Video: Montreal Deployment Firm Shows Its Hang & Bang Skills April 18, 2014 by Super User It’s rare enough to see video case studies on projects involving software and solutions providers, but even more rare to see a nice, polished video from a company that does the “hang and bang” side of digital signage. This is an effective video developed by a Montreal company, Cablage Expert, that is focused on digital signage …
Microsoft Files Counterfeiting Lawsuit Against Digital Signage Player Firm April 16, 2014 by Super User A Los Angeles-area company that sells digital signage media players has a bit of a problem on its hands after software giant Microsoft filed a lawsuit this week, alleging Technovare Systems was selling PCs that had bootlegged versions of Windows running on them. The case filed this week in U.S. District Court in Santa Ana, …
Hughes Reminds Sector About Its Own Digital Signage Solution April 15, 2014 by Super User There are some big companies out there that every so often pop up and remind me that they are in the digital signage business, at least a little. Hughes Network Systems, known mostly as a broadband satellite solutions provider, made some noise this morning about its HughesON Digital Media Solutions – which does the usual …
Web Services Emerging To Help Push Real Time Content To Signs April 11, 2014 by Super User The technical stuff here is way the heck over my head, but a startup just coming out of private beta would at least seem to have a service that would intrigue digital signage software companies that use browsers as players and use, or want to use, a lot of live data. TechCrunch has a post …
Amazon Fire TV As Digital Signage Player April 9, 2014 by Super User As soon as Amazon announced its $99 Fire TV HD media player – a competitor to Apple TVs, Roku boxes and other similar devices – there would have been developers here and there wondering if this tidy, low-cost unit would work as a digital signage player. Not surprisingly, work is underway. A developer who already …
A $129 One-Time All-In Digital Signage Solution From Norway April 9, 2014 by Super User How about $129 for a digital signage system, and you’re done? That’s the admittedly low-end, absolutely entry-level proposition being floated by the Norwegian software firm Tellystream, which has figured out a method to drop very basic software on an available PC and use multimedia sharing technology common across most late model Samsung TVs. The Tellystream …
Does An Even Smaller Raspberry Pi Offer New Digital Signage Uses? April 9, 2014 by Super User The teeny $45 Raspberry Pi micro-computers just got smaller, with a new mini module that shrinks down the size of the device and opens up some new possibilities for digital signage applications. The Pi devices were already quite small, but the new module is small enough to fit inside a small display enclosure, opening up …
Visionect Introduces E-Paper Digital Signage Solution March 31, 2014 by Super User Luka Birsa, the Chief Technology Officer for the Slovenian firm Visionect, sent me a note telling me about how his company has shifted its work with e-paper to the digital signage market. “I read your article on meeting room systems and it inspired us to develop a demo system for room booking, which can be mounted on …
Samsung’s 2nd Gen Smart Sign Out In May March 31, 2014 by Super User I am in a very chilly and white Calgary, Alberta, and heading to what may well be an even chillier and just as snowy Edmonton, on a quick Western Canada swing. The Calgary part of the trip was a presentation by me to a room full of regional Samsung integrators and partners, talking about where …
Are There Really 300 Digital Signage Software Options? March 28, 2014 by Super User For the last few months I have, in free moments, been trying to build a list that identifies and categorizes the digital signage eco-system. It’s a big job and I even subbed out some of the work to someone in Croatia to spend a many hours searching, decoding and validating companies. So far, I have …
