Welcome to Printing Industry News Digest (PIND) issue 129, 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.
Publishing has grabbed our attention this week: educational publishing has been put into focus by McGraw-Hill and its digital partner Kno:
the future of textbooks is all about being dynamic – a flexible
learning tool that develops with the student. Sounds good – unless you
are a printer maybe!
The publishing focus continues with the news that printed book sales fell in 2012, but some suggest that they fell more slowly than in previous years. One in twenty printed books sold was by E L James! Is this good? We guess so.
Newspaper and internet publishing has also been in the news in Ireland,
with ownership and rights issues being in focus. Should a newspaper
charge a site for linking to it? Doesn't sound like good business to us!
Interesting development on the Kodak front as they license the name to JK Imaging for camera and projector production, following on from last years decision to quit the digital camera market.
CES news: Nice little wifi drive
from HP – 32Gb and able to send video or audio files to multiple
recipients. Also great USB device to turn your old laptop into a touchscreen device with Windows 8. The Nexus 7 dock snuck in the back door too!
Deserving of a mention for sure is this really cool Android Mini PC product. With a reported price tag of just $45 (less than £30) is has to be well worth a play. OK, it needs everything plugged in (monitor, keyboard, mouse), but you probably have a few of these about, especially as Bluetooth is now included on the latest version. Android with a mouse is just fine in our experience!
One thing that has intrigued us for a while is the not so humble watch. Latest variants have popped their heads above the parapet at CES. There is Pebble, which has had plenty of coverage; but also Toshiba; the latest update to I’m Watch doing an iPod Nano impression; and the Martian Passport Watch (?!) now in the fray. Interesting times!
It’s a new year – of course there will be tech predictions . . . ! More focused predictions re Microsoft and 2013 too [do read this one! it really is worth it!]. Mashable adds in five Chinese brands that we will hear more of in 2013. Of course, if you want to know the next big thing, the Guardian says ask a teenager!
On the general software front, Fetchnotes
happened our way, and certainly appears to be a good multi-platform,
well designed note-taking tool. We will give it a run out and see how it
performs, but the question as always with such apps is can they do the
job any better than the more general approach of Evernote. We do like the use of hash-tags in Fetchnotes and the nice and simple attach facility: worth a look we think!
Some 1 million Raspberry Pi sales have now been chalked up!
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.
PIND129
Missed Issue 128, a focus on RSS news readers? Then simply click here!
Issue 127: manroland to close Plauen
Issue 126: Fuji’s JetPress
Issue 125: Death of The Daily
Get your Tech & Comms updates direct from the blog, use the RSS feed, or keep updated via Twitter.
Publishing has grabbed our attention this week: educational publishing has been put into focus by McGraw-Hill and its digital partner Kno:
the future of textbooks is all about being dynamic – a flexible
learning tool that develops with the student. Sounds good – unless you
are a printer maybe!The publishing focus continues with the news that printed book sales fell in 2012, but some suggest that they fell more slowly than in previous years. One in twenty printed books sold was by E L James! Is this good? We guess so.
Newspaper and internet publishing has also been in the news in Ireland,
with ownership and rights issues being in focus. Should a newspaper
charge a site for linking to it? Doesn't sound like good business to us!Interesting development on the Kodak front as they license the name to JK Imaging for camera and projector production, following on from last years decision to quit the digital camera market.
CES news: Nice little wifi drive
from HP – 32Gb and able to send video or audio files to multiple
recipients. Also great USB device to turn your old laptop into a touchscreen device with Windows 8. The Nexus 7 dock snuck in the back door too!Deserving of a mention for sure is this really cool Android Mini PC product. With a reported price tag of just $45 (less than £30) is has to be well worth a play. OK, it needs everything plugged in (monitor, keyboard, mouse), but you probably have a few of these about, especially as Bluetooth is now included on the latest version. Android with a mouse is just fine in our experience!
One thing that has intrigued us for a while is the not so humble watch. Latest variants have popped their heads above the parapet at CES. There is Pebble, which has had plenty of coverage; but also Toshiba; the latest update to I’m Watch doing an iPod Nano impression; and the Martian Passport Watch (?!) now in the fray. Interesting times!It’s a new year – of course there will be tech predictions . . . ! More focused predictions re Microsoft and 2013 too [do read this one! it really is worth it!]. Mashable adds in five Chinese brands that we will hear more of in 2013. Of course, if you want to know the next big thing, the Guardian says ask a teenager!
On the general software front, Fetchnotes
happened our way, and certainly appears to be a good multi-platform,
well designed note-taking tool. We will give it a run out and see how it
performs, but the question as always with such apps is can they do the
job any better than the more general approach of Evernote. We do like the use of hash-tags in Fetchnotes and the nice and simple attach facility: worth a look we think!Some 1 million Raspberry Pi sales have now been chalked up!
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.
PIND129
Missed Issue 128, a focus on RSS news readers? Then simply click here!
Issue 127: manroland to close Plauen
Issue 126: Fuji’s JetPress
Issue 125: Death of The Daily
Get your Tech & Comms updates direct from the blog, use the RSS feed, or keep updated via Twitter.
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