Germany’s Viewneo Crosses Pond With Android Digital Signage Platform February 24, 2014 by Super User On one of my sprints up and down the aisles at DSE a couple of weeks ago in Las Vegas (sigh … where it was warm), I slowed down and asked a guy at a booth called Viewneo what they did. “Easy to use digital signage,” he said, with a German accent. “And we use …
Via Announces New Board Optimized For Android Digital Signage February 24, 2014 by Super User VIA Technologies is showing off a new Pico-ITX (Pico = teeny) board later this week at Embedded World 2014 in Nuremberg, Germany that’s optimized for applications like digital signage. Via has for years been selling micro PCs with conventional x86 processors, but has started also marketing products based on the ARM reference design. The 1.0GHz …
inLighten Launches Apollo Android Platform For Digital Signage February 24, 2014 by Super User inLighten is one of those companies that has been quietly doing its own thing in the digital signage sector for many years, staying largely out of the echo-chamber of PR and industry trade shows. But just ahead of DSE, the company put out news that it had developed and was now releasing its own Android …
Google’s Move Bodes Well For Digital Signage Consumers February 18, 2014 by Chris W Guest Post: Byron Darlison, Rise Vision Google recently announced that they are entering the digital signage market with Chromebox, which of course is running Chrome OS. From my perspective there isn’t a lot of news here and I don’t think this is a “sweep the nation overnight” move, however, it does bode well for …
What Google’s Chromebox Means For Digital Signage February 16, 2014 by Super User In the waning minutes of the DSE trade show floor last week my time freed up long enough to get into the Intel booth. There was the eye candy stuff with fuzzy business models, as always. But there was also a little section set aside for a fascinating and possibly very disruptive entry into digital …
BroadSign Plugs Digital OOH Clients Into Vistar’s Programmatic Buying Platform February 12, 2014 by Super User BroadSign has launched a new product called BroadSign Connect that ‘s effectively a direct connector with Vistar Media’s programmatic media buying solution. Digital OOH networks running on BroadSign’s ad-centric platform can now opt-in and allow unsold ad inventory to be bought by planners via the Vistar, which has in the past year gained a lot of …
Shuttle Joins The Digital Signage ARM Race February 11, 2014 by Super User Longtime small PC maker Shuttle Computer Group, based in City of Industry, California, is launching a line of ARM-based, full HD digital media players this week at DSE. “Whether you’re looking for a straightforward ARM-based player or the most sophisticated system for complicated video wall installations, Shuttle has the answer for all applications,” says Marty Lash, …
PQ Labs Touts New Quad-Core Android Digital Signage “Stick” February 11, 2014 by Super User San Jose-based PQ Labs has announced a new Android HDMI stick it touts as the most powerful on the market. I’m not sure if it really is, or not, but it certainly has some power under the hood. The iStick A300 is a 1.6 GHz quad-core and can take a solid state hard drive as …
Glasses-Free 3D Goes 4K February 6, 2014 by Super User I was wondering if next week’s Digital Signage Expo would have any companies there still trying to get the industry interested in glasses-free 3D – a tech that seems to move people quickly from amazed to ambivalent. Turns out there is, and it’s a bit different. Buffalo-based pro AV distributor Stampede Presentation Products will be …
DSE Disrupted Tech Talk Approaching Sold Out February 5, 2014 by Super User The Digital Signage Expo team tells me the seminar on Disrupted Technology that I’m chairing/moderating/referee’ing a week today ion Las Vegas is approaching sold out. There were 100 registrants as of today and the room can take a dozen or so more. So … let’s sell it out!!! The session is Wed. Feb. 12 at …
