ClearOne launches the MagicBox WebSuite digital signage software platform that allows users to control their entire signage network from any web browser at any location. And it’s available as a cloud-hosted SaaS model.

"We're making digital signage more affordable and more manageable by leveraging the efficiency of platform maintenance and security in the cloud," says Tom Searcy, VP Digital Signage Business.

"With easy to use web based software applications, you can upload and access your content while managing your signage network from a single centralized location or multiple remote locations. As organizations grow, the SaaS model provides the most affordable and secure way to scale their signage network with a powerful web-based software solution."

The MagicBox WebSuite incorporates several new applications, including content creation and asset management inside of the browser for a comprehensive design to verification experience. With the new applications, multiple users can simultaneously create and edit multiple projects.

The WebSuite digital signage software is designed to work with MagicBox digital signage media players.

Go MagicBox

IntuiLab comes out with IntuiFace Presentation Version 3.0.3. IntuiFace Presentation creates rich multi-touch and sensor-enabled presentations as it automatically converts all of your content (images, documents, videos, maps, etc) into interactive assets you can orchestrate into presentations for Windows 7 and Windows 8-based tablets, tabletops, kiosks, digital signs and touchscreen walls.

Version 3.0.3 has new features, including Remote Actions. For the first time, presentations can communicate with one another, either on the same machine or over a network.

You call all IntuiFace Presentation actions remotely by specifying the action trigger in your host presentation and details about the target presentation. You can even use the communication syntax in third-party applications to trigger presentation actions over a network. The official release of Remote Actions will include a host of new actions that you don’t have today.

Hiperwall’s high-performance low-cost video wall software system hopes to eliminate the need for complex hardware, making large scale visualization solutions available to a much broader range of companies and government agencies.

The Hiperwall software system will display still images up to 1GB resolution or larger, HD videos, live HD video streams and PC applications, turning a bank of monitors into an ultra-high resolution video wall.

Multiple feeds can be displayed on the wall simultaneously and users can reposition and resize each feed (as easily as moving and resizing windows on a PC desktop). Each feed can be scaled up for viewing on several monitors or the entire wall instantly depending upon the user’s discretion.

Hiperwall’s unique approach to digital signage not only addresses the management of content but also the acquisition and distribution of real time data from multiple sources.

Trans-Lux Corporation unveils its TL Control Digital Display Platform. More than just a software system to create or administer content for digital signage, the integrated TL Control Platform provides the means to manage the entire process including template authoring, playlist building and preview and playout.

TL Control Digital Display Platform renders broadcast quality graphics and video in real time with the capability to change individual content elements without requiring entire video segments to be re-rendered. The TL Control Template Maker is PowerPoint compatible for high-end digital signage production and allows operators to author content (includes video, animation, graphics, audio, live data and ultra-smooth text, or crawling tickers).

A single, easy-to-use interface allows building playlists, updating template information and scheduling content delivery to any player or group of players on the network. Updating template content can also be automated using pre-defined rules for easier management. Operators update and manage content with point-and-click simplicity using the TL Control Web Screen Software.

The TL Control Digital Display Platform system supports live video inputs from multiple sources (including cameras, cable/satellite feeds or DVD players) and can output the signal in analog, NTSC/PAL, DVI or HD-SDI formats. It automatically downloads and stores all content locally, allowing uninterrupted playout in the event of a network disruption. The system is also designed with an automatic recovery feature (player can self-diagnose and resolve system errors without operator intervention).

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Teatro alla Scala in Milan is one of Europe’s famous venues for performing dramatic opera. The International Scala Conference, a digital signage lovefest, brought some theatre of its own to its annual conference in Netherlands.

In front of 300 attendees from 45 countries, Scala wasted no time in playing out its biggest scene: CEO Gerard Bucas will retire and Tom Nix becomes the man in charge of digital signage’s largest software platform.

That change at Scala’s helm caught many offguard and probably overshadowed the real drama, the real opera that is playing out in the digital signage market where Scala is a major actor.

The “theatre playbill” that outlines this drama is a slide from their Scala presentation at the conference: the Eight Pillars of Scala strategy. Where goes Scala, there goes the industry…which is what makes these eight “pillars.”

ClearOne introduces IMPRESS, the company's first digital signage solution, based on Windows software components. Designed for use with ClearOne's IP-based VIEW AV distribution and control system, IMPRESS will broadcast messaging with HD content to a nearly limitless number of displays. IMPRESS allows remote access and control from PCs, popular tablets and mobile platforms such as Android, Apple and BlackBerry devices.

We don't have any phoros yet, but IMPRESS is one among several new ClearOne products to be shown for the first time at InfoComm.

Remote Media Group’s new signagelive software tools let digital signage network operators work in the language of their choice (and across any browser or most popular OS) and introduces powerful new content development and playback tools.

Digital signage network operators are no longer restricted to running software developed only in the English language. Using language packs: Signagelive users can choose their native language -- Spanish, for example -- in the web browser settings and then have the content management system delivered in the selected native tongue.

The spring 2011 release upgrades Signagelive’s Layout Creator to a fully functional Layout Designer, including image layering, sizing, alignment and other design tools usually reserved for standalone software applications. The Layout Designer also includes template layouts, a library of background images, and enhancements for handling and presenting fonts and RSS feeds.

In addition, a number of social media functions have been integrated including a new QR code widget and feeds from Twitter, Foursquare and Facebook.

Go Signagelive

Exhibio releases their Enterprise System, a large-scale digital signage platform designed for easy deployment of digital signage into business and college campuses, retail chains and franchise locations.

The system is powered by the Enterprise Server, which runs , integrated software with a web-based interface where users can design signs and schedule content on screens anywhere in the world. One Enterprise Server combined with remote smart terminals can produce hundreds of digital signs, each showing unique content or sharing content with other screens on the system.

The signs can carry the same content as Exhibio’s all-in-one X-800HD Digital Signage Engine: HTML, RSS feeds, live TV, video, audio, images, text, Flash, and more.

Exhibio’s other product lines, the X and M-Series, push a single stream of content to connected displays.

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