Xerox's reported HP bid could create a PC and printing juggernaut
Xerox is considering a bid to acquire HP, which would unite a leader in copiers and printers under one roof.
Xerox is considering a bid to acquire HP, which would unite a leader in copiers and printers under one roof.
The "paperless office" has long been held up as a goal for businesses large and small, but few have come even close. The average office worker, in fact, still generates roughly two pounds of paper waste every day, according to the U.S. EPA.
The first large-scale analysis of a fundamental type of software known as firmware has revealed poor security practices that could present opportunities for hackers probing the "Internet of Things."
Apple's chief financial officer, Peter Oppenheimer, a long-familiar voice to Wall Street on the company's quarterly earnings calls, will retire at the end of September.
Xerox is offering managed service tools for enterprises that want to reduce the costs of remote printing.
Many companies have a love-hate relationship social media. They hate that employees may say something inappropriate or confidential, but they love the marketing impact of an army of workers hitting the social networks. We peek into Xerox's social media policy to see what the company tells its workers.
Xerox has issued the first software patch intended to fix a problem in some multi-function printers that causes characters to be incorrectly reproduced when scanned.
A software bug that caused some characters to be substituted for others in scans by some Xerox machines is more serious than previously thought.
Xerox will disable a scanner setting in some of its WorkCentre products that can sometimes result in figures being altered in scanned documents.
Xerox scanners have been found to randomly alter numbers on documents when reproducing them if a certain combination of image quality and compression setting is used.
Ethernet's value to networking and IT is well established over the past 40 years. But did you know that "Ethernet" refers to two slightly different ways of sending information between endpoints on a LAN? That and some other perhaps lesser known facts about this 40-year-old technology are reviewed here:
James "Jim" Horning, described by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) as "a leading figure in the evolution of computer science as a discipline and a profession, " has died at the age of 70 in Palo Alto.
The University of Nottingham is set to save at least 25 percent on its £1.5 million to £2 million annual printing costs by centralising the management of its printing estate, under a £9.2 million managed services deal with Xerox.
Cyberspies from China have hit 760 companies, research institutions, ISPs and government agencies over the past decade, according to a <a href="http://mobile.bloomberg.com/news/2011-12-13/china-based-hacking-of-760-companies-reflects-undeclared-global-cyber-war?category=%2Fnews%2Fmostread%2F">Bloomberg article</a> published Tuesday.
Nearly 80% of U.S. consumers surveyed this year said they're wary of <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9215857/Electronic_health_record_meaningful_use_reporting_period_begins">electronic health records</a> because they fear that their personal information might be stolen or lost if it were stored in an EHR system.