STRATACACHE Acquires Chinese Specialty DisplayCo; Rebrands As Scala China December 12, 2018 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 …
Suzuki Rolls Out French Dealer Network Using Sony’s Digital Signage Solution. Yeah, Sony … October 9, 2018 by Dave Haynes It is reasonable to suggest that Sony has been, at most, on the fringes of the digital signage industry for many years. So it’s interesting to stumble across indications that it 1) has a solution and 2) it’s getting used. From UK-based AV magazine comes news that Suzuki France has more than 100 motorcycle dealerships …
Nick Fearnley Talks About How SignStix Makes Smart Displays Really Smart July 11, 2018 by Dave Haynes I am guilty of thinking about SignStix as yet another smallish digital signage CMS company scratching out a living with low-cost subscriptions and equally low-cost Android stick players. Based in Yorkshire, England, SignStix is a lot more than that. The company is indeed small, but doing some stuff that is a little bit mind-blowing. It …
Why Open Digital Signage Is A Competitive Advantage – Part 2 July 9, 2018 by Jami McGraw Guest Post: John Wang, IAdea Corporation In Openness as a Competitive Advantage – Part I, published in March 2018, I shared an example of successfully winning a prominent financial institution client who needed an open platform solution. In that case, the in-house AV/IT crew wanted the ability to perform customizations for business objectives that were …
Sony Shipping Six New Signage-Ready 4K Displays Running Android TV May 14, 2018 by Dave Haynes Sony continues to seemingly nibble around the edges of the digital signage business – kinda sorta in it, but not in any big or consistent way. The company has had system on chip smart displays since at least 2013, but has not really gone after a smart signage play in the way rivals like Samsung, …
Google Announces Lean Version Of Android To Power “Things” Like Smart Displays May 8, 2018 by Dave Haynes Google yesterday announced a new service called Android Things, described as a minimal version of the Android operating system that is widely used in digital signage, on media players and in some display manufacturers’ system on chip displays. The intention for Android Things is IoT devices like smart appliances and personal assistants – the latter which …
NoviSign Adds Sharp SoC Android Displays To Digital Signage Solution Set May 7, 2018 by Dave Haynes The Israeli digital signage software shop NoviSign now has its platform and media player running on Sharp’s Open Architecture system-on-chip displays. The company’s online Studio editor runs on the new Sharp 40 and 50-inch PN series 24/7 displays. “For the last several months, NoviSign’s engineering team has been working closely with SIICA to test NoviSign’s …
Sharp Broadens Options For Smart Signage With Two New 24/7 Android-based Displays May 2, 2018 by Dave Haynes Sharp has expanded the range of 24/7 commercial displays shipping with built-in system on chip media players and Android. The company has added 39.5-inch and 49.5-inch PN-M series displays that ship with built-in SoCs driven by Arm Cortex-A17 quad core processors, with 2 GB memory and 8 GB storage. The monitors are 50% brighter than the company’s …
16:9 Podcasts – Stan Richter On How SignageOS Bridges CMS Platforms With Different Hardware March 28, 2018 by Dave Haynes One of the big challenges on the technology side of digital signage is keeping up with all of the emerging hardware and software options on the market. It used to be a reasonably simple case of developing software in one OS or another and getting it running on a PC. But now there are Android …
