Dedicated Micros has expanded its product portfolio as can be seen from the release of its catalogue for 2008/2009. The catalogue features 50 pages of in-depth product information on its complete range of CCTV products. The catalogue can be downloaded from the company's website.

Meanwhile, a couple of interesting articles give an insight into the latest trends in digital video recording and surveillance. There are rapid advances in the field of digital recording and it is undoubtedly very important for people involved in this industry to keep up with these advances, and understand how changes are impacting every aspect of surveillance.

Likewise, while recording leads to the capture of millions of images, the challenge is in being able to use these images effecively to achieve security goals. Increasingly, it is not just about being able to capture lots of images via advanced security cameras, but in being able to process those images intelligently and effectively. There is an important role for business intelligence systems in this regard, as this article says.

Thing5, a leader in providing next-generation hosted voice solutions has certified the TeleMatrix 3300IP phone after full testing with its telecommunication platform. The 3300 VoIP phone is designed specially for the hospitality industry.

Designed for hotel guestroom VoIP application, the 3300IP phone features a large faceplate area and guest service key options. An added feature is the TouchLite one-touch voice mail retrieval facility. Thing5's hosted PBX solutions already offer many unique features like wake-up call management, call accounting and other additional features like unified messaging platform to allow guest room call to be further forwarded to cell phone or voice mail, etc.  

According to John Barron, the development Director of Things5,  it is good that TeleMatrix’s 3300 VoIP’s ability to work with Thing5’s SIP trunking platform had been verified so quickly. He expected clients to benefit as a result of deploying the SIP trunking services from TeleMatrix with its own advanced telecommunication technology.

Lexmark International has introduced the Lexmark X658 monochrome laser multifunction product (MFP). The new product is smaller in size, but robust in design and prints at great speed. Moreover, the compact MFP saves considerable space in the office. 

This new MFP is an extended part of the Lexmark X650 Series of monochrome laser MFPs and is targeted at the high-growth A4 paper size market.

The sale of A4 MFPs is growing faster than those devices targeted at A3 tabloid-size, owing to underlying qualities like cost, space and time saving ability. In fact, use of an A4 device can help save customers up to 25 % in the total ownership costs for the machine which really depends on monthly page volume. 

The X658 also occupies lesser space than a typical A3 device and its space-saving design also enables the users with  time-saving finishing options and workflow solutions. Moreover, the device can give 55 prints, photoccopies or scans per minute with some models having the StapleSmart II to staple multiple sets of documents also. The MFP also features a large 80 GB hard drive capacity and input capacity for 2300 sheets.  

Leading UK communications company, O2 has entered into a five-year agreement with Mars Drinks, according to which the latter will provide its drinks vending machines to the regional and local offices of O2 all over the UK. In order to deliver over three million drinks to the O2 employees every year, Mars Drinks will have to install at least 100 vending machines at different O2 sites.

During the tenure of the agreement, Mars Drinks will provide 59 KLIX machines and 50 FLAVIA drink stations to O2.  

O2 officials say that the vending machines contribute to staff happiness. Meanwhile, the vending machine supplier considers it a a good experience to be working with an innovative and people-focused company like O2 as it cares so much for its employees, providing them with on-site services.