Business
Acquisition creates Imago ScanSource
The acquisition of Imago Group by ScanSource has been completed; the former's name is to change to Imago ScanSource
Unified Comms
Case Studies
Crestron hires Stewart-Blacker to drive unified communications initiative
Crestron has appointed collaborative technology expert Patrick Stewart-Blacker as EMEA director of unified communications.
Technology
Prysm to show Cascade collaborative videowalls at InfoComm MEA
Prysm will be exhibiting its Cascade videowall solutions and demonstrating the series' powerful collaboration capabilities at InfoComm MEA.
Case Studies
Biamp survey: collaboration needs not being met by technology
The findings come from a survey of IT decision-makers at UK firms in the first part of 2014 that gauged attitudes to business collaboration...
Case Studies
Vidyo video comms used by Ebola patient
Vidyo is providing video communications for Ebola patient Dr Richard Sacra at the Biocontainment Patient Care Unit at the Nebraska Medical Center.
Case Studies
Demo: Oblong Industries’ Mezzanine collaboration platform – VIDEO
Oblong's Mezzanine is a collaboration platform that lets meeting participants get hands-on with their data – whether they're present physically or virtually.
Case Studies
Pexip Infinity virtualised collaboration sells over 20,000 licences
In its first year, Pexip has sold over 20,000 licences for its Infinity virtualised communications platform.
Business
AV User Group relaunches website
The AV User Group has relaunched its website in order to provide a focal point for its international membership.
Business
Video comms company Imago Group to be acquired by ScanSource
Imago Group, Europe’s largest video solutions company, will be acquired by ScanSource, an international value-added distributor of speciality technology products.
People
avsnet’s Graham Fry talks unified comms, convergence and InstallMarket
He's taken his company from a pure VC integrator to a broadly based UC company. Ahead of his panel appearance at InstallMarket, avsnet MD...
Case Studies
PAI Group in high-profile Cardiff life sciences install
The integrator has completed a major AV integration project for the Life Sciences Hub Wales in Cardiff Bay.
Technology
Five videoconferencing tools for your organisation
Videoconferencing is no longer limited to boardroom-to-boardroom sessions. With the proliferation of BYOD and a rise in the number of people working from home,...
Case Studies
InfoComm 2014: UC company Pexip educates and connects with visitors
Pexip, which describes itself as “a global disrupter in scalable, distributed videoconferencing technology”, is involved in a host of sponsored seminars, luncheons, and networking...
Business
Kramer buys into BYOD with WOW Vision stake
Kramer Electronics has acquired 50% of Singapore-based WOW Vision, whose products enable laptops and mobile devices to connect wirelessly to large displays and share...
Connectivity
Kramer to launch collaboration products at InfoComm
Following the announcement of its acquisition of a 50% stake in streaming technology company WOW Vision, Kramer Electronics will be launching its first two...
Technology
Lifesize hops on the Cloud with new videoconferencing solution
Video communications specialist Lifesize has shifted its videoconferencing service to the Cloud with the launch of Lifesize Cloud. The software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution – which...
Case Studies
FSR to launch HuddleVu collaboration system at InfoComm
The new HuddleVU multi-user collaboration system is being demonstrated at InfoComm 2014 by manufacturer FSR.
Case Studies
Take Lync into meeting rooms with Ashton Bentley
Ashton Bentley's new Lync Room Environments enable personal Microsoft Lync accounts to be used within a professional meeting room AV setting.
Technology
Imago distributes Tely Labs entry-level videoconferencing
Imago has begun distributing solutions from Tely Labs, a US-based manufacturer of secure and affordable videoconferencing solutions.
Ed Tech
Aver videoconferencing kit helps schools meet authors
Oaks Park High School (OPHS), in the London borough of Redbridge, has been using videoconferencing equipment from Aver to host children’s author events, allowing...
Audio
Vaddio EasyUSB Audio Bridge connects pro audio kit to PC applications
Vaddio is bringing together the worlds of professional and PC-based audio with the launch of EasyUSB Audio Bridge. Existing meeting room audio equipment can...
Connectivity
Tribune embraces the Cloud
Tribune uses Collabor8online to record all aspects of project documentation “in the Cloud”. Tribune AVS is a specialist home automation and security systems provider...
Technology
LifeSize VC deployment to aid Majid Al Futtaim Hypermarkets expansion
Retail group Majid Al Futtaim Hypermarkets Carrefour, which currently has 110 stores located in 17 countries, has implemented a company-wide LifeSize video solution as...
Case Studies
Polymedia championed at Sochi Olympic Winter games
The Main Media Centre for the the XXII Olympic Winter Games and XI Paralympic Winter Games, which is currently being held in Sochi, Russia,...
Case Studies
Arup deploys Pexip globally
Building design specialist Arup uses enterprise-wide videoconferencing to connect professionals. Arup, the independent professional firm of designers, planners, engineers, consultants and technical specialists, has...