All Articles By Richard N Williams

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Richard N Williams is a writer and journalist based in Birmingham, UK. He has many years of experience writing about all aspects of the internet and digital technology. He is the author of several technology related books and his articles have appeared in various publications, trade magazines and online journals.

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Digital Signage in Distribution and Manufacturing

This entry was published on June 15, 2011 by Richard N Williams

Digital signage is becoming more and more prevalent. It seems no matter where you go a digital display will be trying to sell or promote something to you. From the gas stations to the doctor’s surgery, shopping malls to even outside the local church, few people can doubt the ubiquity of this new medium. And […]

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Armagard Launch Two New Digital Signage Products

This entry was published on June 11, 2011 by Richard N Williams

Armagard, have launced two new products to their digital signage range: The Outdoor Digital Signage Totem and the Personal Branded Retail Totem are the latest products in Armagard’s burgeoning range of digital signage hardware. The Outdoor Digital Signage Totem is a floor standing enclosure designed to accommodate both 46” and 47” screens, protecting them from the […]

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Protecting the Face of a Digital Signage Screen

This entry was published on June 10, 2011 by Richard N Williams

Protecting outdoor digital signage from the weather is important, which is why outdoor LCD enclosures were devised, to ensure that standard LCD and plasma screens could operate outdoors in no matter what the weather. The most vulnerable aspect of an outdoor display, however, is the screen face, which is also the most crucial part being […]

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Retail and Service Industry – Digital Signage Devices

This entry was published on June 9, 2011 by Richard N Williams

Digital signage is one of the fastest growing media industries. With such fragmentation in mainstream media, this form of out of home advertising is growing rapidly with digital displays used for promotion, branding and marketing cropping up in all sorts of locations. A common sight around shopping malls, concourses, airports, and transport hubs, now many […]

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How an Outdoor Screen can Boost your Business

This entry was published on June 8, 2011 by Richard N Williams

Televisions have gone through dramatic changes over the last decade or so. Gone are the bulky CRTs (cathode ray tube), replaced by the modern flat screen LCD and plasma screens. Picture quality too has gone through changes too with High Definition (HD) now making images clearer. One result of this change in televisions is that […]

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London’s Big Screens – Outdoor Digital Signage in the Capital

This entry was published on June 7, 2011 by Richard N Williams

Outdoor digital signage is expanding rapidly in the UK with more and more screens cropping up in towns and cities all over the country. Currently, one in eight pounds spent on outdoor advertising goes on digital, but with rapid growth in the outdoor digital signage market, it is expected that digital may one day overtake […]

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Sunlight and Your Outdoor Screen

This entry was published on June 3, 2011 by Richard N Williams

Outdoor digital signage has many challenges. Protection is an obvious example, ensuring proper defence of the screen, against the weather and temperature of the external environment. Impact protection too, is a must, protecting against accidents and vandalism otherwise the screen may have to constantly be replaced. One aspect not much talked about when it comes […]

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Reasons and Aspects for Physically Protecting Outdoor Digital Signage

This entry was published on June 2, 2011 by Richard N Williams

Protection for outdoor digital signage often centers about weatherization and ensuring the screen is kept dry and in reasonable temperature ranges—highly important to ensure all-year round operation. While weather protection is important for outdoor screens, another aspect of protection that needs thinking about, however, is physical defense. While most outdoor screens offer some sort of […]

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The Immediacy of Outdoor Digital Signage

This entry was published on June 1, 2011 by Richard N Williams

Immediacy is one of the many benefits of outdoor digital signage and is one of the main reasons so many screens are installed in outdoor locations, beaming messages, advertisements and information to the masses. As digital signage involves electronic information, unlike other forms of advertising and signage, content can (almost) instantly be uploaded. This provides […]

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Libraries, Churches and Community Centres – Using an Outdoor Screen

This entry was published on May 30, 2011 by Richard N Williams

While many outdoor screens are used for digital signage or providing information such as wayfinding, other uses for using an external display do exist and can help improve services offered by institutions. Schools, colleges, churches, community halls and public libraries all provide essential services but communicating with local services can often be a challenge, especially […]

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