Welcome to Printing Industry News Digest (PIND) issue 133, 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.
Two interesting news items from print’s heavy metal brigade this week. Firstly, KBA advised
the world that a 2.5% price increase in its presses was going to solve
all of its problems: questionable for sure! And then on Friday, Heidelberg
posted its “strongest third-quarter operating result since 2007/08.”
Sounds impressive until you realise that this still leaves the business
some 32 million Euro’s in red ink YTD. Where to next for the big
machinery boys?
InPrint came to our attention this week: an exhibition for the world of industrial print. This is a sector that we never fully appreciated in all honesty. However, a glance through the overly wordy definition of the title should be enough to make anybody involved in print sit up and take notice. Such a show spreads a pretty wide net, and certainly includes the wonders of printed electronics and 3D printing – two topics that we have spent time and words on in recent months. The show is set for Hannover, Germany and happens next year from April 8 to 10 2014: plenty of time to get your thoughts together on this massive topic.
Want some Google?
Eric Schmidt is going to sell £1.6 billion worth of it during the
course of the next year – that’s 42% of his stake. His estimated 7.6
million shares in the company represent 2.3% of Google's outstanding
stock. On the subject of popular shares, LinkedIn stock has soared 19.2% on the back of some juicy earnings.
Least surprising news of the week? Following the recently reported chunky hand-out from Google to French publishers, the rest of Europe’s media wants some too. No such concerns in the US, as online subscriptions carry on increasing for the New York Times.
While the Guardian is happy to give out advice on how you might access the internet with your tablet, analysts are telling us that tablets will outsell notebooks in France this year. Mashable meanwhile is keen to offer suggestions on what to do with your old tablet.
On the subject of how to get online, the UK’s 4G network is gradually growing this year, with some 27 more towns coming on-stream, expanding the total to 65 conurbations.
Ready to get in line for Mailbox?
Well, its getting nearer to reality, but it seems that if you want to
be in a position to test the delights of Mailbox, already being touted
as the best Gmail client for iOS, then you will need to join a pretty lengthy queue. We think we will wait until its finished.
Android Tips: Having brought you the delights of Nova Launcher last
week, we feel wholly obliged to show you just what you can do with it
this week. In doing so we are entirely indebted to Thand and his Holo Cards
posting via Lifehacker. This minimalist Android theme really caught our
eye. Hopefully it does the same to you. Our use of the theme is not
100% as yet, and most interpretations probably won’t be: we all have out
unique needs after all. Firstly, ours has been adapted for a Nexus 7,
meaning that six dock names can be used. If you just like the square app
boxes, you can pick those up by downloading the Minimal MIUI Go Apex theme. Full instructions for the Holo Cards theme are here.
Those
readers enthused to attempt the creation of something similar should
note that the use of names rather than icons in the dock is so much more
than it looks. The names are actually just links to another
screen-page. Rather than launching an app, they just transport the user
to a new screen of apps to select from. The nine squares in the main
screen are app launchers in traditional sense – they just have no name
labels displayed. The whole exercise of changing the theme and way of
working Android is very educational in our opinion. Try it – you might
enjoy it!
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.
PIND133
Missed Issue 132, including Morgana turns Swedish? Then simply click here!
Issue 131: Kodak out of IPEX
Issue 130: Start of Android Tip Series
Issue 129: Educational publishing
Get your Tech & Comms updates direct from the blog, use the RSS feed, or keep updated via Twitter.
Two interesting news items from print’s heavy metal brigade this week. Firstly, KBA advised
the world that a 2.5% price increase in its presses was going to solve
all of its problems: questionable for sure! And then on Friday, Heidelberg
posted its “strongest third-quarter operating result since 2007/08.”
Sounds impressive until you realise that this still leaves the business
some 32 million Euro’s in red ink YTD. Where to next for the big
machinery boys?InPrint came to our attention this week: an exhibition for the world of industrial print. This is a sector that we never fully appreciated in all honesty. However, a glance through the overly wordy definition of the title should be enough to make anybody involved in print sit up and take notice. Such a show spreads a pretty wide net, and certainly includes the wonders of printed electronics and 3D printing – two topics that we have spent time and words on in recent months. The show is set for Hannover, Germany and happens next year from April 8 to 10 2014: plenty of time to get your thoughts together on this massive topic.
Want some Google?
Eric Schmidt is going to sell £1.6 billion worth of it during the
course of the next year – that’s 42% of his stake. His estimated 7.6
million shares in the company represent 2.3% of Google's outstanding
stock. On the subject of popular shares, LinkedIn stock has soared 19.2% on the back of some juicy earnings.Least surprising news of the week? Following the recently reported chunky hand-out from Google to French publishers, the rest of Europe’s media wants some too. No such concerns in the US, as online subscriptions carry on increasing for the New York Times.
While the Guardian is happy to give out advice on how you might access the internet with your tablet, analysts are telling us that tablets will outsell notebooks in France this year. Mashable meanwhile is keen to offer suggestions on what to do with your old tablet.On the subject of how to get online, the UK’s 4G network is gradually growing this year, with some 27 more towns coming on-stream, expanding the total to 65 conurbations.
Ready to get in line for Mailbox?
Well, its getting nearer to reality, but it seems that if you want to
be in a position to test the delights of Mailbox, already being touted
as the best Gmail client for iOS, then you will need to join a pretty lengthy queue. We think we will wait until its finished.
Android Tips: Having brought you the delights of Nova Launcher last
week, we feel wholly obliged to show you just what you can do with it
this week. In doing so we are entirely indebted to Thand and his Holo Cards
posting via Lifehacker. This minimalist Android theme really caught our
eye. Hopefully it does the same to you. Our use of the theme is not
100% as yet, and most interpretations probably won’t be: we all have out
unique needs after all. Firstly, ours has been adapted for a Nexus 7,
meaning that six dock names can be used. If you just like the square app
boxes, you can pick those up by downloading the Minimal MIUI Go Apex theme. Full instructions for the Holo Cards theme are here.
Those
readers enthused to attempt the creation of something similar should
note that the use of names rather than icons in the dock is so much more
than it looks. The names are actually just links to another
screen-page. Rather than launching an app, they just transport the user
to a new screen of apps to select from. The nine squares in the main
screen are app launchers in traditional sense – they just have no name
labels displayed. The whole exercise of changing the theme and way of
working Android is very educational in our opinion. Try it – you might
enjoy it!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.
PIND133
Missed Issue 132, including Morgana turns Swedish? Then simply click here!
Issue 131: Kodak out of IPEX
Issue 130: Start of Android Tip Series
Issue 129: Educational publishing
Get your Tech & Comms updates direct from the blog, use the RSS feed, or keep updated via Twitter.
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