Mirabyte Releases Free Windows Lockdown Tool For Digital Signage October 2, 2014 by Super User A German software company has released a new, free software tool designed to make configuring and protecting things like Windows-based digital signage players and kiosks a lot easier than normal. Mirabyte’s FrontFace Lockdown Tool organizes all the various settings and configuration options in different versions of Windows to lock-down and protect a public-facing kiosk PC or …
Revel Digital Puts Android On Intel October 1, 2014 by Super User RevelDigital, a digital signage software firm based in Fargo, ND (yes, THAT Fargo) was one of the early copanies to get into the Android ARM race for players and platform. And now it is one of the first companies to jump on the opportunity to use an Intel chipset that will allow it to run and support …
Projects: Interactive Ad Pods In Bangalore September 26, 2014 by Super User I have my doubts about Digital OOH executions that require gesture interaction, or what I fondly call Stupid People Tricks. There’s a dynamic at play that limits how many people want to try something that might embarrass them. There’s also the simple question of whether gesture is there for the sake of novelty versus it …
FWI Adds Content And Functionality Apps In New V5 Digital Signage Software Release September 25, 2014 by Super User I don’t tend to write up news of version releases from digital signage software companies because that would be a full-time task, and if you do it for one, then everyone expects equal treatment. Very slippery slope. But I’ll mention new software stuff here and there for various reasons, including in this case the vendor being among …
New IAdea Media Player Design Allows Android Digital Signage On Intel Chips September 25, 2014 by Super User Taiwan’s IAdea has announced a new hardware platform that intriguingly makes it possible to run an Android digital signage application on conventional Intel x86 architecture, instead of the ARM-0based CPUs that have been used to date for Android products. The platform was demonstrated today, with Intel, at the Digital Signage Shanghai Show. IAdea suggests this new set-up …
Price Tag Company Says It Has 6 Million Digital Signs Running September 23, 2014 by Super User Is a network-updated digital price tag a digital sign? I could get on either side of that on a debate, but my gut reaction is, “Not really.” Whatever the case, a Silicon Valley company is talking about how it has 6 million digital signs out in the marketplace in Europe and North America. That would make …
ScreenScape Launches Plug’n’Play Digital Signage Connect Service September 23, 2014 by Super User PEI-based ScreenScape has launched a new plug-and-play hardware solution, called ScreenScape Connect, that takes advantage of emerging low-cost media devices. The first device certified for the program is the Dell Wyse Cloud Connect, an HDMI stick designed for thin client computing but good to go, as well, as a simple networked media player. Screenscape is the …
New Standard Allows 4K Signal, Data AND Power Over 1 USB Cable September 23, 2014 by Super User The Video Electronics Standards Association has announced a new type of USB cable and connectors that can push signals to 4K monitors and provide up to 100 watts of power while also deliver USB 3.1 SuperSpeed data. VESA’s DisplayPort Alternate Mode (“Alt Mode”) can also drive adaptors that support the huge installed base of existing DisplayPort, …
Google Sees Chrome, Not Android, As Its Digital Signage Platform September 22, 2014 by Super User Google’s Vidya Nagarajan was our first speaker last week at DSrupted, taking attendees though the tech giant’s vision of cloud services and how it plugs in to digital signage. I barely sat down on the day, and never had time to take notes, but I did listen and did get a copy of her presentation deck …
Via Debuts New Android Box For Digital Signage September 18, 2014 by Super User The Taiwanese chip and PC maker Via has debuted a new Android box tuned to digital signage, interactive kiosks and home automation devices. The VIA ARTiGO A900 has a 1.0GHz dual core VIA Elite E1000 Cortex-A9 SoC with a high-performance 2D/3D graphics and video engine that supports Open GL ES 3.0 hardware acceleration and simultaneous multiple …
