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Xerox Phaser 8400 Series Color Printer
What’s faster than most laser printers, prints much like an offset printing press, and costs $1,000? It’s the Xerox Phaser 8400 Series Color Printer. This solid-ink printer melts its resin-based ink, sprays it on a drum, then rolls the drum against the paper to transfer the image—all at an engine speed of 24 pages per…
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Retail IT Spending Expected to Increase in 2004
On the last day of its annual convention in New York, the National Retail Federation released a new study that shows retailers expect to increase IT spending in 2004. Eighty three percent of more than 100 retailers surveyed expect to replace or upgrade point of sale systems this year, according to Retail Horizons: Benchmarks for…
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Optimal Access Strikes Major Distribution Deals
Optimal Access struck a pre-paid bundling deal with Acer Tablet PCs to include its Optimal Desktop on PCs distributed through PC Connection. Optimal Desktop is a tabbed interface that records Web site passwords and lets users organize access to favorite destinations. In a separate deal, TigerDirect will market Optimal Access’ Mobile Desktop which lets users…
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The Long Goodbye for Lotus Notes
With LotusSphere barely two weeks away, it’s time once again to disinter IBM’s late great Lotus Notes. Already, blogs are heating up with the latest confirmation: Notes is still dead. Too bad IBM has not gone the route of Microsoft with Windows 98, executing a planned obsolescence masked by Sun’s lawsuit-mandated Java virtual machine-ectomy. Instead,…
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Intel Reports Record Revenue
Intel Corp. reported record revenue for its fourth fiscal quarter on Wednesday, an indication that its sector of the tech economy is back on the growth curve. However, officials said the company has delayed its code-named “Dothan” version of the mobile Pentium processor until the second quarter to make “circuit modifications.” “2003 began with a…
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Taking Tech to Retail
Microsoft has scored some major deployments for its Windows XP Embedded operating system. At the National Retail Federation in New York this week, it announced that RadioShack Corporation will be deploying some 8,000 Windows XP-based point-of-sale (POS) systems in more than 5000 company owned stores. Circuit City Stores Inc., and Meijer Inc. are deploying POS…
