Swiss digital signage manufacturer SpinetiX introduced at ISE a new software called Elementi to make it easy to create and organize digital signage projects. Customers can choose between three license types of Elementi, all compatible with the range of SpinetiX HMP Hyper Media Player devices:

Elementi S allows for a quick project creation thanks user tools such as icon based toolbars, ‘drag & drop’ actions and media timelines.

Elementi M, a powerful answer for team based content editing and publishing. In a multi user environment, team members can have different roles and access to a shared network.

Elementi X is the all in one digital signage solution for ultimate professionals. Elementi X allows experts monetizing Fusion template, skin and widget creation. It comes with a full set of advanced developer tools.

A free trial version of Elementi – available in English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian and Simplified Chinese – can be downloaded.

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More than 10,000 of the hottest technology products from more than 925 companies will be featured at InfoComm 2013 in Orlando, Florida, June 8-14.

We know what you are thinking: you just finished a big ISE (infoComm’s sister show in Europe) and you have show fatigue written all over your face. So why should you attend InfoComm in USA?

Not everybody in Europe should. But InfoComm 2013 will have more than 500,000 net square feet of show floor exhibits and special events space. More than 35,000 professionals will attend the show and more than 4500 international attendees from 90 countries outside of North America will make that decision to visit InfoComm 2013.

You may have easily missed a great new product at ISE 2013 because it was a big show. But here we are thinking about a product you missed because the company didn’t join ISE 2013. It wasn’t there.

The company missed ISE 2013-- not because it has no money and not because it had a conflict like BETT. (It did have a stand at BETT but the company didn’t bother to bring the “AV” along to BETT either.)

By now you may have guessed we are talking about Microsoft.

Last year Microsoft traded their multi-touch Surface brand to their PC division to bail out their receding position laptops. Then Microsoft bought Perceptive Pixel, the multi-touch display company best known for making the giant touchscreen used on CNN.

Coming off its 4th edition of the annual AOpen Forum Europe (attendance grew with 25% compared to last year), AOpen announces the opening of its new division in its European head office in the Netherlands.

AOpen, a hardware maker, hopes to leverage their own experience as part of digital signage implementations to fulfill the need for a more consultative approach towards digital signage. As AOpen consistently collaborates with parties from across the signage industry spectrum (from dedicated software providers, to system integrators, installation partners and specialist consultancy partners), they pulled together their resources and contacts to found OpenService first in USA.

OpenService cooperates with the end client to visualize the perfect digital communications strategy using only the best-of-breed. Built upon a program that connects customers, suppliers and specialist partners to create a tailor made strategy to suit the end customer’s needs. This means that end-to-end consultancy and service offering are part of the package.