An Ethernet Jack On Everything
by Lee Minich,
12.02.2008
The theme of the recent 125th Audio Engineering Society (AES) show was “Making Connections”,
and increasingly those connections are made with a piece of Cat-5 cable and a RJ-45 jack via ethernet. Digital audio More...
Great Expectations
by Steven J. Thorburn,
11.01.2008
Do you know what your client expects from a project? Currently, we’re experiencing life from the client side of the fence, and learning from the experience. Thorburn Associates is expanding its offices in North Carolina. We grew, More...
Is Bigger Really Better?
by by Mike Bradley,
9.28.2008
Is Bigger Really Better? Full Article 9 by Mike Bradley Mike Bradley (mcbradley@safeguard.us) is president of Safeguard Security and Communications, a security and communication systems integrator in Phoenix, AZ. Bradley More...
Mapping Information
by Paul Chavez,
9.02.2008
Convergence, if not already here, is inevitable. Over the past few years we have spent much of our time thinking about the hardware and networking side of this certainty. What about the software solutions needed to manage this More...
Added Value
by Mike Bradley,
8.06.2008
When was the last time you paused to reflect on your personal and business values and the impact, both positive and negative, they are having on your business? The need to do this was recently driven home to me when a manager in More...
Can You See Me Now?
by Steven J. Thorburn,
6.26.2008
How do we have a good video meeting?
The answer is the same as for a face-to-face meeting-we need to hear and see well in order to communicate and meet effectively. In terms of videoconferencing, how do we set things up visually More...
Seeing Spots
by Steve Olszewski ,
6.03.2008
Video Format Troubles Can Increase Your Heart-Rate And Your Bottom Line
Visual displays. You love them and you hate them. You love the now-standard, amazingly bright and resolute images in every imaginable format. You love the More...
Social Buildings
by Paul Chavez,
4.14.2008
A glance around just about any commercial or residential space today will quickly make apparent the fact that audiovisual is everywhere. But we have a long way to go before it will be comfortably usable. First a number of factors More...
Talk It Out
by Steve Thorburn,
3.20.2008
Information management.
That is what project management really consists of: Information management, i.e. communication.
As project managers, we need to be responsible information managers. We need to keep people informed of when More...
Learning Legalese
by Ken McKibben,
2.20.2008
After years of denial, I'm finally coming to grips with my lot in life-I'm an AV guy by trade, and my wife is an accountant. There's no escaping it. I am, by definition, a nerd.
I revel in discussions of lumens and contrast, dB More...
When Partners Don't Perform
by John Mayberry ,
12.11.2007
Whether your partner works above, below, or at an equal level with you, the question is always the same: what do you do when they don't perform to expectations? It's a surprisingly common dilemma in our world of higher demands. More...
New And Improved?
by John Mayberry ,
11.29.2007
It's getting harder to figure out what's important and what's not in our world. Sometimes the stuff I buy to solve problems doesn't work at all, and other times my problems are properly solved in ways I never even considered.
An More...
Whither WiMAX?
by John Mayberry ,
11.02.2007
The U.S. has fallen significantly behind the rest of the world in data bandwidth, both wired and wireless. We now rank 15th in fat-wired economies worldwide according to the CWA. Our median internet download speed is 2 Mbps while More...
Quiet Numbskulls, I'm Broadcasting
by John Mayberry ,
9.21.2007
Moe may get his wish again in yet another format. Once tethered to Saturday theater matinees, "The Three Stooges" successfully made the technical transition to television in the 1950s. Now they're about to blaze new trails once More...
Dealing With Options
by John Mayberry ,
8.13.2007
It seems that opportunity ebbs and flows like the tides. Recently it seems like a game of Whac-A-Mole around here, with lots of potential projects coming in, leaving us wondering which to select and which to avoid. Exactly how More...