November 8, 2013
By: Jack D'Ardenne
Sharon Kaiser from the School of Medicine will give us a tour of the School of Medicine's Teaching and Learning Center in the Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans Center. This will also be our holiday gathering and we'll have cookies and beverages. If...
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October 29, 2013
By: Jack D'Ardenne
Duke's Logitech rep, Warren Widener stopped by today to show us some of Logitech's business line products (listed below). Two of the highlights were the BCC950 ConferenceCam and the Logitech Mobile Speakerphone P710e. The BCC950 webcam features 1080P video, PTZ operation...
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October 4, 2013
By: Jack D'Ardenne
The hot AV product this year for education seems to be wireless presentation gateways. At this week's Whitlock Convergence show in Durham we got to take a look at several of these devices including WOW Vision's Collab8 collaboration device. ...
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June 19, 2013
By: Jack D'Ardenne
The AirMedia Presentation Gateway from Crestron was just officially announced at InfoComm last week. It can support up to four simultaneous presenters at the same time and currently works with Windows and OS X, as well as Apple iOS and Android...
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May 15, 2013
By: Jack D'Ardenne
Some Duke AV folks recently met with Crestron's new Regional Education Market Manager, Ryan Berndt. He will be replacing Brian Montini. Ryan will be Duke's Crestron rep from now on. During our meeting with Ryan and Brian we learned of a new...
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May 13, 2013
By: Jack D'Ardenne
I don't know much about it this camera but it is nice to see more USB PTZ options. It claims to work with built-in OS drivers so nothing to install. It also claims to work with all major web conferencing...
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February 5, 2013
By: Jack D'Ardenne
A few weeks ago Duke Digital Signage Governance Committee and OIT launched Duke's Digital Signage service. Duke's Digital Signage service is a centrally managed/locally controlled electronic sign and interactive display platform powered by technology from Four Winds Interactive. The service is available...
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October 16, 2012
By: Jack D'Ardenne
Pretty cool new wi-fi webcam from Logitech. Techspot.com has a nice write-up on it. There are a lot potential use cases for something like this. At this time it works on the Mac OS and iOS only and Logitech claims...
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