New Preset Video Series Features Advice From Industry Veterans July 3, 2013 by Super User When we held the Preset Mixer in Las Vegas in March 2013, we had a video crew there shooting the event and hauling some industry friends into an area where lights and cameras were set up. We wanted to do quick interviews, to be edited later, with folks, focusing on providing advice to people just …
Android For Digital Signage: A Closer Look At NoviSign July 2, 2013 by Super User Here’s the latest in the 30-plus series running on Android/ARM offers that now seem to be flooding into the digital signage space. As chronicled, many software and hardware companies are addressing the marketplace demand for lower costs and simple solutions by launching media players and software based on low-cost ARM processors and the open source …
Chipmaker Via Debuts ARM-based Android Hardware And Software Platform July 2, 2013 by Super User Taiwanese chipmaker Via has sent a note over to say it is now marketing a digital signage platform and solutions based both on the ARM and more conventional x86 PC processors. The company has also developed a VIA Embedded Digital Signage ISV Program (ISV = Independent Software Vendor) that encourages software companies to develop to its devices, …
Projects: Stacked Digital Branding Wall At DFW Retailer Destinations July 1, 2013 by Super User Here’s another airport job, this one at an apparel retailer called Destinations, at a shop within Dallas Fort Worth Airport. It’s a video wall of four stacked 46-inch monitors, in place to engage and influence some of the 58 million people who move through that crazy airline hub each year. The wall is run by a …
Projects: Telecom Italia’s New Flagship In Rome July 1, 2013 by Super User The work that has been taking me way overseas involves a telecoms company, so I was intrigued by this release today from YCD Multimedia about work they have done with an Italian wireless retailer. Telecom Italia has opened a new flagship store at Fiumicino – Leonardo da Vinci Airport, Rome’s international airport, and loaded the …
BroadSign Reports 1,000-unit Android Player Order June 28, 2013 by Super User There are still lots of people out there I have chatted with who are dismissive of the whole Android media player thing – most of them suggesting an evolving open source operating system and teeny, too cheap media playback devices from Shenzhen are way too dodgy a choice for all but the entry-level ma and …
Regular Coverage Resumes Next Week June 27, 2013 by Super User It just occurred to me (I’m old, leave me alone) that I usually post something saying I am going off the grid, when I go off the grid. I am way, way out of town this week, and pretty stinkin’ busy with a client. Regular nonsense resumes next week.
Android For Digital Signage: A Closer Look At AdServe June 25, 2013 by Super User It has been a little bit since we had a close look at a new Android-based digital signage platform, but rest assured they just keep coming. The latest in our running series of closer looks at Android-driven digital signage solution providers is AdServe, which is an Aussie company with some development ties to South Korea. …
Ansley Steps Down In Wake Of Symon Acquisition BY RMG June 23, 2013 by Super User It will not come as any shock that the guy who ran Symon Communications for many years did not stick around for long after the company was acquired by RMG Networks earlier this year. Charles Ansley is retiring in a couple of weeks, stepping down as President, RMG Enterprise Solutions. Ansley had been Chief Executive …
And Now Flypaper Has A CMS, Too June 21, 2013 by Super User Flypaper began as a basic creative development tool for people with little or no creative skills, and the product first started to find its way into digital signage circles three years ago. Now the company is deep into this sector, to the point that it too has a launched its own management and distribution platform. …
