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Expanded Ecosystem of Content Strategy and Production Partners Empowers Customers to Develop Captivating Visual Experiences for Cisco Digital Signs
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Thomas Wyatt Previews Cisco at Digital Signage Expo 2010
LAS VEGAS, Nev. Feb. 24, 2010 Today, at the Digital Signage Expo, Cisco announced the expansion of the Cisco® Digital Media Creative Services offering to make it easier for customers to develop and display captivating visual content for digital signage. Building on its leading portfolio of digital signage solutions, Cisco is expanding its partner ecosystem of content strategy and production experts to build one of the industry’s largest advisory networks for digital signage content. Cisco’s unique end-to-end offering addresses all stages of the content lifecycle, from business assessment to strategy formulation and dynamic content design.
While the number of digital signs across the globe continues to grow, sign owners still struggle to find a compelling content strategy to match their business goals and deliver an optimal return on investment (ROI). By expanding its Digital Media Creative Services offering, Cisco will help customers optimize their best-in-class digital signage technology with best-in-class content, with the aim that all digital signage installations achieve powerful visual impact and maximum value.
New Content Strategy Partners
Cisco is joining forces with many of the industry’s top content strategy companies, including OgilvyAction, Imperative Group, StoreStream Metrics, Alchemy (part of St. Joseph Communications) and MEDIAmobz. The addition of solutions from these new partners to Cisco’s Digital Media Creative Services portfolio will:
Provide customers with enhanced measurement, analysis and recommendations on content strategy and design
Allow customers more options to build content strategy with a specific ROI costing model in mind to focus their digital signs on meeting communication objectives and enhancing the customer experience
New Syndicated Content Channels
New partners, including Blue Pond Media, BlueFox, HeadsAndTails and Virtual Scenery, will bring pre-produced, syndicated digital signage content channels to the Cisco Digital Media Creative Services offering. These channels can:
Allow the simple selection and purchase of digital signage content to run on open playlist slots in any vertical market environment
Save significant time and development costs associated with producing proprietary visual material
Expansion of Cisco Academy of Digital Signage
Since its launch, the Cisco Academy of Digital Signage has trained more than 500 media professionals to create and optimize media content for digital signage. Instructor-led courses have been held in six countries across the globe, including the U.S., Canada, the Netherlands, Belgium, Australia and, most recently, Lebanon. This year, the Cisco Academy of Digital Signage will expand into additional regions, including South America, Asia and the Middle East.
At the Digital Signage Expo, taking place Feb. 23-25 in Las Vegas, Cisco will exhibit its unique content service offering along with new technology innovations for Cisco Digital Signs in booth 1217 at the Las Vegas Convention Center.
Supporting Quotes:
Thomas Wyatt, vice president and general manager, Digital Media Systems business unit, Cisco
“Cisco understands the critical role that dynamic content plays in the digital signage industry. Therefore, we are excited to bring together such a strong group of content strategists and producers as part of our Digital Media Creative Services offering, to help ensure that our customers always have fast and easy access to high-quality digital signage content for any vertical market.”
Hans Hwang, vice president, Cisco Services
“Cisco’s Digital Media Creative Services can help accelerate our customers’ business transformation, enabling them to achieve the true value of their digital media investments. Digital signage provides exciting new opportunities for our customers, and this expansion of our service offerings will help make this a reality for them.”
Gareth Ellen, senior partner, director of digital, OgilvyAction
“Cisco’s Digital Media Creative Services and OgilvyAction’s new content strategy, design and analytics service for digital signage will deliver a turnkey solution for content playlists and schedules, while also providing the measurement required to deliver program ROI and ongoing optimization.”
Chris Heap, managing director, Imperative Group
“Cisco’s Digital Media Creative Services and the Imperative Group are collaborating to deliver a range of digital-out-of-home content and network development services in EMEA. With over 11 years of practical experience gained specifically developing out-of-home media networks in this region, Imperative is pleased to join Cisco in providing value to customers as they develop and deploy their digital signage solutions.”
James Condon, co-founder, Blue Pond Media
“Cisco’s Digital Media Creative Services and Blue Pond Media are positioning distinctive media channels for Cisco Digital Signs. The channels will be associated with HD content that will cover several vertical markets. Blue Pond Media specializes in quality HD video and provides several programs that include ambient content.”
Dave Toole, chief executive officer, MEDIAmobz
“Cisco’s Digital Media Creative Services and MEDIAmobz content links the creative community, with their specialized digital media creative skills, to clients who are looking for alternative methods to create content without the burden of overhead or augmenting internal resources to deliver affordable media assets.”
Guillaume De La Tour, chief executive officer, BlueFox
“Cisco’s Digital Media Creative Services and BlueFox are pleased to announce their collaboration in providing content channels for digital signage. The content channels are optimized to play on the Cisco Digital Media Player, which is part of the Cisco Digital Media Suite portfolio. BlueFox has a vast library of media products dedicated to digital signage and will provide global content for Cisco customers.”
Tony Loiacono, founder, HeadsAndTails TV
“Cisco’s Digital Media Creative Services and HeadsAndTails TV adapt assorted real- and virtual-world media approaches for Cisco Digital Signs. This edutainment, sports and lifestyle HD media content meets the emerging needs in the converging digital signage marketplace.”
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What makes your smartphone smart? One key ingredient is the application processor that enables the devices to run the applications that are often so impressive.
The makers of these processors—and indeed, the companies that make the designs that go into these processors—keep adding new features. At the Mobile World Congress (MWC) show, many were showing off their products and talking about where mobile processors would be going in the future.
Sometimes the applications processors get what you might call brand names: Qualcomm’s Snapdragon, Texas Instruments’ OMAP, and Nvidia’s Tegra come to mind. But often they are fairly anonymous components, identified only by part number or speed, if that. Still, their increasing power is necessary for the advanced applications we now want to run on our mobile devices.
Keep in mind that a typical smartphone contains a number of hardware components, and there are many different ways of packaging them. In addition to an applications processor, a smartphone would also need a baseband chip (to connect with the 3G network), probably other communications chips (for Bluetooth, GPS functions, and Wi-Fi, for example), and possibly a separate graphics processor, along with memory for the base operating system, applications, and user data. Many of the component makers combine some of these functions, so the companies that make hardware mix and match to get the right combination for the phone they are making and the software they want it to run.
Nearly every smartphone on the market contains an application processor based on processor cores from ARM. (ARM says 2.5 billion chips with ARM cores shipped last year, and the typical phone has at least two.) ARM doesn’t make chips itself; instead, it creates intellectual property in the form of designed-for-processor cores, graphics, and memory connections.
ARM’s processor designs include the somewhat older ARM9 and ARM11 designs, and the more recent Cortex-A8 and Cortex-A9, which we are beginning to see in very fast chips, and even in chips with multiple cores. The company is pushing the Cortex-A9 for high-end smartphones, and Cortex-A5 for sub-$100 smartphones.
In the graphics arena, ARM offers a design known as Mali. At the show, ARM announced a deal with Global Foundries under which the new foundry has access to ARM’s designs, which it will offer to its customers in making custom chips.
ARM has a strong roadmap for increasing the performance of processors based on its technology in the next few years.
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ARM is far from the only company that offers this kind of intellectual property. Another well-known one is Imagination Technologies, probably best known for its visual IP, notably the PowerVR series for graphics, video, and display. Graphics based on PowerVR are found in Intel’s chipsets for the Atom and other processors with integrated graphics, as well as in a lot of smartphones including the Apple iPhone 3GS and the Palm Pre. Imagination also offers communications IP and processor IP, often used for embedded Linux or digital signal processors (DSPs).
ARM and other companies license these designs to processor makers, who then adapt and combine them, often with their own IP; and in most cases, then send them to a semiconductor foundry form manufacturing.
Though die-hard typists will expound endlessly on the subject of whether this keyboard is better than that keyboard, gamers are a different breedfor the most part, they don’t really care how a keyboard types. Oh, they may need to send an occasional e-mail or IM, but it’s how the keys operate under fire, and what other sorts of features it has for keeping them out of harm’s way in the first place, that really matters most.
Microsoft’s new SideWinder X4 ($59.95 list) keyboard, which is currently available for presale and will be shipping early next month, types well enough, with a feel snugly between the squishy and clicky extremes that seem to polarize gamers and typists alike. Much more notable, however, is that the X4 aims to solve one of the problems that can lead to premature death or annoyance in games: the game not recognizing all the keys you hit, when you hit them. And, of course, the X4 also throws in a few dashes of the bling and bright lights that status-conscious gamers expect. Unfortunately, although Microsoft has made some impressive steps forward with the X4, it’s taken a few back as well.
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