This Is The End … For Intel AIM February 1, 2014 by Dave Haynes Intel sent out a “Product Change Notification” Friday letting customers and the larger ecosystem know that no more development is being done on its face pattern detection system know as the AIM Suite, the product originally known as Cognovision. Intel Retail Solutions Division (RSD) remains committed to enabling Retailers, Brands and Digital Agencies improve business …
First Purpose-Built Raspberry Pi Digital Signage Players Hit Market January 31, 2014 by Dave Haynes Here’s what I think is the first purpose-designed and built Raspberry Pi digital signage player – a unit that UK-based Silver Curve will show off at the big ISE pro-AV show in Amsterdam next week. It has certainly been possible for a long time now to buy a $45 Raspberry Pi board, buy an enclosure, …
Nanonation Partnering, Demoing Dell’s New Android Stick January 30, 2014 by Dave Haynes The announcement yesterday about Dell’s new $130 HDMI stick looked hinted at something that could be used for digital signage, and the material made a general reference to it. Turns out it not only COULD be used for digital signage, it’s already been developed and integrated by Nanonation, which has been a Dell partner for …
Dutch Firm Opens Android Digital Signage CMS Up To Developers January 30, 2014 by Dave Haynes The Dutch software company Novus Solutions has opened up its Android digital signage software platform, called Hello Infinity, to third-party developers. The development set is called Open-Display, and is a set of tools for developers who are looking for an easy way to integrate digital signage into their own software. It is not open-sourced, but more …
Cenique, Rise Vision Combine On New Android Digital Signage Offer January 30, 2014 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 …
