Tagged With "Freakish Tales"

Like all new products. Time will tell the tale. One would need to see the output and know the operating costs before an accurate assessment could be made. RJ

Here's some more on this: The attempt to reduce or to eliminate predatory pricing is also likely to reduce or eliminate com petitive pricing beneficial to consumers. --Harold Demsetz Predatory pricing is one of the oldest big business conspiracy theories. It was popularized in the late 19th century by journalists such as Ida Tarbell, who in History of the Standard Oil Company excoriated John D. Rockefeller because Standard Oil's low prices had driven her brother's employer, the Pure Oil...

Here's this guy's latest Press Release I picked up today: In his self-published, easy-to-skim book, Hustlewise: An Insider Exposes the Tricks to the Copier Trade, decision-makers (CEO’s, CFO’s, IT professionals, office managers or small business owners) will finally have a solid defense against all of the schemes and rhetoric and misdirection that reps throw at them when it comes time to finalize the deal. Memphis, TN, September 17, 2010 — Brady Spencer wants to give office managers...

Interesting reply to the same question from www.Copytechnet.com Copier service depends on who you are and where you are. In Afghanistan a while ago, a soldier told me of a tech junk yard. Since there where no techs there when they arrived they threw away everything that broke and just bought new stuff. He said the huge tech junk pile had 3 bulldozers pushing it around. _ side note_ in one of those Afghan junk yards after they got there, they found 2 old WWI tanks in excellent condition that...

Some roads just seem to have a bad reputation for some reason. Often it is due to an infamous historical happening that occurred along the byway. Sometimes it takes nothing more than the dark foreboding environs of an isolated roadway to earn it its...

By Nick HodgeFriday, October 5th, 2012Over the past few months I've railed against corporatism and Big Government. We've discussed how the most sophisticated financial systems (LIBOR) are a sham, and the bankers (HSBC, Jamie Dimon, Jon Corzine) with...

A Tale of 3 Giant Canaries in the Toner Mine Posted on November 3, 2015 by Print Audit By West McDonald, Vice President of Business Development, Print Audit & Owner, FocusMPS Some big news quietly hit the wire last week that Lexmark International Inc. had decided to work with Goldman Sachs Group Inc. to “explore strategic alternatives.” What this means exactly is anybody’s guess but one thing we know for certain is that it’s not about maintaining the status quo. Lexmark has,...

Just curious if any P4P members follow Auxilio (they are a public MPS company that caters to Medical/Hospitals), last year I think they lost 6 million or so and for the first quarter of this year they just announced a 1.6 or 1.7 million loss with...

Desktop Color Printing: A Tale of Two Markets Over the next few years, revenue from the sale of ink jet printers and MFPs and color page printers will rise as revenue from the sale of monochrome page printers and MFPs slowly but steadily declines (see...

The legend of Bud's Grave is a complicated one, and one of the most famous weird spots in New Jersey. Located in Highlands not far from Sandy Hook, Bud's Grave was a memorial to something, or some one. What that was, no one seems to really know for...

By West McDonald, Vice President of Business Development, Print Audit and Owner, FocusMPS The IoT (Internet of Things) has been getting a lot of press lately as more and more things find themselves getting connected. There are a lot of things you’d expect to be connected to the IoT such as printers, MFDs, thermostats (think Nest), smartphones and computers but there are also a host of bizarre and unusual items you wouldn’t expect. Print Audit has scoured the IoT and compiled this list of 7...

Canon U.S.A., Ron Howard and the Public Select 91 Winning Photos for "Project Imaginat10n" Which Will Inspire Short Films Directed by Eva Longoria, Jamie Foxx, Biz Stone, Georgina Chapman and James MurphyRon Howard Chooses One Winning Photograph,...

MELVILLE, N.Y. , April 26, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- As part of its continued commitment to empowering young leaders and education, Canon U.S.A. , Inc., a leader in digital imaging solutions, proudly sponsored and participated in the virtual 16 th Annual Japan Center Essay Competition Awards Program on April 24, 2021 . The goal of the competition is to provide young American students with the opportunity to think creatively and critically about their lives by relating to some aspect of Japan and...

Zero-Click Exploit In a chilling cautionary tale, a New York Times journalist says a hacker was able to access his iPhone after sending him a text message — even though he never clicked anything. Ben Hubbard, a NYT reporter covering the Middle East, said that hackers used something called a “zero-click exploit” in order to get into his phone in 2020 and 2021, according to an article he wrote in the NYT . Experts say that just receiving an iMessage from a hacker using this exploit can be...

SINGAPORE--( BUSINESS WIRE )-- Datto Holding Corp. (“Datto”) (NYSE: MSP), the leading global provider of security and cloud-based software solutions purpose-built for Managed Service Providers (MSPs), today announced the findings of a special report commissioned by Datto called ASEAN MSPs are Key to Customers’ Data Protection . Conducted by global technology analyst firm Canalys, the study underscores that MSPs in the ASEAN region play an increasingly crucial role in protecting their Small...