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Software as a service (SaaS), often referred to as a
hosted application, has proliferated in many business application areas
over the past few years—with Salesforce.com as one the earliest
and
best-known pure SaaS applications. Two years ago, established
digital-signage software maker Rise Vision—whose customers include
Villanova University, eTrade Financial, and ING Direct—made the
decision to "bank [its] business on software as a service" and rebuilt
its entire digital-signage content-management system as a hosted
application, according to Ryan J. Cahoy, the firm's managing director.
In its latest move, Rise Vision announced a new program allowing
third-party resellers to become private network operators of the Rise
Display Network service. Digital Signage Update spoke with Cahoy
to get his take on the advantages of the SaaS approach and the
opportunity for AV integrators to offer their own branded,
private-label
signage solutions to customers. 
In a move that sees further expansion to
its LED rental business, Hong Kong-based JM Rental has acquired 1,000
panels of Lighthouse R4-S 4mm LED screen to add to its already
significant inventory of Lighthouse panels. This is the second largest
purchase of Lighthouse screen in 2008, after the company's similarly
significant purchase of R16 panels in January. 
Intelix, U.S. manufacturer of audio/video equipment
and
software, recently announced the release of the DIGI-VGASD, a
professional-grade active balun set which distributes VGA video, stereo
audio, and IR or RS232 signals over a single twisted-pair cable. 