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Xerox aims to help enterprises curb remote printing costs with new tools, services
Xerox is offering managed service tools for enterprises that want to reduce the costs of remote printing.
Windows 8.1 creates mouse-control problems for gamers
Gamers who upgraded their PCs to Windows 8.1 are enduring mouse-control problems that affect their ability to play, a problem Microsoft acknowledged...
3-D printing comes of age
Boeing, NASA, Lockheed Martin and GE are among the large corporations that for decades have used additive manufacturing, known more popularly as 3-D...
3-D printing adds new dimension to business innovation
3-D printing may have an image problem. It's sometimes seen as a hobbyist pursuit -- a fun way to build knickknacks from your living room desktop...
Ultimate guide to the paperless office
You have no excuse for being buried under paper these days. The tools to digitize most or all of your pile are readily at hand and very affordable....
As the digital revolution kills jobs, social unrest will rise
Gartner is forecasting some major changes in technology, especially in areas like 3D printing, machine learning and voice recognition. They are all...
DoCoMo shows 'touch display' for computer glasses
Head-mounted computers like Google Glass are a useful way to view content and interact with the world on the move, but one drawback is the lack of a...
Hungry? Let's print lunch
Pablos Holman sees a day not too far off when our diets will be tailored to our metabolisms, adding a few bits of broccoli, a smattering of beets and...
Intel bringing vision, 3D to laptop and tablet cameras
From mundane 2D devices, integrated cameras in laptops and tablets in the future will change into powerful 3D tools that can sense movement, track...
Xerox releases patch for scanning error issue
Xerox has issued the first software patch intended to fix a problem in some multi-function printers that causes characters to be incorrectly...
Impact of Xerox character-substitution bug wider than thought
A software bug that caused some characters to be substituted for others in scans by some Xerox machines is more serious than previously thought.
Xerox to patch scanner glitch that can alter numbers
Xerox will disable a scanner setting in some of its WorkCentre products that can sometimes result in figures being altered in scanned documents.
Douglas Engelbart, inventor of the computer mouse, has died
Douglas Engelbart, a Silicon Valley engineer who invented the computer mouse and is credited with many of the concepts that underpin modern computing...
3-D printer maker Stratasys to acquire desktop rival MakerBot
3-D printer company Stratasys is acquiring desktop 3-D printer maker MakerBot for over US$400 million in an all-stock deal, to shore up its consumer...
Nvidia says Tegra 4 can power a better, cheaper stylus
Nvidia is usually trumpeting the graphics performance of its Tegra 4 chip, but at the Computex trade show on Tuesday CEO Jen-Hsun Huang showed how...
Next-generation Kinect for Windows won't be for the average user
Microsoft has made it official: The new-and-improved Kinect that will ship with the Xbox One later this year will also come to Windows in 2014.
Obama plays up 3D printing's military applications under new manufacturing plans
3D printing has been attracting more attention in recent months as a tool to create gadgets, toys and miniature works of art. Now President Barack...
10 great technologies to secretly install on Mom's PC
She's your mom. She's risen to every challenge, not the least of which was raising you to be the fine, upstanding PC enthusiast you are today.
Humongous is here: 'Eyes-on' with three 29-inch displays
When you're multitasking like mad, one monitor doesn't provide enough real estate to display every open window without many of them overlapping and...
Five easy steps to going (almost) paperless
It's over between me and my file cabinet. Six drawers full of dead trees. Total weight: a gargantuan 194.7 pounds of paper. I can't think of...