ANDOVER, MA–Ironstone Farm and its Challenge Unlimited program bring together people and horses in a working farm environment. The farm‘s professional staff of over 20 licensed instructors and therapists‘ work with people who have a wide variety of physical, emotional, and cognitive disabilities. 35 program horses and 150 volunteers to serve 450 to 500 children and adults each week, year round. more

Record sales of $8,223,216 result in 80% growth in net income to $1,817,405

MARKHAM, ONTARIO, October 29, 2007 – Sangoma Technologies Corporation (TSXV: STC), the premium provider of telephony and network hardware and software products supporting telephony, wide area networks and Internet infrastructure, today released highlights of its results for the financial year ending June 30, 2007. more

Companies Announce Premier Interoperability Agreement

BERLIN, GERMANY and HUNTSVILLE, AL – Oct. 29, 2007 – snom technology AG, developer and manufacturer of Voice-over-IP (VoIP) telephones, and Digium® Inc., the Asterisk® company, today announced their renewed partnership agreement to offer integrated, SIP-based telephony solutions for small and medium-sized businesses. snom has signed on as a Digium/Asterisk Premier Interoperability Partner, which will give broad support for Asterisk Business Edition telephony features on snom phones. SMB customers will receive a tightly integrated, standards-based solution with simplified provisioning, and the delivery of new capabilities and features. more

Customers, Integrators and Resellers to Benefit from Unified Management System

TINLEY PARK, IL, and BOSTON, MA — (October 29, 2007) — NeoPhonetics®, a telephony provider that designs, implements and supports custom VoIP systems for enterprises, today announced the launch of its Unified Management System for Enterprise Asterisk® systems. The Unified Management System is an industry first – providing large enterprises with centralized management capabilities across multiple Asterisk servers located at multiple locations throughout the world. more

Digital signage in employee lunch room carries news – company announcements…
CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis. – Oct. 30, 2007 – Kell Container – Great Northern Corporation (GNC) has added a digital signage system from StrandVision LLC of Eau Claire to its employee communications mix.
The new digital signage consists of a 42” flat screen television display mounted in the company‘s employee lunch room. The sign, which runs 24X7, enables Kell Container – GNC to deliver consistent information to employees on all three shifts. more

The Schaulager, the permanent home of the Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation‘s collection of contemporary art in Basel, Switzerland, is using a Medialon Manager V4 Pro and two Medialon Manager V4 Lites to create, control and play back playlists for videos and other still and text projections on a pair of large LED screens on the entrance facade. more

With up to 1.2 million people crowding into the historic German city of Essen for the Love Parade in late August, the audio requirements for the event were huge. The centrepiece of Love Parade is a procession of floats, all with extremely loud PA systems pumping out the latest dance music. But, in addition, many associated parties also take place during the festivities, meaning that quality loudspeakers are at a premium throughout Europe while Love Parade takes place. more

Turbosound has appointed specialist export office PAXT to develop distribution in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.

Based in Cambridge UK, PAXT is a long established sales and marketing solution for the world‘s leading professional audio brands. more

EDEN PRAIRIE – Williams Sound is pleased to announce that it has begun shipping the PPA R1600 FM Remote Speaker to commercial sound markets.

Many facilities use remote office space or meeting rooms for daily activities, but are unable to take advantage of audio services due to audio cable being difficult to install. The R1600 FM remote speaker helps to solve this problem. The speaker will pick up the broadcast of an audio service wirelessly from any Williams Sound transmitter operating on 72-76 MHz. No unsightly audio cables to run; no complicated installation. The speaker simply plugs into an available AC outlet and the volume of the audio program can be adjusted to a comfortable listening level. The speaker is ideal for an office, nursery, cry room, rehearsal room, or any remote location where the participants need to listen or monitor the audio service. more

PLEASANTON, Calif. – Oct. 29, 2007 – Polycom, Inc. (NASDAQ: PLCM), the world‘s leading provider of unified collaborative communications solutions, today announced the Polycom HDX platform was named the best high definition (HD) video conferencing solution by Wainhouse Research in a head-to-head comparison with competing systems from Tandberg and LifeSize. The Polycom HDX series received top marks in eight out of 10 categories, including video quality, audio quality, and multimedia performance, as well as HD and SD (standard definition) interoperability, camera quality and performance, user interface and content-sharing performance (H.239). more