Tidbits

- Toshiba announced that it sent 100 workers to try to repair the Fukushima nuclear plant, as part of team of 700 employees that are assigned to the project. Toshiba admitted to manufacturing 4 of the 6 reactors on the site.

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- Toshiba announced it will hold two conferences for end users to discuss data security, cloud computing and managed print services:
o Held at new Cosmopolitan Hotel in Las Vegas
o 5/22/2011 and 5/24/2011
o Called “Fast Forward”
o Cost to attend is $99 per person
o All Toshiba MFPs on display
o Solutions on display
o Focus on healthcare, financial, government, education and retail vertical markets
o Speakers include:
 Peter Coffee, VP of salesforce.com
 Sridhar Solur, GM of Hewlett Packard’s Cloud Computing division
 David Drab, info consultant with FBI
 Kevin Goffinet, VP of Lexmark’s managed print services division
 Frank Abagnale, whose life was portrayed by Leonardo Dicaprio in the movie, “Catch Me If You Can”

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- Nuance Corp. and 1450 Inc. announced a new software product, called NoteSwift, using Nuance Dragon voice recognition technology that will allow doctors to dictate info on patients and it automatically input into Allscripts EHR software.

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- Intel, which is trying to become a major supplier to the MFP industry, announced a new product it jointly developed with Global Graphics of England:
o Designed to be embedded into MFP or printer
o provides peer-to-peer, driverless mobile printing from cell phones, tablets or PDAs
o uses Intel Atom processor
o print JPEG images, PostScript, PDF files, XPS files & MS Office documents without need to install print drivers or be connected to Internet
o uses Bluetooth or WiFi
o “our performance is significantly higher than that achieved by HP’s ePrint” says Martin Bailey, CTO of Global Graphics

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- All 40 of Trinity’s owned hospitals in Michigan will implement NextGen EHR system by late 2012 for $400 million. (with upgrades and maintenance it will cost about $1 billion)

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- Kodak reported on its last quarter’s financials:
o revenue of $1.9 billion, down 25.4%
o gross profit margin fell from 34.4% to 19.4%
o net income decline from $444 million to $22 million
o posted a full year 2010 net loss of $70 million
o 2.8% decline in production print sales
o 66.7% decline in operating profit from production print division
o Investment Partners Asset Management (IPAM) a major Kodak shareholder, is demanding the ouster of Antonio Perez as CEO

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- Here are the states with the most physicians:
o California = 78,393
o New York = 50,655
o Texas = 42,613
o Florida = 39,432
o Pennsylvania = 29,381
o Illinois = 26,917
o State with the fewest = Wyoming with only 896 physicians

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- Ricoh announced new optional “widgets” for its MFPs that have the App2Me feature:
o Scan to Evernote
o Scan to Gmail
o Scan to Google Docs

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- Xerox reported its last quarter’s financials:
o total revenue of $6 billion, up 41.6% (due to acquisition of ACS)
o operating income of $619 million, up 86.4% (ACS added)
o R&D investment as a percentage of income only 3.2%
o Paid down $889 million of debt, with $8.6 billion in debt remaining
o Revenue for equipment division down 0.4% to $2.8 billion
 Equipment sales up 3%
 Service/supply revenue down 2%
 Total pages printed down 2%
• Color pages up 11%
 Total MIF up 2%
• Color MIF up 11%
• B/W Production Print installs down 11%
• Color Production Print installs up 19%
• Midrange b/w MFP installs down 2%
• Midrange color MFP installs up 22%
• Will not publish details on sales of ColorQube wax copiers
• A4 b/w MFP installs up 25%
• A4 color MFP installs up 27%
• Color printer installs up 4%
o Will not publish details on its “Global” locations performance

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- Xerox apparently is experimenting with a new service call dispatch process in an effort to reduce costs. Rather than a technician being assigned to specific customers, instead the service calls are received by a call center in Canada, who then dispatches any available technician who is certified on device. This approach could cause obvious problems, as the technician that shows up may be unfamiliar with the customer’s workflow and impact ability to resolve the issue in a timely manner.

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- The federal list of HIPAA data breaches that have occurred since 9/2009 includes 249 incidents affecting nearly 8.3 million people

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- Print Audit, maker of managed print services software, announced it hired Andy Rysdale as COO.

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- Canon claims the following regarding the managed print services contract it won from CA Technologies:
o Saved more than 190 million sheets of paper
o Saved 2.5 million liters of water
o Eliminated 1/3 of all desktop printers
o Now only 200 total devices
o Implemented “follow you” printing via employee badge
o 70% of prints jobs are now duplexed

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- Sharp announced it hired former Sony executive, Mark Viken, as VP of Marketing. Bob Scaglione is Chief Marketing Office, responsible for cross-pollination of Sharp business units and categories to strengthen the Sharp brand in the U.S.

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- MWAi of Scottsdale, AZ announced it was awarded a U.S. patent for automation of service call creation and dispatch from a field output asset.

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