Hungary’s Dension Debuts Android Digital Signage Player June 10, 2013 by Super User A Hungarian company best-known for making pro audio devices for the auto market has moved into the digital signage space, developing a purpose-built media player that runs on Android. Dension Ltd has developed a system on chip playback device and it will start shipping with Signagelive’s HTML5 platform. Called CPX-1, the product is being launched …
Rise Vision’s Digital Signage Platform Now Working On Raspberry Pi June 10, 2013 by Super User The ongoing push to drive technology costs pretty much right out of digital signage continues, and now a developer has taken Toronto-based Rise Vision’s free, open source platform and got it running on the ultra low cost Raspberry Pi micro PCs. The developer has a post on the Rise Forum: I have a working, full …
Tiny Green PC Joins The Digital Signage ARM Race With Touch Player June 10, 2013 by Super User Tiny Green PC, which some of you might have known earlier as Fit PC, has released an Android media player it says can convert any touch screen with Android drivers into a fully functional Android tablet – the idea being that the tablet can be a touch enabled commercial monitor of pretty much any size. …
A Revolving, Interactive Sign That Points The Way To Pretty Much Whatever June 6, 2013 by Super User What’s dubbed the world’s most advanced directional sign handles live data feeds, rotates and points and takes requests. It’s the work of Breakfast, a New York company that is somewhere between an interactive agency and an industrial design team. These are the guys who did this cool electromagnetic dot display thing I wrote about last …
Raspberry Pi Generating Big Reader Appetite June 4, 2013 by Super User The writing I have been doing for the last few months about Android has generated a lot of interest, as reflected in booming page view numbers. The Closer Looks at some of the Android/ARM options out there have been among the most popular posts in the past quarter. But, by far, the post generating the …
Haivision Puts CoolSign On Android June 4, 2013 by Super User One of the things I try to coach clients on, when I am writing for them, is to NOT issue press releases immediately before or during big vertical market trade shows. People are traveling, away from their desks, really busy … so stuff gets missed. Like this announcement: CoolSign Is On Android, Too. That was announced …
Guest Post: Digital Signage At SID 2013 June 3, 2013 by Stephen Randall Manufacturers of large display panels don’t make much — or any — money on panels for television, so the rapidly growing market for digital signage is a bright spot. SID Display Week — held May 19-24, 2013 in Vancouver, B.C. — is a display technology show that is not known for a focus on digital …
Android For Digital Signage: A Closer Look At TargetR May 22, 2013 by Super User The latest in our running series of closer looks at Android-driven digital signage solution providers is UK-based TargetR. Some 30 companies have introduced products based on the open-source Android operating system that is very widely used for smart devices like handsets and tablets, all of them using CPUs based on ARM reference designs. Most smartphones …
Android For Digital Signage: Say Hello To This Flexible, Low-Cost Platform May 18, 2013 by Super User Here’s the 12th entry in this running series of closer looks at digital signage solution providers who have started working with the Android operating system and low-cost, ultra-small ARM processors. Almost 30 companies have introduced products based on the open-source Android operating system that is very widely used for smart devices like handsets and tablets, …
Low Cost CPUs Force Smart Content Decisions May 12, 2013 by Super User One of the happy consequences of all the tinkering going right now with low-cost, limited-power CPUs like ARM-based Android players and Raspberry Pi micro computers is the decision to stop a lot of the multi-zone crap and simplify presentations. The Raspberry Pi forum has a post up about a project that involved developing a network …
