VIA Rolls Out All-In Bus Signage And Infotainment System April 1, 2015 by Super User Putting screens in big things that roll and bump and jolt is a substantial technical challenge – the problems ranging from too much vibration, to dust and grime, to the inquisitive fingers and sharp objects of the general public. It’s possible to put the pieces together between rugged panels and industrial, solid state PCs – …
Android Signage Apps Can Now Readily Port To Google’s Chrome OS April 1, 2015 by Super User Things just keep getting more and more interesting with Google and its Chrome OS. Yesterday it was word about the Chromebit HDMI stick. Now there’s word that Google is now letting any Android developer port its apps, or games to run on Chromebooks and other Chrome OS devices, like Chromeboxes and Chromebits. That would mean if you are one …
Stratacache Formally Expands Into India March 31, 2015 by Super User Dayton, Ohio-based Stratacache continues to push its business ops into new regions, announcing today it has opened an office in Bangalore, India and has plans to hire as many as 15 people. Bangalore makes a lot of sense for the signage CMS firm as it is India’s tech capital and has a couple of universities that are said …
Asus Shipping Sub-$100 Google Chromebit Digital Signage Stick By Summer March 31, 2015 by Super User The whole Google does digital signage thing just got even more interesting – with Google via Asus announcing the Chromebit, which is effectively a Chromebox as an HDMI stick. The units are expected to cost less than $100 USD. The Chromebits will have a Rockchip processor, 2GB of RAM and 16GB of eMMC flash storage. If …
Amazon’s Vision For Reimagined Retail Looks Awfully Familiar March 31, 2015 by Super User The tech site re/code has a piece up about how Amazon has patents that would change up how people buy goods in brick-and-mortar stores. Problem is, that idea’s been around for a decade or so. The site talks about recently filed patent applications that suggest shoppers would be able to pick items off shelves and leave the …
Project: The End Is Nigh … Oh, Wait, No, It’s a A Cookie March 31, 2015 by Super User This was clever. When a partial solar eclipse was visible last Friday over the UK, the OOH agencies Talon and Grand Visual ran two hours of creative matching the trajectory of the event, but using an Oreo cookie to take the place of the moon. “We often talk about how data can improve the targeting …
Will They Hear Crickets At Sign Expo’s “Dynamic Digital Signage” Park Next Week? March 31, 2015 by Super User A couple of contacts have sent notes recently asking if I was going to the International Sign Association’s annual trade show, which runs next week in Las Vegas. Nope. Can’t see any reason why I would. I did go to Sign Expo a couple of years ago, but that was with a client, on said …
Projects: Massive Curved Displays At Minneapolis Convention Center March 30, 2015 by Super User The Minneapolis Convention Center now markets to visitors using a pair of massive 5mm pixel pitch LED NanoLumens that curve around bulkheads at the facility. Installed late last fall, the NanoCurve displays cover an area 5 feet high by 90 feet wide. They were put in by Minneapolis-based Tierney Brothers Integration. The displays were schemed into …
How The Internet of Things Delivers Experiential Wayfinding March 28, 2015 by MohamedGhalayini Guest Post: Chris Wiegand, Jibestream The ‘Internet of Things’ is a popular term bouncing around the technology sector at the moment. In fact this section of the market is earmarked for extraordinary growth; predictions are putting it at the largest device market in the world by 2019. In its simplest form, the Internet of things …
Done: Sweden’s ZetaDisplay Closes Deal To Acquire Finland’s MarketMedia March 27, 2015 by Super User Swedish solutions provider ZetaDisplay has completed the acquisition of a quasi competitor – Finland’s Marketmedia Oy – in a cash deal worth about 2 million Euro. ZetaDisplay Finland and Marketmedia will merge during Q2 and run as ZetaDisplay.Marketmedia’s client base includes, among others, Veikkaus (Finska Spel), Tikkurilla, Starkki, Stockman and Onninen. NASDAQ/OMX-listed ZetaDisplay describes this as part …
