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Toshiba Introduces New Satellite L Series Notebooks: Everyday Value with Well-Balanced Performance and Features

Singapore (Vocus) May 7, 2010

Toshiba’s Computer Systems Division (CSD), a division of Toshiba Singapore Pte Ltd, today announced a new look and a new direction for its popular L Series of everyday notebooks. Designed for budget-smart consumers, the new Satellite L Series of notebooks strike an ideal balance of style, performance and value.

“In this new economy, consumers are demanding more choice,” said Ms. Wong Wai Meng, Senior Manager of Product Marketing, Toshiba’s Computer Systems Division. “We’ve expanded our value- line notebooks, adding more screen size options, new features and our Fusion Finish with different colour variations to provide a brand new look. It’s a great example of Toshiba’s ability to meet market demands with solid, high-quality products that exemplifies our commitment to value and innovation.”

The Satellite L Series consists of three model classes: the versatile 14-inch Satellite L640/L645, the lightweight 13.3-inch Satellite L630/L635, and the larger 15.6-inch Satellite L650/L655 desktop replacement. Each notebook is equipped with the latest processors and standout features like HD Clear SuperView widescreen LED backlight displays feature stunning 16:9 aspect ratios and native 720p resolution well-suited for enjoying digital entertainment, powering through spreadsheets or managing home finances, and hard drives ranging from 250GB to 500GB. Well-equipped with built-in high-speed wireless connectivity, lots of expansion ports and featuring 2010 Intel® Core™ Processors, the Satellite L Series notebooks are ideal for students, home users and anyone looking to enjoy digital media, staying productive, connecting online or casual gaming.

New features of Satellite L Series notebooks include:

    Fusion™ Finish design with new color variations (model dependent): Proving that great style is available at any price, the Satellite L Series notebooks now come dressed in Toshiba’s Fusion Finish featuring a contrast surface and a new patterned IMR in precious black color, giving the new series a thinner impression and wider appearance. The higher-end Satellite L645 and L635 series sport a classier design with a glossy flat keyboard, contrasting chrome details on the touchpad buttons, and a choice of 4 colors: Metallic Gray, Modena Red, Snow White and Maroon Brown.
    Dolby® Advanced Audio sound system: Adding a new level of realism to movies, music and games, the Satellite L series is now able to provide a vivid entertainment experience from any pair of speakers or any set of headphone. The Dolby® Advanced Audio brings together a suite of technologies including audio optimization, natural bass and high-frequency enhancer that let users enjoys a richer audio experience.
    Toshiba PC Health Monitor: All Satellite models now feature this system utility that proactively checks the laptop’s critical components for problematic conditions, such as battery performance, heat and hard drive movement. The software helps users diagnose potential problems before they occur in order to protect from data loss.
    Toshiba Power-Saving Eco Utility: A utility that allows users to monitor and adjust their power consumption and settings in real-time. The utility also provides daily, weekly and monthly analysis reports that show accumulated power savings.
    Toshiba Bulletin Board™ and Toshiba ReelTime™: Taking advantage of Windows 7’s simplicity to provide users with a unique Toshiba notebook PC experience, the intuitive Toshiba Bulletin Board is a simple, creative and fun user application to organize day-to-day activities and projects. The Toshiba ReelTime™ is a visual representation of recent files to help users quickly find what they are looking for.

Actual features and specifications vary according to model. For detailed specifications, please check the Specs Sheet or on Toshiba website at “pc.toshiba-asia.com”

Toshiba celebrates its 25th anniversary in the Notebook PC business

This year, Toshiba celebrates its 25th anniversary of innovations and quality in the notebook PC business. We launched the world’s first commercial Notebook PC – the “T1100”- in 1985. Since this pioneering beginning, Toshiba has continued to lead the way in the evolution of the portable PC with many “world’s firsts”, while defining and promoting technologies that set industry standards, helping to enlarge the industry and making PCs more user-friendly.

About Toshiba

Established in 1875, Toshiba Corporation is a global high technology product leader with 315 major subsidiaries and affiliates worldwide. Toshiba Singapore Pte. Ltd. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Toshiba Corporation. Its Singapore-based Computer Systems Division (CSD) is the regional headquarters for South and Southeast Asia. In addition to notebooks under the QOSMIO, Satellite, Satellite Pro, TECRA, PORTÉGÉ and libretto product brand names, the company also offers portable and wireless accessories for customers under the Toshiba brand name. For more information, visit the company’s website at “pc.toshiba-asia.com”.

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Digital Signage On The Railways

The railways in many parts of the world have always been central to the transportation systems. Furthermore, the railways hold a nostalgia and special place in people’s lives other transport networks have never been able to reproduce.

The railways are also one of the keenest implementers of digital signage compared to any other industry from the earliest days of using digital out of media for advertising and information it was the railways that first implemented it.

The railways use digital signage for three different purposes:

Providing information – And it could be argued that they were one of the first industries to use TV screens for use out of home. Railway stations have always needed to provide information and even before the development of flat screen televisions, monitors were being used to provide timetabling information. Now most railway stations have a digital signage system that relays when a train is due and to arrive or depart.

Advertising – Because of the amount of people that still rely on the railways and the central role they play in the network infrastructure, billboards and posters along railway lines have always been sought after by advertisers. Now outdoor digital signage systems are being erected on platforms increasing the effectiveness of this sought after advertising space.

Keeping travellers occupied – Another use for digital signage that can be combined with advertising has been well adopted by the railways and that is using digital signage screens for entertaining commuters.

Not only can entertainment programmes be run on the digital signage screens in the carriage but also advertising can be added to the content allowing the railways to offset the cost of the devices by gaining advertising revenue.

The railways are one are where digital advertising and outdoor digital signage has really benefitted the industry providing extra streams of revenue as well as providing a better service for commuters.

Richard N Williams is a technical author and a specialist in the digital signage industry helping to develop outdoor digital signage and protection for plasmas. Please visit us for more information about LCD Enclosures or other digital signage solutions.

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JewishGen and MyHeritage.com collaborate to build the Family Tree of the Jewish People

Tel Aviv, Israel; London, UK and Los Angeles, US (PRWEB) July 14, 2010

MyHeritage.com and JewishGen.org are now working together to invigorate the Family Tree of the Jewish People (FTJP) project.

Under this collaboration, family trees built with a special version of MyHeritage.com available at http://www.myheritage.com/jewishgen, with the consent of the tree creators, will be transferred periodically to the FTJP for digital safekeeping. Privacy controls, using the MyHeritage.com tools, can be set according to the wishes of the tree creator. Data of existing MyHeritage.com users will not be transferred.

JewishGen is a non-profit organization created to help researchers interested in Jewish genealogy around the world connect to each other, research their families and ancestral geographic locations, participate in research projects and store Jewish family trees safely. The mission of JewishGen is to obtain records and information that will be valuable to those with Jewish ancestry and place them on the JewishGen website, at no cost, in an easy to understand and searchable format.

The Family Tree of the Jewish People is a project of JewishGen to bring together family historians around the world who research Jewish family branches. The project offers a central resource for Jewish family trees and helps re-connect Jewish families.

MyHeritage.com is a genealogical social networking site with more than 50 million members and 590 million profiles worldwide. It currently holds some 15 million family trees. It operates in 36 languages including English and Hebrew, making it ideal for Jewish families around the world to connect, as it offers easy and fun tools to enable sharing of information, photos, documents and videos among far-flung relatives, with complete and secure privacy controls that can be set by tree creators.

“JewishGen is committed to ensuring Jewish continuity for present generations and generations yet to come,” says JewishGen managing director Warren Blatt. “Our free, easy-to-use website features thousands of databases, research tools and other resources to help those with Jewish ancestry research and find family members. The vision of JewishGen is to connect Jews throughout the world with their relatives and provide them with the ability to learn about their family history and heritage.”

“MyHeritage.com – a site used all over the world and by all religions – is among the most popular genealogy websites in the Jewish world, making it a natural partner for JewishGen”, said Blatt. “The benefit of this partnership is to offer the free website tools from MyHeritage.com to create and research family trees, with the option to share those trees with the thousands of JewishGen users via the FTJP. Under the new partnership, the FTJP will be invigorated and constantly updated, resulting in an accurate, up-to-date and constantly growing Jewish family tree database for JewishGen.”

“We are excited to join forces with JewishGen,” said Gilad Japhet, founder and CEO of MyHeritage.com, himself an avid genealogist and a member of JewishGen since August 2000. “We see it as a privilege to cooperate with JewishGen and help it preserve family trees of people who wish to discover, and be discovered by, fellow researchers and relatives,” Japhet added. “Our Smart Matching technology will provide genealogists the added benefit of discovering additional relatives through the large databases on MyHeritage.com. This will fulfill the mutual objective of MyHeritage.com and JewishGen to reunite families whose ties have been lost through time and fate.”

About MyHeritage.com:

MyHeritage.com was founded by a team of people who combine their passion for family history with the development of innovative technology. Since launching in November 2005 MyHeritage.com has become the world’s leading international online network for families and the second largest family history website. The fastest growth rates in the industry combined with the acquisitions of Pearl Street Software (2007), Kindo.com (2008) and OSN (2009) have made MyHeritage.com the home for 50 million family members and 590 million profiles. The company has offices in London, UK; Hamburg, Germany; Boulder, Colorado, USA and Tel Aviv, Israel. MyHeritage.com has received funding by Accel Partners and Index Ventures. For more information, visit http://www.myheritage.com/jewishgen

About JewishGen:

JewishGen, a non-profit organization affiliated with the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, was founded in 1987 as a bulletin board with only 150 users who were interested in Jewish genealogy. Primarily driven by volunteers, there are over 700 active volunteers throughout the world who actively contribute to its ever growing collection of databases, resources and search tools. Currently, JewishGen hosts more than 14 million records, and provides a myriad of resources and search tools designed to assist those researching their Jewish ancestry. JewishGen provides its resources online as a public service.

For more information please contact:

For MyHeritage.com:    

Daniel Horowitz

Genealogy and Translation Manager

Email: Daniel(at)MyHeritage(dot)com

For JewishGen:

Warrren Blatt

Managing Director

Email: wblatt(at)jewishgen(dot)org

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Led Display Board Is Efficiency

An LED display board can be used by a school to show messages for its students and teachers. It can also be used by a church to show messages about upcoming events and services. Companies can use it to show employee messages and work hours and it can also be used by cafes and restaurants to display menu options. These are only a few of the wide range of applications which a display board can be used for.

LED display board is very well designed, rugged, reliable, environmentally friendly products. They come in different sizes, providing a comprehensive large budget savings. The circuit board is made of high quality raw materials that can really improve the durability of the product production. They can clearly see from a few hundred meters even in the day.

LED display board sign offers one of the easiest, fastest and impressive ways to make an impact, encouraging more customers to come through the door. It empowers many businesses and business owners to cultivate their target market more effectively, quickly transitioning viewers from potential customer to first-time customer to repeat customer by creating a memorable, attractive, and informative advertising narrative over time. This display board is great for getting the attention of many of your potential customers. Your customers can be kept informed by a constantly-updated LED sign, are more likely to see relevant advertising and choose your business instead of your competitors.

LED display board is efficiency. It can provide a complete solution for your visual display needs and increase the market value to a great extent. The content and message of any type of advertisement can well be communicated to the customers with this technology, which is not the case with other signs. This sign is the best option as it is highly flexible in effectively communicating the changes, as you sometimes, need to change your advertisements and services on daily basis to retain your position in the industry.

A major advantage of an LED display board is that it is simple to change the message and this makes them much more versatile than static boards. Some can be connected to a central control area where a computer can be used to input the message. Others come with wireless keyboards or remote controls which can be used to change the message. Whichever display board you choose they are effective devices which are simple to use.

The size of your LED signs can be easily extended, even long after your initial purchase. These circuit boards are easy to program, professional development and user-friendly software, you can easily adjust using the included software.

Lari Smith has been writing articles online for nearly 3 years now. Specialize in flashing board articles. If you need more about LED signs and outdoor signage, please reference http://www.flashingledboard.com/.

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New Ingage Solutions Offering Turns TVs into Digital Signs

Oceanside, CA (PRWEB) October 17, 2014

Ingage Solutions, a brand of Federal Heath Sign Company LLC, today announced its offering of ScreenScape Connect, a Plug and Play device and supporting software platform that turns any TV into a digital sign. This small/ultra-compact device dramatically reduces the cost and complexity of starting and operating a digital signage network, eliminating the need for media players and cabling. The Dell Wyse Cloud Connect device is the first hardware solution certified for use with ScreenScape Connect, and is included with an extended ScreenScape Connect subscription.

Branded content can be updated by WiFi and managed remotely using ScreenScape Connect, a cloud-based content management platform. Connecting a screen to the digital signage network is as easy as plugging the device into the TV’s HDMI port. ScreenScape Connect is a flexible solution that gives business owners the ability to easily monitor and manage their network. Federal Heath is able to offer this product to its customers through its Ingage Solutions brand, due to its strong existing relationship with ScreenScape Networks.

Federal Heath President & CEO Kevin Stotmeister said this significantly enhanced product offering is a result of the strong partnership with Screenscape and their equally strong partnership with Dell. “HD TVs are being used extensively in every aspect of business today, and ScreenScape Connect allows restaurants, retail stores, lobbies, waiting rooms, etc., in any business or industry to use their existing screens to engage more efficiently with their customers.”

About Federal Heath

Federal Heath Sign Company is an innovative global industry leader, providing custom signage and related services to national and international customers within multiple value streams, consisting of the highest profile companies in the retail, restaurant, hotel, finance, petroleum, automotive, corporate identification and gaming markets. Federal Heath has more than twenty offices nationwide, including four state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities. For more information about Federal Heath Sign Company, please visit us at http://www.federalheath.com

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BEASD Turns to StrandVision Digital Signage for School Communications

Bellefonte, PA (Vocus) August 18, 2010

StrandVision LLC today announced that Bald Eagle Area School District (BEASD) has selected StrandVision Digital Signage for student and community communications at its middle-high school that serves 12 northern Centre County, Pennsylvania communities.

The signage carries several school communication messages, including student notices and after-school activities/bus schedules, sports notices and results, awards and recognition, event promotions and recaps. It also serves as a bulletin board for the public in support of the many community meetings that take place at the school complex. The same digital signage network of large (60”) screens is used to display streaming video feeds from the gymnasium to the cafeteria to accommodate overflow audiences at community events.

The digital signage, which is updated daily by school staff, takes advantage of StrandVision’s Internet-based digital signage delivery system. StrandVision provides digital signage page templates, split screens, crawling text and the ability to post pictures, text and graphics at any time. It also offers automatically updated local weather and news. The BEASD displays are all located in the middle-high school building complex, but, using StrandVision’s Internet distribution, can easily be extended to each of the buildings in the District.

Commented Bill Corkill, BEASD instructional technology specialist and activities director, “We first looked at doing our own signage. But the StrandVision price point was so good that we decided to use the service that they offered. It’s made it easy for us to update the signage right from our computers and rely on StrandVision to automatically update the displays.”

“BEASD is making good use of the StrandVision system by extending it beyond the student marketing during the school day to meet its particular needs and reach the general community,” said Mike Strand, StrandVision founder and CEO. “They’ve taken advantage of the system’s flexibility to get the greatest return. BEASD had well-defined objectives that they translated into an effective system that supports its educational and community missions.”

About StrandVision

StrandVision LLC, based in Menomonie, Wisconsin, delivers low-cost, Web-based Software as a Service (SaaS) digital signage through a patented approach that delivers content to subscribers’ LCD and plasma displays, as well as computer screens and websites. StrandVision’s service distributes text and graphics pages, video content, and national and local weather and news. It is ideal for medical and dental offices (patient education), banks, retailers and industrial distributors (video merchandising), education (student, staff and visitor information), employee break rooms (events and benefits), non-profit and religious organizations (member and supporter communications), and other applications.

StrandVision also offers PC-2-TV.net (http://www.pc-2-tv.net), a fully digital, high-definition (HD) personal computer-to-television adapter for use with digital signage and many other applications.

StrandVision Digital Signage services and PC-2-TV.net are available directly from StrandVision and through registered affiliates and system integrators (http://www.strandvision.com/installers.html). Additional information about StrandVision is available at http://www.strandvision.com, by calling 715-235-7446 or emailing sales(at)strandvision(dot)com.

Editors – For further information:

Mike Strand

StrandVision

715-235-7446 x100

Greg Soucy

Soucy Communications Group

978-266-1700

High resolution photo available – Contact Greg Soucy

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HME Wireless Launches New Restaurant Paging App Suite for Mobile Devices; State of the Art Technology Redefines Restaurant Paging Systems

(PRWEB) May 10, 2013

In the highly competitive food service industry, restaurants are increasingly turning to high-tech tools to improve service and attract more customers. Once again, HME Wireless leads the way with its new Restaurant Paging App Suite. Designed for use with iOS and Android devices, these innovative tools give busy restaurants a complete guest, server, and table status system in one easy-to-use paging app suite.

“Mobile devices are being deployed across almost every industry today with no exception in hospitality,” says Russ Ford, VP of HME Wireless. “We are seeing tablets used to order food at the table, guests taking surveys and playing games on smart phones, digital menu boards and even entire POS systems running on mobile and cloud-based systems. Our new app suite gives restaurants a simple yet sophisticated tool for building sales and increasing guest satisfaction.”

The Restaurant Paging App Suite includes four separate solutions designed to help restaurant staff deliver a more enjoyable dining experience for guests while helping operators execute at an exceptionally high level at the same time:


    GuestCall enables staff to track wait times, page waiting guests or other needed staff members, as well as get detailed reporting on many aspects of restaurant operations.

    ServerCall keeps servers, kitchen staff and managers in constant communication for improved server efficiency.

    Push Button lets users page staff or managers with important updates to keep the restaurant running smoothly.

    TableScout allows staff to update table statuses instantly for faster and more efficient seating of guests.

“The app suite only needs one transmitter, the iStation, and works with all HME Wireless pagers for seamless integration with a restaurant’s current system,” adds Ford. “And you can download the whole suite or just the individual applications you need. At HME, we strive to help restaurants operate more efficiently and profitably, and our new app suite takes a giant step in that direction.”

For more information on the Restaurant Paging App Suite or on wireless paging systems, visit http://www.hmewireless.com or call 1-866-611-4202.

About HME Wireless, Inc.

HME Wireless (formerly NTN Wireless) is an innovative technology company offering a complete line of on-site messaging solutions to improve efficiency and customer service for businesses worldwide. Restaurants, hospitals, church nurseries and retail stores are just a few that use our systems to increase sales, productivity and customer satisfaction. HME Wireless is a subsidiary of HM Electronics, Inc. To learn more, visit http://www.hmewireless.com.