FYI- Zoom Updates

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TMA received the following message sent to Zoom Customers. Please make note as TMA conducts many of its meetings via Zoom.

“We are reaching out with a reminder that Zoom will be enforcing minimum versions as outlined in our Software Lifecycle Policy on August 3, 2024 (Pacific Standard Time).

This is a quarterly enforcement policy so please check our support article and status page for the table of products and corresponding minimum versions, as well as future enforcement dates. Users who are running an end-of-life version after Aug. 3 will be logged out of their Zoom Client (Desktop, Mobile, and VDI) or not be able to join meetings via the Zoom Client until they update.

As always, we highly recommend you regularly update to the latest version of Zoom software by checking for updates within the Zoom client or by navigating to zoom.us/download.

As an admin or owner you can view the versions users on your account are running through the Dashboard or within the user management portal by filtering by client type.

Thank you for your partnership as we continually work to make our platform more secure and deliver a better experience for our customers. Please feel free to reach out to the Zoom Support team if you have any additional questions or need assistance to update your organization.

Team Zoom”

Telguard and Hochiki America Announce Release of New Fire Communicator

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Telguard announced that it has partnered with Hochiki America, a leading manufacturer of fire alarm control panels, in the development and release of the Hochiki FireNET Comm 5G communicator.

As a flexible cellular solution to the continued phasing out of “plain old telephone service” (POTS) lines, the FireNET Comm 5G includes a custom connector cable that adds the ability to connect the communicator to the serial data port of the Hochiki FireNET Plus alarm control panel or the VES Elite RS-H panel, a private label version by Hochiki America.

Because the Hochiki FireNET Comm 5G is a version of the Telguard TG-7FS universal communicator, dealers can still choose to connect it to the panel’s DACT port, if required.

“With the end of POTS coming, manufacturers have been making DACTs optional or unavailable on the newest version of their control panels,” said Telguard president, George Brody. “And this cooperative partnership between Telguard and Hochiki America demonstrates our innovative ability to work directly with panel manufacturers for alternate means of delivering alarm signals.”

The FireNET Comm 5G is proudly engineered and manufactured in the USA by Telguard and is supported by its award-winning customer and technical support services. The communicator comes available with AT&T or Verizon service and is made exclusively for Hochiki America dealers to offer to their customers.

About Telguard

Telguard, a brand of Telular Corporation, provides industry-leading security and life safety technologies to independent security dealers for commercial and residential markets. Telguard combines devices, communications, interactive service, and alarm processing into turnkey systems for monitoring intrusion and fire systems without a traditional landline. Telguard offers the industry’s most versatile platform, outstanding solutions, and first-class technical customer service. Telular Corporation is a business unit of AMETEK, Inc. (NYSE: AME), a leading global provider of industrial technology solutions serving a diverse set of attractive niche markets with annual sales of over $7.0 billion.

About Hochiki

For over 100 years Hochiki has led the way in the design and manufacture of innovative life safety solutions. Its leading edge commercial and industrial fire detection products have acquired global acceptance as the benchmark for high-integrity and long-term reliability. Hochiki is a wholly independent, multinational, publicly listed company with over 3,500 employees working across five manufacturing plants, 32 sales offices and 18 subsidiaries.

Its ongoing commitment to manufacturing innovation ensures customer satisfaction and its production facilities in Japan, the USA and Europe offer international continuity in quality, service, and supply.

NAPCO Sales Promotions Forge a New Stronger Team

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NAPCO Security Technologies, Inc. announced the promotions of several of its salespeople to management positions within the NAPCO Fire & Security division. Senior Vice President of Sales, Stephen Spinelli said, “These changes in the management structure address recent and future Company growth, and will better support our customers, and diversified product groups, sales directives and long-term goals.”

The new super-charged sales team will be headed up by  Duane Warehime, as VP of Sales, NAPCO Fire & Security, assisted by three  Directors of Sales, Fire & Security: David Sperber, Sales Director for the Southern Region, Troy Bonanno, Sales Director for the North Region and newly-promoted  Jim Pless, Sales Director for Security & Smart Home, focusing on Prima Self-Contained Systems. All will be coordinating the efforts of NAPCO’s Regional Sales Managers & multiple independent rep agencies spanning North America.

Stephen Spinelli, continued, “NAPCO has a lot of great new product lines, including more in commercial fire and residential security, along with its fertile core base, and we look forward to having the sales team geared-up to effectively and more efficiently introduce, train and support professional dealers and hundreds of distributor channel partners on them all.”

Duane Warehime, based in New Jersey, can be reached at 631-786-5069, email dwarehime@napcosecurity.com or stop by and visit with him, and the entire NAPCO Security Sales Team at ESX Booth 111 or NFPA  Fire Expo Booth 1927 Expos this month. Additionally, for more on NAPCO products, dealers can contact their local NAPCO Sales Rep,  check our online class schedule (www.napcosecurity.com/seminars), ask at their NAPCO security distributor, or call NAPCO HQ (1.800.645.9445).

Watchful Founder Named Hi-Tech Young Achiever

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Joshua Parson, the founder of one of TMA’s newest members, Watchful, received the award for Hi-Tech Young Achiever at the New Zealand Hi Tech Awards 2024. Headquartered in Auckland, Watchful is an automated decision-making software that monitors security systems with an unparalleled level of detail. The company offers services in New Zealand, Australia and the United States.

About The NZ Hi-Tech Awards

The New Zealand Hi-Tech Awards celebrate the success of our producers of goods and services from the software, electronics, telecommunications, mobile, agritech, creative and other high-tech industries. The Awards are run by the NZ Hi-Tech Trust, a not-for-profit organization aimed at promoting and supporting the wider industry. The board is comprised of  trustees: David Downs (Chair), Amber Taylor, Rob Ellis, Neil Hamilton, Marian Johnson, Mike O’Donnell, Mandy Simpson, Sarah Ramsay, Sir Ian Taylor and Andrew West.

The awards ceremony was attended by more than 1,300+ including several senior Government Ministers, at Auckland’s Spark Arena making it one of the biggest awards nights to be held in New Zealand.

More than 80 local and international judges contributed to the judging of the Hi-Tech Awards which continues to see a year-on-year increase in submissions with an increasingly high caliber to match. Of the 2024 Awards New Zealand Hi-Tech Trust chair David Downs saw the achievement of the Tech sector as a pride that all of Aotearoa could share in; “We’re witnessing an industry that is continuing exceptional growth as well as innovation.”

“The continued increase of diversity across the finalists is a reflection of the fact that there is a place in Tech for all New Zealanders.”

Read the full press release at https://www.hitech.org.nz/news/202-nz-hi-tech-awards-winners-announced/