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What You Need to Know About Projector Color Accuracy

Typically, the marketplace has shied away from color accuracy in favor of brightness. As companies push brightness levels higher and higher, they are also affecting color quality by releasing hints of green onto the screen.

February 5, 2017 Felix Pimentel Leave a Comment

In a world where visual-based information passes fluidly between handsets, monitors, digital signage, and projector installations, the quality and integrity of the colors that channel our information is starting to change the way manufacturers engineer visual display products. Within most screen-based devices, color accuracy is already being observed across different units, meaning users obtain the […]

Interview: Oliver Bodden Talks Driving Sales Through Customer Relationships

Oliver Bodden, Panasonic’s SIP and Applications Product Manager, sat down to discuss UC Mobility, customer relationships and the direction of the industry.

January 25, 2017 TechDecisions Staff Leave a Comment

Q. Can you tell us about your previous experience working with Panasonic as both a UC Technical Field Manager and in Panama? A: I started working with Panasonic in 2011 as a sales engineer and moved up to a supervisor. Although I was working in Panama, I covered well over 25 countries in the Americas and […]

The Dos and Don’ts of Writing a Technology RFP (Request for Proposal)

Writing a request for proposal is the first step to getting a new technology integrated into your enterprise. However, there is no standard for writing them. We spoke with leading integrators to learn what to do and what not to do when writing an RFP.

January 16, 2017 Jonathan Blackwood Leave a Comment

Writing a request for proposal is the first step to getting a new technology integrated into your enterprise. We spoke with leading integrators to learn what to do and what not to do when writing an RFP.

How Green Design Impacts Corporate Applications

Many market drivers are influencing building space design, and the implementation of new technology for corporate environments.

January 9, 2017 Jim Young and Shana Longo Leave a Comment

The green technology landscape continues to evolve beyond being simply “green”. It has grown to encompass a broad range of high performance attributes, including the desire for spaces that are resource efficient and sustainable, but are also active, human-centric, and even resilient. These attributes reflect a growing attention to the status of the building occupant, […]

How One Company Is Moving Toward IT and Bringing AV Along

Interview with Kramer executives reveals how the company sees big opportunities on the IT side while staying true to AV roots.

December 30, 2016 Tom LeBlanc Leave a Comment

It doesn’t take Sherlock Holmes or Woodward and Bernstein to notice that something is up with Kramer. The AV solutions manufacturer appears restless and ambitious. It’s not just that Kramer, which had done little more than dabble in automation, launched at InfoComm 2016 Kramer Control aiming to virtually eliminate the need for programming with the […]

How IT Channel Pros Use Digital Signage to be Noticed

Signage technology is becoming a weapon of choice in the on-going battle to grasp the attention of consumers.

December 28, 2016 Rich Freeman Leave a Comment

Late in 2014, researchers in Microsoft’s Canadian subsidiary surveyed 2,000 people to see if the internet, mobile devices, and social media services really were shortening attention spans as widely suspected. The results? On average, study participants could concentrate on one thing for just eight seconds. That’s down from 12 seconds as recently as the year […]

Myths About the Cloud Perpetuate Among IT Pros

Is the old wive's tale that cloud solutions are less secure and more expensive fact or fiction?

December 25, 2016 Rich Freeman Leave a Comment

Large numbers of IT professionals continue to question cloud computing’s cost-effectiveness and security, according to a newly published research study by partner community and managed services tool provider Spiceworks Inc., of Austin, Texas. The survey found that 29 percent of IT workers in North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa believe that personal and […]

Universities Can Play a Key Role in Creating Smart Cities

A university is very much a part of the city it's in, and universities and cities can work together to work toward the future.

December 21, 2016 Mark Francis Leave a Comment

Imagine a city in which buildings alert you when they need repair, there is Wi-Fi on every street corner, sensors tell the garbage trucks where, when and how often to collect, and where data is analyzed in a way that tells us which streets are more likely to be crime hotspots based upon traffic and […]

How Can Immersive Technologies Improve Learning in Higher Ed?

Immersive technologies like augmented and virtual reality can help solve real world problems.

December 19, 2016 Mark Christian Leave a Comment

The way students learn about subjects from the Middle East to Mars and from history to health care is undergoing a remarkable transformation. No longer will faculty be limited by pictures in a textbook or videos on classroom televisions. A new wave of technological innovation is redefining what it means to learn — bringing to […]

The Secret to Troubleshooting Wi-Fi

5 Ways to Escape Wi-Fi Black Holes

December 10, 2016 TD Staff Leave a Comment

Wireless connectivity and the networks to support it have gone from luxury to necessity. The demand for reliable continuous high speed wireless connections will only grow. Users expect and depend on a seamless experience when moving about a facility. Whether reading emails, texting or watching video, your network is ‘required’ to keep up with multiple […]