Sharp’s UK Wing Bucks SoC Trend; Reselling BitVu’s CMS And Teeny Standalone Player October 28, 2019 by Super User 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 Super User 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 Super User 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 Super User 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 Super User 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 Super User 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 Super User 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 …
STRATACACHE Acquires Chinese Specialty DisplayCo; Rebrands As Scala China December 12, 2018 by Super User There is now a Scala China, in the wake of parent company STRATACACHE acquiring a tablet and computing device manufacturing company based in Ningbo, China. The company, formerly known as POPSCREENS, is now Scala China – positioned as a solution for interactive retail displays. The deal gets CEO Chris Riegel a 250,000 square foot manufacturing …
TeamViewer Device Management Software Added To BenQ’s Smart Displays November 22, 2018 by Super User Device management is pretty essential for digital signage networks of any scale – especially those with multiple, dispersed locations. It’s one thing to walk into an on-premise server closet and reboot a PC or router, but can be quite another to make that happen at a location in another state or country. Many SMS platforms …
