ADVISORY/Videoconferencing Connects School Children from Brazil and England with Sixth Graders from Rural Texas for Cultural Exchange.News Editors/Assignment Desks ADVISORY...for Wed. (May 14) ABILENE, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 13, 2003 TANDBERG WHO: 10-13 year olds from Brazil, England and U.S. (Texas) WHAT: Videoconference WHEN: 8:30 a.m. CDT, May 14, 2003 WHERE: Sao Paulo, Brazil; Reeding, England; Texas TANDBERG, a leading global provider of collaborative communication solutions, announces a videoconference vid·e·o·con·fer·ence n. A teleconference using video technology, such as closed-circuit television. vid being conducted as part of educating Texas middle schoolers about regional history and modern culture in other parts of the world. The students in Texas have been studying European and South American history and culture, and educators thought a videoconference would be an ideal way to bring their studies to life. The students in Texas and England will participate from their own schools; those in Brazil will join from the videoconference room of a nearby business. The children wrote questions and sent them to one another in advance to allow their counterparts a chance to prepare answers. The Brazilian students speak Portuguese, so they will speak through an interpreter during the call. Participating media can watch the call at Region 14 Education Service Center Distance Learning Building, located at 1850 Highway 351 in Abilene, Texas Abilene is a city in Taylor County, Texas, United States, in the central portion of the state. The population was 115,930 at the 2000 census. It is the principal city of the Abilene, Texas Metropolitan Statistical Area, which had a 2006 estimated population of 158,063. . No students will be on site at this location, but moderator Tommy Bearden will be available to take questions after the videoconference. Media may also interview the students via video during the call. For directions or more information, call 325/675-8668. TANDBERG videoconferencing A real time video session between two or more users or between two or more locations. Although the first videoconferencing was done with traditional analog TV and satellites, inhouse room systems became popular in the early 1980s after Compression Labs pioneered digitized video systems provides extraordinary opportunities for rural and culturally isolated school children - opportunities they would never have otherwise. Please call Gregg Hunter at the number above for more information about this event and other distance education opportunities using TANDBERG videoconferencing systems. About TANDBERG TANDBERG is a leading global provider of collaborative communication solutions. The Company designs, develops and markets systems and software for video, voice and data. The TANDBERG Architecture for the Collaborative-Communications Enterprise (ACE) - the industry's first solution architecture that embraces open standards Specifications for hardware and software that are developed by a standards organization or a consortium involved in supporting a standard. Available to the public for developing compliant products, open standards imply "open systems;" that an existing component in a system can be replaced , promotes multi-vendor interoperability, and leverages existing network infrastructure - is a framework for unifying the many essential components required to build an integrated voice, video and data solution. This includes user endpoints, network platforms, distributed common communication software, application management software and value-added services. The core of ACE is the TANDBERG Management Suite (TMS TMS Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (alternative medicine for depression) TMS Test Match Special (sports - cricket) TMS Texas Motor Speedway TMS Transportation Management System TMS Toyota Motor Sales ) - the common software platform that manages components from multiple vendors in a single system. The Company provides sales, support and value-added services in more than 90 countries worldwide. TANDBERG has dual headquarters in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of and Norway, and sales and marketing offices in Canada, China, Hong Kong Hong Kong (hŏng kŏng), Mandarin Xianggang, special administrative region of China, formerly a British crown colony (2005 est. pop. 6,899,000), land area 422 sq mi (1,092 sq km), adjacent to Guangdong prov. , Japan, Singapore, Spain and the United Kingdom. TANDBERG is publicly traded on the Oslo Stock Exchange Oslo Stock Exchange An exchange founded in 1819 and trading stocks, bonds, and stock options that is considered the options market of Norway. under the ticker TAA TAA - Track Average Amplitude . Visit www.tandberg.net for more information. |
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