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Monday, February 25th, 2008OKI Printing Solutions today announced that its revolutionary Epi Film Bonding (EFB) technology has been awarded the most prestigious New Machinery Promotion Award by the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) in Japan.
Adobe AIR joins list of rich app technologies (InfoWorld)
Monday, February 25th, 2008Adobe AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) joins a growing list of rich Internet development technologies. Adobe does not see AIR as competing with Microsoft’s new Silverlight platform or Sun Microsystems’s JavaFX, both of which are intended to enhance visual experiences in applications. “Silverlight competes directly with the Flash Player, and JavaFX also is competitive with the Flash Player,” said …
Update: FCC hearing weighs net neutrality (InfoWorld)
Monday, February 25th, 2008Advocates on both sides of the net neutrality debate descended on Harvard Law School Monday for a U.S. FCC hearing that multiple speakers suggested was crucial to the Internet’s future. Members of the FCC, along with industry representatives, legal scholars, and pro-neutrality advocates spoke at the hearing, which drew an overflow crowd. “The Internet is as much mine and yours as it is …
Adobe CTO: AIR for Linux due later this year (InfoWorld)
Monday, February 25th, 2008Adobe Systems plans to extend its AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) software to Linux later this year, Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch said during the company’s Engage event in San Francisco on Monday morning. Formerly called Apollo, AIR is the company’s runtime enabling RIAs (rich Internet applications) to run offline on the desktop. Right now, AIR 1.0 , which debuted Monday, is limited to Windows …
New Windows Server will lead march to 64-bit OS (InfoWorld)
Monday, February 25th, 2008The launch of a new family of Windows server products this week will kick-start a broad shift among customers to 64-bit versions of Microsoft’s server software, analysts and customers said. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is due to launch two major product upgrades at an event Wednesday in Los Angeles — the Windows Server 2008 OS, which is due for release next week, and its SQL Server …
RISO Publishes Reseller Arrangement with Objectif Lune (Centre Daily Times)
Monday, February 25th, 2008RISO, Inc., a leader in digital printing technology, today announced a new reseller relationship with Objectif Lune, a leading provider of document composition software for variable data printing (VDP), workflow automation, and web-to-print applications. With this new agreement, RISO becomes a reseller of Objectif Lune’s PlanetPress(R) Suite and PrintShop(R) Mail software, both of which are …
Critical VMware bug lets attackers zap ‘real’ Windows (InfoWorld)
Monday, February 25th, 2008A critical vulnerability in VMware’s virtualization software for Windows lets attackers escape the “guest” operating system and modify or add files to the underlying “host” operating system, the company has acknowledged. As of Sunday, there was no patch available for the flaw, which affects VMware’s Windows client virtualization programs, including Workstation, Player and ACE. The …
Computer financing firms settle FTC charges (InfoWorld)
Monday, February 25th, 2008Two related companies that offer to finance the purchase of PCs to consumers with poor credit ratings have agreed to pay up to $5 million to settle a U.S. Federal Trade Commission complaint that they violated a federal lending law and sometimes failed to deliver the computers, the FTC said. BlueHippo Funding and BlueHippo Capital failed in many cases to tell consumers that they could not …
InfoTrends Introduces Top Production Printing Trends to Watch for in 2008 (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)
Monday, February 25th, 2008The ON DEMAND Exposition & Conference (www.ondemandexpo.com), the preeminent event for commercial printers, publishers, and in-plant printing professionals, today announced the top production printing trends to watch for in 2008 according to InfoTrends, the leading worldwide market research and strategic consulting firm for the digital imaging and document solutions industry. InfoTrends …
Startup bridges memory capacity gap (InfoWorld)
Monday, February 25th, 2008Startup company Metaram on Monday is expected to announce technology that overcomes traditional server memory limitations and allows users to quadruple memory without adding new hardware. Targeted at servers, the MetaSDRAM chip set sits between the DRAM module and a memory controller, processing commands and manipulating the controller to allow the system to have up to four times more …
Researchers dream up mobile chameleon device (InfoWorld)
Monday, February 25th, 2008Imagine tapping out text messages on a device the size of an index card and as flat as a piece of paper, then folding it in thirds to hold it to your ear and make a phone call. Refold it in a slightly different shape and wrap it around your wrist, where it becomes a watch and also communicates with an ear bud that lets you talk hands free. Nokia researchers, along with researchers at the …
The Biltmore Hotel Steps up Efficiency with Sharp OSA(TM) Technology (Centre Daily Times)
Monday, February 25th, 2008The Biltmore Hotel, a luxury spa and golf hotel resort located in Coral Gables/Miami, has implemented a groundbreaking, customized technology system to reduce costs and streamline workflow on the company’s copiers. Developed using Sharp OSA(TM) technology, the new system helps control employee usage and enhances the capabilities of the hotel’s multifunctional color copiers, saving equipment …
Kyocera Mita America Advertising Campaign Tops Reader Polls in Forbes Magazine (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
Monday, February 25th, 2008FAIRFIELD, N.J.—-Kyocera Mita America, Inc., one of the world’s leading document solutions companies, announced today that its ‘Kyocera Kid Color’ advertising campaign, featured in the October 15, 2007 issue of Forbes magazine, received a “Best in Category” award for the Computers, Hardware/Peripherals category.
The Biltmore Hotel Steps up Efficiency with Sharp OSA(TM) Technology (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
Monday, February 25th, 2008MAHWAH, N.J.—-The Biltmore Hotel, a luxury spa and golf hotel resort located in Coral Gables/Miami, has implemented a groundbreaking, customized technology system to reduce costs and streamline workflow on the company’s copiers.
Xerox Drives Efficiencies in the Document-Intensive Healthcare Industry (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
Monday, February 25th, 2008ORLANDO, Fla.—-Xerox Corporation’s document management prescription is helping healthcare organizations win the paperwork battle. By streamlining document-driven business processes, healthcare providers are achieving cost savings, ensuring regulatory compliance and realizing productivity gains.
SMART Papers Publishes New High quality Paper Program for Users of Hewlett Packard Indigo Presses (Centre Daily Times)
Monday, February 25th, 2008SMART Papers has launched the i-Xpress(TM) for HP Indigo Paper Program. It offers HP Indigo press owners the widest selection of premium RIT-certified uncoated and coated papers including more than 200 colors, textures, finishes and weights.
Managing Vista security requires IT effort (InfoWorld)
Monday, February 25th, 2008Jeff Dimock, vice president of Microsoft solutions at the IT consultancy Dimension Data Americas, expects IT organizations will like Windows Vista?s tighter security. That?s true even though it requires a change in both user behavior (to acknowledge the User Account Control, or UAC warnings when installing potentially harmful applications), and an update in applications (to run in user mode …
Picking the right time to deploy Vista (InfoWorld)
Monday, February 25th, 2008Windows Vista is known for its much higher resource requirements than Windows XP, such as needing a minimum of 2GB of RAM, a fast processor, and a recent video card. That?s why most analysts suggest that a Vista deployment be paired with a hardware refresh. “We encourage customers to integrate these two cycles,” says Jeff Dimock, vice president of Microsoft solutions at the IT consultancy …
Vista tools ease deployment and management (InfoWorld)
Monday, February 25th, 2008For IT, perhaps the biggest advantage to deploying Windows Vista is its capability to create a unified installation image that selectively loads the needed drivers and applications onto users’ computers ? saving IT from having to manage lots of install images as with Windows XP or to rely on the PC-model-specific OEM installations whose “bloatware” then needs to be removed from each system. …
Is Microsoft turning over a new leaf? (InfoWorld)
Monday, February 25th, 2008When Microsoft announced on Thursday that it was changing its business practices to be more open ? specifically to release documentation on its APIs and protocols ? many people reacted with disbelief. The European Commission, which has battled Microsoft for a decade over anticompetitiveness, said in very blunt terms that it didn?t believe Microsoft was sincere. After all, Microsoft has …
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