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• 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 targets paper-laden enterprises with new mobile apps, services

  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.

• Study finds firmware plagued by poor encryption and backdoors

  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 CFO to retire in September after he cashes in $53m stock award

  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 aims to help enterprises curb remote printing costs with new tools, services

  Xerox is offering managed service tools for enterprises that want to reduce the costs of remote printing.

• Social Media Policy Offers Dos and Don'ts for Employees

  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 releases patch for scanning error issue

  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.

• Impact of Xerox character-substitution bug wider than thought

  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 to patch scanner glitch that can alter numbers

  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 found to sometimes alter numbers

  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.

• 10 things you may not know about Ethernet

  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:

• Computer science leader Jim Horning dies at 70

  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.

• University of Nottingham to save 25% of £2m annual printing costs

  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.

• Report: Google, Intel among Chinese hacker targets

  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.

• Healthcare IT Consumers Fear Data Loss From EHR Systems

  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.