Exterity, Cilutions Create New Streaming Digital Signage Offer January 27, 2014 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 …
One Pi + One Nerd = One Digital Sign For Kitchen January 20, 2014 by Dave Haynes San Francisco engineer/developer Brendan Nee got himself a little sub-$50 Raspberry Pi micro PC, played around with it, and came up with a real-time transit arrivals display … for his kitchen. Writes Nee on his blog: This shows the real-time arrival predictions for the transit routes near me, a map of the stops, the weather, and …
LG Will Soon Have Its Own “Smart Sign” January 20, 2014 by Dave Haynes I recently saw an LG presentation that indicates the company will soon start marketing a rival product to the Samsung SmartSignage platform. The “system on chip” design – essentially a smartphone/tablet CPU embedded in a commercial display panel – looks very similar to the Samsung product announced and released about a year ago. The big …
The Looming LED Price War & Implications For End-Users January 17, 2014 by Nick Donaldson GUEST POST The LED display business is maturing, and that’s going to inevitably trigger a price war that’s both good and cautionary news for the digital signage industry. Surface-mounted LED display technology is now teetering between a period of growth and a period of maturity. Maturity will see some companies grow, others will disappear and …
No More Crickets: Intel Starts Talking Digital Signage After Long Silence January 14, 2014 by Dave Haynes It has been more than half a year since Intel announced it was making the curious move of getting into the digital signage content management system, a field already as crowded as the line-up outside a Walmart on Black Friday. Then the cricket sounds started. And persisted. For the better part of seven months. I …
Capital Networks Picks Up Award For Its NFC-Big Screen Integration January 8, 2014 by Dave Haynes Congratulations to long-time industry friends and Sixteen:Nine sponsors Capital Networks, which has picked up a 2014 DIGI Award for what was judged one of the best new products for the digital signage market in 2013. The Best New Audience Participation Tool award was for Audience.mobile, an integrated Dynamic NFC (Near Field Communication) solution. I got a demo …
Android And Windows Move In Together January 7, 2014 by Dave Haynes Some of the early reports coming out of CES are about work that would see the Windows and Android operating systems running on the same computing device, seamlessly. AMD has a partnership with BlueStacks – emulator software that makes Android apps run on Windows devices – to develop technology that would run Android apps within …
