The recent announcement of GoogleTV is the catalyst that will see the digital signage sector move from being a niche vertical sector into a mainstream mass market offering. The collaboration between Sony, Intel and Google with their Android operating system offers the perfect open standard platform for companies like signagelive to develop the next generation of digital signage applications.

Why GoogleTV and not Netflix or AppleTV? Simple, Google’s Android operating system is an ‘open’ platform and has been created with third party developers in mind, unlike the closed platforms from the other Internet TV offerings.

With Android’s support for Adobe Air and Flash, applications such as our own Virtual Player will be available for download directly from your GoogleTV and be ready to receive your content from our signagelive platform in seconds.

With GoogleTV’s hitting the streets across the world from Autumn this year, we look forward to getting our hands on one and demonstrating signagelive running on the platform. Keep an eye out on our blog for a future post showing GoogleTV and signagelive in action.

Saffron Walden, United Kingdom – 17th May 2010 – signagelive the Software as a Service (SaaS) digital signage platform, has been selected by Airport Partners to power their Digital Screen advertising network across 9 UK regional airports.

Airport Partner spent 6 months evaluating a number of digital signage software platforms before deciding that signagelive offered them the best solution for their current and future Digital Out of Home (DOOH) requirements.

signagelive was selected over other digital software platforms, for several key reasons:

• signagelive provides a fully managed, web-based solution without any upfront capital expenditure and with fixed, predictable ongoing costs.
• signagelive integrates seamlessly with the various Airport specific Flight Information Display Systems (both hardware and software,) to combine local arrival and departure information alongside digital advertising content.
• Utilising the Media RSS and Media Manager capabilities of signagelive, Airport Partners can divide on-screen slots into different dynamic content feeds under the control of local, regional and national contributors. This enables local advertising slots to be interspersed with national advertising and syndicated news content from Sky to create dynamic up to the minute playlists,

On securing the Airport Partners win, Jason Cremins, CEO of Remote Media Limited, the company behind signagelive said:

“We are thrilled to have secured such a sought after contract and to work with Paula Oliver and the Airport Partners team to rollout their Digital Out of Home offering over the coming months. We are working closely with them to upgrade the existing screen networks to signagelive at each airport and are working on several projects to add further additional screen solutions identified by the Airport Partners team.”

Paula Oliver, Managing Director of Airport Partners added:

“We are totally committed to providing our Airports and Clients with a fantastic digital product. signagelive we feel is the most reliable, flexible and cost effective digital signage software solution. It is already running successfully on our screen network in Exeter Airport and we will rollout over the next 12 months across 80 existing screens. We are really excited about working with Jason and the team on some other truly fantastic projects as well…. so watch this space!”

About Airport Partners
Airport Partners (www.airportpartners.co.uk) is part of the AdGroup which was established in 1986 by Andrew Walker, CEO. The Group, based in Harrogate, specialises in outdoor & transport advertising & sponsorship. With Paula Oliver’s appointment as Managing Director, this year has seen a large expansion in the digital advertising offering and this will form an important part of the growth plans for the Group.

It is now the No.1 Regional Airport Advertising company in the UK, running 20 of the 53 UK Airport media concessions, reaching over 19m passengers in Newcastle, Bristol, Southampton, Leeds Bradford, Norwich, Exeter, Blackpool, Inverness, Plymouth, Dundee and the other Highlands and Islands airports.

About signagelive
signagelive is a multi-award winning, easy to use online software solution enabling you to quickly and easily update and manage your chosen digital signage software or hardware players over the Internet using your web browser.

signagelive is used every day all over the world to manage 1,000’s of digital signage displays in different types of locations, from schools to football stadiums and everything in-between.

signagelive has been created to be very simple to use with clearly defined modules enabling non-technical users to easily manage a single display up to a large-scale digital signage network. You pay one all inclusive price per player, no servers, no hidden costs or extras and free software updates and support.

For further information, please contact signagelive:

Contact: Jason Cremins – CEO
Tel: +44 (0) 1799 533471
Email: jason@signagelive.com
Website: www.signagelive.com

Contact: Paula Oliver – Managing Director
Tel: +44 (0)1423 706670
Email: paulaoliver@airportpartners.co.uk
Website: www.airportpartners.co.uk

Sierra Wireless (NASDAQ: SWIR; TSX: SW) today announced the company’s upcoming participation in the Ninth Annual JMP Securities Research Conference, to be held May 10 to 12 at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in San Francisco. David McLennan, Chief Financial Officer for Sierra Wireless, is scheduled to present at 2:30 PM Pacific time on Wednesday, May 12.

The conference presentation will be available by live audio webcast at the following link: http://www.wsw.com/webcast/jmp10/swir/. For those unable to listen live, the webcast will remain available at this link for 90 days following the presentation.

About Sierra Wireless

Sierra Wireless (NASDAQ: SWIR – TSX: SW) is expanding the wireless world with a comprehensive offering of hardware, software, and connected services for mobile lifestyles and machine-to-machine communications. Our customers count on us to help them succeed with early access to new wireless technologies and innovative, reliable, high-performing solutions for a broad range of applications. For more information about Sierra Wireless, visit www.sierrawireless.com. 

Following my talk at this weeks Screen Media Expo, please find above the presentation available to be viewed and downloaded from SlideShare. The pre-show billing for the presentation was as follows:

Looping content is dead: get dynamic or go home

The world of digital signage has changed, display technology has evolved and no longer do we have to put up with dumb screens waiting for you to tell them what to do next, running endless loops of content that no one is watching or cares about.

Today’s displays are intelligent, just give them some simple rules and they will intelligently displaying dynamic up to date content, where and when you require.

This exciting and knowledge-rich presentation will explore the new generation of digital signage solutions from dynamic media content and content management systems, through to the latest in intelligent playback and display technology. Learn how Open Standards and the Internet are changing the way we create and manage digital signage networks forever!

This presentation will draw on several examples of where other technologies and approaches have contributed to the development of open standards for Digital Signage from content providers to content management solution providers including Yahoo!, SMIL, Sky, Signchannel, Adtech, Google TVads, Flypaper, IAdea, Samsung and Viewsonic to name but a few.

Learning outcomes:

This presentation will ensure delegates have a better understanding of the following key points:

• That you do not have to choose and stick to one supplier for the different parts of your DS system, open standards allow you to choose you content, CMS and players/screens from different vendors and they will all work together.
• That you do not have to rely on expensive programme and scheduling resources to create a dynamic digital signage network that is always ‘on message’
• This is just the beginning, every day new content platforms, CMS platforms and playback/display devices are being launched providing more choice and competition will ensure you [the customer], wins.

Jason Cremins, Chief Executive Officer, signagelive.com

Enabl3D™ Solution Offers First-Ever 3D Content to Web-Based Digital Signage Platforms

Magnetic 3D and signagelive today announced they have collaborated to offer glasses-free 3D digital content via a web-based digital signage platform for the first time.  Using the signagelive platform, 3D digital signage provided by Magnetic 3D can be scheduled and played back anywhere in the world using a standard fixed or mobile Internet connection and web-browser. The combined offering will be available globally through existing Magnetic 3D and signagelive resellers, distributors and strategic partners.

Magnetic 3D, the global leader in glasses-free 3D display and 3D digital signage solutions, and signagelive, a Software as a Service (SaaS) digital signage platform, will unveil their solution at the upcoming Screen Media Expo in London.  Demos will take place at stand F10 on May 5 – 6, 2010.

“The emergence of 3D technology for use in public locations is exciting and the glasses-free 3D displays developed by Magnetic 3D offer the best solution available today,” said Jason Cremins, CEO of Remote Media Limited, the company behind signagelive. “We have been listening to our customers and the appetite for incorporating 3D support within signagelive has been tremendous. By partnering with Magnetic 3D we can now offer them a seamless solution for delivery of glasses-free 3D content.”

“We are excited to have partnered with Remote Media to support the growing demand for 3D enabled digital signage solutions in Europe and the Middle East,” said Tom Zerega, CEO/Co-Founder of Magnetic 3D. “By working with signagelive, we can empower companies of all sizes the opportunity to easily upgrade their existing 2D network to one that is Enabl3D.”

Following the upgrade, customers will be able to program both 2D and glasses-free 3D content on all Magnetic 3D’s Enabl3D Displays ranging from 22” to 57” through the integration of Magnetic 3D’s Fuzion player within the signagelive platform.

About Magnetic 3D
Headquartered in New York City, Magnetic 3D (www.magnetic3d.com) designs and produces industry leading end-to-end auto-stereoscopic 3D display solutions, 3D digital media and 3D services.  Magnetic 3D’s Enabl3D hardware and software solution modifies flat panel displays enabling them to show HD 3D video content without the need for any special eyewear.  The company focuses on delivering the highest quality visual experience for retail digital signage, hospitality, movie-theatres, casino gaming, hotels and other public places, exceeding clients’ 2D visual expectations.

About signagelive
signagelive is a multi-award winning, easy to use online software solution enabling you to quickly and easily update and manage your chosen digital signage software or hardware players over the Internet using your web browser.

signagelive is used every day all over the world to manage 1,000’s of digital signage displays in different types of locations, from schools to football stadiums and everything in-between.

signagelive has been created to be very simple to use with clearly defined modules enabling non-technical users to easily manage a single display up to a large-scale digital signage network. You pay one all inclusive price per player, no servers, no hidden costs or extras and free software updates and support.

PR Contact for Magnetic 3D: Elizabeth Stewart
Company: Bender/Helper Impact for Magnetic 3D
Tel: +00 310.694.3134
Email: Elizabeth_Stewart@bhimpact.com