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   October 18, 2006  |  A Prism Business Media Publication SUBSCRIBE | UNSUBSCRIBE | PREFERENCES
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Table Of Contents
Educating the Educators
OWI Enhances Classroom Audio for Virginia's Chesterfield County School District
Polycom Delivers Business Quality Voice Conferencing Through Skype
Daktronics Introduces ColorSmart Color-changing Scoreboard Digits
Sonic Foundry Announces Mediasite 4.0, Latest Enhancements to Mediasite Web Communications System

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Educating the Educators
A quick glance at the incoming mail pile indicates that tradeshow season is here. Every spring and fall (and even summer and winter nowadays), an avalanche of tradeshow and conference brochures tout their expertise in a particular market segment. A welcome change has been the increased emphasis on the education market; in particular, several shows that are capturing the attention of K-12 and higher-education educators interested in furthering their AV knowledge. more>>

In Depth
OWI Enhances Classroom Audio for Virginia's Chesterfield County School District
As many educators often find themselves in the same predicament, Chesterfield County School District's Manager of Video Technology Brian Jones was recently in the position of a having a new visual system with substandard sound. "We were in the process of installing LCD projectors in all of our high school classrooms, about 700 classrooms total," says Jones, who oversees video production as well as video technologies in classrooms for the entire district. "LCD projectors typically come with very small, low-powered speakers—definitely not adequate for a classroom of 25 students, even if they're being very quiet. We knew we needed additional speakers for these projectors." more>>

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Polycom Delivers Business Quality Voice Conferencing Through Skype
Polycom announced that the Polycom VoiceStation 500 conference phone is Skype certified. The integration of Skype and the VoiceStation 500 enables customers to easily host business-quality conference calls using the Skype services. The VoiceStation 500 features Bluetooth wireless and an applications port that enables it to seamlessly work with Skype running on a PC. more>>

Daktronics Introduces ColorSmart Color-changing Scoreboard Digits
Daktronics of Brookings, S.D., has released a new innovation in scoreboard technology: ColorSmart color-changing light emitting diode (LED) digits. Scoreboards with this technology will respond instantly to the ever-changing action of sporting events. When the game clock is running in ColorSmart mode, the scoreboard displays the movement of the period time in green. The moment officials stop the clock, the time on the scoreboard illuminates in red. more>>

Sonic Foundry Announces Mediasite 4.0, Latest Enhancements to Mediasite Web Communications System
Sonic Foundry announced major enhancements for its Mediasite EX Server for the Enterprise and Mediasite Recorder software. The improvements further differentiate Mediasite as the leading enterprise platform for managing multimedia communications. more>>




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