Guest Post: Doug Thompson, Fidgets Chrome 57 has launched, and with it in-browser support for the Physical Web. Now, when a user goes to conduct a search or enter a web URL, any nearby Physical Web addresses will appear just below the address bar as seen in the above graphic. […]
Deployments with 14 players – not 100s or 1,000s – don’t tend to get a lot of attention here, but it’s a bit different when the brands involved include Mickey Mouse and Google. The Walt Disney Swan and Dolphin Resort in the Orlando area has installed a communications network with two distinct tracks – one talking to guests, and the other back of house to staff. […]
Google announced at its annual I/O conference today that Android mobile apps from its Google Play app store will now run on ChromeOS devices like Chromebook laptops. Google is making the Play store, and the gazillion Android apps you can get on it, work on the Chrome operating system, which is also developed and supported by Google. […]
The Google For Work team – the business unit driving the company’s efforts in the digital signage market – did an online video presentation/hangout thingie a couple of weeks ago that went into several subjects, including a lengthy session specifically about digital signage and kiosks. […]
Google may have just changed the game for all those companies and brands trying to get beacons and push notifications used in retail and other public settings, by embedding the capability in the Chrome browser. […]
Portland, Oregon-based TigerLogic has developed and released a user-generated content application for kiosks that jumps on the rather abrupt explosion of development and interest in Google’s low-cost Chrome platform. The company’s interactive brand is Postano, and Postano Kiosk is now an app that can be downloaded from the Google Chrome web store. […]
Acer has announced plans to ship a giant 1080P tablet- called a Chromebase – by this summer, with touch and running Chrome OS. The unit is kinda sort a tablet and also kinda sorta an all-in-one display – in a 21.5-inch form factor. From the context of digital signage, this has endcap or podium display all over it. […]
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. […]
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. […]
When I walk the DSE show floor I tend to wander up to booths for companies I knew little or nothing about, particularly if they’re doing something that gets my eyebrows up a bit. […]
A Texas start-up called Signagely has started marketing its digital signage offer, which ranges from a $159 Chromebox at the top end to a $39 Kindle Fire TV HDMI stick they’ve got working as a basic player. The start-up’s website doesn’t have a lot of detail in it on the company background, or what’s different here. […]
The big buzz out of DSE 2015 was, not surprisingly, the substantial presence of online giant Google – which had a 40 by 40 foot booth attracting large crowds on the first of two trade show hall days. I didn’t get over there until late morning, and quickly saw the area was somewhat swarmed by trade hall attendees. […]
