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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
“...drupa is just an elaborate evasion for vendors who are utterly unable to explain their products satisfactorily or provide useful and relevant demos at home. Drupa also encourages hurried and half-baked decisions by users who are unable to gather their own information from other sources.”
Yikes!
I don’t consider myself an apologist ...
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Monday, July 14th, 2008
Bloomberg.com Europe reported on Friday that Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG has hit a 10-Year Low after JPMorgan downgraded the company's recommendation from neutral to underweight:
JPMorgan cut its recommendation to ``underweight'' from ``neutral,'' arguing the Heidelberg, Germany-based company lacks growth and its reorganization plan is insufficient. The manufacturer said yesterday that it's ...
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Thursday, July 10th, 2008
The keri design and print blog has the top 5 Worst Fonts:
There are some fonts that should never be used for anything serious. Actually, there are A LOT of fonts that shouldn't ever be used for anything. Period. But there's a handfull of fonts that are horrible because they're overused, ...
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Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
Boston Business Journal is reporting senior executives at VistaPrint are scheduled to receive generous pay increases, bonuses and perks even though the company's stock has dropped 27 percent in the last year:
The brunt of the salary bumps was mostly reserved for the company's top lieutenants. For example, CEO Robert Kean ...
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Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
Steve Rubel public relations executive at Edelman and blogger wonders if we are living in a perfect storm for print media. Steve points to three factors at work that indicate we are: rising fuels costs and distribution of print; consumer awareness of their environmental impact when consuming media; and popularity ...
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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Wanted to make sure you guys saw this. It's posted over at WhatTheyThink.com as way to sort of wrap up our video coverage of drupa. I'll give you the back story. We always like to get Jeff Hayzlett of Kodak on video when we're at shows and ...
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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
American Business Media had a short brief in their latest E-news update on future postal rate increases:
Under the postal reform law passed in 2006, the Postal Service is entitled to increase its average rates by class annually by a percentage equal to the prior year's CPI increase. Given its precarious ...
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
It began six years ago in a borrowed conference room with a blank sheet of paper and a cash balance of zero.
It culminated last night in the theatre of the Hearst Tower in New York City with the award of nearly $53,000 in scholarships to 25 college and college-bound ...
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Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Motorola and Kodak have announced the MOTOZINE ZN5 mobile phone that combines technology developed by both companies. According to the release:
The MOTOZINE ZN5 combines a high-quality phone and camera experience to help content-craving consumers seize inspiration and share the content they create and love with the world. Unveiled today in ...
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Friday, June 20th, 2008
Entrepreneur.com has the story of Jim Daniels owner of Rhode Island-based JDD Publishing. Daniels' company publishes Internet marketing books, services and software via the Internet. Not satisfied with the return electronic advertising was bringing, Daniels set out to use his database of leads and customers to create a direct marketing ...
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