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ViewSonic Corp., in collaboration with Popstar Networks, Shuttle Computer and Premier Mounts, has been showcasing an extensive lineup of electronic menu board displays and supporting solutions for the restaurant industry this week at the National Restaurant Association Show (NRA). Hardware offerings include ViewSonic’s family of ultra slim wall mountable ePosters, a new tabletop menu solution and second-generation Android-connected smart displays — all designed to make digital signage simple.”There’s no contesting that the restaurant industry is going digital to better cater to its clientele,” said Gene Ornstead, director, product marketing, Walnut, Calif.

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QA Graphics has introduced Batch Solutions, a new collection of digital signage applications, including Batch Digital Menu Boards and Batch Nutritional Kiosks.After developing digital menu board solutions and a variety of kiosk applications for clients in the restaurant, food service and hospitality industries, the Ankeny, Iowa-based company decided to create the Batch Digital Menu Board and Batch Nutritional Kiosk product lines. According to the company, Batch Digital Menu Boards improve the customer experience, bringing any menu to life with attention-grabbing graphics and dynamic content.Batch Nutritional Kiosks can be used to meet menu-labeling laws and inform and entertain consumers.

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Omnivex Corp., Concord, Ontario, Canada, announced that its Moxie digital signage software is being used by the Norwegian Military to take real-time F16 cockpit video and project to audiences on the ground at air shows.To celebrate the 100th anniversary of its military flights, the Norwegian Air Force was looking for a way to engage the public at air shows being held across the country.”The goal with the anniversary was to reach out to the Norwegian people through targeted and innovative measures,” said Stian Nergaard Nilsen, project leader for “Norwegian Military Air Force 100 years”.

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Iowa-based interactive design company QA Graphics has introduced a new product line, Batch Solutions, a collection of digital signage applications including Batch Digital Menu Boards and Batch Nutritional Kiosks for the restaurant, food service and hospitality industries.
QA Graphics said that, after developing digital menu board solutions and a variety of kiosk applications for clients, the company decided to create the Batch Digital Menu Board and Batch Nutritional Kiosk product lines. Batch Digital Menu Boards improve the customer experience, bringing any menu to life with attention-grabbing graphics and dynamic content, the company said. Batch Nutritional Kiosks can be used to meet menu labelling laws, and inform and entertain consumers.

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Hyatt Place Pensacola Airport has installed FlyteBoard real-time airline flight information displays from Flyte Systems, according to an announcement from the digital signage company.
Flyte Systems provides airport travel information displays and digital signage content for the hospitality industry and digital signage, convention centers and related businesses. The 127-room Hyatt Place, operated by Innisfree Hotels, is located adjacent to Pensacola International Airport, and the hotel’s FlyteBoard full-service flight information display solution will provide guests real-time departure information.
“We mounted the FlyteBoard display in our busy gallery area near the lobby.

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Creative Mobile Technologies (CMT) LLC, one of the nation’s largest digital out-of-home networks and payment processing solutions provider for the taxicab market, and Blue Bite, a mobile technology specialist, announced a media-mobile technology partnership in the U.S. taxi space.By September 1, 2013, Blue Bite’s proprietary mTAG platform will be available in 5,000 taxicabs with CMT media screens in New York, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, Philadelphia and Anaheim.

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Iowa-based interactive design company QA Graphics has introduced a new product line, Batch Solutions, a collection of digital signage applications including Batch Digital Menu Boards and Batch Nutritional Kiosks for the restaurant, food service and hospitality industries.
QA Graphics said that, after developing digital menu board solutions and a variety of kiosk applications for clients, the company decided to create the Batch Digital Menu Board and Batch Nutritional Kiosk product lines. Batch Digital Menu Boards improve the customer experience, bringing any menu to life with attention-grabbing graphics and dynamic content, the company said. Batch Nutritional Kiosks can be used to meet menu labelling laws, and inform and entertain consumers.

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Digital signage company Mvix has announced the introduction of its Signage Templates, a web-based content creation tool for the foodservice marketplace. Restaurant owners can now create professionally designed menu boards, information and marketing signage screens by accessing Mvix’s extensive cloud-based digital template library.Developed to extend Mvix’s Brand Signage, a new Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering that meets larger, enterprise requirements such as those for franchises and mass retailers, Signage Templates reduces the digital signage Content Management System process to three simple steps and provides a real-time publishing option for the smaller-scale restaurant owner or end user, the company said.”Our R&D team has worked tirelessly to ensure that the web-based content offering is easy to use, so that the digital screen communicates the brand identity and information that each restaurant owner wants customized to their own specifications,” said Ross McClymonds, vice president of global sales, Sterling, Va.

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3M Touch Systems, a wholly-owned subsidiary of 3M Co., has announced the availability of its newest high-performance multi-touch display designed specifically for interactive public applications, the 21.5-inch 3M Multi-Touch Display C2167PW.This commercial-grade chassis display is ideal for heavy-use digital signage and kiosk applications that need:high-performance multi-touch interactivity (20 touches, each at an ultra-fast 8 millisecond touch response rate),high-definition graphics (1920×1080 resolution and 178 degree viewing angles),and sleek, flat front surface industrial-design capability.

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Fremont, CA, May 16, 2013 –(PR.com)– As digital signage technology constantly improves, it becomes more user friendly, filled with many options that users can choose to use in their application. Many users are trying to find better ways of reaching their target audience. Digital signage is a great way of reaching target audiences through the display of dynamic content.

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