SEATTLE, WA – Seattle based .advancedMethod has announced that Keith Sawka has been appointed Director of Distribution Channel Sales for North America. Sawka has been with .advancedMethod since the company’s founding in 2002, working his way through sales, first helping to develop markets for the company’s eHotel Tours (responsible for over 1,000 installations), then web development services and all other .advancedMethod products. more

SEATTLE, WA – In a time of recession, the team at .advancedMethod has responded to customer demand and created a product to help businesses reduce costs. They came up with a brilliant idea: give the public the tools they need to create their own promotional materials and campaigns so that they can cut advertising costs. They tailored their economic digital signage system, express, with just that in mind and have today announced that they have added an additional feature to their product, HD video. more

SEATTLE, WA – EIKI Digital Systems and .advancedMethod of Seattle have started shipping their first digital signage product: Express. This hardware and software “kitâ€? makes it easier for people to put up digital signs.

Digital signs are appearing everywhere from coffee shops to hotels to retail to government agencies. These wall mounted televisions allow vendors, employees and building managers to speak to people right where they are through messages to the screen. EIKI Express players are already running in many locations including Silver Cloud and Crowne Plaza Hotels, AT&T and several bank chains. Distributors and dealers are now officially selling Express to everyone from small mom-and-pop stores to big box retailers. more

SEATTLE, WA – Eiki Digital Systems, headquartered in Seattle, Washington has announced the acquisition of .advancedMethod, a creative and technology based digital media company. Bob Grawet, Executive Director of .advancedMethod has confirmed they have been acquired by EIKI Digital Systems and that he has accepted position as General Manager, saying, “At .advancedMethod we have been developing digital signage solutions for years and are also an emerging digital agency. It is exciting to ‘productize’ our knowledge with EIKI and deliver the “expressâ€? Digital Signage Kit to distributor networks. I believe this partnership and our products will change the digital signage industry and finally realize the promise it has been struggling to complete.â€? more

SEATTLE, WA – Osaka, Japan based company Eiki Industrial Co. Ltd. has evidently not received the news that the world’s economy is struggling. The fifty-five year old company that revolutionized the 16-mm projector that generations of children grew up with in their classrooms has burst back onto the scene by entering into the business of digital signage. more