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Taiwan’s Cayin looks to mainland China
The InfoCommAsia China Roadshow this week in Dalian, Chengdu and Guangdong will feature Cayin Technology as one of many digital-signage solutions providers trying to extend their market reach into China – an unusual example of a Taiwanese company making a foray into the mainland.
Besides showing its media players (pictured), Cayin will also host a training seminar entitled Interactive Digital Signage for High-Definition China, dealing with the current market 
Can wearable screens cut through India’s clutter?
LCD screens may not be the obvious garb for India’s summer heat – but wearable media are heading to the subcontinent through a new deal between Mumbai out-of-home communications agency Mass Media Makers (MMM) and Canada’s Pixman Nomadic Media. And the local firm hopes that the human touch of wearable media will help advertisers cut through the diversity of India’s consumers.
Pravin Chudasama, president and founder of MMM, told
BroadSign adds agency-friendly features
Improved ad-sales and scheduling tools are the highlights of BroadSign International’s latest upgrade to its screen-media management software. The enhancements reflect an increasing awareness in the digital-signage technology sector that easy interfacing with agencies’ working methods is essential if the medium is to be included in campaign plans.
Version 6.1 of the BroadSign Suite, offered like earlier incarnations on the software-as-a-service model, will generate “media-buyer-friendly documents such as insertion
Auto network weighs merits of Internet, satellite
If you thought Internet content feeds won hands-down over satellite these days, think again. AutoNetTV, which operates a signage system for around 5000 waiting rooms in automotive service centres’ waiting rooms across the U.S., is trialling both technologies as an alternative for its existing DVD-fed system – and arguing that they both have plus and minus points.
Sharp prepares 108-inch LCD display
Sharp last week previewed what it claims will be the world’s largest LCD display when it goes into production in the third quarter of this year.
Muzak to offer digital signage
In-store music provider Muzak will by the end of this year launch a screen-media system. Currently in pilot testing, the “simple, turnkey packages” offered under its new Visual Solutions brand will be aimed at Muzak’s plethora of existing clients for its business music and audio services, which reach some 100m people daily.
“The question for us was never if we were going to enter the digital-signage business, but when
Take me to your tour leader
The Korean capital of Seoul now has 20 robots acting as walking, talking, mobile, digital display units, most of them at Kimpo International Airport.
Each of the autonomous robots helps passengers via a chest screen with touchscreen interface which provides real-time information about flights, locations and amenities – for example, travellers can ask it the way to a particular airport facility, and it will tell them where it is
New displays: the detachable, the waterproof and more
Advertising and promotions may be the commercial drivers of the screen-media sector, but it’s often unusual technology that makes audiences – and network owners – look twice. Here’s a round-up of some of the latest, and neatest, display innovations.
