We’re going to start this week with a piece of fiction; an obviously “manufactured” video. However, we do so because this short, soundless film has another take on the newspaper format of the future. Not a tablet, but our old friend “digital paper”. It’s becoming more like “The Daily Prophet” from the Harry Potter films all the time! Perhaps we might start a digital paper v. tablet debate; you can always e-mail your thoughts through to PIND.Editor@gmail.comEarlier in the week, this piece of news about the iPhone offered some interesting thoughts on the latest potential for video calls, but then haven’t we been there before? Will iCall provide the necessary branding to make phone video take off? Do you really want to see my “first thing in the morning face” when you make a call?
HP buys Palm: this combination has to be capable of producing some exciting communications tools for sure. Watch this space. The reported $1.2 billion HP has paid includes the purchase of all of Palm’s patents too; a good deal do we think? Certainly it has to give HP a smartphone future.Getting back on the print track, PrintWeek’s latest IPEX preview focused on the key topic for this year’s show: digital, with inkjet very much to the fore. On the subject of digital, there was a very interesting report first seen on the US Newspapers & Technology site about a Kodak monochrome inkjet product being purchased by Carlisle-based CN Newsprint, with the aim of adding “personalised” information to a standard newspaper product. The printweek.com version of this story is now also available, or the full PR version.
We recently featured the Ryobi 525GE press on video. The latest edition of Print & Paper Monthly online features the same machine in its Centrespread feature, along with a review of the UK’s first Ryobi 524GE user. B3 print shops should take a look!
In the meantime, Apex Digital Graphics and Ryobi have announced the release of a new B2 varient, the Ryobi 750G. Apex also announced that it will be working with Xitron’s Navigator Elite workflow solution at IPEX.For UK printers, we should acknowledge the recent appearance of the Print Monthly web site, which is now active and providing news and information to the British print community.
Computer Corner: Do you work from several different computers during the course of a day or week? You might need Dropbox, a fantastic bit of freeware that allows you to synchronize your favourite files between your computers, and even your iPhone, with 2Gb of free space. You can add to this space by the way if you need to, though it will cost a few £$! Already a user? Our friends at LifeHacker have today detailed some additional ways to use your Dropbox account.
And finally this week, we return to the computer end of things: dual-core simply isn’t enough anymore, and those clever chaps at AMD are now introducing a six-core processor, the AMP Phenom II X6! Yikes! Does that mean I have to type even faster?PIND004
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