- Intel announced it is spending $1.4 billion to buy Infineon, maker of wireless network technology, which is found in Apple products.
- Adobe announced it will partner with Monotype Imaging to provide print drivers to MFP and printer makers. The two companies will offer a package that includes PCL, PostScript and XPS drivers, to compete against other makers like Global Graphics & Zoran.
- Hewlett Packard announced it won a managed print services contract from AIB in Ireland.
o 5 year contract
o Reduced fleet from one device for every 4 employees to one for every 12
o Included MFPs and LaserJet 4250dtn and Color LaserJet 4700dtn laser printers
o Included SafeCom solution to allow ID card readers on devices for authentication
o Claims to have reduced operating costs from 20-30%
- Hewlett Packard is sued. About 1 year ago, HP announced a partnership with large commercial printer, R.R. Donnelley, to develop variable data technologies. Now R.R. Donnelley has filed a lawsuit against HP over alleged patent violations, claiming that the violations are “willful and deliberate.”
- Hewlett Packard is fighting a claim by security firm, Zscaler Labs, that hackers can use the Webscan feature to capture images from documents that are left in Hewlett Packard scanners and MFPs that have an embedded Web server. Michael Sutton of Zscaler Labs claims that he was able to find many HP scanners on the Internet.
- Hewlett Packard announced it sold an Indigo 7000 production color system to Color By, a printshop in Italy.
- Hewlett Packard agreed to pay $55 million to settle claims it paid kickbacks so companies would recommend its products to U.S. government agencies.
- Hewlett Packard announced it won an $800 million bid to provide laptops and desktop PCs to U.S. Air Force.
- Hewlett Packard won a bidding war against Dell over both companies’ attempt to buy 3PAR Corp., which make data storage technology for cloud computing. HP will pay $2.1 billion for the firm. Details on 3PAR:
o founded 11 years ago by former Sun Microsystems employees
o original stock price was $10 per share, but sold at $33 per share
o the letters “P”, “A” and “R” stand for names of three founders
o based in Fremont, CA
o 670 employees
- Hewlett Packard announced study by BLI that apparently shows end users will have less print quality and service issues if they use official HP ColorLok paper with their color laser devices. Using ColorLok paper supposedly will lead to 4 times fewer faults and more than 4 times fewer paper path obstructions.
- IBM Corp. has beat a breach of contract lawsuit that accused the company of shorting a current sales rep on a commission he claimed he was owed in connection with a $3.8 million in licensing feeds Motorola Corp. paid IBM for software patents.
- IBM claims it has developed the world’s fastest microprocessor chip, running at 5.2GHz.
- Epson is fighting to keep an internal report private in a lawsuit. Apparently it was released by a disgruntled former executive, and may detail a misrepresentation of the quality of Epson inkjet cartridges.
- International Data Corporation (IDC) gave out it findings of worldwide market sales of printers and MFPs in last quarter:
o Includes inkjet and laser devices, from desktop to printshop
o total market grew 20%
o 29 million units shipped
o Total value increased by 14% to $13.3 billion
o B/w laser MFPs grew 39.7% (the first time that b/w had more growth than color)
o Color laser MFPs grew 33%
o HP shipped 2.8 million laser units, and 11.9 units total including inkjet
o Samsung color laser MFPs grew 55% to 108,731 units
o Samsung b/w laser MFPs grew 54% to 500,777 units
o 9 million total laser based units shipped
o 66% of market belonged to inkjet technology (primarily home use devices)
o Inkjet grew 14% to 19 million units
o 78% of inkjet units were MFPs
o In U.S., total shipments grew 14.4%
- Ricoh announced it sold an Aficio PRO C720s production color system to Noel-Baker School and Language College in England.
- Kodak announced a new solution partnership for its high speed scanners. The Kodak scanners, with the optional Kodak Capture Pro Software, now integrates with CAPSYS CAPTURE to create workflows for document management systems.
- In a study of 410 small companies conducted by 1&1 Internet Ltd:
o 37% reported that money is lost from employees failing to share updated versions of documents
o 53% are held back by poor archiving of emails and documents
o 59% of business owners are unable to amend documents when they are off premises
o Over half of business owners believe that their staff is wasting money with excessive printing
- IT departments across the country are facing a looming Microsoft Windows 7 migration deadline, as support for Windows XP will end in 4 years. Gartner study shows:
o Many are starting their migrations at end of 2010
o IT budgets will need to increase between 20% to 60% to accommodate the updates
o Cost of IT labor will also increase
o Estimated migration cost per PC will be between $1205 and $1999
o Capital costs account for 60% of total replacement cost
o Average business will have to replace 25% of its PC early
- The Marin County Board of Supervisors of California voted to stop the implementation of an SAP project, and admitted to wasting over $30 million when it awarded the SAP project to Deloitte Consulting. Marin County has sued Deloitte to get its money back.
- Worldox, maker of document management systems (DMS) to the legal industry, announced it won a contract from Hoskin, Farina & Kampf, a law firm in Colorado. Total cost = $32,975.00
- Microsoft was forced to apologize to attendees of a tradeshow in Australia. The company had hired female models for its booth, but apparently was unaware that they would show up wearing bikinis.
- Microsoft cofounder, Paul Allen is suing Apple, Google and 9 other companies claiming they are violating patents he owns
- Apple has sued Kodak, claiming it violated some of its digital camera patents.
- NER Data Corp, which was a maker of compatible toner cartridges, announced it has sold that business, and now plans on becoming a national provider of managed print services, using genuine HP cartridges.
- Lexmark was ordered by a judge to pay $8.3 million to compensate its California employees for a flawed “use it or lose it” vacation pay policy. Judge Greg Alarcon ruled that 178 employees should be compensated for vacation time they did not use before they were terminated.
- Sharp announced it hired Eric Hafter, to run its new Solar Energy Solutions Group, reporting to CEO, Kozo Takahashi.
- Now that Peerless has sold its print controller business to Kyocera, it only has 4 employees in a 2,000 square foot office, and is part owner of Highbury Financial.
- Sharp announced a new A3 color laser MFP, called the MX-2310F featuring:
o 23ppm top speed
o 4 tandem OPC drum design
o New compact design, smaller than other Sharp A3 color MFPs
o Uses a polymer resin frame, to reduce weight of main unit by one third of other SharA3 color MFPs (is this first copier to have a frame that is not made of metal?)
o Uses 77% less power
o Uses LEDs in scanning section instead of fluorescent lamps
o Faster warm up time
o Standby mode uses only 1 watt of power
o Uses new Sharp Microtoner HG2 toner
o 7” touch screen LCD control panel
o Ship data and pricing not yet announced
- A 44 year old man is being pursued in United Arab Emirates after attempting to cash two fake $1 million dollar bills made on a color copier.
- Bret Rhind and Debra Roberson of Missouri were charged with making fake currency using a color copier after they attempted to spend it at Walmart, Target and Lowes. The phony cash was passed in 19 states, and included fake $50 and $100 bills.
- Pitney Bowes announced that it spent $210,000 in the second quarter of 2010 to lobby the federal government. The company’s FM division, called PMBS, is now run by Vicki O’Meara, who was hired after the division reported a 5% drop in revenue in early 2010
-=Good Selling=-
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