NRF: Lexmark’s Shrug-Inducing Digital Signage Play
January 13, 2015 by Dave Haynes
The big printing hardware firm Lexmark debuted a digital signage product this week at the National Retail Federation show in New York – a digital …
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NRF: Day I Impressions
January 12, 2015 by Dave Haynes
The National Retail Federation Big Show extended to three days this year, running a shortened five-hour session on Sunday. That meant retailers and …
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NRF: A Crowded Digital Signage Field Gets Even More Crowded
January 12, 2015 by Dave Haynes
The last time I was at the big National Retail Federation trade show in New York, digital signage was something you saw here and …
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JohnRyan Adds Portable Player Designed To Shrug At Hardware Type And OS, And Just Work
January 8, 2015 by Dave Haynes
The bank-centric digital signage solutions provider JohnRyan has released what it calls its Portable Player, a web-based media player application that’s touted as capable …
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Intel Debuts $149 PC On A Stick
January 8, 2015 by Dave Haynes
Intel has announced its own HDMI media stick, but its very different from the gadgets used as media streamers and low-cost, low-footprint Android digital …
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Stratacache Reports Record 4X Growth; $412.5M Sales In 2014
January 7, 2015 by Dave Haynes
Privately-held companies don’t tend to release sales figures very often – at least not that I’ve seen in the digital signage ecosystem. So it …
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Big-Ass Curved Screens Get Touchy
January 5, 2015 by Dave Haynes
If you are still working out why you’d want a graceful curve to the screens in your digital signage install, you can add to …
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Forget Digital Billboards On Highways, Put Them In Cars!
January 5, 2015 by Dave Haynes
General Motors is touting a new OnStar feature, announced at CES, that would push hyperlocal advertising and promotions to equipped cars and, presumably, their …
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HP Announces New $180 Windows Micro PC
January 5, 2015 by Dave Haynes
HP has announced a new teeny desktop PC that will raise the eyebrows of the crowd that’s endlessly looking to cut both cost and …
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Next Week’s CES Will Switch On Quantum Dots Chatter, So What Is It …
January 2, 2015 by Dave Haynes
Las Vegas is about to be even more of a zoo than normal – if normal is a word you can attach to that …
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Projects: 4K Displays Create Virtual Balconies On Cruise Ship
December 31, 2014 by Dave Haynes
This is pretty wild. The cruise ship giant Royal Caribbean’s new Quantum of the Seas ship has installed 80-inch portrait-mode 4K displays in its interior …
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Digital Signage As Crowd Control?
December 31, 2014 by Dave Haynes
I’ve spent lots of time meeting with shopping mall operators talking about the wide variety of uses for digital signage around their facilities, but …
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