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Exclusive: Dynamax to link nine Clear Channel territories
Dynamax Technologies is to provide its POV software to Clear Channel Outdoor to create an over-arching service that will allow centralised campaign booking and management for the outdoor giant’s inventory in nine European territories. The deal is expected to later be extended to Clear Channel’s operations outside of Europe, SCREENS.tv has learned.
The first stage of the deal, which follows more than a year of testing the POV software 
Wireless could open up millions of new sites, says ICG
A new name on the digital-signage technology scene, ICG, believes that widespread adoption of wireless links could multiply tenfold the number of sites suitable for deploying screens. CEO Kevin B. Howard told SCREENS.tv: “In a wireless world, we think the digital-signage market is 2.5bn screens globally over the next ten years. In a wired world, divide that by ten.”
The reason, according to ICG – whose local-delivery system for
Omnivex says games, HDTV have raised video-quality bar
Canada’s Omnivex says its latest screen-media software can link any on-screen graphical element to a dynamic data feed, allowing content to be automatically changed by the media player without human intervention.
“We started in the financial trading industry where real-time information and ROI are critical to business, so Omnivex recognizes the value of live data for updating content,” said president Jeff Collard.
The new package, Moxie, offers digital-signage
Daily paper uses cylindrical LEDs in news stores
A UK digital-out-of-home startup is set to install up to 500 cylindrical advertising pods at newspaper shops across England.
ICA Network Solutions told SCREENS.tv that in addition to local advertising and community messages, its iCan units will display live headline feeds from the Daily Mail newspaper.
The three-foot-high iCan pods (pictured) are based on advanced LED technology. When tri-colour LEDs are rotated at a certain speed, the device
Cisco intros professional-development curriculum
A new education programme from Cisco will offer a qualification in creating, managing and distributing screen-media content.
A programme styled as the Cisco Academy of Digital Signage is aimed at media professionals looking to improve their job prospects, staffers at content-production houses, and Cisco resellers interested in the digital-signage market, the company said this week.
A three-day training programme will lead to a Cisco Qualified Digital Signage Media
Scala buys in Charting Pro management suite
Digital-signage software pioneer Scala this week said it is to acquire Market Information Services, a provider of management software for outdoor advertisers both digital and non-digital.
The acquisition will allow Scala to bolster its existing InfoChannel product with a suite of tools enabling customers to manage large out-of-home networks.
Market Information Services’ main product is Charting Pro (pictured), which includes modules for functions such as inventory management, inventory
Dynamax lands in America, shakes hands with St. Clair
Britain’s Dynamax Technologies made its official entrance into the North American screen-media market at Digital Signage Expo in Las Vegas today, at the same time as launching the latest version of its POV software and inaugurating a partnership with Canada’s St. Clair Interactive Communications that will see the pair target retailers.
Tom Nix, named last year as VP and general manager of Dynamax’s Madison Avenue-based North American operations, said:
Big tech names prepare for DSE debuts
Many of the sector’s biggest technology names are expected to showcase new product at the annual Digital Signage Expo which opens today in its new Las Vegas home.
Among them, Scala will have InfoChannel 5 release 3.0, and Planar will be displaying a new version of its CoolSign software – just days after making headlines with its innovative integration of CoolSign and Google’s online applications.
Dynamax and Omnivex
