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Re: Western Digital won't seek management role in Toshiba chip business: sources
Wow, this may almost come to an end by August 31st
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Des Plaines Office Equipment Companies to Re-Brand Under New Name Pulse Technology; Change to Take Place in January 2019
A well-known Greater Chicago business, Des Plaines Office Equipment and its northern Indiana affiliates, Kramer & Leonard McShane’s, will soon operate under a new common name, Pulse Technology ( http://pulsetechnology.com ). All of the locations will officially change to Pulse Technology effective January 1, 2019. The transition follows a re-branding effort undertaken at the direction of the company owners. There is no change in the ownership or management of the companies. For Chip...
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Epson inkjet copier technology commentary
- ENX magazine recently published interview with Chip Micelli, president and CEO of Pulse Technology (fka Des Plaines Office Equipment, a large multi-state dealer in the Midwest, headquartered in Schaumberg, Illinois) - Had recently taken trip to Japan to visit headquarters of Epson and see demo of inkjet MFP technology - When asked if the technology was a game changer, stated: o “It probably won’t happen in the next year” o “The question is, can they (customer) live with the current copy...
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Corsair Selects One Source Networks to Expand Global Communications Capabilities
AUSTIN, TX -- (Marketwired) -- 06/16/14 -- One Source Networks (OSN), the global voice and managed network services partner of choice for large enterprises, today announced that it has been chosen by Corsair to provide the company with network...
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Brown County employees charge $1.4M in 2010
The 96 employees who have county-issued cards charged $1,427,500 so far this year.By far, the largest single item charged on a county-issued credit card was the yearly maintenance for all county copiers, printers, and fax and scanner units —...
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57 Days of Selling "Day 14"
Best laid plans of mice and men. That's what came to mind when I woke up at 8:13AM! I had set my alarm clock for 5:30AM so that I would be able to hit the office at about 7:00AM. Figured for the remaining forty four days of selling I would add an hour for every day, thus I can add almost another two days of selling. Well......, it seems that I did set my alarm for 5:30, but it was PM and not AM! The plan for tonight is to double the AM/PM on my phone. Yup, I arrived at the office late and...
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RJ Young Company Awarded RFG Circle of Excellence Award
“It is an honor to receive this award for another year. I am so proud of all the technicians who received their Prestige Certification," said Chip Crunk, RJ Young President & CEO. (PRWEB) October 19, 2017 RJ Young is proud to announce that it has received the 2018 RFG Circle of Excellence award and had four technicians achieve Prestige status in the area of Hardware/Engine Track from Ricoh USA. Nationally, over 2,200 technicians participated in the Prestige/Prestige Elite Certification...
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Toshiba to have more options on chip deal as meeting March deadline unlikely
BEIJING/TOKYO (March 27): Toshiba Corp looks set to have more options for its chip unit after China said it was still reviewing a proposed US$18 billion acquisition by a Bain Capital-led consortium, making it highly unlikely that an imminent deadline for the deal will be met. China's commerce ministry said on Tuesday in a brief statement to Reuters that it was reviewing the deal, without elaborating further. For the deal to close by its agreed deadline of March 31, antitrust approval from...
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Western Digital won't seek management role in Toshiba chip business: sources
TOKYO (Reuters) - Western Digital Corp (WDC.O), part of a group offering to buy Toshiba Corp’s (6502.T) memory chip unit, is not seeking a management role in the business, people familiar with the matter told Reuters on Friday. Toshiba is scrambling to sell its flash memory unit to cover losses from its bankrupt U.S. nuclear business Westinghouse. A consortium that includes Western Digital is offering around 1.9 trillion yen ($17.3 billion) for the unit, with the U.S. firm offering 150...
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Western Digital offers to exit Toshiba chip bid for better joint-venture terms:
Western Digital has offered to drop out of a bid for Toshiba's lucrative semiconductor business in return for a stronger position in the two companies' chip joint venture, two sources said on Tuesday. Toshiba needs to sell the chip unit to plug a giant hole in its finances caused by the failure of the conglomerate's U.S. nuclear business, but the deal has snagged on such issues as antitrust concerns if the U.S. disk-drive maker were a major owner. To help close the deal, California-based...
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Toshiba Eyes Cancelling Chip Unit Sale if No China Approval by May
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Toshiba Corp has decided it will cancel the planned $18.6 billion sale of its memory chip unit if it does not get approval from China's anti-monopoly regulator by May, the Mainichi newspaper said on Sunday. A consortium led by U.S. private equity firm Bain Capital last year won a long and highly contentious battle for the unit, which Toshiba put up for sale after billions of dollars in cost overruns at its Westinghouse nuclear unit plunged it into crisis. But...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 15 Years Ago, The Third Week in July 2003
I started my vacation on a Thursday last week. Why? Well best laid plans of mice and men don't always work. Which leads me to a series of meetings I had last week with an a net new account. They were interested in 20 plus users for Managed IT, a copier and needed to bring their IT infrastructure up to date. A pretty sizable deal that was on the fast track. We met last the Friday before last, schedule an assessment on Monday. Had to go back on Wednesday and present. On Wednesday AM, we...
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I Hate When This Happens
I started my vacation on a Thursday last week. Why? Well best laid plans of mice and men don't always work. Which leads me to a series of meetings I had last week with an a net new account. They were interested in 20 plus users for Managed IT, a copier and needed to bring their IT infrastructure up to date. A pretty sizable deal that was on the fast track. We met last the Friday before last, schedule an assessment on Monday. Had to go back on Wednesday and present. On Wednesday AM, we...
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Digging Deeper into Perfect Copier Web Quoting Tool
I'm a fan of Perfect Copier web quoting tool, because web based quoting tool saves me an incredible amount of time. Over the last two months I've done about twenty proposals. Out of the twenty, eight of those have closed, six are stalled, five are still open and I lost one. I want to dig a little deeper and explain how I use Perfect Copier. If you're familiar with quoting tool you'l know there's a feature to email the proposal to the client or print the proposal. To date I've never printed a...
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COVID19 "Remote Working" Day One Hundred and Seven of Selling
COVID19 "Remote Working" Day One Hundred and Seven of Selling Copiers Earlier in the week I would have bet the ranch that my forecast for $20K would come to fruition this week. I had the verbal for the $20K mid day on Tuesday, prepared all of the docs on Wednesday because there were a few moving parts to this order. However those best laid plans of mice and men sometimes don't happen. I'm sure my DM was busy with other tasks and the thought of dropping everything so I could get the documents...
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Toshiba's detector sniffs out spy chips lurking in hardware
TOKYO -- In an age when corporations and governments have become increasingly targeted by cyberattacks, Toshiba and Japan's Waseda University have teamed up to develop a system that can detect so-called spy chips, tiny intruders in servers that are barely visible to the naked eye or are even incorporated in circuitry. Spy chips made headlines about two years ago when China allegedly planted the devices into servers, which reportedly reached 30 American companies. The tool, called HTfinder,...
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Re: Toshiba's detector sniffs out spy chips lurking in hardware
FYI We need to educate our clients as to where those devices are being manufactured. In addition it's these types of articles that we need to send them or provide a link to. This is the first anti spy chip detector I've seen and I like what I see.
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HP to acquire peripherals maker HyperX for $425 million
HP Inc. is expanding its footprint in the multibillion-dollar peripherals and gaming markets, with its first acquisition of a peripherals company. The PC-and-printer pioneer on Wednesday said it intends to acquire HyperX, the gaming division of Kingston Technologies Co., for $425 million. HyperX’s product portfolio includes such gaming peripherals as headsets, keyboards, mice, mouse pads, USB microphones and console accessories. “Gaming is a significant growth area in the PC business,” Alex...
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Re: Component shortage to affect copiers?
Due to significant ocean shipping delays at US west coast ports, air freight volumes are way up ... ... although air freight charges have been dropping, the extra cost has to be passed along to the end user.
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Component shortage to affect copiers?
Component shortage to affect copiers? Report published in Wirth Consulting magazine office printer/MFP industry is currently facing two key challenges: sharply reduced office print volumes, as well as potential shortages of computer chips used by office printers and MFPs, as well as other supply constraints. chip demand has sharply risen during the COVID-19 pandemic as lockdowns caused a surge in demand for PCs for work and education use at home, and for personal electronics such as game...
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Managed print services opportunities when the chips are down
From cars to consumer electronics, the global chip shortage is disrupting supply chains and causing price rises across industries. The print industry is not immune, with printers and MFPs reliant on a multitude of chips. So, what implications does this have for an industry that is already facing a rocky road to print volume recovery? Why is there a global chip shortage? Set to persist well into 2023, the global chip shortage was prompted by the Covid-19 pandemic which has seen a surge in...
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Sharp CEO comments on supply chain issues
Sharp CEO comments on supply chain issues Interview recently published with Mike Marusic, President and CEO of Sharp USA Using Google Analytics to mitigate supply chain and chip shortage issues “Last April, we told the dealers that we were going to ease up on making A4” (to focus on A3 MFPs) “We had to protect that (A3), even though I would have preferred to be aggressive with A4, which was our plan” Claims that only 1%-2% of A3 customers were using the wireless function, and that function...
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Companies Rumored To Harvest Washing Machines For ICs (Chips)
Wired and SCMP are reporting on interesting trivia from the realm of chip shortages. Apparently, some large conglomerate out there is buying new washing machines and scavenging the chips they can’t obtain otherwise. My imagination pictures skilled engineers in a production room, heavy-duty electric screwdrivers and desoldering toolkits on the floor next to them, and a half-torn-down washing machine about to reveal its control board with an STM32 right in the middle. This might not be the...
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Chinese Chip Makers to Increase Price
Found this while researching chips at TSCM with Canon & Ricoh "Due to the supply shortage of chip raw materials such as wafers, capacitors, resistors, PCBs, etc., the price of raw material has been increased significantly as a result. Accordingly, chip production prices spike. Senior vice president of research and development of TSMC predict that it will take 2-3 years to solve the problem when more new wafer factories are ready for production." read the rest here
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This Week in the Copier Industry Five Years Ago
This Week in the Copier Industry Five Years Ago Last Week of September 2017 sponsored by For me, tomorrow is he first sales day of the last quarter for 2022. With 75% of the year complete, net new has evaded me and it's not because lack of effort. Sometimes you eat the bear and sometimes the bear eats you, in my case the bear has been taking me to lunch each and every day this year. Something is going to change....... I'm looking for help, I need to reach out to KM, Toshiba and HP...
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IT Solutions Acquires Award-Winning New York-based Provider of IT Support, Cybersecurity ...
PHILADELPHIA (PRWEB) October 10, 2022 IT Solutions, a leading provider of Managed IT, Managed Security, and Application Development services in the Mid-Atlantic Region, is pleased to announce the acquisition of CHIPS Technology Group. The acquisition brings IT Solutions’ Managed IT and Security Services to the Long Island and New York metro region, combining two best-in-class organizations that will allow more businesses to benefit from their process-driven, customer-centric approaches to...
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HP Inc. claims it will expand in US
HP Inc. claims it will expand in US Article published in Oregon Live Plans on using federal taxpayer funds received as part of the new CHIPS Act Will use to bring some manufacturing back to the U.S. “The CHIPS Act gives us an opportunity to look at ways we can bring back some of the investments we have made overseas and bring those back to Corvallis, Oregon”; stated Tuan Tran, HP President
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Re: HP Inc. claims it will expand in US
keyword here is "some", guessing "some" means they'll make even more from the government for the "chips act"
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Canon launches a new technology for chip manufacturing
Canon launches a new technology for chip manufacturing new solution is expected to aid in the production of cutting-edge semiconductor component recently introduced a “nanoimprint lithography” system system is expected to represent the company’s competitive response to ASML, a Dutch firm, a force in the extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machine sector reported on financialexpress.com
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Pulse Technology Hosts Sharp USA Officials at Schaumburg Facility
Jun (Jeff) Ashida, President and CEO of Sharp Electronics Corp. USA is shown with Pulse Technology CEO Chip Miceli. Sharp Electronics leaders visited Pulse at its Schaumburg facility to see the new Sharp BP-1200S print production machine (shown in background) Pulse Technology ( https://pulsetechnology.com ), a technology company serving the IT, Managed Print Services and other needs of businesses throughout the Midwest and beyond, recently hosted several national leaders from the New...