Xerox’s Solid Ink Keeps Cost-Per-Page Low

Not too long ago, it was hard to imagine that color laser printers would be affordable for consumers. Now, not too far in the future it seems as though Xerox’s solid ink printing technology will be in the price range that color laser printers are in now. At least one of its two new offerings, the ColorQube 8870 and the ColorQube 8570, is under $700 for a base model–and that might make it a good deal for small businesses since solid-ink printing means that the cost of expensive ink-cartridge consumables is very low

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A Better Way to Produce Cooler/Shelf Tags

The cooler tag is the beverage industry’s dirty little secret. It is often inconsistent with the overall marketing image that has brought the consumer to the precipice of a buying decision at the point of sale. The challenge for most distributors is that producing these colorful shelf strips is typically very time consuming and difficult

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Facebook’s Latest Privacy Breach is Decades Old

A quirk of the Web has caught out the world’s largest social network. The Wall Street Journal reported this weekend that some Facebook applications–such as games–share the unique number assigned to each of the social network’s half-a-billion members with third-party companies including advertising firms.

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Playing around with Sony’s Google TV product

I had a chance to play around with one of Sony’s new Google TV devices last week on Friday. Some photographs of stuff running in the TV’s task manager: Looks like a lot of services that mirror the state of the DVR– so that’s how they do that integration.

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Playing around with Sony’s Google TV product

Speed up Production with Polypropylene Extra

Designed to make print production easier and faster, from print production to finishing, LexJet’s new TOUGHcoat Polypropylene Extra is now available and shipping. This thicker version of the popular Water-Resistant Polypropylene is wrinkle-free, lays flat and is more rigid so that it’s easier to handle and stack. TOUGHcoat Polypropylene Extra is perfect for banner stands,

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Research on Rejuvenating Effect of Young Blood Retracted

Were the vampiric benefits of blood from young mice too good to be true? Amy Wagers , a researcher at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute and Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston, has retracted a high-profile paper published earlier this year in the journal Nature . According to my Technology Review story on the study,

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HP Color LaserJet – Smart Choice for Savvy Business Owners

Hewlett Packard has been an innovator in providing compact and versatile machines for home computers and small business alike. The inkjet model printers and copiers HP has manufactured over the years have always boasted incredible speed for inkjet machines, bringing near laser quality and speed to inkjet pages. The HP Color Laserjet Series brings the affordability of the inkjet model printer/copier to laser printing technology.

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How much does your printer save you on printer cartridges?

In today’s economic climate we are very aware that you want to save money wherever you can. Indeed, one of the most common questions asked by our customers is ‘how can I save money on my printer cartridges’? A handy guide is available from one of our previous blog posts called 10 ways to save money

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Why Google TV is going to be just fine

Now that Logitech’s Revue product and Sony’s Google TV enabled TVs have been announced (or announced and “leaked” respectively) there are folks that are getting pre-disenchanted with Google TV: Am I Blind, Or Am I Just Not ‘Seeing’ What’s So Great About Google TV? Tweet by @StardotGarf : It’s difficult to make things simple.

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Why Google TV is going to be just fine

Has Facebook’s Social Groups feature “worked” for anyone?

(Since FastCompany’s commenting system is terrible and won’t let me 1) register to comment or 2) use my twitter or facebook to comment, here’s my comment to their article ) I think Facebook would say this is an outlier and these guys should just click the easy to see “unsubscribe” button and get out of the group if they don’t want to be a part of it.

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Has Facebook’s Social Groups feature “worked” for anyone?

My review of Fonmigo (A Mifi-like device I rented in the UK)

I’ve been using Fonmigo’s mifi-like device while I’ve been traveling in the United Kingdom (aka UK aka England) this week. It works well and I recommend the service. Of the options I looked at, this was the lower cost one

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Don’t take away my domain name!

I always worried about this when I switched my blog over to http://rake.sh/ : Bit.ly, HootSuite (with its Ow.ly service), Ad.ly and perhaps even Smel.ly could well be at risk of having their domain names sudden.ly taken away by the Libyan government. full article So here’s to hoping that the Island of St. Helena doesn’t start yanking .sh domain names!

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Long Range WiFi Edges Nearer With FCC Decision

Wireless gadgets that weave signals between TV stations are a step closer. A new class of devices able to create Wi-Fi-like connections that span miles rather than meters just jumped significantly closer to market. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has made a crucial decision on the rules that will regulate such devices, which will use the “white spaces” between TV channels that were freed up by the analog switch off

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Sprint CEO Backs Unlimited Data Plans

Dan Hesse says such plans are possible, “as long as the usage is reasonable”. Sprint’s CEO Dan Hesse says he hopes to keep the company’s data plans unlimited as the company shifts toward faster 4G services through the WiMax technology it’s rolling out in cities across the nation.

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Consumer Tech Price Volatility Continues With 3D Blu-ray Players Jumping As Advanced Processors Slide

Recent weeks have shown us that the “new normal” for the pricing of key retail electronics seems to include a high degree of volatility For example, last week our PriceSCAN 3D Blu-ray Player Index shot up a remarkable 9.44%, reversing about 80%^ of its slide since late August. To be sure, our index is still some 14% below its April inception level (see “ 3D Blu-ray’s Price Decline Seems To Jump Right Off The Screen! ”), but it appears retailers are now easing off their more aggressive Blu-ray summer discounts. Meanwhile, what a difference a few weeks have made in the pricing of Intel’s state of the art Core i7 processor.

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Consumer Tech Price Volatility Continues With 3D Blu-ray Players Jumping As Advanced Processors Slide

Model Of The Week: Wet Orbital Workshop (Pre-Skylab 1968 proposal: 1/96)

When the Apollo Applications Project was initiated, one of the proposed projects was an orbital Workshop, made out of Apollo and Saturn materials. In early 1968 this was the proposed configuration: A “Wet Orbital Workshop”, meant to be fully fueled when launched on a spare Saturn 1B and when drained of fuel residues would be modified and used as a.. well, skylab.

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What does your ink cartridge have in common with a mass produced Mud Cake?

Printer ink cartridges contain many ingredients including dyes, pigments, humectants, resins, fungicides and surfactants.

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What does your ink cartridge have in common with a mass produced Mud Cake?

Some interesting insights about the ink in printer cartridges.

A combination of printer technology, paper characteristics and ink quality all contribute to the final result of your printing job. Most of us are familiar with the two main types of printer technology – laser printers vs

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Processing New Volatility In Long-Stable Intel i7 Core Pricing

Last week saw a remarkable spike in the price of a top-of-the-line Intel microprocessor. The pricing of one of Intel’s most sophisticated processors, the i7 Core , displayed a fairly high degree of price stability from early March until late July, with our PriceSCAN.com Intel Core i7 Processor Index remaining in a range of about 1% above or below its initial value. But from the third week of July until mid-August we witnessed a nearly 10% nose-dive in that our index, followed by a sharp 4.35% upward jump last week

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Model Of The Week: My Steampunk Cube…

thought I’d better start including a scale cube in my posts, so here’s my latest creation: The Hexidecimal Ocular-comparitive measurement’o’tron : All in all, about six hours work, nothing to difficult just a bit tedious cutting out the cogs. This one I wanted to finish quickly rather than spend an extraordinary amount of time with neat and tidy. …need a good lie down.

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