By Doug Barlett, CEO, EzoBord As an AV integrator, you have likely experienced this scenario: your team designs and deploys a state-of-the-art meeting space with beamforming microphones, high-resolution displays and seamlessly integrated UC technology. The room passes commissioning. The client signs off. Then the calls start. Remote participants cannot understand people in the room. Voices […]
A lot has happened since my last column was published in 2023. I worked part time for two different companies as an independent contractor, attended or hosted (and paid for) several trade shows and mini-tech events, and so much more, but I’m not going to get into at this time. I joined A-V Services, Inc. […]
United Airlines is defending itself against a proposed class-action lawsuit built around a wonderfully simple question: When an airline sells you a window seat, is it required to provide a window? Passengers say they paid extra for seats United identified as window seats, only to board and find themselves sitting beside a solid cabin wall. […]
For the better part of the last decade, the technology industry treated “The Cloud” like the answer to every question. Need more processing power? Cloud. Need analytics? Cloud. Need AI? Definitely cloud. For a while, that was the industry’s favorite chorus. And for a while, that made perfect sense. Centralized cloud computing gave organizations enormous […]
As organizations race to adopt AI-enabled collaboration technology, FORTÉ has released a new report titled “The State of Modern Collaboration Spaces” detailing some of the pain points businesses are facing in implementing this technology. FORTÉ based its report on a digital survey with feedback from more than 500 IT leaders in the United States who […]
In AV and Collaboration, Your Devices Are Talking – But Not Just to You You’ve heard the old line from the early internet era: “If the product is free, you’re the product.” But in today’s audiovisual and collaboration industry, that idea goes far beyond social media platforms and search engines. It’s not just about what […]
