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These are the sort of crystal palaces that hold our data
Many multi million dollar datacentres store the ever growing stream of data from enterprises and consumers. These ´secret´ datacentres are sometimes hidden underground. Not however the new Equinix datacentre. At a cost of 145 million Euro the company built a futuristic glass multi-storey building in Slough, UK. Data from the International Business Exchange is stored…
Lees meerMore money for email marketing
83% of marketing professionals is of the opinion that email marketing is more important in 2015 than it was two years ago. Money set aside for email marketing has risen this year with an average of 27%. This is what E-mail Benchmark 2015 published. E-mail Benchmark conducts periodical research into trends and developments in the…
Lees meerI.T. Strategies report shows growth in Ink Jet Production
I.T. Strategies Inc., consultancy for the digital print market, reports a fierce growth in the number of pages produced with continues feed ink jet production printers. A 16% increase, a percentage that is expected also in the coming years. This growth will be at the expense of toner printers as well as offset. They furthermore…
Lees meerSitekiosk makes every Windows computer into an internet kiosk
Now the prices for computers are much lower it becomes more and more interesting to sell products via internet kiosks in public places. This was previously work for experts, but now with software such as Sitekiosk it is simple and fast. For 149 euro there is a basic version, a version which allows you to…
Lees meerLaurel Brunner: Fairly measuring energy consumption of digital printers not easy
Organisations such as ISO and Fogra are very busy trying to find standardised methods of measuring energy consumption of digital printers. There is still a long way to go and Lauren Brunner discussed the bumps in the road on her Verdigris blog on our articles page.
Lees meerGoogle Project Fi: the promise of faster and cheaper mobile connections
Google is just like many users dissatisfied with the slowness with which service providers improve the speed of internet access and the clever ways they have found to make money off of this. Google hopes to end this with Project Fi. Project Fi makes effective use of WiFi hotspots and charges only for the data…
Lees meerResearchers predict growth in mobile printing
Between 2015 and 2019 mobile printing will grow with an estimated 32.5% yearly, according to researcher Market Research Store. This because more mobile workers want to print from their smart phones, tablets or notebooks. This gives resellers the opportunity to offer cost effective, safe and standardized mobile printing solutions. Large organisations more often need mobile…
Lees meerPolitical influence for sale, especially in the USA
Lobbying for an industry or organization has really taken off. Google spent as much as 5.5 million dollars in the first quarter of this year to win over the American government. In sharp contrast to the money spent by publishers and the printing industry in the USA. In 2014 printers spent ´only´ 31,850 dollars on…
Lees meerDrupa Trends Report: one out of three printers looking to merge
The wave of mergers in the printing industry is not over yet. One out of every three (31%) printers has considered a merger, a take over or sale in the past year. That is only slightly more than the previous year (+3%). At least that´s what the 2nd Drupa Global Trends Report says. Nearly half…
Lees meerDrupa Barometer: printers forecasting good weather
Trust in the printing industry seems to be returning. At least, this can be concluded from the 2nd Drupa Global Trends Report. More than a third (34%) of printers saw a good 2014, only 13% admitted to a bad year. 2015 seems to be even more positive. Nearly half (48%) thinks that this year will…
Lees meerFESPA launches free technology guides for association members
As part of its commitment to education and knowledge sharing, FESPA has introduced a new series of technical guides which are available free of charge for members of FESPA’s national associations. Two sets of guides are now available covering Colour Management and Pre-Production Data Management, with more sets being rolled out during the year. Each…
Lees meerE-books increasingly popular because of price difference
Numbers released by the Dutch Centraal Boekhuis (central book repository) show that one in every 20 books sold is an e-book. And this number will continue to rise. Over the past quarter 583,277 e-books were sold, an increase of 22% compared to Q1 2014. Since beginning of this year the renting of e-books has doubled…
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