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ieHIP® Digital Signage Powers Giant LED Display
Philippines - A5TEK's ieHIP® Digital Signage has gone outdoors with the
recent installation of a giant LED screen on one of the Philippines'
busiest business districts. The three by four-meter LED display strategically
installed on the far-northern junction of Ayala Business Park in Cebu engages
incoming and outgoing motorists and public transports as well as vehicles
passing thru the west road.
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A5COM announces installation in Shangri-la Boracay
Philippines - After the successful deployment of A5TEK's ieHIP®
Digital Signage at Shangri-la's Mactan Resort and Spa, another installation
is set to follow in February 2009 in Shangri-la Boracay.
Boracay is the Philippines number one tourist destination known worldwide
for its kilometric stretch of white sand and blue waters and is the
competitive venue for the Asian Windsurfing Tour and...
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ieHIP® Digital Signage to assist campaign at world's first "Edge Coaster."
Philippines - A5TEK's Philippine affiliate A5COM has announced
the deployment of ieHIP® Digital Signage in Crown Regency Hotel,
the tallest hotel in the Philippines which is also home to
the world's first "Edge Coaster."
The Edge Coaster which is the hotel's latest attraction at the
top of a hotel offers thrill-seeking tourists...
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ieHIP® Digital Signage goes medical
Texas, USA - A5TEK's digital signage technology has now reached
and served the medical facilities market with the recent installation
of its ieHIP® Digital Signage on Bee Caves Road in Austin, Texas. The
digital signage system at Bee Caves Medical provides patients with
medical education, news, and entertainment...
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Shangri-la Mactan Upgrades to ieHIP® Digital Signage V3.
Cebu City, Philippines -- The Philippine's premier five-star resort,
Shangri-La's Mactan Resort and Spa has upgraded its currently-installed
digital signages with A5TEK’s latest version of ieHIP® Digital Signage- the
ieHIP® Digital Signage V3. Previously, Shangri-la Mactan deployed the
precursor of V3 -- ieHIP® Digital Signage V2.0 -- last year, which made
Shangri-la the first resort in the Philippines to adopt networked
digital signages to further enhance its...
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A5TRX is now A5COM
September 20, 2008, Cebu City, Philippines –
A5TEK Corp’s Philippine affiliate A5TRX Corp recently announced the approval by the
Securities and Exchange Commission of its new name to A5COM. The change of name was
made “to let our customers know intuitively of the nature of our business which the
former name (A5TRX) had barely represented.” according to
A5COM President, Francis Dy.
No further amendments or changes to the original purpose of the business
were applied by the company with the...
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Tech firm shares benefits of digital convergence to DepEd
Bares platform for rich-media cyber-education portal,
content management and digital signage
Gracing the 6th National Convention and Seminar-Workshop of
Administrative Officers Association of the Department of Education
(AOADE) held on September 13-15, 2007 at the Teachers Camp in Baguio
City, a high tech software company proposed to the Department of Education
(DepEd) a cost effective solution to implementing and administering cyber-education
in public schools plus a host of other benefits.
Francis Dy, president of A5COM Inc, discussed the reality of digital convergence
in which TV Internet and consumer electronic devices have merged to offer
more interactive and rich-media...
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A5COM and RMNI rolls out another digital signage at Cebu port
Cebu City, Philippines – With the success of its initial digital signage deployment in
Ayala Center Cebu, the Philippine’s most popular shopping destination in the southern
hemisphere, A5COM Inc. and Rich Media Network Inc (RMNI) have again embarked on another
installation this time on a public space – the Cebu port.
The port of Cebu is the Philippines major leg in the transport chain with passenger
traffic coming from central Philippines to the rest of the archipelago.
A5COM President Francis Dy who also represents RMNI says that “the new rollout is
definitely a boost to our existing [installation] inventories that will also widen
the exposure of our advertisers to non-mall markets.”
The digital signage setup initially consists of two ieHIP® Digital Signage clients
located inside the waiting terminal for Bohol-destined ferries over a 32” LCD digital
display and another installation to follow inside Supercat Terminal where passengers
bound for eastern Visayas normally congregate. All of the stations will be managed by
A5COM using its ieHIP® Digital Signage Server.
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ieHIP® Digital Signage to centerpiece in top resort
Cebu City, Philippines – A5TEK’s affiliate in the Philippines, A5Com Inc., recently
announced the forthcoming deployment of its ieHIP® Digital Signage in Shangri-La's
Mactan Resort & Spa. Mactan Shangri-la is one of Asia’s top resorts and is a multi-awarded
five-star resort facility in its class along with its sister hotels spread across Asia.
Shangri-La's Mactan Resort & Spa is located in Mactan Island Cebu in southern
Philippines which is also home to many world-distinguished hotel-cum-resorts for its white sand beaches,
marine sanctuaries and wildlife attractions. “We are very honored to have been chosen by Shangri-la
to meet their very discriminating requirements for this project.” according to A5COM President
Francis Dy. The Shangri-la deployment includes five digital signage client PCs using A5TEK’s
proprietary digital signage software – ieHIP® Digital Signage to be stationed along with
Shangri-la’s large-size LCD TVs in major guest points of the hotel.
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A5COM excites markets during T.O.P.S 2007 Exhibit
Cebu City, Philippines - A5COM Inc., A5TEK’s affiliate in the Philippines, stole the attention
of visitors during the annual TOPS (Total Office Products and Services Show) held in Waterfront
Hotel & Casino - Lahug in Cebu City, Philippines last June 28-30, 2007.
The exhibit includes providers of business solutions, audio and visual communications,
digital and large-format printing, office machines, corporate gifts, products and accessories
and is one of the major trade events that happen yearly in this city with more than
4,000 qualified visitors flooding in.
A5COM which was on Booth B13 rapt visitors when it demonstrated its ieHIP® Digital
Signage with a stunning and simultaneous display of different ads on one display screen
using a variety of layouts in less than a minute. ieHIP® Digital Signage is a full-featured
digital signage solution which entered the visual communications market recently and is positioned
to lead in narrowcast advertising for its web-based architecture.
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ieHIP® Digital Signage in Cebu wows shoppers in a posh mall
Cebu City, Philippines – A5COM Inc. recently installed four stations in Ayala Center Cebu
which was the first in the city to install a networked digital signage in a shopping center.
Ayala Center Cebu is Cebu’s leading high-end shopping center in the southern part of the
Philippines which is home to world-renowned signature brands from both
the Philippines and abroad.
The ieHIP® Digital Signage solutions installed around the mall consist of 46-inch LCD
monitors, mini-PCs and high-bandwidth Internet which are located strategically on high
foot traffic areas of the shopping center.
All the digital signage displays in the network are controlled and managed by a server located
from any location using A5TEK’s ieHIP® Digital Signage Server or popularly known
as “centralized digital signage management.” Thus, regardless of the location of a digital
signage or the volume of digital signages in the network and for as long as they are
internet connected, all of these digital signages can be controlled
to display simultaneous or different advertisements in real-time.
The current digital signage installation was also made possible thru a joint venture
between A5COM Inc. (A5TEK’s Philippine affiliate) and Rich Media Networks Inc. (RMNI).
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At the 2007 International CES, "A5TEK Corp to launch
innovation in digital signage solutions
and to introduce new features of its critically-acclaimed
ieHIP® Media Connect."
SUNNYVALE, California, December 20, 2006 - A5TEK Corp., a leading creator
of rich media TV portal, today announced its new suite of rich media
technologies – ieHIP® Digital Signage and ieHIP® Media Connect which will be
showcased in Las Vegas at the 2007 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES)
considered to be the world's largest consumer technology tradeshow.
ieHIP® Digital Signage is expected to lead in the digital signage domain for its
robust and unrivaled TV, and user-defined display configurations and playback.
Capabilities include connectivity to analog and wide-ranging DTV standards like
ATSC, DVBT and DVBS while the first in the industry to have such flexibility for
users to change screen layouts or place as many ads of any format
at will anytime anywhere.
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All New Server and Media Center combined to take
PC-TV Computing to the Web.
SUNNYVALE, CALIFORNIA, January 5, 2006 -- A5TEK Corp, a pioneer in Smart TV solutions
today announced an all-new digital entertainment solution that combines client and
server capability which means consumers can now both enjoy a rich line of media center
functions and at the same time experience a whole new way of sharing their own
contents at home or over the web.
Introducing A5TEK’s ieHIP Media Connect the industry’s latest cutting edge solution
for home entertainment systems offers more than just what media centers can do. ieHIP
Media Connect is not only a PVR, or a PC-to-TV playback application, it is also at the
same time a Web Server that allows consumers to download, play and manage IP-based infotainment
contents easily which can be pumped directly through their PC-enabled TV or through other
connected or networked PCs at home.
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ieHIP makes it to "Best of CES 2003"
For its "impressive array of features," the Home Infotainment Connect
(ieHIP) is chosen by CE Pro magazine as one of the best products in the 2003
International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) held in Las Vegas, Nevada, 9-12 January 2003.
"A5tek Corp.'s new set-top box looks unassumingly like a DVD player,"
reports the March 2003 issue of CE Pro, "but the company packed an impressive
array of features in its set-top box."
"It is loaded with A5tek's ieHIP platform for the ultimate in Internet/Entertainment
functionality," writes CE Pro. "It's a Windows XP computer, a Web browser,
a DVD player, a PVR, a surround-sound receiver and a music management system all in one."
"Oh, yes," the magazine adds, "it's also a video phone, fax machine and
answering machine … and a karaoke machine."
CES is considered the world's largest annual tradeshow for consumer
technology and America's largest annual tradeshow of any kind. The ieHIP is cited
from among thousands of new products displayed at the show, and one of
only two products chosen in the TechHome category.
"The 2003 International CES truly lived up to the label of world's largest
consumer technology tradeshow with 116,687 upbeat attendees experiencing the
excitement, products and technology provided by 2,283 exhibitors in 1.25 million net
square feet of exhibit space," says Gary Shapiro, president and CEO of
the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), the producer of the International CES.
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Women's Edition Magazine
One of the best examples of an integrated center, according
to Electronic House magazine, is the ieHIP from
A5tek. The ieHIP looks like a DVD player, yet it can perform as a Windows XP
computer, a Web browser, a digital video recorder, a surround-sound receiver
and a DVD player. Also integrated is a karaoke machine, as well as a smart
card reader to ensure safe Internet transactions. This just proves that there
is a system for every taste and every entertainment need—all
you need to do is imagine it.
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