4053. VTech Rhinocerous

Parents are online in a big way now - actively connecting with friends, family and fellow parents through social media tools like blogs, Facebook, and Twitter. Social media provides not only an opportunity for parents to connect with each other, but also an opportunity to connect to the brands they know and love. VTech has been listening to parents online and with the help of the VTech Mom, the VTech Voices and the VTech marketing team, we are actively joining the social conversation. VTech wants to know what parents are saying about VTech, gain product insights, learn what parents and kids are interested in and provide valuable knowledge and resources to the online parenting community. Through social media engagement, VTech can provide parents online the opportunity to have their kids experience our learning products and learn more about VTech toys. Parents are always encouraged to share their experiences - both good and bad - with the brand and our products with their blog readers, Twitter followers and Facebook friends. VTech is committed to the best practice and most ethical way to engage in social media. While VTech may provide parents learning products for review or giveaways for their readers or invite parents to sponsored events, participants are never instructed on what to say. In social media, only the authentic opinion of the author is credible and trustworthy. In order to maintain this trust, VTech requires anyone who is provided a product or other experience to fully disclose their relationship with VTech.

3715. Hippo VTECH

VTech (Simplified Chinese: 伟易达 Wěi yì dá) (Traditional Chinese: 偉易達 Wěi yì dá) is the common name of Video Technology Ltd. (SEHK: 0303, a Hong Kong-based manufacturer of consumer electronics. VTech products include cordless telephones and accessories, single-function computers such as email appliances, and simple computerized educational toys for children, including the V.Smile and V.Flash. The company was founded in 1976 by entrepreneurs Allan Wong and Stephen Leung, and as of 2009, had approximately 27,000 employees worldwide. VTech Innovation, which does business as Advanced American Telephones, manufactures consumer telephones under the AT&T name, and was formerly a unit of Lucent, and prior to that AT&T. In the 1980s and early 1990s, VTech also produced personal computers, including a series of IBM compatible PCs and the Laser 128, which was the only 100% legal clone of the popular Apple IIc computer. Apple Computer challenged VTech in court, as it had with Franklin Computer Corporation, but the Laser 128 had been produced by reverse engineering without violating any of Apple's copyrights or patents and stood up to Apple's legal challenges. VTech also released a poorly received video game console, the VTech Socrates in 1988. VTech stayed in the personal computer market until the days of the Intel 80486, mostly selling its computers at retail mass market stores under the VTech, Laser, and Leading Technology brand names. Currently VTech is involved in creating educational learning toys for children. Some current products include the Innotab tablet computer, V.Reader e-reader, V.Smile motion active learning system, V.Flash, MobiGo touch learning system, Kidizoom camera, Nitro Junior Notebook, and other Baby and Pre-school toys.