Welcome to Printing Industry News Digest (PIND) issue 123, 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.
We mentioned manroland sheetfed at the top of last weeks news, but manroland web systems (now an entirely separate company) is selling hardware,
and continues to develop new and imaginative solutions for both
newspaper and commercial web press users. The latest news features the
integration of tablet-based controllers with web press hardware.
Press installations are few these days, and Japanese manufactured press installations even fewer due to the exchange rate at this time, but packaging specialist Glossop Cartons found the need to install a second Mitsubishi press at its Derbyshire HQ due to the knowledge and expertise of the supplier M Partners. Litho press experts at the UK distributor for Mitsubishi products provided a solution to a problem posed by the packaging company.
Cloud hosting heads for consolidation in Europe as Claranet absorbs competitor Star, but TechCrunch suggests that SaaS could be on its way out.
AutoTrader, meanwhile, is talking of record viewing numbers at its web site, where 11 million unique visitors popped by in October.
The Hewlett-Packard / Autonomy gig is has been getting plenty of web space this last week. The Guardian provides a summary of where we are now.
Further suggestions, this time from the Guardian, that Windows 8 is taking off fairly slowly. Perhaps no surprises given people’s experiences with previous operating systems, which have often required significant updates just a few months down the line.
Nice posting from the guys at Lifehacker detailing what calls 50 free apps
we’re most thankful for. Can’t disagree with the majority: if you are
not making the most of some of these excellent offerings, have a quick
read through!
In response to a question re keeping notes in sync, Lifehacker offers in interesting post with a wide range of solutions, many of which we have tried, and most of which we have liked. To us, however, it takes too long to reach the obvious answer: Evernote.
In
Tablet-Talk, it will come as no surprise following the recent rash of
affordable product introductions, that this festive period is already
being tagged as the Tablet Christmas. Future Publishing is suggesting that this will result in growth of e-editions of magazines.
Our friends at Mashable suggest that the Kindle Fire HD 8.9 is good but no iPad killer.
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.
PIND123
Missed Issue 122, including manroland sheetfed update? Then simply click here!
Issue 121: Useful packaging
Issue 120: Random Penguin publishing
Issue 119: iPad Mini and Windows 8
Get your Tech & Comms updates direct from the blog, use the RSS feed, or keep updated via Twitter.
We mentioned manroland sheetfed at the top of last weeks news, but manroland web systems (now an entirely separate company) is selling hardware,
and continues to develop new and imaginative solutions for both
newspaper and commercial web press users. The latest news features the
integration of tablet-based controllers with web press hardware.Press installations are few these days, and Japanese manufactured press installations even fewer due to the exchange rate at this time, but packaging specialist Glossop Cartons found the need to install a second Mitsubishi press at its Derbyshire HQ due to the knowledge and expertise of the supplier M Partners. Litho press experts at the UK distributor for Mitsubishi products provided a solution to a problem posed by the packaging company.
Cloud hosting heads for consolidation in Europe as Claranet absorbs competitor Star, but TechCrunch suggests that SaaS could be on its way out.AutoTrader, meanwhile, is talking of record viewing numbers at its web site, where 11 million unique visitors popped by in October.
The Hewlett-Packard / Autonomy gig is has been getting plenty of web space this last week. The Guardian provides a summary of where we are now.Further suggestions, this time from the Guardian, that Windows 8 is taking off fairly slowly. Perhaps no surprises given people’s experiences with previous operating systems, which have often required significant updates just a few months down the line.
Nice posting from the guys at Lifehacker detailing what calls 50 free apps
we’re most thankful for. Can’t disagree with the majority: if you are
not making the most of some of these excellent offerings, have a quick
read through!In response to a question re keeping notes in sync, Lifehacker offers in interesting post with a wide range of solutions, many of which we have tried, and most of which we have liked. To us, however, it takes too long to reach the obvious answer: Evernote.
In
Tablet-Talk, it will come as no surprise following the recent rash of
affordable product introductions, that this festive period is already
being tagged as the Tablet Christmas. Future Publishing is suggesting that this will result in growth of e-editions of magazines.Our friends at Mashable suggest that the Kindle Fire HD 8.9 is good but no iPad killer.
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.
PIND123
Missed Issue 122, including manroland sheetfed update? Then simply click here!
Issue 121: Useful packaging
Issue 120: Random Penguin publishing
Issue 119: iPad Mini and Windows 8
Get your Tech & Comms updates direct from the blog, use the RSS feed, or keep updated via Twitter.
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