Thursday, July 31st, 2008
Brian Regan from staffing firm Semper sent a email on a trade school in the UK that is allowing students to attend classes in the Internet-based virtual world Second Life. The report in HVR says: More than 600 HVAC students at the college in became the first UK students to be ...Thursday, July 31st, 2008
A couple Postal updates came out today. The first from Ben Cooper at the Print Council: Postmaster General Potter is expected to announce next week an additional delay in the implementation date of the new Intelligent Mail Barcode (IMB) until November 2009. Final rules are expected in the Federal Register soon. ...Thursday, July 31st, 2008
Last Sunday’s New York Times had an interesting feature on reading that I think you all should...well, read. The basic question was: “online, are you really reading?” to which my initial response was, well, since I had read the article online, did I then actually read it at all? The article was ...Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
FujiFilm has launched a new Website in the UK that calculates the environmental impact of platemaking. The site says: Use this calculator to compare differing plate processing solutions to see how they compare in terms of environmental performance. Experiment with different configurations to see how you might be able to improve your impact ...Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
The June 2008 issue of GD USA included its annual print design survey. The message was that "print endures, despite the obvious allure of digital media, because it remains supremely effective at creating relationships between communicator and audience, between company and customer. that is the central message of our 45th ...Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
On the opening day of Connect, EFI made a big announcement that it had acquired privately held Pace Systems Group for approximately $21 million in cash. According to numbers released by EFI, Pace Systems Group have 500 installs of their ePace print management software, and EFI has 5,000 active installs among ...Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
Adobe has made Inside the Publishing Revolution - The Adobe Story available as a free e-book in the Digital Editions Sample Library. From the description: Tech journalist Pamela Pfiffner explores the rich history behind the modern publishing revolution, as seen through the lens of one of its most important players. In the ...Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
Nintendo and Fujifilm have partnered to bring a new online photo service to market in Japan. The new service will enable users of Nintendo's popular Wii video game console to order prints of photos uploaded to their console. InfoTrends has more: The so-called "Digital Camera Print Channel" (English name still tentative) ...Monday, July 28th, 2008
Forbes.com has published an article from its upcoming print edition on technology brand owners are using to stop counterfeiters. The article highlights Kodak's Traceless System, a forensically invisible authentication technology, being used by sports trading-card company Donruss to provide collectors with authenticity: "In some cases, we couldn't even tell what was ...Monday, July 28th, 2008
MinnPost, the start-up Internet-based nonprofit newspaper (my post about the launch of MinnPost from last August) in Minneapolis has decided to drop its printable edition: Beginning today, we're dropping the MinnPost in Print feature. Readers will continue to be able to print stories from the site. But as more and more ...
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