TigerLogic Debuts Postano User-Gen Chrome App For Retail April 2, 2015 by Dave Haynes Portland, Oregon-based TigerLogic has developed and released a user-generated content application for kiosks that jumps on the rather abrupt explosion of development and interest in Google’s low-cost Chrome platform. The company’s interactive brand is Postano, and Postano Kiosk is now an app that can be downloaded from the Google Chrome web store. It’s designed for integrating user-generated …
Sweden’s DISE Adds Support for Samsung SSP April 2, 2015 by Dave Haynes The Swedish software firm DISE is the latest to tweak its player software to run on Samsung’s Smart Signage Platform, which is built and marketed around the idea of having a System on Chip built into displays, removing the need for an external player. “You only need a network, a code and then you are …
Omnivex Launches Cloud Version Of Moxie Platform April 2, 2015 by Dave Haynes Toronto-based Omnivex has launched Moxie Cloud, billed as an easy-launch, affordable hosted spin on its powerful Movie digital signage management platform. Moxie Cloud’s subscription includes a series of professional-looking templates to get content up even without designers or agencies. It also includes a weather feed and news from Thomson Reuters. Moxie Cloud, says a release, is …
Acer To Ship 21.5-Inch Touch Chromebase April 1, 2015 by Dave Haynes Acer has announced plans to ship a giant 1080P tablet- called a Chromebase – by this summer, with touch and running Chrome OS. The unit is kinda sort a tablet and also kinda sorta an all-in-one display – in a 21.5-inch form factor. From the context of digital signage, this has endcap or podium display all …
Capital Networks Targets Rival Scala’s Customers With Trade-In Program April 1, 2015 by Dave Haynes Ask most people who sell signage software and they’ll confirm replacing incumbent software providers is a substantial part of their month to month business. Sometimes it is service quality. Sometimes one glitch too many. A push on pricing. Or even just personality clashes. The software guys sell against each other every day in a quest to …
VIA Rolls Out All-In Bus Signage And Infotainment System April 1, 2015 by Dave Haynes Putting screens in big things that roll and bump and jolt is a substantial technical challenge – the problems ranging from too much vibration, to dust and grime, to the inquisitive fingers and sharp objects of the general public. It’s possible to put the pieces together between rugged panels and industrial, solid state PCs – …
Android Signage Apps Can Now Readily Port To Google’s Chrome OS April 1, 2015 by Dave Haynes Things just keep getting more and more interesting with Google and its Chrome OS. Yesterday it was word about the Chromebit HDMI stick. Now there’s word that Google is now letting any Android developer port its apps, or games to run on Chromebooks and other Chrome OS devices, like Chromeboxes and Chromebits. That would mean if you are one …
Asus Shipping Sub-$100 Google Chromebit Digital Signage Stick By Summer March 31, 2015 by Dave Haynes The whole Google does digital signage thing just got even more interesting – with Google via Asus announcing the Chromebit, which is effectively a Chromebox as an HDMI stick. The units are expected to cost less than $100 USD. The Chromebits will have a Rockchip processor, 2GB of RAM and 16GB of eMMC flash storage. If …
Amazon’s Vision For Reimagined Retail Looks Awfully Familiar March 31, 2015 by Dave Haynes The tech site re/code has a piece up about how Amazon has patents that would change up how people buy goods in brick-and-mortar stores. Problem is, that idea’s been around for a decade or so. The site talks about recently filed patent applications that suggest shoppers would be able to pick items off shelves and leave the …
Will They Hear Crickets At Sign Expo’s “Dynamic Digital Signage” Park Next Week? March 31, 2015 by Dave Haynes A couple of contacts have sent notes recently asking if I was going to the International Sign Association’s annual trade show, which runs next week in Las Vegas. Nope. Can’t see any reason why I would. I did go to Sign Expo a couple of years ago, but that was with a client, on said …
