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It was interesting to hear that Panasonic is shifting its focus in the digital signage space to expand more on the business-to-business sector and less on the consumer. Karl DeManss, business development manager, commercial display solutions at Panasonic, told me at #dse2013 that the consumer sector takes about 40% of the digital signage business. He expects […]

Prysm announced today a partnership with Sony Business Solutions Corporation to distribute Prysm’s Laser Phosphor Display (LPD) technology in Japan as part of Sony’s corporate AV product line.

Led by Valhalla Partners, with participation from Mercury Fund and Ben Franklin Technology Partners startup, Vistar Media has raised $1.5 million in seed funding. They are another startup who figure that they can change the digital out-of-home advertising market and claim that their place-based media ad serving technology provides the industry’s first programmatic platform. As […]

Out-of-home advertising revenue rose 4.2% in 2012 compared to the previous year, accounting for $6.7 billion, based on figures released by Washington, D.C.-based Outdoor Advertising Association of America. OOH revenue figures were up 3.4% in the fourth quarter, compared to 2011. The increase in revenue highlights the industry’s positive revenue growth for 11 consecutive quarters. […]

Health Media Network (HMN), a fast growing digital point-of-care media company in the U.S. announced this week the acquisition of the WAMG TV’s (Waiting Area Media Group) digital screens. HMN’s purchase of WAMG adds over 1,500 physicians to HMN’s growing network of 30,000+ high prescribing doctors. Larry Newman, EVP, Operations and Business Development at HMN […]

Casio America Inc. introduced new systems geared for a variety of digital signage applications at Digital Signage Expo in Las Vegas last week, but the one that intrigued me was Casio’s YA-S10 Converter System that enables users to project images onto curved pillars, round areas, flat surfaces or any unique shape. Carlisle Robertson, key account/business […]

How long will it take for Triggit to formally announce its entry into the digital out of home market? Triggit is a DSP and one of the real-time bidding partners for the Facebook Exchange. Judging by traffic analysis to our site and various LinkedIn groups and profiles we would say “not long”!

We haven’t yet heard of one exhibitor from #ScreenmediaExpo who has signed up for space at European Sign Expo 2013, taking place at ExCeL London, 25-27 June 2013.

E Ink Corporation, Cambridge, Massachusetts, was spun out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Lab back in 1997. It went through many developments, among which was its first consumer application in 2004 with Sony’s ebook reader LiBre, its first display in a cellular phone (Motorola) in 2006, and its first 14.1” flexible colour display […]

If there was one thing that really impressed me last week at #dse2013, it was the 4K screens, which I first saw at Planar Systems‘s booth and, subsequently, at a couple of others which I’ll mention in later articles. Steve Seminario, senior director of product marketing, gave me the grand tour of Planar’s offerings, but […]