Android POS Tablet Suggests Where Merchants Are Going, And DS Vendors Should Follow March 21, 2013 by Dave Haynes We’re already seeing the start of a shift in consumer environments away from highly proprietary and (usually) expensive systems to leaner, less costly ones playing off consumer devices and nimble software. Small merchants are using iPads as POS systems and very large companies like Apple use their own portable devices to transact in the aisles …
Key West Debuts SignWave For Meeting Room Market March 19, 2013 by Dave Haynes Keywest Technology is the latest digital signage software developer to get on the Android OS bus, announcing a system called SignWave that’s expressly focused on event and meeting room signs. The idea is to marry Android OS tablets with third-party property and event management systems that are commonly used in corporate, hospitality and higher education …
Video/Pix: NYC’s Reinvent Payphone Finalists March 7, 2013 by Dave Haynes Tech blog The Verge has a good piece up this morning about finalist entries in a competition intended to reinvent payphones in New York City. It’s an initiative, reports the blog, that invites students, urban planners, and designers to propose their visions for the payphone of the future. The finalists were selected as winners in six …
Video Blog: Samsung’s New SoC Smart Signage March 7, 2013 by Dave Haynes My Signagelive friends, Jason Cremins and Raffi Vartian, have been talking up a storm with anyone who will listen about the merits and possibilities of Samsung’s SoC product, which was announced at ISE and then announced formally for the N. America market last week at DSE. It interests me as a product for a few …
Detail: BroadSign’s New $99 Android Player March 4, 2013 by Dave Haynes A lot of people I chatted with last week mentioned BroadSign’s re-emergence at Digital Signage Expo in a full booth (this time last year they’d announced Chapter 11 re-structuring) and the unveiling of a $99 Android-based player. Going Android is in no way unique, but what distinguishes what BroadSign is doing from many of the …
79 Ways To Use Android For Digital Signage March 4, 2013 by Dave Haynes Here is a list of the digital signage software and related companies that now have Android products on the market, sorted alphabetically after the featured (advertising) companies (as of Nov. 2015): FEATURED CAPITAL NETWORKS MARKHAM, ON CANADA RISE VISION TORONTO, ON, CANADA BROADSIGN MONTREAL, QC, CANADA MVIX USA FULL LIST Admira (Spain) AdServe …
DSE 2013 Impressions March 3, 2013 by Dave Haynes I try to write a daily set of impressions from my time at DSE each year, and my first impression is that I was way too freakin’ busy to write up my impressions. I think I was in the press room twice on Day 1 and once on Day 2. So, back at the bait …
DSE2013 Video Blog: The Rise Of Android Boxes February 28, 2013 by Dave Haynes I have a face, and particularly a chin, that’s made for radio, but I nonetheless took a first real stab at video blogging with my good, hyper-talented friends from Studio 10 in cold, flat and happy Regina, Saskatchewan. They did some work with us last year and came back to LV for a couple of …
Navori Gets On The Android Train With Sub-$50 Player February 14, 2013 by Dave Haynes Swiss-based digital signage software firm NAVORI has ported its platform – which has run for years on Windows – to also run on the Google Android operating system. “We have been developing our QL Android player engine way before the Android OS™ proved to emerge from the initial smartphone platform it was intended for to …
Retail Business Intelligence Engine Tracks Shopper Trends By Smartphone IDs February 12, 2013 by Dave Haynes The ability to understand what consumers are doing in retail environments has been the domain these past few years of video-driven analytics that use overhead cameras to generate heat-maps of where shoppers go and where they don’t. Companies like Intel, via its video analytics technology, can also generate data on things like gender, dwell time …
