Sweden’s DISE The Latest SW Firm To Go Android June 19, 2013 by Dave Haynes [youtube id=”800n0enDE5c” width=”600″ height=”350″] The Swedish digital signage software company DISE has joined the Android club, though the actual release date of the player software is unspecified. DISE says the new player supports multi-screen synchronization – which the company touts as a core strength of its platform – as well as a NoBorders feature that …
Hungary’s Dension Debuts Android Digital Signage Player June 10, 2013 by Dave Haynes A Hungarian company best-known for making pro audio devices for the auto market has moved into the digital signage space, developing a purpose-built media player that runs on Android. Dension Ltd has developed a system on chip playback device and it will start shipping with Signagelive’s HTML5 platform. Called CPX-1, the product is being launched …
Tiny Green PC Joins The Digital Signage ARM Race With Touch Player June 10, 2013 by Dave Haynes Tiny Green PC, which some of you might have known earlier as Fit PC, has released an Android media player it says can convert any touch screen with Android drivers into a fully functional Android tablet – the idea being that the tablet can be a touch enabled commercial monitor of pretty much any size. …
Raspberry Pi Generating Big Reader Appetite June 4, 2013 by Dave Haynes The writing I have been doing for the last few months about Android has generated a lot of interest, as reflected in booming page view numbers. The Closer Looks at some of the Android/ARM options out there have been among the most popular posts in the past quarter. But, by far, the post generating the …
Haivision Puts CoolSign On Android June 4, 2013 by Dave Haynes One of the things I try to coach clients on, when I am writing for them, is to NOT issue press releases immediately before or during big vertical market trade shows. People are traveling, away from their desks, really busy … so stuff gets missed. Like this announcement: CoolSign Is On Android, Too. That was announced …
Android For Digital Signage: A Closer Look At TargetR May 22, 2013 by Dave Haynes The latest in our running series of closer looks at Android-driven digital signage solution providers is UK-based TargetR. Some 30 companies have introduced products based on the open-source Android operating system that is very widely used for smart devices like handsets and tablets, all of them using CPUs based on ARM reference designs. Most smartphones …
Android For Digital Signage: Say Hello To This Flexible, Low-Cost Platform May 18, 2013 by Dave Haynes Here’s the 12th entry in this running series of closer looks at digital signage solution providers who have started working with the Android operating system and low-cost, ultra-small ARM processors. Almost 30 companies have introduced products based on the open-source Android operating system that is very widely used for smart devices like handsets and tablets, …
Low Cost CPUs Force Smart Content Decisions May 12, 2013 by Dave Haynes One of the happy consequences of all the tinkering going right now with low-cost, limited-power CPUs like ARM-based Android players and Raspberry Pi micro computers is the decision to stop a lot of the multi-zone crap and simplify presentations. The Raspberry Pi forum has a post up about a project that involved developing a network …
Screenly Serves Up Raspberry Pi As Alternative To Android Players May 3, 2013 by Dave Haynes The Raspberry Pi is now very close to being a viable digital signage playback device, and a for-profit software company has been investing the time and resources to develop a Linux-driven player and content management system to bring to the market. WireLoad – which has developers in the UK and Sweden – says its Screenly …
Airgoo Joins The ARM Race With Latest Android Digital Signage Offer May 2, 2013 by Dave Haynes The UK-based AV integrator and distributor Anders+Kern, or A+K, is an unusual new entry in the ARM race, announcing an ARM-based Android digital signage player and management system. The A+K Airgoo is a micro-player stick that plugs into a display panel HDMI port and runs Android 4.0 on a 1GHz CPU. It has 4GB storage for media …
