One day last February the AV News team was enjoying the hospitality of a very comfortable hotel in Zaandam, taking a pleasant train ride into the RAI to carry out our ISE tasks. Who could have precited that within a month we would all be locked down in ourUK HQ, waiting for the conditions to improve. Things haven’t changed much, but here is. with the assistance of some of our regular contributors, our best guess of what 2021 will bring. While sales and marketing of AV solutions have been difficult over the last year, some sectors – such as collaboration…
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Boxlight Corporation a leading provider of interactive technology, digital signage and software solutions, today announced that Sha un Marklew has been appointed as Chief Technology Officer and Patrick Foley will be appointed as Chief Financial Officer on January 16, 2021. Both Shaun Marklew and Patrick Foley held senior executive roles at Clevertouch, a company acquired by Boxlight in September 2020. Shaun Marklew brings over 20 years of experience in the professional audio, visual and interactive technology industry including over 9 years at Clevertouch, most recently as Chief Operating Officer. He was responsible for building the global, multi award-winning interactive touchscreen…
Boxlight Corporation (Nasdaq: BOXL) has announced one of the largest school districts in Texas has completed its phase one rollout of Clevertouch interactive touchscreens. Boxlight won the three-year contract with its multi award-winning Clevertouch IMPACT touchscreen along with its accompanying software, LYNX Whiteboard and Clevershare. The initial rollout within the Texas school district included the installation of 615 front of classroom interactive touchscreen displays, encompassing 40 campuses serving 25,000 students and 2,500 faculty members. The initial phase for 615 IMPACT Clevertouch touchscreens will be closely followed up by a second order for a further 1,200 IMPACT touchscreens in 2021 with…
Located in the city of Hengelo, is Acar Accountants & Adviseurs – a young accounting firm, specialising in areas of accountancy, tax advice, business advice, financial services and business valuation. Situated over three floors, the company’s modern and stylish offices are a hive of daily activity, housing an assembled team of 15 specialist staff and a relentless flow of visitors – including new and existing clients, enquiries and deliveries. With the safety and wellbeing of everyone that passes through its doors of paramount importance – more so than ever before due to the ongoing concerns and threats surrounding COVID-19 –…
VuWall has announced Paul Brooks as territory manager, based in London. Paul is responsible for implementing the company’s sales strategy and expansion in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Paul has more than twenty years of experience in the audio-video industry, with a strong focus in mission-critical applications and the control room market. His experience spans across various vertical markets including government and defence, corporate, utilities, oil and gas, and emergency services. Paul understands the needs and technical requirements of integrators, consultants and end users alike. He’s recognized for building strong and dependable business relationships with a consultative approach to sales…
Promethean has appointed Midwich Limited as a new UK distributor in a move that aims to strategically align channel operations with the evolving needs of its reseller partners and strengthen its market-leading position in Interactive Flat Panel Displays (IFPDs) for K12. Operating a dual-distribution model that gives its partners increased flexibility and choice, Promethean has appointed Midwich to work alongside incumbent distributor, Tech Data, from 1st February 2021. Exertis UK will continue to supply the Promethean ActivPanel Elements Series until February 2021. Promethean continually reviews and evaluates how it can enhance its channel offering, recognising that a robust…
PPDS announced the launch of the brand-new Philips L-Line 7000 series – its most flexible and versatile indoor LED range to date. Fashioned on feedback, the new 7000 series – the latest in a growing range of Philips LED solutions from PPDS – overcomes many of the traditional barriers and limitations around size, shape and brightness of LED installations, as well as addressing cost of ownership (power saving) and fire retardancy, for a safer, truly bespoke, imaginative and attention-demanding performance in almost any indoor environment. Available now, the 7000 series bezel-less displays provide 1200-nit brightness – perfect for even the…
Vision’s VFM-F40 mount is a perfect fit for the imminent 85-inch model Surface Hub with its unusual 600 x 600 VESA pattern. Vision today confirms that its VFM-F40 Stand, is fully-compatible with the new 85-inch model of Surface Hub from Microsoft, due to ship early in the New Year, and available in three versions available to cover all use cases – wall-fixed, free-standing and mobile. “The 85-inch Surface Hub is a fantastic product that requires a heavy-duty, rigid floor stand and one that is compatible with its unusual 600 x 600 VESA pattern,” explains Vision Managing Director, Stuart Lockhart. “Vision’s…
Ensuring a consistent and optimum performance in the classroom is one of the key requirements educators have of technology for the classroom. That’s what PPDS found in their research while designing the Philips T-Line and that’s why they’re backing the new product with a free five year de re warranty – a two-year extension on their standard warranty offering. Exclusive to the education market, the extended de re warranty from PPDS has been built based on feedback from educators and from AV and IT managers working with some of EMEA’s leading schools, colleges and universities and has been hailed the…
Rene Buhay, VP of Sales and Marketing at AVer Europe advices that schools need to keep on top of the new technology available to them in a post pandemic world. “When COVID-19 struck and we moved into a pandemic, the lack of digital capability of some schools was exposed. Many of these schools were likely planning for slow digitalisation before the pandemic. But their long-term plans suddenly became very short-term actions, and many administrators adapted admirably by accelerating digital transformation to reimagine education.” Technology leaders moved quickly to reconfigure everything from basic lesson plans to graduation ceremonies for online access.…