Sharp Broadens Options For Smart Signage With Two New 24/7 Android-based Displays

May 2, 2018 by Dave Haynes

Sharp has expanded the range of 24/7 commercial displays shipping with built-in system on chip media players and Android. The company has added 39.5-inch …

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Elo Introduces Android 7-based Backpack Appliance To Drive Touchscreens

March 8, 2018 by Dave Haynes

Touchscreen-maker Elo is introducing a hardened Android appliance to drive its range of monitors, for use in applications like interactive digital signage, kiosks and Point …

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Screenly Releases V2 Of Raspberry Pi-Focused Digital Signage Platform

February 28, 2018 by Dave Haynes

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 …

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VIA Launches 4K H.265-Ready Commercial Android Digital Signage Player

July 17, 2017 by Dave Haynes

Taiwan-based VIA Technologies recently launched a 4K-ready version of its commercial-grade Android digital signage player – a unit that supports HTML5 and H.265 video …

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Powerful Raspberry Pi-style Board Appears For Android; Runs Nougat

April 27, 2017 by Dave Haynes

The Chinese manufacturer Huawei has worked with Google on a new Raspberry Pi-like developer-centric single board computer for Android developers that, in theory, could …

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SignStix Latest CMS To Add SoC Support

March 14, 2017 by Dave Haynes

UK-based SignStix is the latest CMS software firm to go system on chip (SoC), launching a new embedded signage solution based on the new Philips D-Line …

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Meeting Room Sign Market Big Enough Now To Support Vertical-Specific Displays

March 9, 2017 by Dave Haynes

The meeting room signs business has grown a lot in the last couple of years – I track more than 55 companies here, up …

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Screenly Rewrites Raspberry Pi CMS Platform; Gets IOT-Optimized On Ubuntu

February 22, 2017 by Dave Haynes

I don’t normally write about the version releases announced by CMS software companies, because no one other than the company and their customers care, …

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Adtechno Debuts 4K H.265 Digital Signage Media Player

February 22, 2017 by Dave Haynes

The Taiwan-based hardware firm Adtechno has started marketing a beefy little industrial-grade box aimed at the high end digital signage market – with the …

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ISE 2017: Intel Announces Smart Display Module As Answer To Embedded Smart Signage Panels

February 9, 2017 by Dave Haynes

Tech giant Intel has announced a plug-in module spec and reference design – called the Intel Smart Display Module or Intel SDM – that is …

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ISE 2017: Embedded Displays Turning Rapidly Into Digital Signage Standard

February 8, 2017 by Dave Haynes

When Samsung came out with its Smart Signage series in early 2013 there were lots of people casting serious doubts about the notion of …

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Asus Now Has Sub-$70 4K-Ready Raspberry Pi-like Micro PC

January 23, 2017 by Dave Haynes

Via Engadget Taiwanese computer maker Asus has released a sub $70 single board computer – called the Tinker Board – that should be beefy enough …

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