Thirdshelf Store Demo Shows How BLE Can Work With Mobile, Store Displays March 10, 2014 by Dave Haynes One of the busiest spots at last week’s DX3 digital media show in Toronto was a faux retail store pulled together by Montreal’s Thirdshelf and a series of partners like Armodilo. Instead of a simple booth and product demos, they built what felt much more like a store – helped along in that the “store” …
Signagelive Now Has Screenfeed Inside March 9, 2014 by Dave Haynes A few digital signage software companies have talked in the last two or three years about their plans to make content marketplaces part of their offer, but I’ve not seen a lot that extends beyond some content widgets for weather and tickers. Instead, the companies that do automated content feeds have been, by and large, …
Google Chromeboxes Shipping Mid-Month March 7, 2014 by Dave Haynes If you want to start tinkering with one of those $179 Asus Chromeboxes that Google is touting for digital signage, they are now up for pre-order on Amazon and shipping will start mid-month. Shipping is free. They come with: Intel Celeron 2955U Processor 2GB DDR3 RAM 16 GB Solid State Drive Chrome OS Still waiting …
Startup Neuranet Uses HTML5 To Build Multiple Ads Fast, And At Once March 7, 2014 by Dave Haynes One of the start-ups I spent time with at this week’s DX3 conference in Toronto was Neuranet, which has developed an online ad production tool called Flexitive. Based on HTML5 and other technologies that have really just bubbled up in the last two-three years, the SaaS-based service allows creatives (and minimally creative marketers) to build …
New Tech: How In-Store WiFi Can Drive Shopper Insights March 6, 2014 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 …
