AirMedia Group Inc. (Nasdaq: AMCN), operator of the largest digital media network in China dedicated to air travel advertising, today announced that it recently obtained the contractual concession rights to install and operate three mega-size LED screens, each measuring 80.2 square meters (or 863.27 square feet) in Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport, from June 1, 2009 to December 31, 2015. The LED screens will be installed above all the domestic security check areas to best cover the Airport’s domestic travelers. Guangzhou Airport, which handled 33.4 million air passengers in 2008, was rated the second largest airport in mainland China in terms of the number of air passengers.
AirMedia to Operate Mega-size LED Screens in Guangzhou Airport
Atlanta Hotels Deploy Flyte Systems’ Digital Signage Solution for Live Airline Information
Flyte Systems, the leading provider of airport travel information displays and digital signage content for the hospitality industry, digital signage, convention centers and related businesses, announced the implementation of its FlyteBoard airline flight information display, FlyteChannel guest room TV airline feed, and FlytePass, boarding pass printing kiosks at two properties managed by Noble Investment Gr
WireSpring’s EasyStart Brings Vibrant, Low Cost Digital Signage to Small Networks and AV Integrators
The newest addition to WireSpring’s product line, FireCast Digital Signage EasyStart is designed for networks with fewer than 10 screens and optimized for the Pro AV integration channel. EasyStart provides a ready-to-use hardware and software solution for only $1350.
WireSpring today announced FireCast Digital Signage EasyStart, a new product that brings low-cost digital signage to small networks and AV integrators.
Asysco unleashes the future of digital signage on the UK with intelligent content and contextual messaging – Moxie has arrived
A new generation of dynamic digital signage software has been unleashed in the UK by Asysco, Europe’s leading professional audio visual systems integrator, and it couldn’t have come a moment too soon for organisations who need to get their message across in style.
Moxie is the latest software innovation from Omnivex, the first name in enterprise software for digital signage networks and has been designed to react to an increasing demand for more dynamic, innovative and relevant video content.
Agreement With Key Australian and New Zealand Distributor Further Strengthens SmartAVI’s Position Within The Global Marketplace
SmartAVI, a world-leading innovator in the fields of digital content creation, management and delivery solutions through hardware and software, has entered into an agreement that will allow its product to be distributed by Adimex throughout Australia and New Zealand.
The distribution deal allows SmartAVI’s impresive line of A/V technology product to be readily available to its strong channel and partner network that is familiar with and confident in the brands and manufacturers that Adimex chooses to partner with.
Miniweb wins IPTV Award
Miniweb today announced that it has been chosen as the best Interactive Service / Application at the IPTV World Series Awards. The awards ceremony took place on the evening of March 25th, at a gala dinner and award ceremony.
This prestigious award recognises interactive TV technologies and solutions across all network types, including terrestrial, satellite, cable, IPTV and mobile, and also covers technologies and services relating to Internet-based video delivered over any access network.
SpinetiX releases its digital signage platform v2.0
New benefits for SpinetiX customers with the release of the digital signage platform v2.0
SpinetiX SA announces today the release of the SpinetiX digital signage platform v2.0 which offers more benefits and new features to SpinetiX customers worldwide.
Avalue’s Innovative Modular Multimedia Interactive Touch Panel PC, FPC 15/17/22 Inch Series, Won the Taiwan Excellence Award 2009
Avalue is devoted to develop self-service equipments and aims at POS, Kiosk, and Digital Signage applications. In last year, June 2008 international expo COMPUTEX Taipei, Avalue launched the innovative e-service product – FPC 15/17/22 inch series, has honored with the Taiwan Excellence Award in this year. FPC series is a modular multimedia interactive touch panel system. Its modular architecture, flexible choices and low cost features are the key points of being awarded.Compare to other panel computers, FPC series effectively reduce the cost to meet market trend. Thanks to the modular concept of entire system from embedded motherboard, panel to housing, and fulfilled dimensions enable flexible choices, and yet to serve ODM/OEM customers. High compatibility of software and hardware facilitate system integration. Able horizontal or vertical installation of big screen can be applied to a digital signage; complied with a touch panel can be used as a POS or Kiosk system.
AIS Unveils Waterproof Outdoor Digital Signage Displays for High-Traffic Environments
American Industrial Systems Inc. (AIS), a preeminent manufacturer of industrial LCD monitors and displays, has announced the launch of its innovative Waterproof Outdoor Digital Signage Displays. This new product line is tailored to meet the growing demands of high-traffic outdoor settings, making it an ideal solution for zoos, theme parks, and national parks seeking to modernize their visitor interactions.
The newly released Full IP65 Outdoor Displays are engineered to perform reliably in extreme conditions where standard LCD monitors would succumb to environmental challenges. These displays are not only fully waterproof but also come in kiosk-mounted and custom enclosures to suit various applications. Additionally, these units offer enhancements like transflective sunlight readability, touchscreen interactivity, and x86 system integration to cater to specific customer needs.
Enhancing Visitor Experiences with Cutting-edge Technology
In an era where digital interaction plays a crucial role in consumer engagement, AIS’ outdoor digital signage stands out by offering live video, commentary, and interactive features that enhance the educational and entertainment value of high-visitor venues. These features are designed to facilitate self-guided learning and immersive experiences, fundamentally transforming how information is conveyed in outdoor spaces.
The robust construction of AIS’ digital displays includes a waterproof, dustproof, and anti-corrosive stainless steel enclosure, ensuring durability against all weather conditions. The use of IP65 / NEMA 4X weatherproof connectors and cables, along with ABS thermoplastic covers and o-rings, guarantees comprehensive protection from dust and water, making these displays a reliable choice for outdoor applications.
Features at a Glance
- Weatherproof IP65 (NEMA 4X) Stainless Steel Enclosure: Offers complete corrosion protection, including the rear I/O connectors.
- Human Machine Interface (HMI): Touchscreen capability enhances interactivity and utility.
- High Durability: Features include high brightness and contrast, wide temperature range displays, and long-life backlights.
- Versatile Mounting Options: Includes panel mount, wall, and arm mounting configurations.
- Custom Design Solutions: Available to meet specific customer requirements, ensuring a perfect fit for various applications.
AIS Leadership’s Vision
Nelson Tsay, president of AIS, emphasized the transformative potential of integrating these advanced digital signage technologies. “Our solutions are designed to captivate and engage audiences, making every interaction memorable. These innovative displays are not just about showing information but creating impactful experiences that visitors will remember,” said Tsay.
About American Industrial Systems Inc.
AIS continues to lead the market in the development of specialized digital signage and industrial display solutions. With a focus on serving a broad spectrum of industries, including industrial, commercial, and medical markets, AIS excels in delivering both off-the-shelf and highly customized solutions. For more information on AIS’s innovative products visit www.aispro.com
TouchTunes Corporation and Victory Acquisition Corp Announce Definitive Merger Agreement
One of America’s Largest Out-of-Home Interactive Entertainment Networks to Access Equity Capital to Fuel Growth and Expansion of New Products
TouchTunes Corporation (“TouchTunes”), one of the largest out-of-home interactive entertainment networks in America, and Victory Acquisition Corp. (“Victory”) (NYSE Amex: VRY), a specified purpose acquisition company, today announced that they have signed a definitive merger agreement.
Pursuant to the agreement, Victory will acquire TouchTunes for 33 million shares of Victory stock. Victory also will assume up to approximately $40 million in net debt. TouchTunes stockholders will also be eligible to receive up to an additional 9.5 million shares based on the achievement of certain future EBITDA targets over the next five years.
Zoom Media expands its national Digital Networks!
Zoom Media Inc., the leading provider of targeted lifestyle media in Canada, announced today the addition of Edmonton, Calgary and Ottawa to its Digital Networks.
After recently acquiring ClubCom and SmartOne Media, Zoom Media continues to solidify its position as a major player in the Digital OOH industry with on-going expansion into new markets. Investment in installations of screens in Edmonton, Calgary and Ottawa will provide advertisers with significant national coverage. The deployment of these new screens and additional expansion in existing markets brings Zoom Media’s digital inventory to over 800 screens throughout its Resto-bar and Fitness networks across Canada.
New Interactive Media Player Brings Brands Alive in High Definition
Digital View, the digital signage and retail media specialist, has added a high definition 1080P/60 model to its solid state media player family, with full support for interactive applications across digital merchandising and museum applications.
Eye-catching video media and interactivity have been proven to engage customers and en-rich visitor experiences. The Viewstream 500 offers crystal clear digital video and digital audio and is designed for ‘bullet-proof’ reliability. It supports fast response interactivity with 16 function button controls, touch screens, motions sensors, barcode scanners, and RS-232 serial port control.
Running off removable flash memory, the Linux-based player supports all major HD video compression formats (including MPEG4, WMV & AVI files) and professional digital audio.
FogScreen, Inc. Offers Resale Opportunity for New Line of Products Worldwide
FogScreen, Inc., creators of the world’s first walk-through projection screen made of “dry” fog, announced today that they are expanding their sales network by setting up a specialized reseller channel. This new sales channel will support the new line of products called R-series which feature custom designs, attractive pricing and technological superiority. The first product of the R-series, named R1, is aimed at the retail and digital signage sectors.
“The timing could not be better. We aim to increase our market share during these challenging times by introducing reseller sales channels for our latest products. These new channels will be able to take advantage of our new products and new pricing and will enable us to aggressively move into new markets” says CEO Mika Koivula.
ConnectedSign, LLC introduces Hybrid Hosted Solution
ConnectedSign, a leading integrator of Digital Signage systems has introduced a unique hosted Digital Signage solution for it’s customers.
Loren Bucklin, ConnectedSign President says: “We have provided turnkey solutions for our customers for the past sixteen years and a Hybrid Hosted offering is just what many customers need. Using our product customers can rent the player software and use a web browser based management interface to manage their systems.”
Zain unveils revolutionary telecom store in Bahrain
Entering the future: Interactive, informative and entertaining, outlet will be rolled-out across all operations
Zain, the leading telecom provider across the Middle East and Africa, announces the opening of its flagship store in Bahrain. Interactive, informative and entertaining, and utilizing the latest in digital technology, the 350 square-meter, state-of-the-art outlet will change the way we shop for telecom products and services. The store will be eventually linked to a network of similar outlets across Zain’s Middle East and Africa operations.
Located in one of Bahrain’s largest malls (Seef), the Zain store – the first of its kind anywhere in the world – was officially opened in a spectacular ceremony attended by Zain Group CEO Dr Saad Al Barrak, Zain Bahrain GM Mohammed Zainalabedin, His Excellency Shaikh Ahmed Bin Ateyatallah Al Khalifa, Bahrain Minister of Cabinet Affairs & Minister assigned for Telecommunications Sector and many other dignitaries.
“This store of the future sets the tone for what a retail telecommunications environment should be in the 21st century,” declared Dr Al Barrak. “Our brand is young and that’s exactly the approach we have taken in designing this, our flagship shop. It combines and reflects Zain’s core values of radiance, heart and belonging in a revolutionary, appealing and fun environment that allows customers to experience Zain’s ‘wonderful world’.”
The store demonstrates how digital technology can take the retail experience to new heights, featuring progressive technologies, such as motion sensor screens that change imagery when customers walk by, and “lift triggers” that display product information when customers pick up mobile devices. There is also a 65” LCD Welcome Wall, multiple LCD and LED installations and world-class customer service centers.
“Like Zain’s ‘One Network’, the world’s first borderless mobile service, our ambition was to create something that would inspire and be copied by other global telecom operators,” said Dr Al Barrak.
The flagship store was the result of a collaboration that saw Zain partner with FutureBrand, a brand consultancy firm and R/GA, a digital advertising agency. R/GA created the entire digital in-store experience, along with proprietary technologies and digital designs, while FutureBrand was responsible for the store’s overall concept and design. Both agencies are part of the Interpublic Group (IPG), one of the world’s largest advertising and marketing services organizations.
“We wanted to create a retail environment unlike any other in the world, an environment that’s entirely focused on the ultimate customer experience,” said Tito Alai, Zain Group Chief Commercial Officer and architect of the Zain brand. “Zain’s flagship store invites people to explore our products and services in a retail space that’s interactive, informative and entertaining.”
The store is totally customer friendly. Whether one is a corporate customer seeking a cost-effective telecom solution with one of the shop’s on-site consultants or simply a modern mobile phone seeking the latest accessories, customers can browse with the help of high-tech interactive displays and even grab a coffee while they are doing it.
“Zain Bahrain is proud to launch the first among many stores to rolled out among our 22 operations,” said Zain Bahrain GM Mohammed Zainalabedin. “We have a great tradition of bringing exciting new concepts to the market, either as products and services or as part of a new retail experience. Our Experience Shops changed telecom retail in Bahrain when they were introduced in 2003, and here we are again, raising the bar in delivering new and exciting innovations and technology.”
More about the store
Digital Signage: A 65” LCD Welcome Wall outside the store promotes Zain’s products. In addition, multiple, smaller screens are displayed in key areas throughout the store.
“Brand Spine”: A massive installation in the center of the store combining 14 large LCD displays and text LED. Visitors can send SMS messages to the sign and watch as synchronized brand images, ambient signage and dynamic text move across the LCD displays.
Customer Queue: Alleviating the need to wait in line, customers can check-in at a touch-screen display where they will receive a ticket or SMS message alerting them when a representative is available, while queue indicators throughout the store lets customers know their place in line.
Value-Added Service Touch Displays: There are ten 42” interactive displays throughout the store, each describing a different Zain product or service. Touch-screens allow customers to find out more information.
Promo Wall: A 16-screen motion tracking video wall detects customers walking by and follows their movements with swirling, vibrant motion graphics, while four mobile devices in front of the display provide information to customers when lifted from their docking stations.
Zain Create: Customers can customize their mobile devices with Zain phone overlays, beads and other accessories. A touch-screen tool allows them to select from available phone skins and other products, all applied on the spot by a Zain specialist.
Multi Language: A custom-built rendering engine in Flash to show specialized Zain Arabic fonts, allowing customers to read all digital communications in either Arabic or English.
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About Zain
Zain is a leading emerging markets player in the field of telecommunications aiming to become one of the top ten mobile operators in the world by 2011. Today it is the 4th largest mobile network in the world in terms of geographic presence with a footprint in 23 countries spread across the Middle East and Africa providing mobile voice and data services to 63.5 million active customers (as at 31 December 2008).
Zain operates in the following countries: Bahrain, Burkina Faso, Chad, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Ghana, Iraq, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Malawi, Madagascar, Niger, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia. In Lebanon, the company manages the network on behalf of the government operating as mtc-touch. In Morocco, Zain in a joint venture owns 31% of Wana Telecom.
The company offers innovative services in its markets such as One Network, the world’s first borderless mobile telecommunication network enabling customers to receive and make calls throughout many countries in Africa and the Middle East at free or local rates.
The Zain brand is wholly owned by Mobile Telecommunications Company KSC, which is listed on the Kuwait Stock Exchange (Stock ticker: ZAIN). Zain is listed in the Financial Times’ Global 500 Index which ranks the world’s largest companies based on market capitalization (http://www.ft.com/reports/ft5002008 ).
For more, please visit www.zain.com
Source: https://www.zain.com/en
Greencroft Communities deploys RedPost’s distributed digital sign solution across multiple retirement campuses
Greencroft Communities, a continuing care retirement organization with five affiliated and managed communities in Indiana and two in Ohio, has deployed RedPost’s digital sign solution at its two campuses in Goshen and Middlebury. RedPost’s software and hardware drive the visual and audio aspects of each campus’ internal cable channel as well as digital signs in two facilities.
Visix Receives Top Honors in 2009 Digital Signage CHAMP Awards
Visix, Inc., a leading digital signage software provider, has been honored with two prestigious 2009 Digital Signage CHAMP Awards by Gary Kayye’s rAVe DS newsletter. The Visix Media Appliance was named Best PC-based Hardware Solution, while the newly-launched AxisTV SaaS (Software as a Service) was recognized as the Best Digital Signage SaaS Network.
“We’re honored by this award,” stated Deborah DeWitt, Marketing Communications Manager for Visix. “We’re working hard to offer solutions that make sense in the current economy. Lower-priced players like our Media Appliance lessen the capital investment for people wanting to purchase or expand digital signage systems, while our hosted service removes much of the hardware costs altogether. These types of products are important to give communicators options while their budgets are reduced.”
Recognition of Excellence
The CHAMP Awards highlight the best innovations in digital signage, recognizing companies that excel in providing top-tier solutions. Gary Kayye, the founder of rAVe Publications, emphasized the significance of Visix’s achievements: “The CHAMP Awards are our picks for the best of the best in digital signage. Throwing out Windows and integrating Linux made the Visix Media Appliance our pick for Best PC-based Hardware Solution. Like the hundreds of other digital signage media appliances, it’s packed with the ability to play any video and audio file format you’d need for any DS network in a 3.75-pound package. But, again, it’s not Windows – it’s Linux.”
Innovative Solutions for Digital Signage
Kayye also praised the AxisTV SaaS solution, stating, “Visix’s AxisTV SaaS solution has become an instant-industry model for emulation. You have all the power of a digital signage network without the up-front capital investment – all hosted virtually by Visix. This company continues to tailor their offerings to the needs of the user and the channel.”
The full list of 2009 CHAMP Awards can be viewed on the rAVe [Publications] website.
For more information about rAVe [Publications], visit www.ravepubs.com.