Thursday 30 June 2016

Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Yoga Review: The One That Finally Replaced My MacBook Air

The definition of versatility, this ultralight 2-in-1 adapts to your business with 4 flexible modes to work, present, create, and connect. Featuring a stunning display with intense color and deep contrast. Including a dockable, rechargeable stylus pen. Plus, the fastest, advanced mobile broadband technology available.

Sounds good..? Then why not take a look at a great review from Jason Evangelho @ Forbes.com on the Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Yoga which is now available to purchase from Westcoast!

Click here to see the range.



Friday 24 June 2016

The WPC16 Top 5’s – Everything you need to know

By Ben Feurtado - Microsoft Business Manager

Once again it's that time of the year when we start to think about WPC and the opportunities that will be offered to us in Toronto.

Here at Westcoast we are delighted to be the Headline sponsor for the UK once more and are excited to see as many partners as we can during the week. Toronto is a great location for WPC with the UK base walking distance from both the convention centre and the Air Canada Center. It is here that all Vision keynotes will be hosted where we will hear from Satya Nadella, Kevin Turner and other Microsoft execs about the upcoming strategy for FY17.

To help you plan your WPC experience, and visit to Toronto, I have put together a few ideas that will hopefully help you during your stay. These include WPC sessions, places to go, and for all the football fans, places where you can watch the final of Euro 2016!

Tuesday 21 June 2016

Striking Scanning from Fujitsu

The weather and the calendar finally agree – summer is truly here. And one of our absolute favourite things about spring is that it heralds a wealth of new tech releases; forget the bees; we’re the ones buzzing with delight! 

In March we saw the first tranche of new products from scanning giants Fujitsu. The Fujitsu fi-7460 and fi-7480 are desktop document scanners with a difference...



Friday 10 June 2016

8 tips to keep your live tweets engaging


Live tweeting at events can be a real success but it can also turn into a real mess if you do it wrong! Doing it well can generate some great engagement from the people there and give a fear of missing out for people who arent there, meaning that hopefully they will come along to your next event!

We recently had a tweet wall at our Nebula roadshows which went down really well and we will definitely invest in this again, but a word of warning, you do need someone there who is going to be in charge of tweeting all day for it to be a success.

Our infographic below covers 8 tips to keep your live tweets engaging. We hope it helps make your events a success! Good luck!