First Purpose-Built Raspberry Pi Digital Signage Players Hit Market January 31, 2014 by Super User 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 Super User 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 Super User 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 Super User 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 …
Mixer Sponsor Profile: NEC Display January 30, 2014 by Super User NEC Display is a returning sponsor of the annual Preset Group Mixer at DSE, and also one of the bigger exhibitors and supporters of trade show week and sector, as a whole. I asked NEC’s VP Marketing Ashley Flaska to give me a rundown on what’s up this year, and what trade show-goers should look …
Dell Debuts $130 Android Digital Signage HDMI Player January 29, 2014 by Super User 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 …
Canada’s Tim Hortons To Have 3rd Party Ads January 29, 2014 by Super User Tim Hortons has officially confirmed it is rolling out a new digital network in some 2,200 of the iconic Canadian coffee/bake shop’s locations. The announcement today comes on the heels of a soft announcement covered here earlier in the month, and the only real new news is that Tim’s TV will have third-party advertising, as …
Projects: SFO’s New Terminal 3E Flight Deck January 28, 2014 by Super User San Francisco International re-opened a renovated Terminal 3E today, and one of the signature elements of the bustling facility is an experiential area called Flight Deck, put together by the Emerging Experiences team at Razorfish. On that team’s blog, it describes how they were contracted by Hensel-Phelps, one of the largest general contractors and construction managers …
New Intel NUC Gives More Power At Less Cost January 28, 2014 by Super User 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 Super User 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 …
