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16:9: Yodeck Now Supporting NEC’s Raspberry Pi-based Smart Displays

It has been a few years since NEC Display bucked the big trend toward hard-wired System on Chip displays by instead focusing on smart displays that could be upgraded just by opening a trap door and swapping out the smarts. There has not been a mad rush to go down NEC’s path, as the platform focused on a snap-in module version of the Raspberry Pi, the UK-origin low-cost micro PC. […]

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Tue, Sep 1, 2020 at 12:54 PM

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16:9: Digital Signage CMS Yodeck Offers Cloud Service Free To Healthcare Sector For 2020

The Raspberry Pi-focused digital signage CMS Yodeck is offering up its cloud-based management platform free of charge to hospitals, pharmacies and other health-oriented organizations on the “front lines” of the COVID-19 pandemic. […]

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Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 10:05 AM

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SignageOS Adds NEC’s Open Modular Devices Supported Solutions For “Smart” Displays

The Prague-based startup SignageOS made a name for itself by developing, marketing and supporting a middleware platform that makes it easy for CMS software companies to integrate with the variety of “smart” commercial display panels on the market. […]

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Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 8:48 AM

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16:9: Ravi Bail Of PiSignage On Focusing His Firm’s CMS On Raspberry Pi

The Raspberry Pi micro PC has been on the market for several years now, and is in its 4th generation. A handful of companies have developed CMS software applications for the Pi – some I’d say more successfully than others. […]

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Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 4:41 AM

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16:9: Germany’s info-beamer Optimizes Digital Signage Software For Raspberry Pi 4

The German company behind the Raspberry Pi-driven digital signage CMS info-beamer has released a new version of the service built around and optimized for the new Raspberry Pi 4. The platform is the world’s first Pi4 OS for digital signage, the company says, with support for HEVC video playback (so it can do 4K) and full dual display support. […]

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Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 6:45 AM

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16:9: Why The Newest Raspberry Pi Made My Jaw Hit The Table

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. […]

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Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 7:47 PM

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16:9: New 4th Gen Raspberry Pi Has 4X RAM And Does Dual 4K

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. […]

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Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 8:40 AM

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SignageOS Launches Software Bridge For Digital Signage On Raspberry Pi

The Czech software start-up signageOS has launched a software platform that enables established CMS software companies to add low-cost Raspberry Pi  micro PCs to its range of media player options, without having to assign the necessary development resources to figure it all out and get it running. […]

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Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 8:47 AM

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16:9: Chatbot Platform Finds Its Way Into Retail Digital Signage

Chatbots are growing increasingly common online, but a pair of companies have teamed up to take that experience to digital displays at retail shelves. A Lyon, France start-up called Botescope has worked with the Raspberry Pi-centric CMS firm Screenly to develop a solution that pairs and controls screens with mobile devices through conversational “smart agents. […]

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Tue, May 15, 2018 at 9:04 AM

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AdMobilize Debuts Voice Recognition Tech And Service Handshake For Digital Signage

The use case for voice recognition tech in digital signage seems a little vague and elusive, but Miami AI/computer vision startup AdMobilize suggests it will work well for things like mall and other building directories. […]

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Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 9:29 AM

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LG’s webOS Now Open-Sourced And Raspberry Pi-Ready

LG is expanding the digital signage possibilities for its webOS platform beyond smart displays to devices like the wildly-popular Raspberry Pi 3, via a new webOS Open Source Edition. […]

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Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 8:09 AM

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16:9: Screenly Releases V2 Of Raspberry Pi-Focused Digital Signage Platform

UK-based Screenly, possibly/probably the most active developer of digital signage solutions that run on Raspberry Pis, has released the 2nd generation of its software platform – matter of factly called Screenly 2. […]

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Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 4:36 PM

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16:9: What IoT Can Bring To Digital Signage In Retail

  GUEST POST: VIKTOR PETERSSON, SCREENLY & DOMINIQUE GUINARD, EVRYTHNG Many years ago, the recipe for a successful digital signage deployment was to put up a few screens in the store, and load them with an image slideshow (or video slide if you were on the forefront). Those days are long gone. Viktor Petersson Today, It takes a lot more to get the modern shopper’s attention. […]

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Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 11:04 PM

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16:9: NEC Europe Partners With Screenly, Canonical On Raspberry Pi-Powered Digital Signage Displays

The European wing of NEC – NEC Display Solutions Europe – has done a partnership that sees certain NEC pro-grade digital signage displays ship with embedded Raspberry Pi modules, running Ubuntu Core Linux and pre-loaded with the Screenly’s CMS player software. […]

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Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 10:33 AM

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16:9: Raspberry Pi-Based Info-Beamer Sets Up Video Walls In Seconds With QR Code-Like GPS Tags

I’m nowhere near smart enough to properly explain this, but suffice to say a start-up that works with Raspberry Pis for a digital signage solution has  come up with a way for users to rapidly set up video walls using a smartphone app and little visual tags that provide GPS coordinates. […]

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Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 4:50 PM

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