Two Touchless Solutions For Times When Interactive Is A Little Scary April 3, 2020 by Dave Haynes There have been many times when I have had demos done for me of vendor solutions that involved people using their smartphones to do something more easily done on a general-use touchscreen. I’d politely say what they’d developed was interesting, but then ask why consumers/patients/whoever wouldn’t just boink away on a touchscreen to get what …
Skykit Spinning Out From Parent Firm Agosto March 6, 2020 by Dave Haynes Minneapolis-based digital signage CMS Skykit has announced it is being spun off from its parent company, four years after it was launched by the Google-centric cloud services company Agosto. “Skykit was born from Agosto’s award-winning innovation in the public cloud,” says Skykit CEO Irfan Khan. “We always planned to let the company branch out on …
Sharp’s UK Wing Bucks SoC Trend; Reselling BitVu’s CMS And Teeny Standalone Player October 28, 2019 by Dave Haynes In the last two or three years there has been a pretty big shift by the main display manufacturers to bring CMS software companies on to their “smart” signage screens, so it’s interesting to see Sharp’s UK Business wing announcing it is partnering to re-sell a platform that has a separate, proprietary standalone player. Sharp …
AirDroid Adds Business Tool For Managing Remote Digital Signage, Kiosks October 2, 2019 by Dave Haynes A software company that develops remote access and management tools for Android devices has released a business version aimed at use-cases like digital signage. The newly announced AirDroid Business has a kiosk mode, the developers says, that turns “any Android device into a kiosk and manage it remotely, with the ability to maintain and customize software …
AirDroid Business Touted As Android Device Management Solution For Digital Signage, Kiosks July 31, 2019 by Dave Haynes A San Francisco-area company that specializes in mobile device management (MDM) software solutions has announced a business application, AirDroid Business, aimed at use-cases like kiosks and digital signage. “Our research tells us that small and medium businesses cringe at expensive enterprise mobile device management solutions that offer far too many valueless features,” says Anson Shiong, CEO …
UK’s Allsee Marketing Battery-Powered Digital Sandwich Boards May 2, 2019 by Dave Haynes Birmingham, UK-based Allsee Technologies has started marketing a digital sandwich board display that’s portable and runs 12-plus hours on a rechargeable battery. The pitch is that these things are easily positioned wherever they need to be, and don’t need to be against a wall to get power, or require a power cord that becomes a …
Neeraj Pendse Talks About Elo’s Deep History In Touch, And How To Make Interactive Truly Work May 1, 2019 by Dave Haynes Elo has been doing touchscreens for 40 years – way, way before marketers started cooking up phrases like customer engagement technology. Over that time, the company has shipped more than 25 million units. So Elo knows touch, and interactive. Based in Silicon Valley, the company has in the last few years made a pretty big …
AOPEN Announces New Sets Of Windows-based Digital Signage Players April 26, 2019 by Dave Haynes Taiwan tech company AOPEN has announced a set of new media players aimed primarily at digital signage applications, including a couple that serve what would seem to be the diminishing demand for Windows. There are still lots of companies using Windows, but everything I hear suggests the industry is widely adopting Linux and Android devices …
What Kind Of Digital Signage Player Should I Use? April 9, 2019 by sixteenninewpadmin Guest Post: Rob Côté, Broadsign When it comes to choosing a digital signage player, most network operators will go with a PC running Windows or Linux, but it’s not the only choice out there. Android boxes, Chrome OS, and systems on a chip (Soc) have all come into their own as platforms in recent years. …
signageOS Launches Free, Open Software That Bridges Media Players With CMS Platforms February 1, 2019 by Dave Haynes The Prague-based software company signageOS has launched a free software bridge that enables CMS companies and other developers to easily launch and manage digital signage networks that blend a variety of different playback devices, including all the major smart displays and Android players. The company is pitching that its new signageOS Open can remove weeks …
