Welcome to Printing Industry News Digest (PIND) issue 121, 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.
Nice to see in this high-tech world that product packaging
can still be put to good use – even by the wealthy Apple company! What
would appear to be iPhone or iPod packaging seems destined to morph into
a stand for the product. Amazing what they can do nowadays!
On which subject, Mastercard has released a bank-card with screen and keyboard included. The touch sensitive buttons provide the ability the create a one-time password for online banking.
Returning
briefly to packaging, it was good to see the digital press people at
Xeikon are still keeping busy in the label sector: a Xeikon 3030 installation at PeterLynn Ltd in Corby has become that company’s first venture into digital label production.
The Guardian has been reminding us of the transformation of publishing. A readable brief history lesson if nothing else!
Meanwhile, we are advised that the UK contains millions of people lacking a basic online
knowledge. We see a chunk of folk in the over 60-bracket who are likely
to fall into this collective, more worrying is the 60% of small to
medium sized businesses with little or no digital presence.
Dropbox fans, as well as users of other cloud storage solutions, might well be interested to compare their favourite solution with the service being offered by Cubby. The new entrant suggests some different ways of working: well worth a look we think.
Still
not convinced or ready for Twitter? Take note: the 85-year-old leader
of the world’s 1.2 billion Roman Catholics is getting himself sorted
with a different type of “follower”. Pope Benedict is adding to the existing tech focus of www.pope2you.ne with the Twitter focus. The papal handle appears to be @PopeBenedictXVI - bet he gets more followers than us.
Tablet focus this week begins with TechRadar’s opinion on the top 10 devices. It rates the iPad Mini and iPad 4 as one and two, but perhaps surprisingly these are followed by the Google Nexus brace in seven and ten inch formats. Reviews of the Nexus 10 also abound. Your thoughts welcomed to PIND.editor@gmail.com
One interesting angle brought into focus by the growth of tablets is offered by the Mashable team: portrait mode and the way we use computers. The portrait way of working – as often employed by those with a slate – is something seldom replicated on a computer screen.
We have mentioned the super cheap Raspberry Pi computer before, and a list of 12 suggested uses was
posted only recently to inspire geeky enthusiasts, however, Texas
Instruments has even managed to reduce further the entry point for mini
computing. Its single circuit board product will set you back a pocket-money price of $13.00 (£8.15) at your local Walmart!
Keep your finger on the pulse: grab an RSS feed of PIND (copy this link into your feed reader); click here for the GenesisNews #Print Daily to get the latest daily stories; or click here for regular Tech & Comms updates in blog or RSS form. You can also connect to a free subscription of the Print Daily for an update on print, publishing, packaging and associated technology delivered straight to your in-box every day! For details on Genesis Marketing – publishers of PIND – click here.
PIND121
Missed Issue 120, including Random Penguin? Then simply click here!
Issue 119: iPad Mini and Windows 8
Issue 118: A bad week for print
Issue 117: Seven-inch tablets
Get your Tech & Comms updates direct from the blog, use the RSS feed, or keep updated via Twitter.
Nice to see in this high-tech world that product packaging
can still be put to good use – even by the wealthy Apple company! What
would appear to be iPhone or iPod packaging seems destined to morph into
a stand for the product. Amazing what they can do nowadays!On which subject, Mastercard has released a bank-card with screen and keyboard included. The touch sensitive buttons provide the ability the create a one-time password for online banking.
Returning
briefly to packaging, it was good to see the digital press people at
Xeikon are still keeping busy in the label sector: a Xeikon 3030 installation at PeterLynn Ltd in Corby has become that company’s first venture into digital label production.The Guardian has been reminding us of the transformation of publishing. A readable brief history lesson if nothing else!
Meanwhile, we are advised that the UK contains millions of people lacking a basic online
knowledge. We see a chunk of folk in the over 60-bracket who are likely
to fall into this collective, more worrying is the 60% of small to
medium sized businesses with little or no digital presence.Dropbox fans, as well as users of other cloud storage solutions, might well be interested to compare their favourite solution with the service being offered by Cubby. The new entrant suggests some different ways of working: well worth a look we think.
Still
not convinced or ready for Twitter? Take note: the 85-year-old leader
of the world’s 1.2 billion Roman Catholics is getting himself sorted
with a different type of “follower”. Pope Benedict is adding to the existing tech focus of www.pope2you.ne with the Twitter focus. The papal handle appears to be @PopeBenedictXVI - bet he gets more followers than us.Tablet focus this week begins with TechRadar’s opinion on the top 10 devices. It rates the iPad Mini and iPad 4 as one and two, but perhaps surprisingly these are followed by the Google Nexus brace in seven and ten inch formats. Reviews of the Nexus 10 also abound. Your thoughts welcomed to PIND.editor@gmail.com
One interesting angle brought into focus by the growth of tablets is offered by the Mashable team: portrait mode and the way we use computers. The portrait way of working – as often employed by those with a slate – is something seldom replicated on a computer screen.
We have mentioned the super cheap Raspberry Pi computer before, and a list of 12 suggested uses was
posted only recently to inspire geeky enthusiasts, however, Texas
Instruments has even managed to reduce further the entry point for mini
computing. Its single circuit board product will set you back a pocket-money price of $13.00 (£8.15) at your local Walmart!Keep your finger on the pulse: grab an RSS feed of PIND (copy this link into your feed reader); click here for the GenesisNews #Print Daily to get the latest daily stories; or click here for regular Tech & Comms updates in blog or RSS form. You can also connect to a free subscription of the Print Daily for an update on print, publishing, packaging and associated technology delivered straight to your in-box every day! For details on Genesis Marketing – publishers of PIND – click here.
PIND121
Missed Issue 120, including Random Penguin? Then simply click here!
Issue 119: iPad Mini and Windows 8
Issue 118: A bad week for print
Issue 117: Seven-inch tablets
Get your Tech & Comms updates direct from the blog, use the RSS feed, or keep updated via Twitter.
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