sophisticated …