Harris Broadcast Re-Brands As Two New Entities March 17, 2014 by Super User Harris Broadcast has re-branded itself with a pair of new handles – Imagine Communications and GatesAir – and laid out its future path which, not surprisingly, makes no mention of continuing to play in the overcrowded digital signage sandbox. The companies had a MediaDay at Madison Square Garden in New York today to outline its marketplace directions: Imagine Communications …
Google Q&A: How The Tech Giant Plugs Into Digital Signage March 14, 2014 by Super User I had quick chat with Vidya Nagarajan of Google in the Intel booth at DSE. She was there answering questions about the Chrome platform and the potential use cases for digital signage. I followed up with a series of questions, via Google’s communications folks, and Vidya kindly got back to me with answers. Here’s what the …
Store Everything On Your Signage Network For Maybe $10 A Month March 13, 2014 by Super User In another sign existing business models are getting disrupted and pushed by a combination of cloud, dropping costs and plain old clout, Google has announced today that users can store 100 GB of files on its Google Drive cloud storage infrastructure for $2 a month. You can store a terabyte for all of $10 a …
$150 Matrix Mini-PC Can Hop Between Android, Linux March 13, 2014 by Super User Here’s a possible alternative for the crowd using HDMI sticks and Raspberry Pi kits to restrict hardware costs on their digital signage networks: the Matrix Mini-PC. The Chinese-made Matrix, from a company called TBS, is a single board mini-computer with an ARM A9 quad core processor and quad core graphics, and a set-up that allows …
Google Chromebox Gets Thumbs Up From Respected Hardware Tech Blog March 12, 2014 by Super User The much respected hardware tech blog AnandTech has put one of those new Asus Google Chromeboxes though some lab testing and come out with a pretty thumbs up review on the $179 version of the units. There is a lot of propeller-head stuff in the review that may or may not make any sense, but …
NFL’s Jaguars To Get World’s Biggest HD LED Displays March 10, 2014 by Super User The NFL’s Jacksonville Jaguars don’t have much of a team on the field (6-26 last two years) but the club will soon have a couple of very big-assed LED score boards the fans can look at when the visiting team scores … again. The Jaguars have “partnered” with Daktronics to manufacture and install what they …
Thirdshelf Store Demo Shows How BLE Can Work With Mobile, Store Displays March 10, 2014 by Super User One of the busiest spots at last week’s DX3 digital media show in Toronto was a faux retail store pulled together by Montreal’s Thirdshelf and a series of partners like Armodilo. Instead of a simple booth and product demos, they built what felt much more like a store – helped along in that the “store” …
Signagelive Now Has Screenfeed Inside March 9, 2014 by Super User A few digital signage software companies have talked in the last two or three years about their plans to make content marketplaces part of their offer, but I’ve not seen a lot that extends beyond some content widgets for weather and tickers. Instead, the companies that do automated content feeds have been, by and large, …
Google Chromeboxes Shipping Mid-Month March 7, 2014 by Super User If you want to start tinkering with one of those $179 Asus Chromeboxes that Google is touting for digital signage, they are now up for pre-order on Amazon and shipping will start mid-month. Shipping is free. They come with: Intel Celeron 2955U Processor 2GB DDR3 RAM 16 GB Solid State Drive Chrome OS Still waiting …
Startup Neuranet Uses HTML5 To Build Multiple Ads Fast, And At Once March 7, 2014 by Super User One of the start-ups I spent time with at this week’s DX3 conference in Toronto was Neuranet, which has developed an online ad production tool called Flexitive. Based on HTML5 and other technologies that have really just bubbled up in the last two-three years, the SaaS-based service allows creatives (and minimally creative marketers) to build …
