NRF: A Crowded Digital Signage Field Gets Even More Crowded January 12, 2015 by Super User The last time I was at the big National Retail Federation trade show in New York, digital signage was something you saw here and there – in small solo booths or as one of the interesting services wedged into the mega booths of major tech companies. What struck me, wandering the aisles of NRF 2015 …
JohnRyan Adds Portable Player Designed To Shrug At Hardware Type And OS, And Just Work January 8, 2015 by Super User The bank-centric digital signage solutions provider JohnRyan has released what it calls its Portable Player, a web-based media player application that’s touted as capable of driving digital signage media useable across all types of hardware and operating systems. The web-based player works with JohnRyan’s Quick Messenger digital signage content platform. Web based players from signage …
Intel Debuts $149 PC On A Stick January 8, 2015 by Super User Intel has announced its own HDMI media stick, but its very different from the gadgets used as media streamers and low-cost, low-footprint Android digital signage players. This is touted as a full x86 PC using Intel, not ARM. The Intel Compute Stick is similar in shape and overall size to many of the HDMI sticks already …
Stratacache Reports Record 4X Growth; $412.5M Sales In 2014 January 7, 2015 by Super User Privately-held companies don’t tend to release sales figures very often – at least not that I’ve seen in the digital signage ecosystem. So it was more than interesting to get a press release from Stratacache – not the noisiest of companies in this business – announcing it did in excess of $400 million in sales …
Big-Ass Curved Screens Get Touchy January 5, 2015 by Super User If you are still working out why you’d want a graceful curve to the screens in your digital signage install, you can add to the complication n0w by factoring in a rationale for multi-touch. The Swedish firm FlatFrog Laboratories is demo’ing a 78″ ultra-high def, curved touchscreen display at CES this week. The touch technology, says the news …
Forget Digital Billboards On Highways, Put Them In Cars! January 5, 2015 by Super User General Motors is touting a new OnStar feature, announced at CES, that would push hyperlocal advertising and promotions to equipped cars and, presumably, their dashboard screens. Called AtYourService, the opt-in feature would enable “information, convenience and money-saving values” to be automatically delivered to cars. For the launch, GM referenced how the service could push directions and …
HP Announces New $180 Windows Micro PC January 5, 2015 by Super User HP has announced a new teeny desktop PC that will raise the eyebrows of the crowd that’s endlessly looking to cut both cost and size out of digital signage projects. Timed to the CES show, the computing giant has announced its new $180 HP Stream Mini, which looks VERY similar in form and equal in …
Next Week’s CES Will Switch On Quantum Dots Chatter, So What Is It … January 2, 2015 by Super User Las Vegas is about to be even more of a zoo than normal – if normal is a word you can attach to that city – as the annual Consumer Electronics Show ramps up. As it is every year, a lot of the stuff on the show floor and in the private areas is very …
Projects: 4K Displays Create Virtual Balconies On Cruise Ship December 31, 2014 by Super User This is pretty wild. The cruise ship giant Royal Caribbean’s new Quantum of the Seas ship has installed 80-inch portrait-mode 4K displays in its interior staterooms (the ones that could never have windows anyway) to create virtual balconies. The displays get a streamed feed – I’m guessing via fiber – from a set of high-def RED …
Digital Signage As Crowd Control? December 31, 2014 by Super User I’ve spent lots of time meeting with shopping mall operators talking about the wide variety of uses for digital signage around their facilities, but I never thought of crowd disbursement as one of them. This is what was on the screen at the Mall of America, in Minneapolis-St. Paul, at the height of a protest …
