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News
Visix Selects
AccuWeather.com as Sole Provider of Commercial Weather Content
 May
3, 2007
ATLANTA, GA —
Visix,
Inc. is pleased to announce that it will support commercially available
weather produced by AccuWeather.com. Under the terms of the arrangement,
Visix will deliver professional weather content to AxisTV users that
purchase the optional subscription service. Users can select to receive
published content from any or all of the following categories – local
weather (current conditions), local five-day forecast and local weather
radar. Professionally designed layouts can be automatically updated
through the AxisTV graphic link feature.
The Graphical Weather
Modules from AccuWeather.com have been developed specifically to provide
digital signage applications with the weather elements in which the
public has the greatest interest. These eye-catching, attractive,
high-resolution, low-bandwidth modules are available for all 43,000 U.S.
ZIP codes. Graphical Weather Modules are available in two formats: 16:9
aspect ratio 1366 x 768 for full-screen applications; and 4:3 aspect
ratio 1024 x 768 for main-screen applications, typically as a TV-size
content zone with a sidebar. Both formats are optimized to require low
bandwidth for delivery. The Graphical Weather Modules are designed for
venues with ambient noise and shorter
viewing
times and do not include audio.
Visix has long supported
free weather updates managed and delivered by NOAA’s National Weather
Service. The addition of AccuWeather.com as a commercial weather
provider is the result of numerous requests from AxisTV users for a more
reliable and graphically detailed weather information provider.
Pricing for the
subscription service is now available with service scheduled for release
in June 2007. Graphics samples can be viewed at the following link:
http://wwwa.accuweather.com/adc2004/pub/products_services/graphicalwx.asp
About AccuWeather.com
AccuWeather, The
World's Weather Authority®, presents accurate, localized, branded
forecasts and severe weather bulletins to over 106 million Americans
each day via the Internet, mobile devices and IPTV, through the
airwaves, and in print. The 113 meteorologists at AccuWeather deliver a
portfolio of customized products and services to media, business,
government, and institutions, and inform millions of visitors worldwide
through the free AccuWeather.com website. AccuWeather also provides
content onto more than 20,000 third–party Internet sites, including CNN
Interactive, ABC's owned and operated stations,
The Washington
Post
and
The New York Times.
Visit
www.accuweather.com for more information.
About Visix
Visix, Inc. designs, develops and supports a suite of
software applications that allow users to create, import and manage
their communications from anywhere and to deliver those messages to
virtually any endpoint.
The company offers a
digital signage application, a room and event scheduling solution, and
applications for targeted messaging to portable devices. Each of these
products works independently or can be integrated for scaleable
deployments from a single display to large networks. This comprehensive
approach to on-time communications – from concept to delivery –
provides turnkey systems including software, hardware and distribution
accessories, as well as multi-tier support options to manage and
maintain dynamic visual communications.
Contact Visix at
800.572.4935 or salesteam@visix.com. Parties interested in additional
information about Visix, AxisTV, MeetingMinder™, and MessageBlox™
Dynamic Visual Messaging applications should visit the Visix Web site
at www.visix.com.
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