Former General Manager at AOpen Europe, James Hua, ends his time at the European headquarters after a period of eleven years. James will continue his work for the solutions business from Taiwan headquarters. Jack Chou will take over from Hua.
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LifeSize has joined Radvision in pitching to the market for simplified telepresence solutions for smaller installs – sector of equal interest to newcomers to the collaboration sector. The LifeSize offering is called the Unity Series, and includes the LifeSize Unity 50 and LifeSize Unity 500.
SMART Technologies has announced a new initiative to bundle its collaborative technologies into visual collaboration solutions, to be sold under the marque Freestorm. Freestorm solution include interactive displays, intuitive collaboration software and remote collaboration tools.
VUTEC Corporation will introduce the Retracta Vu Traveller Series at INFOCOMM 2012 in Las Vegas next month. The Traveller concept is a complete solution with a self contained rising projection screen and projector lift on wheels.
Screenmedia Expo next week is the first of the two major European digital signage events. On the strength of the early annnouncememts, this London event would appear to have won the battle on product announcements, but it’s early days and Berlin might bounce back.
The British Educational Suppliers Association (BESA) has announced that Caroline Wright. is to be its new director. Wright replaces Ray Barker, who is retiring from BESA after twelve years.
The first of the 2012 prgramme of Steljes SHAPE roadshows starts today at the Belfry Hotel, Birmingham. Over the next few weeks, SHAPE moves to five more locations.
True Colours Distribution has appointed Jenny Hicks as a sales specialist for digital media specialist digital media.
In the last month two new, and quite different, solutions have appeared on the market, both deigned to improve the efficient running of meetings. While the products are new, the concepts have been tried before, without any great success. AV News assesses the chances of success of the newcomers.
Norway’s projectiondesign has supplied its F35 wqxga projectors to a mission-critical facility responsible for space launches on behalf of the US government.