L-com, Inc., a global leader in the manufacture of wired and wireless connectivity products, has introduced a new line of VGA splitters and a UTP VGA extender.
L-com’s LCVS series of VGA video splitters are ideal for distributing VGA video signals
L-com Introduces Plug-and-Play VGA Splitters and Extender
The Desmond Hotel and Conference Center Installs Flyte Systems Guest Air Travel Solutions
Guests at Busy Albany, NY, Business Property Get Travel Confidence from Real-Time Airport Departure and Arrival Information
Flyte Systems, the leading provider of airport travel information displays and digital
Gefen DVI KVM ELR Extender Goes 100 Meters on One CAT-5 Cable
New Extra Long Range (ELR) KVM Extender from Gefen Delivers WUXGA Resolutions with USB Peripherals using Just One CAT-5 Cable up to 100 Meters
Digital connectivity solutions provider Gefen today announced that its DVI KVM ELR
Amscreen goes continental with BP
Leading digital signage provider expands its forecourt network across Europe
Amscreen, the UK’s largest nationwide digital media network owner, is expanding to foreign shores for the first time following a deal with BP Europe SE. The contract will
see digital signage screens installed in forecourts across the continent initially in Germany, Poland, Luxembourg, Switzerland and Austria.
In just two years Amscreen has established the UK’s largest digital screen media network, broadcasting on more than 3,000 screens nationwide to an audience of 25 million a week. The decision to expand its forecourt network to Europe will see its audience increase to 40 million a week once this initial rollout with BP is complete. This exclusive five year deal will also see BP UK extending its partnership with Amscreen for a further five years.
Extensive research was carried out by Amscreen including eye ball tracking and exit interviews ahead of these developments which demonstrated several advantages for advertisers, many of whom have an existing global presence. The expansion will offer brands a pan European media network, enabling them to target a much larger audience in real time.
Jurgen Bloemers, Marketing and Cards Director Europe at BP, said: “Following on from the success of our partnership with Amscreen in the UK, it made perfect sense to mirror this onto our forecourt network across Europe. Amscreen’s unique ‘plug and play’ technology is easy for us to install and is sure to modernise digital advertising across European forecourts by centralising messaging, reducing wastage and maximising store compliance.”
Simon Sugar, CEO of Amscreen, said: “We are really excited about our expansion into Europe. After an encouraging two years in the UK we are keen to further develop the network and this deal with BP is a perfect starting ground to mark our entry onto the European market. The user friendly nature of our digital signage technology means that it can be easily rolled out across the continent and we hope to have our screens installed in over 1,800 BP and Aral sites in the coming months. This is just a start for us in Europe and we will be announcing other European forecourt partnerships in the coming months.”
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For further information, please contact Sophie Kay on 0207 693 6973 or sophiekay [at] frankpr.it
About Amscreen:
Amscreen, run by CEO Simon Sugar, is the UK’s largest Digital Out of Home media company, offering a robust, end-to-end digital signage solution via its unique wireless plug and play technology. Its networks broadcast from more than 3,000 sites across the UK and are an effective communication tool for clients such as BP, Shell and WHSmith and a range of blue-chip advertisers such as BSkyB, Amex, Visa, B&Q, Camelot, Redbull and Lucozade.
As well as operating in petrol, convenience, leisure and travel locations, Amscreen provides screens to the healthcare industry. Its Healthcare network uses revolutionary software to provide customers with the ability to create and broadcast their own messages that can be viewed in prime dwelling areas such as waiting rooms, corridors and coffee shops.
In addition, the live Amscreen mapping system allows advertisers to locate screens across the UK. Visit http://www.amscreen.co.uk/
If you are a forecourt owner and are interested in learning more about Amscreen’s forecourt network and how this could benefit your business, please email info [at] amscreen.co.uk
About BP Europe SE:
BP is one of the world’s leading international oil and gas companies, providing its customers with fuel for transportation, energy for heat and light, retail services and petrochemicals products for everyday items.
BP Europa SE covers the countries Austria, Belgium, Germany, Netherlands, Poland and Switzerland with more than 3, 700 BP and Aral branded filling stations.
For more information on BP Europa SE visit www.bp-se.eu or www.bp.com
Source: Amscreen
BrightSign Portable All-Inclusive Tabletop Display Wins 2011 InfoComm Award for Best Digital Signage Hardware Product
BrightSign(r), a trusted name in digital signage solutions that are affordable and easy to use, announced today that its turnkey tabletop digital signage solution, the BrightSign TD1012, has been named Best Digital Signage Hardware Product. The award is part of the rAVe 2011 Best of InfoComm Awards from rAVe ProAV Edition. The innovative solid-state tower is a freestanding, end-to-end digital signage solution that doesn’t require a PC nor any external power or wiring. Since no cabling is necessary for playback, the tower is highly portable and versatile for placement on a table, a checkout counter, on shelves or desktops.
DisplayLink USB Virtual Graphics Technology Enables Low-Power, Low-Cost Embedded Displays
Starter Kits will Aid Manufacturers and OEMs to Enhance Applications for POS, Security, Digital Signage, Control, and Transportation
DisplayLink®, the leading provider of technology for virtual graphics and USB-connected computing,
Crystal Display Launches Integrated Facebook Property Listing App for Digital Signage
Crystal Display has launched a new Facebook Property Listing App that enables clients to automatically showcase property listings on their Facebook company page, directly integrated with their Digital Signage platform.
It’s already established that businesses that are more active on social networking sites such as Facebook reach a wider audience and are more likely to influence buying decisions. The Facebook App helps achieve a dynamic and “always up-to-date” Facebook presence by enabling agencies to display their property listings online, where in most cases the property is found by the buyer.
Ben Fisher, Managing Director of Crystal Display states, “Facebook property listings is now an integrated feature of our real estate digital signage platform. The information published on our client’s digital real estate displays can now be published on their Facebook page so there is no need to manage separate systems. It’s a completely integrated system, when the client makes a change to their property listings on their display screens the information is automatically updated on their Facebook page also.”
“The Facebook Property Listing App is now available as a standard inclusion from Crystal Display. For new clients who don’t have a Facebook company page, we’ll include that for free too.”
About Crystal Display
Crystal Display was founded in 2009 by Ben Fisher. Crystal Display is Premier supplier of digital signage systems, digital out-of-home media platforms, media players, hardware and software. With a range of affordable and easy to use digital signage solutions integrated with leading social media channels, Crystal Display is at the cutting edge in digital signage solutions for real estate, hospitality, retail and travel. Crystal Display Pty Ltd is a privately held Australian company.
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Crystal Display
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NEC Display Solutions Executive Receives Crn Magazine’s 2011 Women Of The Channel Accolades
Vice President Betsy Larson Drives NEC Channel Growth with Mix of Leadership and Panache
NEC Display Solutions of America, a leading provider of commercial LCD display and projector solutions,
Visix Wins Best New Product for Higher Education Market with WayPoint Interactive
Visix, Inc., a digital signage software provider, has been recognized with the Best New Product for Higher Education Market award by rAVe [Publications] at the Best of InfoComm Awards. The award highlights Visix’s WayPoint™ interactive wayfinding solution.
“We’re thrilled to receive this award,” says Sean Matthews, President of Visix. “This product bridges our technology with creative services to deliver effective content solutions for various environments.”
WayPoint™ Interactive: Enhancing Campus Navigation
WayPoint™ is designed to improve wayfinding and communication in corporate and college campuses, healthcare facilities, government buildings, and other institutions. It combines content modules into customizable layouts that feature the client’s logo, colors, and branding. Content options include digital signage message playlists, auto-updating news, weather and RSS feeds, and Google Maps showing locations like admissions, dining halls, and bookstores with customized icons.
The Best of InfoComm Award listing states, “Aimed at schools, WayPoint™ is the perfect interactive communications and wayfinding application for a school wanting to implement digital signage, and also incorporates Twitter feeds, AccuWeather, and other features a campus digital signage network would need.”
Emergency Communication Features
WayPoint™ includes an alert feature that allows emergency notices to be triggered by CAP messages, ensuring timely communication during critical situations. The package includes matching message templates, data subscriptions, licenses, and training.
Industry Recognition
Gary Kayye, Founder of rAVe [Publications], comments, “Visix continues to improve, and WayPoint™ is essential for higher education institutions.”
For more information about the Best of InfoComm Awards, visit http://www.ravepubs.com/rave2011/
To learn more about WayPoint™, visit Visix Interactive Wayfinding.
SmartAVI Releases SignWare, the Most Comprehensive, Affordable and Expandable Digital Signage Solution on the Market
SmartAVI, Inc., a world-leading innovator of digital signage and video/audio/control signal distribution and switching over UTP/STP and fiber optic cable, announces the release of its American made SignWare digital signage solution. SignWare is a comprehensive digital
Nexus IS, Inc. Becomes a Certified Inova Solutions Reseller
Nexus signs reseller agreement with Inova Solutions
Inova Solutions announced a new reseller partnership with Nexus IS, Inc. As a certified Inova Solutions reseller, Nexus is increasing the Inova Solutions footprint and bringing Inova’s call center solutions to a wider array of customers.
ClearOne Joins Russell Microcap Index and AVnu Alliance
ClearOne, a global communications and entertainment solutions company, announced today that it has been added to the Russell Microcap® Index, following the Russell Investment Group’s annual reconstitution of its indexes. The Russell Microcap Index is constructed to provide a comprehensive and unbiased barometer for the microcap and smallcap segments trading on national exchanges.
“ClearOne’s inclusion in the Russell Microcap Index is a clear acknowledgement of our effort to increase the market value of the company,” said Zee Hakimoglu, President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of ClearOne. “We are pleased with this important milestone achievement for ClearOne and expect this membership to increase our exposure within the institutional investment community.”
Membership in the Russell Microcap Index, which remains in place for one year, means automatic inclusion in the appropriate growth and value style indexes. Russell determines membership for its equity indexes primarily by objective, market-capitalization rankings and style attributes.
ClearOne also announced its membership to the AVnu Alliance™, the industry forum which promotes IEEE Audio Video Bridging (AVB) standards. ClearOne joins the growing list of industry stakeholders in the Automotive, Professional, and Consumer Electronics industries who promote Audio Video Bridging AVB and its role in delivering the highest quality A/V experience.
“We are an ardent proponent of technology standards and strongly support the AVnu Alliance mission,” said Michael Braithwaite, ClearOne’s chief strategy officer. “Joining AVnu will help ensure that StreamNet™ products leverage AVB standards and seamlessly operate on networks with other AVB components.” StreamNet is ClearOne’s innovative technology for distributing, synchronizing and controlling AV content over Internet protocol networks.
“Adopting AVB will let us extend StreamNet to a new level of performance,” said Braithwaite. “We will use it in developing professional, leading-edge AV streaming products that reliably deliver rich multi-media content in high-traffic network environments.”
Audio Video Bridging is a set of standards currently in development by the IEEE 802.1 Task Group. The standards provide professional quality AV to be effectively transported over Ethernet with guaranteed quality of service and low latency.
“Audio Video Bridging provides a robust standards-based foundation for AV distribution for a broad range of applications,” said Lee Minich, Marketing Work Group chair of AVnu Alliance and president of Lab X Technologies. “We welcome ClearOne and their expertise in AV conferencing and networking, and their sharing of our collective vision of an interoperable AVB ecosystem.”
The complete Russell Microcap Index including recent additions and deletions can be found at www.russell.com/indexes.
About ClearOne
ClearOne is a global communications solutions company that develops and sells conferencing, collaboration, multi-media streaming and connectivity systems for audio, video, and web applications. The reliability, flexibility and performance of our advanced comprehensive solutions enhance the quality of life through better communication, education, and entertainment.
We develop, manufacture, market, and service a comprehensive line of high-quality audio conferencing products under personal, tabletop, premium and professional categories. We occupy the number one position in the global professional audio conferencing market with nearly 50% of the global market share. Our conferencing solutions save organizations time and money by creating a natural environment for collaboration.
NetStreams, a ClearOne brand of residential products, delivers the ultimate IP A/V experience by distributing high definition audio and video over TCP/IP networks. NetStreams’ products, designed for commercial and residential use, offer unprecedented levels of performance, functionality, simplicity, reliability, and expandability. By combining audio/video content, meta-data and control signals into one stream and incorporating industry standards, NetStreams’ newly patented StreamNet® solutions are a smart investment, enabling the Power of AV over IP™ – today.
NetStreams’ StreamNet technology provides elegant solutions for streaming media & control applications such as digital signage, distribution of HD video and audio, LAN Cloud Matrix Switching™, and audio paging over data networks.
About Russell Investments
Russell Investments is an independent, global financial services firm that provides strategic advice, investment solutions, implementation services and global performance benchmarks that are customized to meet the unique needs of institutional investors, financial advisors and individuals.
Celebrating its 75th anniversary in 2011, 25 years in Sydney and Tokyo and 15 years in the Netherlands, Russell has pioneered innovations that have come to define many of the practices that are standard in the investment world today, and has four decades of experience researching and selecting money managers globally.
Russell has about $161 billion in assets under management (as of 3/31/11) and works with 2,300 institutional clients, 530 independent distribution partners and millions of individual investors globally. As a consultant to some of the largest pools of capital in the world, Russell has $2 trillion in assets under advisement (as of 12/31/2010) and traded $1.4 trillion last year through its implementation services business. The Russell Global Indexes calculate over 50,000 benchmarks daily covering 85 countries and more than 10,000 securities.
Founded in 1936, Russell is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, USA and has offices in Amsterdam, Auckland, Chicago, London, Melbourne, Milan, New York, Paris, San Francisco, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo and Toronto.
About AVnu Alliance
AVnu Alliance is an industry forum dedicated to enabling professional-quality audio video transport by promoting the adoption of IEEE 802.1 AVB and the related standards over various networking link-layers. The member companies create and implement compliance test procedures and processes that promote interoperability of AVB-enabled networked products. More information can be found on the AVnu Alliance Web site at http://www.AVnu.org.
ONELAN’S New v8.1.1 Net-Top-Box Software Release
Incorporating Remote Control and Wi-Fi
New features in ONELAN’s v8.1.1 Net-Top-Box (NTB) software have been developed in response to demand from resellers.
Increasingly ONELAN reseller digital signage installations are becoming larger and more
RAM Vision completes Bullring AV makeover
RAM Vision has transformed the Bullring into an advertiser’s paradise with a refreshed AV system. The mall now features the very latest digital solutions all with high end finishing which have dramatically changed the aesthetics and feel of the mall.
Four Winds Interactive Tallies Three Technological Excellence Awards
Digital signage solutions provider honored by industry association and trade magazine for developing interactive wayfinding technology for Royal Caribbean International
Digital signage solutions provider Four Winds Interactive (FWi) has won three recent awards
BLR Sign Systems Introduces Digital Signage as a New Communications Medium at Trade Shows
BLR Sign Systems introduces dynamic digital signage for an effective means of communication. Learn how it provides a more attractive ambience at trade shows and events.
Portable displays, large printed graphics and backdrops are pretty
Italian Shopping Giant Leroy Merlin uses SpinetiX to power Digital Signage in flagship Nova Milanese store
Key partner, Voome Networks deploys SpinetiX Hyper Media Player technology for greater flexibility, robustness and software connectivity
The prestigious Nova Milanese retail store located just outside of Milan is