HTML5 is definitely gaining momentum in the digital signage industry. A recent video (shown below) on the Timberland store concept tells an exciting tale, deploying an "open source, cloud-based, HTML5-based information system."
IAdea is giving away US$100 to each winner of the “Guess Which Cup” game played at the ISE booth locations of select IAdea partners including Scala, Advantech and Stinova.
Finally, a fresh and innovative service enters the world of digital signage: real-time business status dashboard service Geckoboard now running on IAdea’s HTML5-enabled Digital Signage Web Appliances.
(London, United Kingdom and Taipei, Taiwan) January 16, 2012 – Geckoboard, an innovator in the quickly emerging real-time status board services, and IAdea, a pioneer and leader in digital signage media appliances, joined forces and announced the availability of the Geckboard service on IAdea’s digital signage web appliances.
Stinova, a leading innovator of visual communications software for Digital Signage solutions and content production services, provides support for HTML-5 open standards built-in the new Digital Signage appliances announced by IAdea. With a multitude of new widgets dynamic information can now be exchanged and displayed in an open and interoperable format. Driven by an intuitive and user-friendly browser interface, users have now an even more simple way to centrally manage and easily deploy content to IAdea's HTML-5 and SMIL-enabled players thru the cloud or in their local managed network.
Microsoft, playing catch-up in the HTML5 browser war, just launched the HTML5 version of the Cut the Rope game for the Internet Explorer (it actually runs on Chrome, Safari, and Firefox too) at CES 2012 today.
With its reported 1.6 million of daily online users, Cut the Rope is easily one of the most popular games on mobile devices.
Exton, Pa. and Irvine, Calif. (January 9, 2012) – Scala Inc., the industry’s leader in end-to-end digital signage solutions, and IAdea, pioneer and leader in the open platform for digital signage media appliances, today jointly announced a new generation of HTML5-capable digital signage devices from IAdea designed to work with Scala’s Enterprise Content Manager software and SignChannel, Scala’s low-cost cloud-based service.
signagelive are the first software company to announce support for the new range of IAdea range of HTML5 and IPTV capable digital signage devices.
Saffron Walden, Essex, UK– signagelive, a global leader in cloud-powered digital signage solutions, today announced support for the new range of IAdea range of HTML5 and IPTV capable digital signage devices.
(Irvine, CA, USA and Taipei, Taiwan) January 3, 2012 – IAdea, the leading maker of media appliances and digital signboards for digital signage, introduces the industry’s first Web Appliances supporting SMIL and the HTML5 open standards. IAdea first introduced the SMIL platform to digital signage in 2009 and gathered support from leading software providers, effectively changing the landscape of the industry. By supporting HTML5 as a content type in SMIL, IAdea expects the new technology to fundamentally change the industry again in how future digital content will be made and deployed.
In a shocking official statement by its VP Danny Winokur, Adobe officially announces the death of Flash on mobile devices:
"We will no longer continue to develop Flash Player in the browser to work with new mobile device configurations"
Instead, Adobe will switch to HTML5 as the next-gen content platform:
Pushing the capability of digital signage media appliances to a whole new level, IAdea will give a sneak peak of its new HTML5-capable digital signage media appliance XMP-3250 at the Scala Partner Conference, September 14-15.
