Call For Speakers: Taiwan, June 2015 March 17, 2015 by Dave Haynes The Digital Signage Multimedia Alliance in Taiwan has put out its 2015 call for speakers to its annual Digital Signage Forum in Taipei, which runs during the giant Computex tech show. The DSMA involves nearly 200 member companies in Asia, including technology and media companies. The annual forum takes place this year on Friday June 5 at the …
DSE 2015 Day Two Impressions March 14, 2015 by Dave Haynes Back at home and already missing the big blue skies and shirt sleeves weather of LA and Las Vegas. Sigh. Day 2 at Digital Signage Expo was still bat outta hell mode for me, running around looking at stuff and steering clients here and there to see things and meet people. So as usual, I got …
DSE2015: Sharp’s Wraparound LCD Display March 12, 2015 by Dave Haynes This is just a concept, and may or may not ever be a full product from Sharp, but it IS very nice. It’s a convex LCD with interior direct light inside a column to illuminate the LCD. The application would be columns in retail or public spaces, replacing printed graphics or flexible LED displays that …
DSE: Day I – General Impressions March 12, 2015 by Dave Haynes Daylight is breaking here and it’s Day 2 of the trade show hall at Digital Signage Expo. This is the day I run around and really see stuff,I hope. Day 1 was meetings and catching up with people. The place looked busy – certainly not jammed, but busy. Exhibitors I asked said they thought traffic …
DSE2015: Google Shows Its Digital Signage Offer March 12, 2015 by Dave Haynes The big buzz out of DSE 2015 was, not surprisingly, the substantial presence of online giant Google – which had a 40 by 40 foot booth attracting large crowds on the first of two trade show hall days. I didn’t get over there until late morning, and quickly saw the area was somewhat swarmed by …
VIA, Capital Networks Launch SMB Digital Signage Bundle March 11, 2015 by Dave Haynes VIA Technologies, Inc and Capital Networks have been working together for a couple of years now, based around using VIA’s very nice, commercial-grade (read: not dodgy consumer crap) Android media players. Now they’ve deepened the ties with the launch of the VIA ALTA Portal digital signage system for small business owners. The bundled set-up combines the VIA ALTA …
Monster Media Taking Aerva To Court In Patent Dispute March 10, 2015 by Dave Haynes Monster Media has filed a claim against the Boston-based software firm Aerva, in the New York Southern District Court, alleging willful patent infringement. Monster is asserting a patent for retrieving and then displaying social media content on screens. The patent was acquired by Monster when it acquired Locamoda. My guess is this is not the last …
DSE 2015 Booth Field Guide: IAdea March 10, 2015 by Dave Haynes John Wang, IAdea Booth 333 Why do people going to DSE need to put your company on their Must-See list of booths? IAdea is all about making industrial-strength Android-based devices for 24×7 digital signage use. In 2014, research firm IHS named us the 4th largest digital signage player company and #1 shipping Android. We provide …
Android Early Adopter BroadSign Puts New Low-Cost Player On Wintel March 9, 2015 by Dave Haynes BroadSign has probably seen the most success of any digital signage software company that has released players and product based around the Android operating system and ARM chips, so it will probably surprise some observers that its new product release goes back to Windows and Intel. The BroadSign Xpress Pro, to be released Q3 of …
Acer Launches 4K-Capable, $400 Chromebox March 6, 2015 by Dave Haynes PC maker Acer just announced a new Chromebox that amps up the horsepower substantially, touting the little box’s ability to play 4K media content. The tongue-twisting Acer Chromebox CXI-i34GKM (yikes, engineers should not name products) has an Intel Core i3 4030U dual-core processor, 16 GB solid state drive, and boots up in less than 10 …
