Scala picks up Nix

August 3, 2010 by Dave Haynes

Congratulations to Tom Nix, who has been scooped up by Scala, having bridged his departure from Dynamx with a year or so helping Magenta …

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Does user-friendly mean anything anymore?

July 28, 2010 by Dave Haynes

I noted with some interest that a Mac-based digital signage software vendor called NextGen DS has officially announced this week that it will now …

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Barco got dZine for 8M Euro, plus …

July 22, 2010 by Dave Haynes

Denis at OOH-TV dug up the financials on the Barco acquisition of another Belgian company, software maker dZine. In its Q2 2010 financial report, …

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400 digital signage software companies, and counting …

July 20, 2010 by Dave Haynes

James van Etten does the Clippings industry intelligence newsletter that rounds  up industry news overnight and drops it into 1,000s of email inboxes. At …

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Barco buys dZine software firm

July 19, 2010 by Dave Haynes

LED board giant Barco has announced closing a deal to acquire another Belgian firm – the digital signage solutions company dZine. In a release, …

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Rise Vision's digital signage offer goes to the cloud

July 8, 2010 by Dave Haynes

Rise Vision/Rise Display has gone through a shuffling and rethinking over the past year, and it’s been pretty clear from chairman Byron Darlisons Twitter …

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Samsung's Magic software evolving, getting slicker

July 6, 2010 by Dave Haynes

The Samsung people I know don’t spend much time trying to sell me on the 10 gallons of awesome that is their software product, …

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Keep It Stupid, Stupid!

June 25, 2010 by Dave Haynes

The people at MediaSignage are in that race to zero game on pricing that I think can only end badly for small companies, but …

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Flash 10.1 hands off video work to graphics processor

June 18, 2010 by Dave Haynes

Well, we are still waiting for Adobe to hand off the definitive, uambiguous word on the whole licensing issue with the Flash Player for …

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Google TV explained, and why you should care

June 15, 2010 by Dave Haynes

The 1:56 mark of this new video from Google tells you what you want to really know about Google TV and its relevance to …

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Another display vendor gets into digital signage software game

June 10, 2010 by Dave Haynes

LG Electronics has announced a turnkey digital signage solution called LG SignNET, that includes hardware, software, news feeds from CNN, and a dozen starter …

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When safe trumps best in digital signage software

June 8, 2010 by Dave Haynes

A couple of things struck me yesterday during the first day of the Strategy Institute’s digital signage technology conference. Gabriel Tullier runs the student …

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