Noxel’s New Android Digital Signage Player Ships With BLE Inside April 28, 2014 by Dave Haynes The Singapore firm Noxel has done an interesting spin on an Android digital signage player – embedding a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) module inside the playback device. The company says that enables the digital signage network operator – like a retailer – to use the tech for indoor positioning and location-specific push messaging to smartphones. …
Buying Digital Signage Online Is About As Rock-Solid As Jello April 28, 2014 by Dave Haynes Somehow or other I bumped into a link for a SIIG digital signage player, as listed on Staples’ Canadian online store. First, I thought, who is SIIG? Then I thought, Staples sells digital signage??? SIIG is a Fremont, California device manufacturer that’s into all kinds of things, and has a streamer device it touts as …
Get DSrupted On Sept. 17th In Toronto April 28, 2014 by Dave Haynes All the pieces are in place and live now for a one-day conference I’m putting on in Toronto, called DSrupted 2014. The day will be focused on the opportunities and implications of disruptive technologies on the digital signage industry. DS=Digital Signage. Disrupted. So DSrupted!!! My God I’m clever. Anyway … The event is set for Sept. 17th, …
Social-Focused Digital Signage Start-Up Enplug Gets $2.5 Million Seed Backing April 18, 2014 by Dave Haynes LA-based startup digital signage start-up Enplug has done a $2.5 million seed round from what looks to be a broad range of tech investors, the money intended to broaden the company’s footprint. The funding, reports TechCrunch, comes from a number of investors, including Oaktree Capital Co-Founder Larry Keele, Juniper Networks Founding Member Rasoul Oskouy, Idealab Founder …
Video: Montreal Deployment Firm Shows Its Hang & Bang Skills April 18, 2014 by Dave Haynes It’s rare enough to see video case studies on projects involving software and solutions providers, but even more rare to see a nice, polished video from a company that does the “hang and bang” side of digital signage. This is an effective video developed by a Montreal company, Cablage Expert, that is focused on digital signage …
Microsoft Files Counterfeiting Lawsuit Against Digital Signage Player Firm April 16, 2014 by Dave Haynes A Los Angeles-area company that sells digital signage media players has a bit of a problem on its hands after software giant Microsoft filed a lawsuit this week, alleging Technovare Systems was selling PCs that had bootlegged versions of Windows running on them. The case filed this week in U.S. District Court in Santa Ana, …
Hughes Reminds Sector About Its Own Digital Signage Solution April 15, 2014 by Dave Haynes There are some big companies out there that every so often pop up and remind me that they are in the digital signage business, at least a little. Hughes Network Systems, known mostly as a broadband satellite solutions provider, made some noise this morning about its HughesON Digital Media Solutions – which does the usual …
Web Services Emerging To Help Push Real Time Content To Signs April 11, 2014 by Dave Haynes The technical stuff here is way the heck over my head, but a startup just coming out of private beta would at least seem to have a service that would intrigue digital signage software companies that use browsers as players and use, or want to use, a lot of live data. TechCrunch has a post …
Amazon Fire TV As Digital Signage Player April 9, 2014 by Dave Haynes As soon as Amazon announced its $99 Fire TV HD media player – a competitor to Apple TVs, Roku boxes and other similar devices – there would have been developers here and there wondering if this tidy, low-cost unit would work as a digital signage player. Not surprisingly, work is underway. A developer who already …
A $129 One-Time All-In Digital Signage Solution From Norway April 9, 2014 by Dave Haynes How about $129 for a digital signage system, and you’re done? That’s the admittedly low-end, absolutely entry-level proposition being floated by the Norwegian software firm Tellystream, which has figured out a method to drop very basic software on an available PC and use multimedia sharing technology common across most late model Samsung TVs. The Tellystream …
