Android For Digital Signage: A Closer Look At Capital Networks’ Audience For Android April 11, 2013 by Dave Haynes This is the first in a 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. At least 20 companies have introduced products based on the open-source Android operating system that is very widely used for smart devices like handsets and tablets, …
UCView Latest Digital Signage Software Firm To Go Android April 3, 2013 by Dave Haynes LA-based UCView appears poised to be the latest digital signage software company to release an Android product, or in this case, a pair of them. The news release came out on April Fool’s Day (my free PR advice: don’t do PR that day), but I assume CEO Guy Avital is serious (why would he not be?) about …
Visix Debuts Entry-Level Flanker Brand March 26, 2013 by Dave Haynes Visix has joined the list of digital signage software companies that have developed something of a “flanker” brand – a lower cost option for prospective customers who don’t have the budget or need for the full meal deal product. Called APPOINT, the product is aimed at categories like K-12 schools, small businesses, local franchises and clinics, …
Android POS Tablet Suggests Where Merchants Are Going, And DS Vendors Should Follow March 21, 2013 by Dave Haynes We’re already seeing the start of a shift in consumer environments away from highly proprietary and (usually) expensive systems to leaner, less costly ones playing off consumer devices and nimble software. Small merchants are using iPads as POS systems and very large companies like Apple use their own portable devices to transact in the aisles …
Key West Debuts SignWave For Meeting Room Market March 19, 2013 by Dave Haynes Keywest Technology is the latest digital signage software developer to get on the Android OS bus, announcing a system called SignWave that’s expressly focused on event and meeting room signs. The idea is to marry Android OS tablets with third-party property and event management systems that are commonly used in corporate, hospitality and higher education …
Video Blog: Samsung’s New SoC Smart Signage March 7, 2013 by Dave Haynes My Signagelive friends, Jason Cremins and Raffi Vartian, have been talking up a storm with anyone who will listen about the merits and possibilities of Samsung’s SoC product, which was announced at ISE and then announced formally for the N. America market last week at DSE. It interests me as a product for a few …
Detail: BroadSign’s New $99 Android Player March 4, 2013 by Dave Haynes A lot of people I chatted with last week mentioned BroadSign’s re-emergence at Digital Signage Expo in a full booth (this time last year they’d announced Chapter 11 re-structuring) and the unveiling of a $99 Android-based player. Going Android is in no way unique, but what distinguishes what BroadSign is doing from many of the …
79 Ways To Use Android For Digital Signage March 4, 2013 by Dave Haynes Here is a list of the digital signage software and related companies that now have Android products on the market, sorted alphabetically after the featured (advertising) companies (as of Nov. 2015): FEATURED CAPITAL NETWORKS MARKHAM, ON CANADA RISE VISION TORONTO, ON, CANADA BROADSIGN MONTREAL, QC, CANADA MVIX USA FULL LIST Admira (Spain) AdServe …
DSE 2013 Impressions March 3, 2013 by Dave Haynes I try to write a daily set of impressions from my time at DSE each year, and my first impression is that I was way too freakin’ busy to write up my impressions. I think I was in the press room twice on Day 1 and once on Day 2. So, back at the bait …
DSE2013 Video Blog: The Rise Of Android Boxes February 28, 2013 by Dave Haynes I have a face, and particularly a chin, that’s made for radio, but I nonetheless took a first real stab at video blogging with my good, hyper-talented friends from Studio 10 in cold, flat and happy Regina, Saskatchewan. They did some work with us last year and came back to LV for a couple of …
