There are dozens of digital signage software companies with content management systems built around or adapted to work with low-cost ARM-based media devices, and run on Google’s Linux-derived Android operating system. What started as a trickle of activity four years turned into a big wave within a couple of years. […]
Client commitments greatly slowed research and production, but I’ve finally completed work on what I think is a thorough look into the state of the Android digital signage marketplace. I will upload it and make it available as a free, no-strings-attached download tomorrow off Sixteen:Nine. It’s 23 pages, so set some time aside. […]
The gap continues to close in the battle over the lowest cost technology for putting digital signage in the field, with news this morning that Asus is marketing a $129 PC on a stick that has an Intel processor under the teeny little hood. The Asus VivoStick PC measures 5.4? x 1.3? […]
Video analytics tools have been around for many years now – and the key players have changed through the years, with the exception of France’s Quividi, which has been a constant. An Irish company called Instillo has announced its own video analytics platform – Instillo Audience, and changed the proposition around quite a bit in the process. […]
This is one of those devil in the details things, but it would at least appear there is a slick new way for software companies offering Android digital signage software platforms to add indoor mapping for malls, campuses and other busy, confusing places. A company called Here is offering up indoor mapping capability to Android developers. […]
The same crowd that is endlessly looking to cut display hardware, playback hardware and software costs out of digital signage projects will likely be intrigued as heck by a new IndieGogo project that turns any TV with an HDMI connector into a touch and stylus controlled display. […]
I’ve known about the LA start-up Enplug for a few years, and followed with curiosity the journey of millennial friends who got a company going in a rented house and gradually started to build it up and get some attention. […]
A Reno, Nevada company called Directable has announced it is now marketing a digital signage solution that has been tested and approved for use with Sony’s new line of Android TVs. […]
Ted Rosenbaum from Fargo, ND-based RevelDigital called the other day to tell me about Veronica, a digital mannequin the CMS and solutions company is using to showcase its capabilities. It has touch, beacons, pattern detection, NFC and on and on, all pretty much running off a slinky silver fashion mannequin. […]
The embedded business unit of VIA Technologies in Taiwan – which has a big office in Silicon Valley, as well – has done a worldwide survey of end-user customers to get a sense of where they’re at with using Android. Some 93% of the roughly 250 respondents indicated they are either currently using or are considering using Android for an embedded project in the near future. […]
Guest Post: John C. Wang, IAdea Editor’s note: Sixteen:Nine is preparing a large report on the state of the Android signage market, and talking to industry leaders about what they’re up to and where they see things going. Instead of just notes, IAdea’s John Wang kindly wrote a full post on his POV. […]
It has been three-plus years since the first Android-driven digital signage players and supporting software platforms came on the marketplace. Pretty quickly, there were more than 70 options out there. Some companies like BroadSign have seen some big success in going down the Android road, whereas not much has happened for some other companies that put in the time and resources. […]
A pair of Charlotte, NC companies have merged, putting together a combined offer that includes things as diverse as low-cost media players, video analytics and interactive stations. The interactive touchscreen firm T1V has bought the assets of Cenique USA, which now do business as Cenique Global, a division of T1V. […]
Capabilities and reliability of Android players have simply not matched the promise of the hype. Trucks have been rolled to manually reset hung players. Others players are rebooted daily to “resolve” memory leaks. […]
The entry-level software options keep coming for digital signage – even though it is very easily argued supply vs demand thing went way off kilter years ago. The latest entrant in this crowded field is The TV Sign, a new Android-driven, browser-based CMS out of Erie, PA, just west of Buffalo, NY. […]
