- Canon announced that it has finalized sale of its interest in a semiconductor plant in Singapore to Micron Technology of Boise, Idaho.
- Canon, Samsung and Hewlett Packard were all sued by Lodsys LLC in regards to alleged patent infringement over technology that exchanges info with customers via printers.
- Canon announced it will donate “one million dollars of in-kind printing services” from its LA branch to Operation HOPE. Curriculum will be printed by Canon and distributed by HOPE Corps to educate youth at no cost in area school districts, according to Canon’s VP of Zone Operations Eddie Saji.
- Marvell Technology (which makes print controller technology for companies like Xerox, etc.) was sued by Link A Media Devices Corp. over alleged patent infringement regarding hard drive technology.
- Zoran of California, which makes controllers for MFPs (i.e. Xerox, Canon, Ricoh, Sharp, etc.) as well as DVD players, Blu-Ray players, cable TV boxes and video games, announced it will be launching a product called “DirectOffice Mobile Print”.
o This new option for its print controllers will allow end users to print to their MFPs from smartphones and tablets via WiFi wireless technologies.
o Made in partnership with another print controller technology company, Software Imaging Inc. of England.
- Okidata is launching the pro905DP, which is a color desktop LED-based toner printer that is specially made for envelope printing. MSRP of $18,995 and includes an EFI Fiery.
- Hewlett Packard announced it has acquired Vertica Systems Inc. of Billerica, Massachusetts, which makes software that “helps business spot trends hidden in large amounts of data”. Purchase price not announced.
- Hewlett Packard announced that LG Electronics will relabel some of its printers in Asia. LG already relabels product from Lexmark.
- HP’s new CEO, Leo Apotheker, purchased a 6 bedroom home in Atherton, CA for $7 million.
- HP announced it won a 7 year, $281 million managed IT services contract from Oklahoma Healthcare Authority.
- Hewlett Packard announced HP Digital Health Solutions:
o Portfolio of products, solutions and partnerships
o holistically addresses the technology needs of care delivery
o expanded solution framework and formal reference architectures
o real-time information environment
o enable healthcare organizations to link to monitor health and deliver care to patients
o On display in the HP Health Solutions Center showroom in Plano, TX
- IKON, a division of Ricoh, announced it has filed suit against two former FM employees for supposedly violating a non-compete clause. The suit was filed against John Kolacinski and Robert Hornbeck, who now work for Myriad Litigation Solutions of California.
- Electronics For Imaging, maker of the Fiery print server, announced:
o It will buy back $30 million of its stock shares
o Has acquired Streamline Development, maker of PrintStream management information systems (MIS) software for printshop owners
- Kodak announced it sold a Prosper 5000XL production color inkjet system to Servinform, a printshop in Spain.
- Survey on proposed new leasing rules, by Deloitte:
o Only 7% of companies polled are ready for new rules, which would force companies to put leases on their books
o 80% say it will add burden to their financial reporting
o 40% said it will make it more difficult to obtain financing
o 40% believe it will force them into shorter term leases
o 35% don’t believe that their company’s lease data is accurate
o 25% believe it will require them to upgrade their existing IT systems
- Sharp announced it filed a lawsuit against a former Sharp branch copier sales rep in Phoenix, AZ. The lawsuit is aimed at Brenda Luettenegger, for allegedly violating a non-compete clause.
- According to one industry publication, the new Sharp copiers with the “Apple iPhone-like” touchscreen color LCDs, have been locking up in product demonstrations.
- The largest Sharp dealer in Canada, is Pitney Bowes, with a number of locations in the country. (while Pitney Bowes spun off it copier business in the U.S. as Imagistics, which is now part of Canon, it did not do so in Canada)
- Square 9 Softworks of New Haven, CT, maker of the SmartSearch document management software (DMS), announced that it now has panel integration option for both Xerox copiers (with EIP) and Sharp copiers (with OSA). It is also working on integration with Kodak desktop scanners
- OpenText of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, (maker of RightFax, FaxPress, and document management software) announced it has completed its acquisition of Metastorm of Baltimore, Maryland, which makes business process management software, for $182 million.
- DocuLex, maker of document management software, announced that it has new feature allowing end users to pull email out of Microsoft Exchange 2010.
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