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Make your presentations
more interactive
NEC Display Solutions is offering a free
DisplayNote Presenter licence to anyone
who buys an M Series or U Series projector
before 31 December 2013. The software
integrates PCs, tablets and projectors in the
classroom, enabling more interactive teaching
methods and improved collaboration between
students.
DisplayNote lets teachers take content from
their computer and stream it to connected
devices including iPads, Android tablets and
smartphone without the need for reformatting.
Students can add their own notes and save and
store material for future use.
Teachers can also monitor students’ screens
and send messages to individual pupils or
whole groups.
The software is not seen as a replacement for
whiteboards but as a complementary solution
that gives teachers the flexibility to work on
an interactive whiteboard or move around the
classroom using a tablet.
www.nec-display-solutions.com/displaynote
Improve knowledge sharing with Evernote Business
Cloud storage company Evernote has launched
a business version to help small and medium-
sized businesses make use of employees’
knowledge and experience. Evernote claims
that over two-thirds of its 45 million users
already use Evernote for work purposes.
Phil Libin, CEO of Evernote, said: “Evernote
Business solves one of the biggest challenges
that growing companies face: discovering the
knowledge of individuals and groups. Evernote
Business addresses this by making it easy for
every employee to collect their own knowledge,
while also helping them instantly discover what
their co-workers know.”
The software is built on the same core
feature set as Evernote’s consumer service and
offers a number of additional business-oriented
features, including:
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the ability to place documents in folders or
Business Notebooks that can be shared with
co-workers;
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a Business Library for shared Business
Notebooks and important company
information posted by administrators;
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permission-based sharing of information with
a team, department, the entire company or
outside clients;
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a Related Notes feature that displays
relevant content from a company’s collective
knowledge when a user browses, searches or
creates a new note;
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a centralised Admin Console where IT
administrators can manage user access and
permissions; and
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larger monthly upload allowances.
Evernote Business costs $10 per user per month.
www.evernote.com/business
Making connections
Luidia has expanded its eBeam portfolio of interactive
whiteboard solutions with eBeam Connect for iPad,
Android andWindows tablets.
The free web-based software can be used to start or
participate in browser-to-browser interactive sessions
and enables any number of users to create, capture and
share content via a web-enabled tablet computer and save
information in the cloud for later use.
eBeam Connect can also be used with the company’s
existing products, the eBeam Edge portable interactive
whiteboard solution and eBeam Engage (with audio recording),
in browser-to-whiteboard sessions. Users can edit and save
data directly on a mobile or desktop computer.
Plug and
play digital signage
Signage specialist Signbox has announced a series
of standalone LED digital advertising displays
(DADs) that can be used without any additional
hardware in window displays, reception areas,
showrooms, exhibition stands and meeting
rooms. A built-in HD media player allows content
to be played directly from removable USB sticks
for plug and play simplicity. The DADs also
include HDMI and VGA inputs should users wish
to connect a PC or external media player. They
are currently available in 22in and 32in screen
sizes and come with scheduling software and the
ability to add scrolling text. Prices start at £449
(ex VAT)
. www.signboxshop.co.uk
IBM adds collaboration and office tools to
cloud-based social business portfolio
IBM has brought out new social business
services to help enterprise clients
collaborate securely in the cloud plus a new
cloud-based office productivity suite that
lets users work together on word processing,
spreadsheet and presentation documents.
The additions to IBM’s SmartCloud for
Social Business portfolio will enable IBM
to meet fast growing demand for cloud
computing and social enterprise solutions.
Forrester Research expects the cloud
computing market to be worth $241 billion
in 2020, up from $41 billion in 2010; and the
market for social enterprise apps to grow at a
CAGR of 61% to 2016 when it will be worth
$6.4 billion.
IBM SmartCloud Docs combines cloud-
based office software with easy collaboration.
For example, when working on a document in
the cloud, presence and instant messaging will
show if a document co-editor is online and
available to chat.
IBM’s SmartCloud for Social Business
portfolio also provides file sharing, access
to communities, online meetings, instant
messaging, email and calendar in the cloud.
Among its new features are social
networking between employees, partners and
suppliers including community-based blogs
and wikis; and an e-meeting service that
allows teams to meet on the fly using instant
messaging, screen sharing and a chat room.
The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP)
is using the portfolio to enable faculty and
researchers to share resources, track progress of
research projects and manage version control
without clogging up email in-boxes.
UTEP is also using IBM’s cloud services to
collaborate with other universities involved in
CASHI (the Computing Alliance of Hispanic-
Serving Institutions), which aims to increase the
number of Hispanic students gaining advanced
degrees in computing and engineering.
Dr. Ann Gates, Chair of the Computer
Science Department at UTEP, said: “Before IBM
SmartCloud for Social Business, email was the
default way of communicating. Now I don’t
have to manage a lot of emails, I can go back
and look at the status of projects and what
people are working on quickly and easily.”
IBM says that IBM SmartCloud for Social
Business meets Swiss and European Union Safe
Harbor standards for data privacy.
www.ibmcloud.com/social
www.ebeamconnect.com