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Plot Tracker Pro V3.0 for KIP Released!
January 08, 2008, 12:10:00 AM |
New in version 3.0:
Independent media pricing for each customer
Real-time cost calculation as you select print jobs
Option to connect/search Multiple Kip Machines at the same time
Separate reporting of Color and B&W scan jobs
Grouping of similar records on reports
Separate reporting of Color and B&W copy jobs
Invoice and Purchase Order number association
Import and Export customer information
Windows Vista ready
Connect to your Kip plotter via IP address
Search your Kip plotter for print and scan log information
Search by Date
Search by Username (Requester Name)
Search by Job Number
Search by Description
Apply Media costs (based on customer)
Apply Scan To File costs (based on customer)
Apply Tax Rate costs (based on customer)
Apply Shipping and CD burning fees
Generate Production Reports
Generate Invoices for billing
Customize report layout
Export directly to CSV file format
Reports are created in RTF format, easily modified in any word processor. |
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Canon U.S.A. Announces Canon Business Solutions
January 07, 2008, 11:54:20 PM |
Canon U.S.A. today announced the establishment of Canon Business Solutions, Inc. - the achievement of fully integrating its existing network of Canon Business Solutions subsidiaries into one corporate entity.
Merging three regional subsidiaries, the new national sales and service operation will provide a more unified and consistent approach to delivering document management technologies, workflow solutions and services to a range of organizations, locally, regionally, and nationally. Canon Business Solutions, Inc. will operate from Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, and Philadelphia, with more than 40 satellite locations and branch offices across the United States supporting the main hubs... |
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Hifn and QLogic Optimize VMware Performance on Swarm Storage Appliances
January 07, 2008, 11:49:08 PM |
Hifn, a developer of storage and networking innovation, announced the first customer installation of a new performance-optimized configuration of its Swarm iSCSI storage appliance with VMware ESX Server, combining the benefits of a virtualized IT infrastructure with the cost advantages of iSCSI storage networking and QLogic’s high-performance iSCSI HBA.
Hifn’s latest Swarm VMware Edition is optimized for ESX Server configurations. The latest VMware Edition was installed on a Swarm Model 3200 appliance with 7.5 terabytes of shared SAN storage utilizing the high-performance QLogic QLA4852 iSCSI HBA. The Hifn-QLogic VMware solution allowed five physical blade servers, each running multiple virtual machines in an ESX clustered configuration, to share the virtualized storage of a single Swarm appliance. The addition of the QLogic iSCSI HBA allowed for more virtual machines to be added to the cluster with nominal performance degradation... |
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The Legacy of the Netscape Browser
January 07, 2008, 11:44:43 PM |
| With AOL's recent announcement that they will no longer provide any new development on Netscape (gee, you mean they were doing new development before? How come AOL's been using IE only for years?), here's a nice Netscape tribute compliments of eWeek. |
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Signage and Graphics Summit
January 07, 2008, 11:36:27 PM |
...will be held January 16-18 at the PGA National Resort & Spa in Palm Beach, FL.
Start the year off right with fresh business-boosting ideas for your company. It’s not too late to register for the three-day idea exchange with other top-tier executives... |
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Conceiva Debuts Mezzmo At CES 2008
January 07, 2008, 11:31:52 PM |
Breakthrough home entertainment software demonstrated at Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas
Conceiva announced the debut of Mezzmo, an innovative home entertainment software package that lets consumers stream music, movies and photos to their TV, home theater, games console and digital media appliances.
Conceiva will demonstrate Mezzmo for the first time to electronics manufacturers, industry reviewers and consumers during the Consumer Electronics Show held in Las Vegas, January 7-10.
Within minutes of installing Mezzmo onto a PC, consumers can start sharing music, movies and photos in their home. Mezzmo automatically finds and organizes the music, video and photo files on a computer so they are ready to share.
Mezzmo can share music, movies and photos with all popular digital media devices - including Sony PlayStation 3 (PS3), Microsoft Xbox 360, and digital media appliances, network media receivers, digital media players and network-ready TVs from Sony, D-Link, Buffalo, Toshiba, Panasonic, Netgear and more.
All forms of home networks are supported by Mezzmo - including wireless home networks or LAN cable home networks.
Mezzmo imports music and playlists from popular media players - including iTunes, Windows Media Player and Winamp. Mezzmo rips Audio CDs as high-quality MP3 files so you can share them within your home... |
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Office 2003 SP3 Blocks Old File Formats
January 07, 2008, 11:24:11 PM |
The move was done for security, says Microsoft, but still bewilders users
Microsoft Corp. deliberately broke access to older files, including many generated by its own products, to step up security with the newest Office 2003 service pack, a company evangelist said.
The months-old Service Pack 3 (SP3) for Office 2003, said Viral Tarpara, a U.K.-based IT evangelist for Microsoft, blocks old file formats for security purposes. "Some older file formats, including some from Microsoft, are insecure and do not satisfy new attack vectors that hackers can use to execute malicious code," maintained Tarpara. "The decision to block the formats is strictly to protect your machine from being compromised.".. |
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AHIMA Announces New Project That Will Employ CHI Standards
January 07, 2008, 11:19:57 PM |
| The American Health Information Management Association’s Foundation of Research and Education (FORE) announced a new project that will use the Consolidated Health Informatics (CHI) standards accepted by the Department of Health and Human Services for federally-required assessment instruments used in long-term care. Specifically, the project will apply approved CHI standards to the nursing home Minimum Data Set (MDS) and home health Outcome Assessment Information Set (OASIS), validate the accuracy and impact of the application of these CHI standards, and develop guidance for using accepted standards for the exchange of standardized assessment and patient summary data... |
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SPJ Leaders Pleased Over FOIA Bill Signing
January 07, 2008, 11:10:23 PM |
Journalists across the nation will start the new year off with an open government victory, thanks to President George W. Bush’s signing the amended Freedom of Information bill. The Society of Professional Journalists leaders received word last week that the bill has been signed into law.
“Journalists and citizens everywhere can be a little more secure in the health of their democracy knowing the federal government can be held to a higher standard of accountability under this new law,” Society of Professional Journalists President Clint Brewer said. “Unfettered access to the records of government is a cornerstone for a free press, as well as a sound, civil society. The American people have a right to know about the actions of their government, and those actions are most often told through the public record.”.. |
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TDWI World Conference
January 07, 2008, 11:05:33 PM |
...will be held February 17-22, 2008 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.
The TDWI conference covers the full spectrum of business intelligence and data warehousing, and will include courses throughout the week that broaden your knowledge, skill, and ability in the following areas:
Business Analytics
Organizations are increasingly dependent on business analytics in order to be competitive and drive positive business actions. Understanding and utilizing analytic techniques such as predictive analytics, data mining, and statistics leads to better performance management. Luckily, today’s business analytics is enabled with several technology solutions such as OLAP, dashboards, and scorecards. Whether you play a role in business analysis or technical requirements analysis, there are 11 full- and half-day courses aimed at broadening your knowledge of business analytics.
Data Management
We know that data is one of our most valuable assets when it comes to providing a factual basis for gauging our business. Data must be governed from its inception through analysis and design, through data integration, and ongoing data quality programs. This conference brings you 12 full-day courses focused on several aspects of data management, including information quality, data quality, data modeling, data integration, and data governance.
IT Governance
IT Governance is a necessary component of successful IT systems. It focuses on the strategic decision-making responsibility for IT systems (which includes business intelligence and data warehousing systems and projects). The traditional approach of largely holding IT departments accountable for failed projects, cost overruns, security breaches, and unmet user expectations is fading. Sponsorship is no longer just about saying “yes” with funding resources. IT projects must be undertaken with a common goal in mind. Key players who are responsible for business outcomes must not only buy in, but also play key roles in the decision-making processes throughout the life of a system. The true costs of your BI projects, in terms of compliance, risk, and human and financial impact, need to be considered and governed in such a way that real business value is created. TDWI continues to highlight this important topic, as BI and DW professionals must consider IT governance as an integral part of their planning processes. |
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GTX Announces Andrew M. Ling as New President & CEO
January 07, 2008, 10:45:12 PM |
| GTX Corporation announced that Andrew M. Ling, currently the Senior Vice President & General Counsel, has been named the organization’s new President & CEO. Mr. Ling succeeds his father, Dr. Marvin T. Ling, who founded the company in 1984 and served as President & CEO since its inception. Dr. Ling stated that he would step down and retire from GTX and added, “I am very pleased that Andrew will be taking over the operations of the company as the new President & CEO. With more than 17 and a half years of service at GTX, Andrew has continually demonstrated his leadership skills and managed the company through exciting and challenging times. He is very well prepared and well equipped to be the leader that GTX needs now and for the years ahead.” |
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EMC to Acquire Document Sciences
January 07, 2008, 10:42:02 PM |
| EMC Corporation will acquire Document Sciences Corporation under an agreement that the two companies announced recently. EMC will pay about $85 million in cash to buy the company, which develops document-management software... |
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Lockheed grabs up PercepTek
January 07, 2008, 10:32:34 PM |
Lockheed Martin Corp. will acquire PercepTek Inc., a provider of autonomous decision-making software technologies. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
The acquisition is intended to strengthen Lockheed Martin’s capabilities in unmanned surveillance, company officials said. Lockheed Martin’s Missiles and Fire Control unit will manage the PercepTek business, they added.
PercepTek of Littleton, Colo., develops software that supplies autonomous navigation for unmanned ground vehicles, autonomous collaboration operations for unmanned aerial vehicles and automated surveillance for security applications. Among the company’s customers are the Army, Air Force and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. |
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GeoWeb 20008 Conference
January 07, 2008, 10:26:12 PM |
...will be held July 21-25, 2008, in Vancouver B.C.
The GeoWeb 2008 conference is about unleashing the economic potential associated with the convergence of XML, web services, and geographic information systems, known as the GeoWeb. Organized via partnership between Galdos Systems Inc. (Galdos) and Geospatial Information Technology Association (GITA), GeoWeb welcomes both public and private organizations to meet, discuss, and learn about today’s most innovative geospatial technologies and the possibilities related to this important technological shift. The conference will include dedicated workshops on Geography Markup Language (GML), KML, MapPoint, LandXML, SVG, ebRIM, and OGC Web Services for GIS... |
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Sigma Designs Adopts Suite of Magma Software
January 07, 2008, 10:13:56 PM |
...for Complex SoC Designs
Magma Design Automation, a provider of semiconductor design software, and Sigma Designs, a leader in digital media processing systems on a chip (SoCs) for consumer electronics, announced that Sigma Designs is adopting a suite of Magma products – including design implementation, physical verification and circuit simulation – for Sigma Designs’ complex, next-generation designs. This multiyear agreement includes licensing for Magma’s Talus Design and Talus Vortex automated IC implementation, Quartz DRC and Quartz LVS physical verification and FineSim SPICE circuit simulation software.
“Sigma Designs’ SoCs enable developers of Blu-ray and HD-DVD players to provide stunning audio and video quality as well as intelligent interactive features,” said Ken Lowe, vice president of Strategic Marketing of Sigma Designs. “We selected Magma’s software because it provides the automation, integration, accuracy and performance we need to meet the cost and time-to-market requirements of our advanced SoCs.”.. |
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MacTech Labs Releases Comprehensive Virtualization Benchmarks
January 07, 2008, 10:01:19 PM |
MacTech Labs, part of MacTech Magazine, released an extensive benchmark study of virtualization solutions running on Intel-based Macs. MacTech's goal was to see how well Parallels and VMware Fusion perform compared to each other, Boot Camp and a PC.
The large suite of over 2500 tests was performed comparing a Fujitsu 1.86 GHz machine, MacBook, MacBook Pro, and Mac Pro. The purpose of the testing and the article are to answer the questions about performance for the different virtualization solutions available, as well as the differences between Windows XP and Vista in virtual machines... |
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ImageNow Named “Best in KLAS” for Document Management and Imaging
January 07, 2008, 09:55:10 PM |
Perceptive Software, creator of ImageNow enterprise document management, imaging and workflow software, announced that KLAS’ “2007: Top 20 Year-End Best in KLAS Awards” has named ImageNow “Best in KLAS” in document management and imaging in the healthcare industry.
ImageNow was ranked the No. 1 document management and imaging vendor and No. 7 overall healthcare software product out of 93 that were ranked. The KLAS Vendor Relationship Evaluation is comprised of questions that cover everything from contracting and sales to implementation, services and upgrades... |
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Astaro Continues Support of Open Source Projects in 2008
January 07, 2008, 09:50:39 PM |
Astaro Corporation, a provider of Unified Threat Management (UTM) security appliances, announced it will continue its annual support of seven security-based Open Source projects in 2008 and will look to increase this number. These projects not only help the Open Source community to develop more advanced security tools, but also promote the general awareness of security issues and risks as well as available solutions. To date, Astaro's UTM solution makes use of over 300 objects derived from 80 active Open Source projects.
"We are proud to be an active member in the open source security communities as demonstrated by our commitment to these projects," said Astaro CEO Jan Hichert. "We see our participation in the open source community as a way to further advance the progress of security technology. We want to ensure our business practices fall inside the Open Source rules, and although we contribute to many projects, we select the most mature for inclusion in our products."... |
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AIM Technology Leadership Summit Announced
January 07, 2008, 09:43:43 PM |
AIM Global, the trade association recognized as the worldwide authority on automatic identification and mobility, in conjunction with AIM North America, has announced plans for the 2008 AIM Technology Leadership Summit.
"Once a year, the thought leaders of our industry gather in one place for a strategic industry dialogue," said AIM Global president, Dan Mullen. "This year's Summit with the theme of "Think Forward!" is a must-attend event for anyone in our industry looking to gain long-term insight while networking with other industry leaders and exploring opportunities to collaborate. Speakers include industry analysts, member experts and AIM board members speaking on topics ranging from standards to vertical market opportunities and the international business landscape."
The Summit will be held from April 27-29, 2008 at the Capital Hilton, Washington, DC, USA. The program will feature exceptional education and strategic guidance about the automatic identification and mobility technology market and unparalleled opportunities for executive networking with the industry's leaders... |
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Avionics Manufacturer Goes Live With Ingenuus Process Orchestrator
January 07, 2008, 09:40:07 PM |
...to Manage Product Lifecycles
Ingenuus Software Inc., a provider of Enterprise Process Orchestration (EPO), announced that Teledyne Controls, a business unit of Teledyne Technologies Inc. (NYSE: TDY) has gone live with Ingenuus Process Orchestration software to manage their Product Lifecycles.
Headquartered in El Segundo, California, Teledyne Controls is an industry leader designing and manufacturing avionics and ground-related electronic systems for commercial air transport, business and regional aviation, and government and defense applications. Teledyne Controls is using Ingenuus to manage engineering change orders related to product data. Once a new bill of materials has been released, Ingenuus will automatically write the new product information into their Mapics ERP software... |
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