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2002 Articles

SMART's Sympodium Interactive Lectern

SMART Technologies introduces the SMART Sympodium IC-150 and IM-150 integration modules.

CTV Ottawa, Tech NOW features SMART's manufacturing facility

The whiteboard is going high tech and an Ottawa company is in the thick of a fight for a market that is just starting to take off.

Wireless Whiteboards

SMART Board (in sizes of 47, 60 and 72 inches measured diagonally), the Rear Projection SMART Boards and the SMART Board for Plasma Displays interactive overlay now have an option to use Wi-Fi to communicate directly with a PC.

The whiteboard goes wireless

An office regular – the whiteboard – is going wireless, another use for the emerging Wi-Fi networking technology, which needs to pick up steam if it's to meet analysts' heady expectations

Calgary company in Canada's top 10

Businesses don't get much smarter than Calgary-based SMART Technologies Inc., which was honored in Vancouver last night as one of Canada's top 10 exporters.

NEED-TO-KNOW TECH

Following 9/11, corporate interest in video and Web conferencing surged. Better products are on the way – but limited bandwidth may leave some users disappointed.

SMART Technologies unveils interactive lectern

SMART Technologies Inc. has unveiled its SMART Sympodium L-150 interactive lectern, designed for lecture halls, auditoriums and conference centers. The 29-inch-wide mobile lectern is interactive, allowing presenters to face their audiences, present material using various multimedia tools, write over applications in digital ink and save these notes in a single file.

Aspiring journalist and eighth grade student at Victor Valley Junior High School, Kent Salas, reports on Macworld 2002

Then we stopped by a booth where a company named SMART Technologies Inc. had a digital screen for a chalkboard that was connected to a Macintosh computer.

Killian Class Wins Raves

The kids in room B100 at Killian Elementary School are used to showing off their computers and SMART Board interactive whiteboard to visitors. But the other day, there was a special buzz in Richland 2's "Classroom of the Future" as former U.S. Education Secretary Dick Riley walked through the door.

SMART Board interactive whiteboard gets top ranking in Mac product review

It's not a SMART Board – it's a GENIUS Board – and it really does enhance teaching and learning.

Japan Brings Tech to Classrooms

In the late ’90s, Japan’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology began a concerted effort to put technology in classrooms to better prepare a 21st-century workforce. While much of the technology provided to these classrooms has come from Japanese firms, a Canadian company, SMART Technologies Inc., has had an up-close view of the ongoing transformation.

Expansion a smart move for Calgary-based firm

The Calgary-based company has moved into new digs in Stittsville, consolidating several locations into one new facility that has doubled local manufacturing capacity to 68,000 square feet.

The Mundane Whiteboard Gets Its Own Internet-Era Makeover

A photographic system aimed at creating an easy, instant record of whiteboard presentations in classrooms or meetings can capture the facts, figures or diagrams displayed on the board and prepare it all for posting on the Internet.