Want To Know How Android Fits In Digital Signage? Download This Free Report … December 3, 2015 by Super User So far, there have been in excess of 350 downloads of the Special Report on the state of Android in digital signage. It’s a free download, with no registration strings attached. Click through and the 23-page PDF download is yours. I”m reposting because these things tend to get lost as time wears on, when a site has more …
VIA, Capital Networks Certify Rare Beast: One Commercial Android Digital Signage Player With 2 Distinct Outputs December 3, 2015 by Super User The DEEP look I took recently into Android digital signage revealed a few things – among them how most of the players were adapted consumer set-top boxes and sticks, and how few were commercial-grade (aka reliable and predictable) devices. One of the few commercial manufacturers was VIA Technologies, a Taiwan company that has a big office …
This Teeny PC Would Run Digital Signage On Windows, Linux OR Android October 19, 2015 by Super User The substantial crowd out there that is endlessly looking for gear that drives capital costs out of digital signage projects will undoubtedly be intrigued by a planned Kickstarter campaign to develop a tiny x86 microcomputer that would run Windows, Linux OR Android 5.0. The units would cost roughly $100 USD in volume. That’s substantially more than a …
Special Report: The State of ARM & Android In Digital Signage October 8, 2015 by Super User There are dozens of digital signage software companies with content management systems built around or adapted to work with low-cost ARM-based media devices, and run on Google’s Linux-derived Android operating system. What started as a trickle of activity four years turned into a big wave within a couple of years. But almost as quickly as Android-based signage …
Coming Tomorrow: The State Of Android Digital Signage Report October 7, 2015 by Super User Client commitments greatly slowed research and production, but I’ve finally completed work on what I think is a thorough look into the state of the Android digital signage marketplace. I will upload it and make it available as a free, no-strings-attached download tomorrow off Sixteen:Nine. It’s 23 pages, so set some time aside. The report …
Ireland’s Instillo Launches Android-Driven, HTML5-Powered Audience Measurement Tools August 31, 2015 by Super User Video analytics tools have been around for many years now – and the key players have changed through the years, with the exception of France’s Quividi, which has been a constant. An Irish company called Instillo has announced its own video analytics platform – Instillo Audience, and changed the proposition around quite a bit in …
Did Indoor Wayfinding Just Get Easier For Android Signage Platforms? August 14, 2015 by Super User This is one of those devil in the details things, but it would at least appear there is a slick new way for software companies offering Android digital signage software platforms to add indoor mapping for malls, campuses and other busy, confusing places. A company called Here is offering up indoor mapping capability to Android …
Turn TVs Into Interactive Signs For $200 With New Gadget August 12, 2015 by Super User The same crowd that is endlessly looking to cut display hardware, playback hardware and software costs out of digital signage projects will likely be intrigued as heck by a new IndieGogo project that turns any TV with an HDMI connector into a touch and stylus controlled display. Called Touchjet Wave, it’s a device that clamps on …
Enplug Shows Off Its Millennial Take On Digital Signage July 15, 2015 by Super User I’ve known about the LA start-up Enplug for a few years, and followed with curiosity the journey of millennial friends who got a company going in a rented house and gradually started to build it up and get some attention. I hopped off a plane Tuesday (upgraded by surprise, yay!), grabbed a rental, and went over …
Directable Puts Digital Signage On Sony’s Android TVs July 8, 2015 by Super User A Reno, Nevada company called Directable has announced it is now marketing a digital signage solution that has been tested and approved for use with Sony’s new line of Android TVs. As with some other Android solutions out there, you get moving on this by getting the TVs, connecting them online, and then hitting the …
