The Swiss tech firm SpinetiX announced recently that it was moving away from a long-running stance of selling its software and hardware as a proprietary solution, and it has just announced a second Intel-based set of devices that will now run its software player and platform. […]
The veteran Swiss CMS software firm Navori Labs has announced an interesting new spin on making its application available on the widely used BrightSign media player line-up – a system on an SD memory card. […]
The New England firm Advanced Kiosks – which makes and sells guess what – has pushed out an interesting email blast reminding end-users out in the world that if they have devices on kiosks that are running Windows 7, they are about to be using an unsupported, dead product. […]
The DC-area CMS software firm Mvix has entered into a partnership with hardware manufacturer BrightSign that see’s a one-time only software price attached for end-users and solutions providers who want to use the little purple media players. […]
French interactive software and solutions firm Intuiface has worked out an interesting integration with a Dutch technology company, Nexmosphere, that makes sensors and actuators used for things like one-to-one retail merchandising and marketing. Nexmosphere gadgets range buttons, RFID readers, gender identification cameras, and proximity sensors to LED light strips and audio players. […]
I’ve done a podcast interview with Jeff Hastings in the past, but there’s a lot going on with BrightSign and it was time for a catch-up with the CEO. BrightSign will ship about 300,000 little purple digital signage players this year, at a clip of something like 1,200 units a day. […]
When HDMI media player sticks like Amazon’s Fire TV first came on the market a few years ago, some smaller companies and enterprising digital signage nerds started playing around with it, wondering if it could serve as a very low-cost media player. […]
Guest Post: Bryan Crotaz, Silver Curve You may have read about the Raspberry Pi 4 in the news. It’s big news for the whole world, from children’s code clubs, to office desktop use, to industrial applications such as digital signage. Bryan Crotaz At Silver Curve, we adore the Raspberry Pi Foundation and the Pi micro computer. […]
This seems to be the Year of the Trade Show around Sixteen:Nine. So far, I’ve done six, and number seven will be Touch Taiwan, in late August in Taipei. It is the biggest event of the year for Taiwan’s display industry, and should pull some 40,000 attendees Aug. […]
The UK-based Raspberry Pi Foundation has announced the 4th generation of its micro PC board – a Raspberry Pi 4 that for a $35 barebones price has 4X the RAM of earlier versions, as well as a faster CPU and graphics, faster Ethernet, dual-band Wi-Fi, twice the amount of HDMI outputs, and two USB 3 ports. The $35 unit comes with 1 GB of RAM and 2 costs $45, while 4 is $55. […]
Taiwan tech company AOPEN has announced a set of new media players aimed primarily at digital signage applications, including a couple that serve what would seem to be the diminishing demand for Windows. […]
The companies who do the infrastructure that gets screens in place and make video walls look amazing are a huge part of the digital signage ecosystem, but don’t get all that much attention. One of the biggest – if not THE biggest – is Chicago-based Peerless-AV, which has been a major part of digital signage for many, many years. […]
Guest Post: John C. Wang, IAdea Digital signage is evolving into a mission-critical IT backbone for smart infrastructures. John Wang In the old days, the main purpose of a public display was to “reduce perceived wait time” and make a few advertising dollars. […]
Guest Post: Luis Villafane, Maler Luis Villafane In the same way that new Alcoholics Anonymous members introduce themselves to the group, I am creating a new group called BPDS (Bad Persons in Digital Signage), and making my introduction: “Hi, my name is Luis, and I am a Bad Person.” You all reply: “Hi Luis!” I am a horrible person. […]
Every year or so, Jeremiah Archambault rings me up, usually out of the blue, from his office in Victoria, BC, on the very west coast of Canada. He runs a decade-old company called ENS that has, for that time, been steadily developing a digital signage CMS software and management platform, that’s now called SAM. […]
