Navori Gets On The Android Train With Sub-$50 Player February 14, 2013 by Dave Haynes Swiss-based digital signage software firm NAVORI has ported its platform – which has run for years on Windows – to also run on the Google Android operating system. “We have been developing our QL Android player engine way before the Android OS™ proved to emerge from the initial smartphone platform it was intended for to …
Capital’s Android Player Among 2012 Best Of Picks January 25, 2013 by Dave Haynes Congratulations to the folks at Capital Networks – sixteen:nine blog and 2013 mixer sponsors – who picked up the Product of the Year award from Signage Solutions magazine for its Audience For Android player. Dallas-based Signage Solutions has made Best Of picks in 12 industry categories. You can find all the picks here …
IAdea Releasing Seven New Digital Signage Devices January 22, 2013 by Dave Haynes IAdea has added to its list of appliances tuned to the needs of digital signage projects, with seven new devices that bake in emerging capabilities like HTML5. The Taiwanese company (a Sixteen:Nine sponsor) has released the new devices to sync up with appearances at Integrated Systems Europe at the end of the month and Digital …
Two More Android Playback Devices To Add To The Pile January 3, 2013 by Dave Haynes One of the the things that was pretty evident a year ago was how Google’s Android operating system would be applied to low-cost set-top box-like devices to create very inexpensive digital signage offers. Capital Networks showed a working device and platform at DSE 2012, as did FirmChannel. Since then, we’ve seen several more companies step …
Tech Advances Put Digital Signage Sector On Cusp Of Major Change December 3, 2012 by Dave Haynes It’s more evident by the week that technology advances and production volumes are conspiring to put digital signage on the cusp of some major changes. The catalyst for all this change is the smart device industry, which is driving interactive software development, very fast, powerful and, most important, cheap CPUs, and low-cost retail-ready displays. Multiple …
Gear: Park Media Latest Firm To Go Android October 12, 2012 by Dave Haynes I don’t hear or read much about Park Media, but the signage software company has been around for several years now and is still cranking out product. The firm has just announced it has joined the small but growing number of providers using the Android platform to deliver a solution. The company’s Sign Center 5 …
Hands On: Capital Networks’ Audience for Android September 17, 2012 by Dave Haynes When I first started dealing with Bil Trainor, the President of Capital Networks, it was 1999 and his Toronto-area company’s cable TV community network servers were being put into office towers to drive digital sign networks in elevators. There were few solutions on the market and even fewer that could split screens and integrate live …
Via Enters Really-Low-Cost PC Race With $49 Gadget May 22, 2012 by Dave Haynes [youtube id=”2dNA3yHEl2s” width=”600″ height=”350″] Taiwanese electronics company Via, which has been around for years nipping just a bit at the heels of Intel and AMD, is releasing a new mini-PC (through a sub-brand called APC) that has a single unit cost of $49 USD and can push out 720P HD video. Reports The Verge: We’ve …
Capital Networks To Debut Android-based Bundle At DSE2012 February 15, 2012 by Dave Haynes Way back in a DSE 2011 booth about the size of an Airbus 320 washroom, I saw a Taiwanese company (whose name escapes me) showing a flat panel display running video and coming off a little ARM (mobile phone) processor and using Android as the operating system. That was really the only sign at …
UK firm debuts Android-driven tablet for retail digital signage November 28, 2011 by Dave Haynes When the iPad was first announced, lotsa people started musing about how these sleek screens could be used in retail settings at the shelf edge and on counters. But the rather big caveat was that the things were not designed for steady public use and abuse. Even Apple has done some protective work and bolted …
