Via Announces New Board Optimized For Android Digital Signage February 24, 2014 by Super User VIA Technologies is showing off a new Pico-ITX (Pico = teeny) board later this week at Embedded World 2014 in Nuremberg, Germany that’s optimized for applications like digital signage. Via has for years been selling micro PCs with conventional x86 processors, but has started also marketing products based on the ARM reference design. The 1.0GHz …
inLighten Launches Apollo Android Platform For Digital Signage February 24, 2014 by Super User inLighten is one of those companies that has been quietly doing its own thing in the digital signage sector for many years, staying largely out of the echo-chamber of PR and industry trade shows. But just ahead of DSE, the company put out news that it had developed and was now releasing its own Android …
PQ Labs Touts New Quad-Core Android Digital Signage “Stick” February 11, 2014 by Super User San Jose-based PQ Labs has announced a new Android HDMI stick it touts as the most powerful on the market. I’m not sure if it really is, or not, but it certainly has some power under the hood. The iStick A300 is a 1.6 GHz quad-core and can take a solid state hard drive as …
YCD’s Live Player Joins Android Digital Signage Parade February 3, 2014 by Super User YCD Multimedia has joined the ever-growing list of mainstream PC-driven digital signage software companies that have developed a variation for low-cost Android playback devices. In an interesting spin, the company has also released what would be a browser-driven version tuned to Samsung’s proprietary Smart Signage Platform. The two new products are being showcased this week …
Nanonation Partnering, Demoing Dell’s New Android Stick January 30, 2014 by Super User The announcement yesterday about Dell’s new $130 HDMI stick looked hinted at something that could be used for digital signage, and the material made a general reference to it. Turns out it not only COULD be used for digital signage, it’s already been developed and integrated by Nanonation, which has been a Dell partner for …
Dutch Firm Opens Android Digital Signage CMS Up To Developers January 30, 2014 by Super User The Dutch software company Novus Solutions has opened up its Android digital signage software platform, called Hello Infinity, to third-party developers. The development set is called Open-Display, and is a set of tools for developers who are looking for an easy way to integrate digital signage into their own software. It is not open-sourced, but more …
Cenique, Rise Vision Combine On New Android Digital Signage Offer January 30, 2014 by Super User A Hong Kong-based company called Cenique has started selling a pair of Android devices – a box and an HDMI stick – that run Rise Vision’s free, open source digital signage management system. The stick costs $225 all in, while the box is $325. The interesting there here is that you have a low-cost Android …
Dell Debuts $130 Android Digital Signage HDMI Player January 29, 2014 by Super User I will stress immediately that there is a level of technical about this that is pretty much over my head, but this LOOKS at least like another interesting development in the whole anything-but-a-PC quest that has led to some 40 Android digital signage solutions out there. Dell has released its long-awaited HDMI Android dongle, a …
NEC Unveils Android-Based Smart Digital Signage Panel, Using OPS Spec January 28, 2014 by Super User NEC Display Solutions just got into the smart digital sign contest, but in a very different way. Whereas companies like Samsung and LG are effectively extending variants of their Smart TV development and hardware into commercial displays, NEC is using the Open Pluggable Spec (OPS) to allow an open-source Android player box to be snapped …
Navori Adds New Android Digital Signage Player To Product Line January 28, 2014 by Super User The Swiss software firm Navori, which has been developing in the digital signage space for more than a decade, has updated the Android offer it first introduced around this time last year. The QL StiX 3400 is an Android player that’s about the size of a deck of playing cards, but has the bits inside …
