Brazil surprises us by entering at #3 this month on the SMIL Trends: Top 10 Countries chart. Indeed we have heard activities in that region but its shear speed nevertheless surprises us.

The upcoming product release from signagelive adds exciting new features to enrich support for SMIL digital signage media players from IAdea.

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IAdea partner 42media Group with its Oxygen.next platform has recently announced a project win with IAdea on its corporate blog:

Digital signage is an emerging market that has grown rapidly in the past few years. More and more companies are deploying digital signage as the public begin to understand the impact of digital signage systems. If you are a software developer, this presents a great opportunity for entering a fast growing market space.

Background

Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport (previously known as CKS or Chang Kai Shek International) is the largest of three international airports in Taiwan, serving over 20 million passengers each year. The recent opening of direct routes between Taoyuan International and major airports in China is rapidly driving up passenger flow, and major renovation of Terminal 1 and construction of the new Terminal 3 are underway to cope with the predicted growth.

A-SMIL.org publishes specs on using SMIL to dynamically decide whether a media item within a playlist should or should not play. This functionality enables SMIL devices in

• Limiting the "validity period" within which a media file is licensed to play
• Defining items that only play on certain days of the week

Digital signage SaaS service digitalsignage.NET has just announced to start operating in September.

What's probably more interesting is that 2 out of its 3 hardware options are SMIL open standard players, showing that the features offered by SMIL media appliances are found to be a perfect match for emerging SaaS offerings.

Here is this month's update on SMIL visitors ranking by country.

Source: A-SMIL.org

1. United States

2. United Kingdom (up 3)

3. Germany (up 1)

Digital signage industry analyst Invidis reports on SMIL as an emerging trend in digital signage, citing SaaS services provided by 42media Group and Signagelive.

Background

IAdea has been providing digital signage equipment to the China Post Media company, who is commissioned by the China Post Office to install and operate 1 to 4 displays in each of China’s 71,000 post offices. The network is given the mission to turn each post office into a convenience store that serves the need of 1.3 billion people, many of whom live in geographically isolated areas where the typical commercial chain stores cannot reach.

IAdea, pioneer and leader in digital signage media appliances based on the SMIL open API, and Mitsubishi Presentations, worldwide leader in commercial-grade displays, roll out pre-configured integrated displays from 32" to 52".

In collaboration with A-SMIL.org, an advocacy for using W3C SMIL as the open standard for digital signage, here is July's "SMIL Trends: Top 10 Countries" list.

Source: A-SMIL.org

SMIL technology is especially suitable for the typical digital signage application, allowing users to create simple screen layouts in fewer than 50 lines of code.

AKA.TV talks about new IAdea devices that are low cost and suitable for new markets.

Scala is offering one free IAdea Digital Signboard each month to its Facebook fans for the rest of 2010.

42media Group, maker of the Oxygen digital signage platform, demonstrates the ease of use of the IAdea XDS-101 digital signboard in a YouTube video [in German].