Android For Digital Signage: A Closer Look At AdServe June 25, 2013 by Dave Haynes 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. …
Sweden’s DISE The Latest SW Firm To Go Android June 19, 2013 by Dave Haynes [youtube id=”800n0enDE5c” width=”600″ height=”350″] The Swedish digital signage software company DISE has joined the Android club, though the actual release date of the player software is unspecified. DISE says the new player supports multi-screen synchronization – which the company touts as a core strength of its platform – as well as a NoBorders feature that …
Projects: Smart Signage End Caps In Loop C-Stores June 16, 2013 by Dave Haynes Here’s a small pilot in Silicon Valley that’s interesting for several reasons. It’s using HTML5 as the content platform. It’s a digital signage deal coming out of the print sector. It integrates mobile interaction. And it is using Samsung’s system on chip Smart Signage displays. (Disclosure: I work with or am tight with some of …
InfoComm Impressions: Day 1 June 13, 2013 by Dave Haynes It’s a little hot here, as in Oh My God How Do People Live Here? hot. But that’s typical in the years the pro-AV trade show comes here. Crowds look pretty good to my untrained eyes, though there are always guys at the backs of halls idly chatting and reading emails. I ended up in …
Hungary’s Dension Debuts Android Digital Signage Player June 10, 2013 by Dave Haynes A Hungarian company best-known for making pro audio devices for the auto market has moved into the digital signage space, developing a purpose-built media player that runs on Android. Dension Ltd has developed a system on chip playback device and it will start shipping with Signagelive’s HTML5 platform. Called CPX-1, the product is being launched …
Rise Vision’s Digital Signage Platform Now Working On Raspberry Pi June 10, 2013 by Dave Haynes The ongoing push to drive technology costs pretty much right out of digital signage continues, and now a developer has taken Toronto-based Rise Vision’s free, open source platform and got it running on the ultra low cost Raspberry Pi micro PCs. The developer has a post on the Rise Forum: I have a working, full …
Tiny Green PC Joins The Digital Signage ARM Race With Touch Player June 10, 2013 by Dave Haynes Tiny Green PC, which some of you might have known earlier as Fit PC, has released an Android media player it says can convert any touch screen with Android drivers into a fully functional Android tablet – the idea being that the tablet can be a touch enabled commercial monitor of pretty much any size. …
Raspberry Pi Generating Big Reader Appetite June 4, 2013 by Dave Haynes The writing I have been doing for the last few months about Android has generated a lot of interest, as reflected in booming page view numbers. The Closer Looks at some of the Android/ARM options out there have been among the most popular posts in the past quarter. But, by far, the post generating the …
Haivision Puts CoolSign On Android June 4, 2013 by Dave Haynes One of the things I try to coach clients on, when I am writing for them, is to NOT issue press releases immediately before or during big vertical market trade shows. People are traveling, away from their desks, really busy … so stuff gets missed. Like this announcement: CoolSign Is On Android, Too. That was announced …
Android For Digital Signage: A Closer Look At TargetR May 22, 2013 by Dave Haynes The latest in our running series of closer looks at Android-driven digital signage solution providers is UK-based TargetR. Some 30 companies have introduced products based on the open-source Android operating system that is very widely used for smart devices like handsets and tablets, all of them using CPUs based on ARM reference designs. Most smartphones …
