Tidbits

-According to Gartner Group, printing revenue is the third highest expense after payroll and rent.
o On average, businesses unknowingly spend 7% to 12% of total revenue on document production, management and distribution.

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- The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) announced that it only has 5 more IPv4 address blocks left to give out for use. IPv4 address space allows for a maximum of 4.3 billion unique addresses. (This is why customers are moving to new standard, IPv6, and should require that their new MFPs support IPv6 standard out of the box, to prevent product obsolescence)

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-Xerox and data security. Brendan O’Connor of Black Hat USA, published instructions on how to hack into a Xerox WorkCentre MFP, through its Linux based operating system. Details on what he was able to do after hacking in:

o Steal passwords
o Collect all print jobs remotely
o Reset or change meters to affect copy charges from Xerox
o Change default print template, or print random pages
o Firewall network ports
o Schedule random reboots
o Randomly email print and scan jobs to other people
o Make long distance connections with fax modem
o Shut down device

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- Details of survey conducted by Oce’, a division of Canon, regarding electronic document management:

o 77% = improved operational efficiency
o 72% = improved customer service
o 50% = enhanced regulatory compliance
o 21% = increased competitive advantage
o 90% = currently use paper records repository
o 70% = have deployed electronic records repository
o 9% = have deployed document imaging process in mailroom

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- In another survey conducted by Oce’ the following is revealed:

o 62% believe economy is growing again
o 29% believe economy will rebound at end of 2011
o 50% believe it will take 3 years to recover
o 52% will have increase in digital imaging spend in 2011
o 38% will spend more on document management software in 2011

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- Sharp reported financials for last 9 months:

o Net sales of 2.32 trillion yen, up 15%
o Net income of 21.8 billion yen compared with prior year’s loss of 8.59 billion yen
o Company reported that it benefitted from increase in sales of LCDs, TVs and Blu-ray players

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- Toshiba stated that its last quarter’s operating profit more than doubled on increased sales of NAND flash memory chips and LCD displays sold to Apple for iPad and iPhone products.

o posted a 37.5 billion yen ($456.8 million) profit
o LCDs and flash memory totaled 17.2 billion yen in operating income

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-Lexmark reported last quarter’s financials:

o revenue of $1.1 billion, up 3%
o Total laser printer/MFP revenue of $806 million, up 8%
o Profit of $87.6 million, up from $59.8 milliON

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- According to results of a 3 year study conducted by researchers at Stanford University of Palo Alto, CA, “there is no consistent association between Electronic Health Records (EHRs) and Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDS) and better quality” “These results raise concerns about the ability of health information technology to fundamentally alter outpatient care quality”

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- Police in Atlanta, Georgia are on the lookout for 4 men who have stolen tens of thousands of dollars worth of printer cartridges from Office Depot stores. Apparently, three of the men come into the store and pepper store clerks with questions to distract them, when the 4th man empties the printer cartridge shelves into a large cardboard box and then sneaks out of store.

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-A study published by Health Affairs magazine reveals:

o 64% of doctors have never used electronic health records software in their office
o 42% of doctors would be willing to use EHRs
o 24% of doctors are unwilling to use EHRs
o 49% believe that EHRs would save time or improve relations with patients, or improve accuracy

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- Xerox announced it will use Microsoft’s new Azure cloud computing platform to launch Xerox Cloud Print, a chargeable service that will allow end users to route a printing job to any available public printing, directly from their mobile devices.

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-According to recent survey of what IT departments acquired in 2010, here is breakdown of top categories:

o 55% = business application software
o 51% = servers
o 39.5% = security
o 37.1% = printers and MFPs
o 35.2% = storage

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-A Toshiba senior human resources manager, Elaine Cyphers, filed a lawsuit against the company for $100 million, accusing Toshiba of gender bias against women in pay and promotions:

o contends that Toshiba pays women lower salaries and bonuses than men for similar work
o alleges that company steers women into lower grade positions and favors men in promotions
o “astounding lack of women in leadership positions” according to Ms. Cyphers
o Only 3.4% of Toshiba’s 6,273 managers are women
o “The numbers are atrocious! We believe the class claims are significant, and will be substantiated in the litigation” said attorney David Sanford
o Toshiba spokesperson, Tom Gallatin, stated that Toshiba does not discuss pending litigation.
o The case will be heard in the U.S. District County in New York later this year.

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- HIPAA Data Breach: The Ankle + Foot Center of Tampa Bay, Florida announced that someone hacked into their network and had access to the personal info of 156,000 individuals.

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- Intel announced that it has discovered a design issue in a recently-released chip, the Intel 6 series, code-named Cougar Point. This has caused a massive recall of laptop computers made by Dell, HP, Lenovo and Toshiba.

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- Xerox acquired a provider of electronic health records (EHR) solutions to the healthcare vertical:

o Acquired WaterWare Internet Services Inc.
o Based in San Jose, CA
o Specializes in storing EHR data online called Aquifer EHR Edition
o Offers a system that pharmacists can use to manage patients’ prescriptions called Nile Pharmacy
o Will work alongside Xerox DocuShare software

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