New Tech: How In-Store WiFi Can Drive Shopper Insights March 6, 2014 by Super User I spent the last couple of days wandering the aisles of a digital tech trade show in Toronto called DX3 Canada. From the context of digital signage, I couldn’t make any sound argument that buyers of that tech needed to be there. Despite what the pic suggests, it was BUSY (think this was taken pre …
Struggling Digital Signage Tech Firms Wireless Ronin, Broadcast Int’l Merge March 6, 2014 by Super User I’d imagine the general sense of how consolidation will play out in the software side of the digital signage sector is that healthy, growing companies will acquire distressed or dying companies. Probably not as anticipated are stories of two companies likely struggling to keep the lights on joining “forces” in a merger. But the second …
The Android Digital Signage Invasion Continues March 6, 2014 by Tom Graczkowski Guest Post: Bryan Mongeau, BroadSign I saw a lot of people and handled a lot of questions about Android at last month’s Digital Signage Expo, and one of the most persistent ones was whether we were selling many Android boxes and licenses. Yes, BroadSign has been selling a lot of Android devices. In the year …
Projects: Pizza Hut’s Tabletop Ordering Concept March 3, 2014 by Super User Here’s a concept tabletop ordering system being touted by Pizza Hut as the possible future of dining in your local mega-chain pizzeria. It has about as much chance of being commonplace in the chain as food critics describing the stuff coming out of the ovens in glowing terms. I like the concept and the execution …
Raspberry Pi Turns 2, 2.5M+ Units Now Shipped March 2, 2014 by Super User The Raspberry Pi people marked two years of having the teeny $35 Linux computers on the market with news that more than 2.5 million units have shipped worldwide. The project was first intended as a means to get schoolkids tinkering with affordable computing gear, but everyone from hobbyists to engineering companies have also invested in the …
Behold The Android Digital Signage Swamp February 27, 2014 by Super User The official Sixteen:Nine count of digital signage player and management platforms that now use low-cost Android/ARM devices is at 62, but I operate with the idea that it is damn near impossible to stay on top of all the little guys here, there and everywhere that have also got on this particular development bus. A …
Research: Consumers Not Enchanted By BLE Proximity Marketing February 26, 2014 by Super User Here’s a nice tall glass of cold water in the flushed faces of people yelling omni-channel and mobile integration from the digital signage rooftops. Research from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) suggests the great unwashed out there aren’t at all enchanted by the notion of walking through stores and public spaces and getting jack-hammered with ads, coupons and calls …
Mainstream Sign Software Firm Maturing Its Digital Signage Offer February 26, 2014 by Super User There are quite a few people who see the mainstream sign printing industry as a natural market to break into with digital signage software, given that we’re already seeing static signs like menu boards going digital. But here’s an interesting wrinkle – a software company that has serviced the mainstream wide-format printing for 20 years …
Decoding Pixel Pitch In LED Displays February 26, 2014 by Emily Carroll Guest Post: Brett Farley, NanoLumens Pixel Pitch, what is it? Why do I care? Well … the short answer is you don’t care, unless you’re going to be evaluating LED display technology for an indoor or outdoor application. In order to talk about the “pitch” one has to first define a pixel. For conversational purposes, …
Lightning Review: Dell’s Cloud Connect HDMI Stick & Nanonation February 25, 2014 by Super User Let’s get one thing out of the way from the get-go. I don’t have a test bench or thingies that analyze voltage or heat or duty cycles or Higgs boson mass. I have a big-ass 50-inch plasma in the rec room, and it has a spare HDMI slot. So my lab test is not your …
