A Talking Flat Lady I Kinda Sorta Like (Must Have Skipped My Meds) May 3, 2013 by Dave Haynes As much as I dislike Talking Flat Ladies, they’ve gone over well enough – very surprisingly – at Logan Airport in Boston to merit ordering another three of the virtual assistant projection thingdoodles And the company that’s been championing the things is introducing a new version next week that I actually kinda sorta like, again …
UCView Latest Digital Signage Software Firm To Go Android April 3, 2013 by Dave Haynes LA-based UCView appears poised to be the latest digital signage software company to release an Android product, or in this case, a pair of them. The news release came out on April Fool’s Day (my free PR advice: don’t do PR that day), but I assume CEO Guy Avital is serious (why would he not be?) about …
Android POS Tablet Suggests Where Merchants Are Going, And DS Vendors Should Follow March 21, 2013 by Dave Haynes We’re already seeing the start of a shift in consumer environments away from highly proprietary and (usually) expensive systems to leaner, less costly ones playing off consumer devices and nimble software. Small merchants are using iPads as POS systems and very large companies like Apple use their own portable devices to transact in the aisles …
Key West Debuts SignWave For Meeting Room Market March 19, 2013 by Dave Haynes Keywest Technology is the latest digital signage software developer to get on the Android OS bus, announcing a system called SignWave that’s expressly focused on event and meeting room signs. The idea is to marry Android OS tablets with third-party property and event management systems that are commonly used in corporate, hospitality and higher education …
Video/Pix: NYC’s Reinvent Payphone Finalists March 7, 2013 by Dave Haynes Tech blog The Verge has a good piece up this morning about finalist entries in a competition intended to reinvent payphones in New York City. It’s an initiative, reports the blog, that invites students, urban planners, and designers to propose their visions for the payphone of the future. The finalists were selected as winners in six …
Detail: BroadSign’s New $99 Android Player March 4, 2013 by Dave Haynes A lot of people I chatted with last week mentioned BroadSign’s re-emergence at Digital Signage Expo in a full booth (this time last year they’d announced Chapter 11 re-structuring) and the unveiling of a $99 Android-based player. Going Android is in no way unique, but what distinguishes what BroadSign is doing from many of the …
79 Ways To Use Android For Digital Signage March 4, 2013 by Dave Haynes Here is a list of the digital signage software and related companies that now have Android products on the market, sorted alphabetically after the featured (advertising) companies (as of Nov. 2015): FEATURED CAPITAL NETWORKS MARKHAM, ON CANADA RISE VISION TORONTO, ON, CANADA BROADSIGN MONTREAL, QC, CANADA MVIX USA FULL LIST Admira (Spain) AdServe …
Navori Gets On The Android Train With Sub-$50 Player February 14, 2013 by Dave Haynes Swiss-based digital signage software firm NAVORI has ported its platform – which has run for years on Windows – to also run on the Google Android operating system. “We have been developing our QL Android player engine way before the Android OS™ proved to emerge from the initial smartphone platform it was intended for to …
Retail Business Intelligence Engine Tracks Shopper Trends By Smartphone IDs February 12, 2013 by Dave Haynes The ability to understand what consumers are doing in retail environments has been the domain these past few years of video-driven analytics that use overhead cameras to generate heat-maps of where shoppers go and where they don’t. Companies like Intel, via its video analytics technology, can also generate data on things like gender, dwell time …
Finally, A Hand-Cranked Digital Sign February 11, 2013 by Dave Haynes The only time I’ve written about kiosk-maker Zivelo was to slap them around on some really goofy PR, so I am happy to this time instead reference something a little out there, but nonetheless pretty interesting. The Marion, Indiana-based company (small town, 3 hrs south of Chicago) has launched what it calls the X-Eco kiosk, …
