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Monday 9th June. US Postal Service Research Shows Benefits Of Digital Network |
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It is easy to see why the Post Office is innovating in self-service. A reduction in human interaction of 2.2% and 4% across 32,000 locations would result in a vast saving of staff time. This creates not only opportunities to cut costs in-store, but as the banks have found, it frees-up valuable employee time for selling higher margin and more complex products ..(read more) |
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Monday 9th June. ScreenScape Enables Personalised Content Channels |
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The pre-packaging of content channels for 'franchising' to other networks has been growing during 2008. This development sees the concept taken a step further - with the creation of a 'public' service to which anyone can subscribe. Harnessing the distribution power of the internet to create simple entry-level content channels for individuals ..(read more) |
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Tuesday 10th June. Remote Media Link With Samsung for Saas Solution |
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Samsung's MagicNet software doesn't offer the 'SaaS' functionality that is growing in popularity with digital signage customers. The benefit of SaaS systems are that they are simple to set up, customers need no server infrastructure, they scale from 1 to 10,000 nodes, and can be accessed through any browser from anywhere ..(read more) |
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Tuesday 10th June. Daktronics Launch High Resolution LED Billboards |
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LED billboards have long dominated the giant format digital advertising market - but with ever improving pixel density and the prices of the LEDs themselves appearing to halve every six months, we may soon see them challenging the larger LCD panel market. This move to 12mm, offers a resolution of double the traditional LED billboards ..(read more) |
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Wednesday 11th June. Summit Research Tells Of Major Growth In Kiosks |
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Summit Research’s seventh flagship report, 'Kiosks and Interactive Technology' examines trends and projections for the kiosk industry through 2010. The kiosk sector has seen growth across several markets and the number of currently-installed kiosks has exploded from a world total of 734,000 in 2006, to 1,151,574 at the end of 2007..(read more) |
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Wednesday 11th June. TV Apprentice Winner To Work In Digital Signage |
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Another tick in the box for momentum in the digital signage industry. UK entrepreneur Sir Alan Sugar has a habit of picking winners, and his interest in the sector should raise wider awareness across the financial and media landscape. For Lee, the gruelling tribulations of the TV show were just a taster for the trials of this industry ..(read more) |
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Thursday 12th June. Fred Meyer Stores Roll Out 127 3-D Sites |
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This is a major roll out for an innovation that suppliers have been pushing to the digital signage market for some years with limited success. The development of systems that work without the need for special glasses has been the key turning point for the industry, and as Lynn Gust exclaims - when it works it is 'truly traffic-stopping'..(read more) |
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Thursday 12th June. Unwired Launches A Text-To-Screen Service |
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Text-to-screen offers fantastic feedback to advertisers and is becoming a must-have feature of new digital signage applications. The market needs some end-to-end solutions that can operate in conjunction with the on-line content management platforms - and hopefully companies like Unwired will work to integrate their systems ..(read more) |
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Friday 13th June. USA Outdoor Growth Slows To 3% |
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AKA.TV reported last week that similar figures from the UK showed an overall decline of 6.7% in outdoor advertising for same period. The medium is holding up better in the USA - where growth in other sectors is offsetting the effects of the falling property market and its knock-on effect on real estate spending ..(read more) |
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Friday 13th June. Wututu Win More Banking Business |
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Wututu appears to be winning business based on the flexibility of its stand alone platform - whilst at AKA.TV we often talk about the importance of integrated systems and the value of API's, in the banking market the need for system security and confidentiality often means that clients prefer 3rd party systems to run independently ..(read more) |
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