Cenique, Rise Vision Combine On New Android Digital Signage Offer January 30, 2014 by Super User A Hong Kong-based company called Cenique has started selling a pair of Android devices – a box and an HDMI stick – that run Rise Vision’s free, open source digital signage management system. The stick costs $225 all in, while the box is $325. The interesting there here is that you have a low-cost Android …
Dell Debuts $130 Android Digital Signage HDMI Player January 29, 2014 by Super User I will stress immediately that there is a level of technical about this that is pretty much over my head, but this LOOKS at least like another interesting development in the whole anything-but-a-PC quest that has led to some 40 Android digital signage solutions out there. Dell has released its long-awaited HDMI Android dongle, a …
New Intel NUC Gives More Power At Less Cost January 28, 2014 by Super User Intel has added a low-cost but more powerful version of its NUC mini-mini PCs. The little Next Unit of Computing boxes that many digital signage companies seem to be using have been given a significant bump in graphics processing and multimedia capability using Intel’s Bay Trail Atom SoC (System On Chip) design. That’s big, because the …
NEC Unveils Android-Based Smart Digital Signage Panel, Using OPS Spec January 28, 2014 by Super User NEC Display Solutions just got into the smart digital sign contest, but in a very different way. Whereas companies like Samsung and LG are effectively extending variants of their Smart TV development and hardware into commercial displays, NEC is using the Open Pluggable Spec (OPS) to allow an open-source Android player box to be snapped …
Navori Adds New Android Digital Signage Player To Product Line January 28, 2014 by Super User The Swiss software firm Navori, which has been developing in the digital signage space for more than a decade, has updated the Android offer it first introduced around this time last year. The QL StiX 3400 is an Android player that’s about the size of a deck of playing cards, but has the bits inside …
TargetR Issues Major Upgrade On Android Digital Signage Platform January 28, 2014 by Super User The UK-based software firm TargetR is introducing a major upgrade to its digital signage content management platform – putting server-level logic and s\ome pretty impressive capabilities into low-cost Android-based playback devices. TargetR Display Stacks for Android, says a release, is a self-contained digital signage solution incorporating peer to peer communications, touch screen interactivity, face detection …
Exterity, Cilutions Create New Streaming Digital Signage Offer January 27, 2014 by Super User I don’t see that much IPTV stuff being marketed in the digital signage space, even though it looks like a pretty nice fit in cases where streaming video is already something a business does and digital signage is just a bolt-on. Here’s a Scottish company that’s been doing IPTV for a long time, and has …
What Are You Doing About Moore’s Law? January 25, 2014 by SteveSchildwachter I’ve been going over my end-of-year financials, and looking back over the three years since I bought my company, Unified Brand. Running the numbers made me realize that none of the four main things I buy and then re-sell all the time in digital signage – media players, software, licenses and content – have gone …
Sneak Peek: World’s Biggest Indoor LED Ad Board January 21, 2014 by Super User It looks like the world’s largest indoor LED ad media board is about ready to permanently switch on and start making money for JC Decaux and the operators of central London’s Waterloo rail station. Called Waterloo Motion, the board is 40 metres long by 3 metres high, or for the metric-challenged, roughly 130 ft by …
Zeroing In On Our Disrupted Future January 21, 2014 by Super User I’m on the phone later this week to walk through the topics and orchestration of a seminar planned for Day 1 at Digital Signage Expo – a good one for people who want to know what’s coming and what it means. Session S13, from 4 to 5 on the 12th, is bluntly called: DIGITAL SIGNAGE …
