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16:9: Disney Resort Starts Deploying ChromeOs-Driven Digital Signage Network

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. […]

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16:9: Google’s Android And Chrome Grow Tighter, But Not Enough To Cross Over In Digital Signage

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. […]

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16:9: Video: Google On Chromebox And The Power Of Intelligent Screens

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. […]

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Thu, May 14, 2015 at 1:12 AM

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16:9: Google’s New Chrome Release Lowers Hurdle For Beacons Adaptation in Digital Signage

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. […]

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Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 4:40 PM

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TigerLogic Debuts Postano User-Gen Chrome App For Retail

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. […]

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Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 9:51 AM

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Acer To Ship 21.5-Inch Touch Chromebase

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. […]

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Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 6:18 PM

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Android Signage Apps Can Now Readily Port To Google’s Chrome OS

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. […]

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Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 12:12 AM

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Asus Shipping Sub-$100 Google Chromebit Digital Signage Stick By Summer

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. […]

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Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 1:25 PM

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Aussie Newcomer StratosMedia’s Chrome Signage Product Targets Enterprise Business

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. […]

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Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 10:02 AM

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16:9: Behold The $39 Digital Signage Player

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. […]

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Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 9:43 AM

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16:9 from DSE 2015: Google Shows Its Digital Signage Offer

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. […]

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Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 9:10 AM

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