Welcome to Printing Industry News Digest (PIND) issue 83, providing a summary of major news items from the printing, publishing, packaging, digital and communications technology sectors. PIND incorporates brief summaries and links to the week's key news stories so that you can look up that all important detail, digging deeper behind the headline. Do also take a look at our automated Twitter-based GenesisNews Print Daily publication; why not take out a free subscription for a daily digital delivery!
Lots of little tech snippets this week, including a very good question from the Guardian: where would be without Microsoft Word? The word processing programme in the hands of many a wordsmith, including the starting point for every PIND document, many newspaper articles, and, as pointed out by the author of the Guardian’s comment, most new books!
In the world of tech TechCrunch sums up 2011, and tells us that many of the products that have been pipe-dreams for such a long time actually came into the real world this last year.
Many Siri-like software products have been unleashed on the world in the last few months, and whilst many have been found wanting Vlingo seems to cover the basic bases pretty well for iOS users. Mashable offers us four alternative Siri-like products, including both Vlingo and the voice control already built-in to the iPhone 4. We wouldn't go as far as recommending that one! You can always take a closer look at SRI, the original creators of Siri.
Another software given the PIND seal of approval this week is CameraSync. The product provides an effortless way to get your iPhone pictures semi-automatically despatched to your home PC or Mac via Dropbox or BoxNet.
The dawning of 2012 left your design lakes dry? Take a look at these 10 inspirational typography design blogs – they might just help! Just for good measure, you might want a similarly inspirational set of business card designs.
Plenty going on at CES 2012 during this week of course, with new Asus Eee PC netbooks being revealed for starters. Samsung offers us future-proof voice-controlled television too.
Orange launches the Tahiti in the UK, described as seven inches of Huawei hardware heaven! Yes, well that might be a bit overboard. It’s a seven inch tablet, but Orange is hooking in one expensive contract in our opinion. Let us know what you think of course: PIND.editor@gmail.com
This computer-in-your-desk project from Lifehacker caught our imagination. A neat, space saving solution for sure!
In the world of print, Xeikon has been busy acquiring this week, with the flexographic CtP manufacturer Flexolaser moving into their camp along with the rights to the Thermoflex trademark, which have been acquired from Eastman Kodak.
Finally, do keep checking back to see what will be featured in our next edition, PIND 84. For an RSS feed of PIND, copy this link into your feed reader; and click here for the GenesisNews Print Daily – you can even take out a free subscription for this daily news update on print, publishing, packaging and associated technology!
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Missed Issue 82, including Kodak news and publishing topics? Then simply click here!
Issue 81: Manroland, newspapers and cloud
Issue 80: Further update on Manroland
Issue 79: Manroland update plus KBA at Luton
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Lots of little tech snippets this week, including a very good question from the Guardian: where would be without Microsoft Word? The word processing programme in the hands of many a wordsmith, including the starting point for every PIND document, many newspaper articles, and, as pointed out by the author of the Guardian’s comment, most new books!In the world of tech TechCrunch sums up 2011, and tells us that many of the products that have been pipe-dreams for such a long time actually came into the real world this last year.
Many Siri-like software products have been unleashed on the world in the last few months, and whilst many have been found wanting Vlingo seems to cover the basic bases pretty well for iOS users. Mashable offers us four alternative Siri-like products, including both Vlingo and the voice control already built-in to the iPhone 4. We wouldn't go as far as recommending that one! You can always take a closer look at SRI, the original creators of Siri.Another software given the PIND seal of approval this week is CameraSync. The product provides an effortless way to get your iPhone pictures semi-automatically despatched to your home PC or Mac via Dropbox or BoxNet.
The dawning of 2012 left your design lakes dry? Take a look at these 10 inspirational typography design blogs – they might just help! Just for good measure, you might want a similarly inspirational set of business card designs.Plenty going on at CES 2012 during this week of course, with new Asus Eee PC netbooks being revealed for starters. Samsung offers us future-proof voice-controlled television too.
Orange launches the Tahiti in the UK, described as seven inches of Huawei hardware heaven! Yes, well that might be a bit overboard. It’s a seven inch tablet, but Orange is hooking in one expensive contract in our opinion. Let us know what you think of course: PIND.editor@gmail.comThis computer-in-your-desk project from Lifehacker caught our imagination. A neat, space saving solution for sure!
In the world of print, Xeikon has been busy acquiring this week, with the flexographic CtP manufacturer Flexolaser moving into their camp along with the rights to the Thermoflex trademark, which have been acquired from Eastman Kodak.
Finally, do keep checking back to see what will be featured in our next edition, PIND 84. For an RSS feed of PIND, copy this link into your feed reader; and click here for the GenesisNews Print Daily – you can even take out a free subscription for this daily news update on print, publishing, packaging and associated technology!
PIND083
Missed Issue 82, including Kodak news and publishing topics? Then simply click here!
Issue 81: Manroland, newspapers and cloud
Issue 80: Further update on Manroland
Issue 79: Manroland update plus KBA at Luton
Get Your Print News Every Day!
Got friends that might like GenesisNews? Tweet them now: click here!
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