Meet This Year's Vendors
 
ADOBE SYSTEMS, INC. will be demonstrating their vast range of Adobe products.  Drop by their booth for a demonstration of Creative Suite 3, better yet try it yourself.  Adobe offers students, faculty and staff a significant price break on their products.


APPLE COMPUTER, INC. will showcase its award-winning desktop and notebook computers, OS X Leopard operating system, iLife and professional applications, as well as providing information on the Apple student discounts available at the University Computing Services Showcase.


BELL INDUSTRIES will be representing both Microsoft and Adobe at Tech Fest this year.  Both companies now offer a wide range of software that is available at the University Computing Services Showcase for personal purchase by Ball State students, faculty and staff.  Bell and Adobe representatives will be on hand to answer questions and provide product demonstrations.


CANNON IV is a leading independent service provider and reseller of printing and imaging solutions.  Cannon will be demonstrating two of their powerful printers.
-   The Hewlett Packard LaserJet M4345-MFP is a powerful, scalable and easy to use workgroup multi-function printer that combines 45 pages per minute printing, copying and digital sending into one single cost-effective device. Boost workgroup efforts and easily integrate documents into your office workflow with standard scan to e-mail and network folder capability.
-  The Hewlett Packard DesignJet Z3100PS is a brand new 12-ink DesignJet with vivera pigment inks and the first ever embedded spectrophotometer with i1 color technology that delivers exquisite quality and breakthrough color accuracy across a huge variety of papers, all while keeping costs down.


CIM AUDIO VISUAL
provides a wide range of solutions in the audiovisual industry.  They are committed to providing complete customer satisfaction with audiovisual solutions that provide value to the client.  CIM will be displaying their digital electronic whiteboards, wireless chalkboards as well as their classroom response system.


LENOVA will be demonstrating several of the Think® series products. Stop by and see the many products and features.  Some of the highlights are as follows:
-  ThinkPad® T series notebooks combine today's most advanced features with the legendary ThinkPad® design.  You can see the Intel® Centrino® Pro processor technology, genuine Windows Vista®, advanced NVIDIA graphics, and easy mobility, including wireless WAN capability. 
-  ThinkPad® R series is affordable, lightweight notebooks with great performance and large, bright displays.  The new ThinkPad T61 and R61 are the most secure, strongest, coolest and quietest T and R Series ever and come in a variety of standard and widescreen displays.
-  ThinkCentre® is a series of desktops that offers quality choice and affordability.  They are packed with power and expandability, and offer a great blend of essential features and technology at an affordable price. The A61e model is the smallest and most energy efficient in the series.
-  ThinkCentre® M series desktops offer stability and manageability with a variety of form factors, price points, and technology levels all with platform stability, rock-solid quality and security, industry-leading service, support and common software image. The M Series is truly built for the way IT managers work.


MPC COMPUTERS delivers high quality PCs along with software and services to create complete computing solutions.  They concentrate specifically on government, education and mid-size enterprise markets.  MPC acquired Gateway in October, 2007, and will be demonstrating the 155 and 295 tablets, and the new 475 and 265 laptops.


SARCOM provides a number of technology products and services to Ball State University.  They will be available to answer questions on any of their products and services that will help you whether your inquiry is for your college, your department or maybe just yourself.  Sarcom will also be featuring Fujitsu products at their table this year.  Stop by to see their line of notebooks and tablets.


TANGBERG, a leading global provider of telepresence, high-definition videoconferencing and mobile video, has been named recipient of the 2008 Frost & Sullivan Global Video Conferencing Company of the Year Award for its excellence in product innovation as well as market execution that has accelerated the adoption of video conferencing.  Tangberg will be demonstrating their video conferencing and mobile video products and entertain any questions you have.

TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION GROUP (TIG) has partnered with some of the strongest names in the computer industry to bring you the best products at the best possible prices. TIG offers a broad range of products from leading manufacturers.  Stop by the TIG table to see the latest in technology.  TIG will be demonstrating Dell computers systems at this event.