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SMART Technologies has three special offers as part of a widespread media campaign to K-12 education administrators:
These offers are valid until April 30, 2008, and are available in Canada from Advanced Presentation Products.
Why not take advantage of this promotion for an affordable way to equip your classrooms with SMART products?
Creating a community for SMART educators
Advanced Presentation Solutions is committed to integrating your teachers’ use of technology as a learning tool that supports and supplements educational practice in ways that achieve dramatic improvements in student learning.
Creating a community. Did you miss the recent SMART end users conference at Appleby College? Are you looking to get more out of your SMART board™ interactive whiteboard and other SMART products? Whether you are new to interactive whiteboards or are a beginner, intermediate or advanced SMART Board teacher, join our
K-12 Solutions Group as we bring our SMART Professional Development series to a city near you.
EVENTS ARE FREE 9:00am - 3:00pm.
This is a K-12 professional development series of events for beginner, intermediate and advanced SMART board users as well as District administrators. Space is limited. Refreshments will be served.
On January 22nd, LifeSize announced LifeSize® PlanetWise™, a comprehensive corporate environmental initiative promoting green technologies that reduce pollution. LifeSize PlanetWise is featured on the LifeSize website at http://www.lifesize.com/solutions/environment.
LifeSize high definition video communication is one of the greenest technologies on the planet, providing tremendous potential to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. Each trip avoided in favor of video has a direct, measurable reduction in an organization’s carbon footprint. By reducing the need to travel, LifeSize video can have a profound and positive impact on the environment. In addition, all LifeSize manufacturing facilities are ISO 14001 (Environmental Management) certified, and products comply with existing RoHS (Restriction of Hazardous Substances) regulations.
For more information on LifeSize HD videoconferencing, call us at 1-800-436-6239 or info@advanced-inc.com
As part of a mass media campaign targeted to K–12 education administrators, Advanced and SMART Technologies is pleased to announce the following promos:
Act now as these are limited offers! These offers will be valid from January 21, 2008, until April 30, 2008, and are only available in the U.S. and Canada. This promotion is an affordable way for you to equip your classrooms with SMART products.
For more information, contact us at 1-800-436-6239 or info@advanced-inc.com
Lifesize, the high definition video conferencing solution, has been recognised for two prestigious industry awards within a matter of days.
Firstly, Lifesize Express was named as 2007 product of the year by Technology Marketing Corporation’s (TMC®) INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine. Craig Malloy, CEO and founder, commented:
We are honored that INTERNET TELEPHONY has chosen to recognize LifeSize Express with this award… Our customers tell us they love everything about LifeSize Express – the small form factor, the great value, the simple interface and the beautiful, crisp and fluid high definition video it delivers over their existing broadband connection. LifeSize Express makes telepresence accessible for everyone.
Launched on October 23, 2007, LifeSize Express delivers a high definition, point-to-point video communications experience at a significantly lower price than most standard definition systems.
Then, the manufacturer of Lifesize products, LifeSize Communications, was named “Videoconferencing Company of the Year” for 2007 by leading UK industry authority Videoconferencing Insight, calling the company’s technology “the most innovative and efficient in the industry” and calling the price/performance of LifeSize products “truly amazing.”
Richard Line, Editor of Videoconferencing Insight, said:
LifeSize was the first company to offer high definition systems and remains the leader in price/performance terms today. The company focused on creating HD VC systems from the outset almost five years ago and its technology is the most innovative and efficient in the industry.
Videoconferencing Insight predicted a rapid adoption of high definition, and observed that affordable LifeSize products are becoming the main force that drives that market transition.
Visit our products website for more information about Lifesize Videoconferencing Products.
Videoconferencing technology has been with us for years, but it never really took off mainly because of the poor image quality and the prohibitive per-minute cost of ISDN. Custom-installed ISDN lines, which had to be strung together in parallel to communicate the necessary data, were the only way to use the technology.
Now, videoconferencing vendors sell products designed to operate over standard broadband Internet connections. They also offer products with high-definition video, making images crisper and enabling a more intuitive conversation for both parties.
U.S.-based LifeSize Communications believes it has cracked the price problem with LifeSize Express, a relatively low-cost product with high-definition Inter-net-based video communications. With 30 frames per second (the same as standard video), at a resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels, it offers real-time video indications at Internet speeds as low as 128 kb per second. (To get the full video quality, however, you will need 1Mb per second.)
While still priced in the thousands, LifeSize Express is useful to companies with a need for regular long-distance communication between the same people. With gas prices escalating, and tighter security making it troublesome to take even short trips, companies that need something better than a PC-to-PC video link, with a product such as Skype, might opt for LifeSize Express.
For more information about LifeSize Express contact Advanced Presentation Products at 905-502-1110 or email sales@advanced-inc.com
-as published in the Financial Post, Monday, December 10, 2007
A Canada wide event focusing on the latest advancements in audiovisual technology.
The Axis Group Roadshow, touching down in eight cities across Canada, is a Product Showcase and Seminar focusing on the latest in audiovisual technology.
Who should attend?
Why attend?
It’s an opportunity to experience the latest in audiovisual technology - to physically see product demonstrations in the product showcase area and attend a series of focused seminars related to trends in the industry.
Whether you are planning your next corporate event and looking for fresh ideas, designing or upgrading a new boardroom or classroom, or researching the impact of high definition video communications – you’ll find it at the Axis Roadshow. Come see the latest in A/V technology by well known manufacturers such as Audio Enhancements, Lifesize Communications, NEC Display Solutions, Polycom, and SMART Technologies.
Key Dates and Locations:
For additional information, visit www.axisgroup.ca/roadshow
Event Sponsors
11:00 am CST - 12:00 pm CST: Join York University’s Diane Zorn and Sonic Foundry’s Sean Brown as they explore how online, rich-media teaching can be easy and effective. The presentation aims to empower participants to create viable online learning environments that facilitate learning, community, and self-sufficiency for students and instructors with minimal time and energy and maximum results. This presentation concludes with a Q & A period.
Common excuses for not taking advantage of online, rich-media teaching are debunked, including:
Answers to the following questions will be provided:
Leading IT distributor LifeSize Communications has announced that Tech Data Corporation (NASDAQ GS: TECD) will distribute LifeSize’s complete HD product portfolio consisting of the world’s most advanced and affordable high definition video communication systems to solution providers nationwide.
The agreement marks a significant milestone in LifeSize’s expanded distribution strategy. Tech Data reaches leading networking, telephony and communications solutions resellers, which support small-to-midsize businesses (SMBs) throughout the U.S. (more…)
