Silver Curve’s Crowdfunding Raise Two-Thirds Subscribed August 12, 2013 by Super User Companies in this sector that are looking for start-up capital will be interested in the progress of a crowd-funding effort by Silver Curve, a UK start-up that has developed a graphics engine that makes the very low cost Raspberry Pi a viable digital signage media player. The company put 20% equity up in the company …
Scala, Outform Release Android Digital Signage Solution July 25, 2013 by Super User Software company Scala and Miami-based display integrator Outform have joined the now long list of companies that have put Android digital signage offers on the market. In this case, an Outform iDisplay media player is running Android in combination with Scala’s Enterprise software. Says a release: iDISPLAY’s Model UID0382 Media Player has been specifically designed …
Silver Curve Puts More Light On Its Aperture Digital Signage Engine For Raspberry Pi July 12, 2013 by Super User An ongoing client project has me back in Johannesburg again, and this time I went through London, which gave me a sufficiently long layover that I was able to run into the city. I did a meeting (honest) at a pub and then headed over to Regent Street to the packaged office space where Silver …
Webconverger’s Neon Uses Stable, Secure Browser As Digital Sign Platform July 10, 2013 by Super User I was in the middle of one of those sessions online where you start in one direction and then make a whole bunch of left turns and end up somewhere completely different, and came across some narrative about the little Raspberry Pi micro PCs, digital signage and a company called Webconverger. That was an unfamiliar …
Capital Networks Release V2 Of Android Platform July 9, 2013 by Super User Capital Networks is now on to V2 of its Android digital signage solution, aka Audience for Android v2. The company (loyal Sixteen:Nine advertiser) launched V1 formally a year ago, one of the first on what is an increasingly crowded market. Version two brings more horsepower to the hardware and software, as well as a broader …
Dynamax Adds Android Hardware-Software Solution July 8, 2013 by Super User [vimeo id=”69879094″ width=”600″ height=”350″] UK software firm Dynamax has joined the ranks of established software houses that have added Android solutions to their product offer. Dynamax Technologies says its new Android-based digital signage solution is the company’s first hardware solution since the launch of its SaaS product digitalsignage.NET, in 2010. The company already had Windows …
UK’s Silver Curve Launches Raspberry Pi-based Commercial-Grade Digital Signage Platform July 5, 2013 by Super User UK-based Silver Curve has started raising money, using a sophisticated crowd-funding platform, to build out the team for a software platform that enables “top-end signage software packages” to run on low-cost Raspberry Pi-based computers. The $300,000 US equivalent raise just started days ago and the company was already at roughly 26% subscribed when I checked …
Chipmaker Via Debuts ARM-based Android Hardware And Software Platform July 2, 2013 by Super User Taiwanese chipmaker Via has sent a note over to say it is now marketing a digital signage platform and solutions based both on the ARM and more conventional x86 PC processors. The company has also developed a VIA Embedded Digital Signage ISV Program (ISV = Independent Software Vendor) that encourages software companies to develop to its devices, …
BroadSign Reports 1,000-unit Android Player Order June 28, 2013 by Super User There are still lots of people out there I have chatted with who are dismissive of the whole Android media player thing – most of them suggesting an evolving open source operating system and teeny, too cheap media playback devices from Shenzhen are way too dodgy a choice for all but the entry-level ma and …
Android For Digital Signage: A Closer Look At AdServe June 25, 2013 by Super User It has been a little bit since we had a close look at a new Android-based digital signage platform, but rest assured they just keep coming. The latest in our running series of closer looks at Android-driven digital signage solution providers is AdServe, which is an Aussie company with some development ties to South Korea. …
