Pixavi Launches a HD Video Conferencing Endpoint that Fits in the Palm Of Your Hand

Stavanger, Norway (PRWEB) September 28, 2009

Pixavi today launched its new video conferencing and streaming product series, namely the Xcore 6000 series.

The Xcore is a compact wireless codec, capable of SIP and H.323 video conferencing as well as ISMA Video Streaming using high definition H.264 video and CD quality AAC high-end audio. The device is compact, rugged and suitable for both mobile and custom applications. With a built in battery that enables 6 hours of wireless, mobile HD video conferencing, it offers new opportunities for video conferencing applications. The product incorporates cutting edge technology such as high speed wireless (802.11n), Bluetooth, AVC HD and high definition video conferencing.

The Xcore 6000 is able to connect to any HD video conferencing endpoint or computer running a software video conferencing client or a media player like QuickTime, Windows media player or VLC player. The Xcore 6000 only needs 1 mbps bandwidth for HD video and can connect to any location using a standard internet connection or a satellite link. The product is also backwards compatible to legacy systems running CIF and 4CIF video resolutions.

The Xcore features an integrated keypad, high resolution TFT LCD panel, touch screen, digital microphone, a high gain speaker and an easy to use graphical user interface. Built in high quality Norwegian aluminum, the product is sturdy and ready to take on any communication task you might throw at it.

The new and technically advanced Xcore 6000 series is designed to help organizations face today's challenging global situation dominated by issues like global warming, financial crisis, pollution, terror threats, increasing travel costs and increased competition and efficiency demands.

Explosion proof and super rugged version

The Xcore also comes in an Explosion proof version, the Xcore EX 6000, that features intrinsically safe inputs and outputs. The product is fully certified for Zone 1 and Zone 2 hazardous areas and is IP68 rated (waterproof) as well as impact proof and drop proof up to 2 meters drop on to concrete.

Applications:

Potential application areas for the product includes among others the manufacturing industry, oil&gas, chemical industries, building and construction, telemedicine, surveillance, ship yards, mining, journalism, firefighting, law enforcement and military.

Services:

Pixavi offers the Go Live 2.0 server solution for improving the manageability and ease of connection between the Xcore and other systems as well as networked multimedia storage. Go Live 2.0 provides a secure, encrypted communication solution based on Web 2.0 technology.

Pixavi CEO, Christian Rokseth explains: "The Xcore 6000 is a fully featured HD video conferencing endpoint in a device that fits in the palm of your hand. This really opens up for new and exciting applications within video conferencing. "

Mr. Rokseth continues: "The Xcore is designed for end users and integrators who want to put HD video conferencing and streaming where it has not been possible before. The highly integrated and compact design, battery option and its wireless features makes the product very unique in today's video conferencing product spectrum. The product fits nicely with our existing wireless video collaboration solutions, including wireless network solutions, wireless surveillance products and wireless location systems. With this complete offering, our customers can now deploy a cost efficient, secure and industrial grade communication infrastructure solution all provided from one vendor."

Green Technology:

Pixavi Sales Manager, Thomas Zaubi states: "Green technology is becoming an increasingly important, if not mandatory, key to success for maintaining the planet we live on. The Xcore product has the capability of contributing to a lower carbon footprint for businesses through decreasing the need for travel and improving operational efficiency. We recently launched the Green Ring of Excellence initiative in an effort to put emphasis on this very important aspect."

Interoperability:

Pixavi has successfully tested interoperability with HD endpoints from leading vendors like Tandberg, Polycom, Lifesize, Sony, Cisco and Radvision.

Pricing & Availability:

The Xcore 6000 Series is available today, with a start price tag of USD 6250,-. In addition, Pixavi is offering 3 levels of service, depending on the customer needs, including hosted and managed services like Go Live 2.0, SIP services and hosted video conferencing software solutions.

About Pixavi:

Pixavi (previously VisiWear) is a privately owned Norwegian company offering innovative and industrial grade wireless communication products, including High Definition video products, wireless network products (802.11n, 802.11g WiFi, LTE and WIMAX), WLAN antenna products, location tracking and wireless video surveillance technology. Pixavi introduced its first video collaboration system back in 1999 (ST1000). The company's award-winning products are used by leading enterprises in a multitude of industries. With a broad suite of high-tech and open standard based products, Pixavi has a high focus on technology innovation with more than 70% of our staff working in R&D.

Contact us for more information:

Thomas Zaubi

Sales Director

USA: "+1 408 627 7811"

Norway: "+47 90943156"

sales(at)pixavi (dot) com

http://www.pixavi.com

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Pixavi Launches Explosion Proof HD Video Collaboration Camera

(PRWEB) January 17, 2010

The need for high quality collaboration solutions throughout enterprise markets is increasing rapidly. This is seen through an increasing adoption of Video Conferencing and Telepresence as well as web based collaboration solutions. Pixavi has brought innovative mobile collaboration products to the market since 1999. With the recent launch of the Xcaster The ST5000 HD communication device, Pixavi redefined mobile collaboration with the introduction of High Definition video conferencing live from virtually any location.

By Introducing the Xcaster EX 5000, a Zone 1 certified version of the Xcaster 5000 series, we are bringing this unique technology to customers within chemical plants, oil and gas, shipyards, mines and other environments requiring strictly certified electronic equipment.

Featuring HD video capabilities and Laser collaboration technology as well as state of the art video conferencing and streaming technology, the device operates on standard WiFi networks and requires no extra software on the receiving side to operate.

Pixavi CEO/CTO, Christian Rokseth states: ?The high end imaging features of the Xcaster makes the product quite unique. Featuring HD video quality and 5 megapixel image capture, the Device stands out from any solution in the market. Another strong point is our comprehensive protocol support, including SIP and H.323 support as well as the ISMA PC streaming standard. This means that our customers can connect the device to any video conferencing endpoint, MCU or PC media player utilizing open standards, without the need for expensive and or proprietary software solutions. Most of the video conferencing endpoints in the corporate environments are still operating on h.323. Pixavi has recognized this fact and is offering H.323 HD support in the device software. At the same time, we have a comprehensive SIP offering. the user can swap between SIP and H.323 seamlessly ".

Pixavi Sales Director, Thomas Zaubi explains: Zone 1 certification provides optimum flexibility for our customers. Other solutions available are limited to Zone 2 which causes restrictions in usage. Combined with the HD video and the multi megapixel photos, we got a superior offering.

Interoperability:

Pixavi has successfully tested interoperability with HD endpoints from leading vendors like Tandberg, Polycom, Lifesize, Sony, Cisco and Radvision. The Xcaster can also stream live video to PC endpoints and players like VLC media player, Windows media player and Quicktime, hence requiring no extra software on your computer to receive the live HD video stream from the Xcaster.

Certification details:

The Xcaster has been certified according to both ATEX and IECEx for Zone 1, Gas group IIC.

Pricing & Availability:

The EX5000 is available today, with a start price tag of USD 13950,-. In addition, Pixavi is offering 3 levels of service, depending on the customer needs, including hosted and managed services like Go Live 2.0, SIP services and hosted video conferencing software solutions.

About Pixavi:

Pixavi (previously VisiWear) is a privately owned Norwegian company offering innovative and industrial grade wireless communication products, including High Definition video products, wireless network products (802.11n, 802.11g WiFi, LTE and WIMAX), WLAN antenna products, location tracking and wireless video surveillance technology. Pixavi introduced its first video collaboration system back in 1999 (ST1000). The company's award-winning products are used by leading enterprises in a multitude of industries. With a broad suite of high-tech and open standard based products, Pixavi has a high focus on technology innovation with more than 70% of our staff working in R&D.

Contact us for more information:

Thomas Zaubi

Sales Director

USA: "+1 408 627 7811"

Norway: "+47 90943156"

sales(at)pixavi (dot) com

http://www.pixavi.com

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From Hog Farm to Handcrafted Caskets: New Video Explores 161 Years of Catholic Faith in Iowa Trappist Monastery

Peosta, IA (PRWEB) December 21, 2010

The day?s first shafts of light filter through the gothic windows in the stone chapel of New Melleray Abbey as the daily procession of Trappist monks make their way to their seats. The wooden benches scratch against the gray limestone floors as the monks settle in to their familiar places. Psalms resonate from wall to wall with an everlasting cadence as the monks chant their verses.

Thus begins another day at the one hundred and sixty one year old Trappist Monastery in Peosta, IA. So also begins a new video that explores 161 years of Catholic faith at New Melleray Abbey and the changes those years have brought.

The monks who founded New Melleray Abbey arrived in the Iowa wilderness in 1849, after a hard 77-day journey from Ireland in a transatlantic ship, endured a deadly cholera epidemic that took a number of the monks? lives and grueling winter conditions that almost finished off the remaining ones. The first monks came to Dubuque from Ireland at the invitation of the revered Bishop Mathias Loras and established New Melleray Abbey in 1849.

Dubuque was, at the time, a Midwest center of Catholic culture, home to key American Catholic missionary personalities like Venerable Samuel Mazzuchelli. These monks supported themselves through the sale of farm animals and crops raised on their acreage, which includes 600 acres of prairie given to them by Bishop Loras and 600 acres they bought for $ 1.25 an acre. During the Civil War, the early monks sold hogs to William "Hog" Ryan in nearby Galena, IL., who sold pork to the Union Army.

The young Irish Trappists survived and started one of the United States? most beautiful monastic communities just outside of young but thriving Dubuque, Iowa. They were a tough, humble lot of practical, hardworking craftsmen and farmers?as many Trappists are?attracted to a contemplative life of working with their hands outdoors in God?s creation.

Christian monastic life started in the 3rd century. The Rule of St. Benedict was written about 1,500 years ago and that?s the rule that the monks follow to this day, committing their whole lives to God in prayer.

The monk?s life is really a life of balance. The rhythm of that life is based on communal prayer, prayer of the heart, manual labor, study, lectio divina, and community life. To be mindful of God is one of the practices the monks take with them all day long.

Brother Placid Zilka, the caretaker of New Melleray?s award-winning 1,200-acre hardwood forest, has been at the monastery about fifty years. Over time, the monks have responded to changing economic conditions by moving from farming to handcrafted caskets, but their spirituality of prayer and work remains strongly intact. ?The prayer life just flows into the work life it seems to me,? says Brother Zilka. ?The carpenter shop and the casket industry, they?re great places for growing spiritually. God is always there??

Video and information on their handcrafted wooden caskets?watch now.

Trappist Monasteries aspire to live by the work of their hands, not donations. ?Saint Benedict says ?Ora et labora? a Latin phrase for pray and work. And the day is divided 50-50; half the day spent in prayer, half the day spent in labor. But the labor part can also be a prayer, especially if you?re mindful of God,? says Abbot Brendan Freeman. ?We realized that certain people admire the simplicity of our way that we deal with death. And then we said, ?Well, maybe let?s provide them with a simple wooden casket.?

The caskets have become an important ministry for the Trappists of New Melleray Abbey, who work hard at being good and faithful stewards of God?s creation. They craft the caskets and urns in their shop at the monastery, which includes special quiet areas within the shop so that the monks can work with their hands with minimal distractions. Much of the wood comes from their forest. Brother Zilka finds ample opportunity to see God in his work. ?Out here I can see God in the forest very readily, in the sky. And the nasty days when the wind is blowing and the snow is flying, then, you can really see God?s power and His majesty.?

But Brother Tobias Shanahan, who talks with many of the potential clients making phone inquiries, sees God at work at the monastery from a slightly different perspective. He views his interaction with the families who call as an opportunity to pray for them in a time of need. ?We?re looking to make our living in a good way. As it turns out, we touch hundreds and thousands of people.?

The monks see each casket as a work of art and are mindful of the casket?s end use. They hope that each casket they make will bring comfort to a family in their time of need. It?s a sacred ministry, a corporal work of mercy.

The handcrafted casket is just part of the story that the monks tell about the relationship they have with the families who purchase from the monastery. Every casket is blessed and prayed over by a monk. Each family member that is buried in a Trappist Casket is remembered in a special way with a mass, and a tree is planted in their honor in the forest. They find that many families send them notes thanking them for the caskets and for their prayers, sometimes even years after the funeral.

As the sun goes down, the Trappists of New Melleray Abbey gather for evening Compline service. An ethereal version of Ave Maria fills the air as it has for 161 years. For the monks of New Melleray, the day ends as it began, with prayer and thanksgiving for the work they do and the many people they bless.

For more information about New Melleray Abbey in Peosta, IA, or about their handcrafted caskets and urns, please visit their website. Anyone interested in information about private retreats at the monastery or in exploring a vocation, is invited to call 563-588-2319 or email monks(at)newmelleray(dot)org.

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Buy WinX DVD Video Converter Software, Win Apple iPhone 4

(PRWEB) July 11, 2010

Digiarty Software (http://www.winxdvd.com) today announced and authorized that, before the end of July 2010, one out of twenty WinX DVD Video Converter Pack for Windows/Mac customers will be randomly chosen as iPhone 4 winners. This is the lowest threshold for Apple iPhone 4 winning anticipation so far. The lucky anticipators? list will be officially posted on WinX Special Offer page.

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Find details about how to anticipate this at:

http://www.winxdvd.com/specialoffer/

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Pricing and Availability

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About Digiarty Software, Inc.

Established in 2006, Digiarty is a multimedia software provider specialized in providing DVD & Video related solutions, like DVD author, HD Video converter, DVD ripper, DVD player, etc on both Windows and Mac OS. Aiming at being the best digital media company, Digiarty is always devoted to continuous development and providing their customer advanced products and best services. For more information or full version of WinX product for test, press release or write review, please contact us by: winiphone@winxdvd.com

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