Tag: Office

  • Google Offers Video-Sharing for Businesses

    Channel Insider Staff

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    By Eric Auchard   SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Google Inc is adding YouTube-like video communications features to its business application suite, looking to make video-sharing among office workers as easy as trading e-mails or instant messages. Unlike YouTube, which is aimed at consumers, Google Video for business is designed to be shared among designated users… Read more

  • Ricoh Shares up on Ikon Acquisition, Canon Slides

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    TOKYO (Reuters) – Shares of copier and printer maker Ricoh Co Ltd jumped nearly 4 percent on its $1.6 billion acquisition of U.S. distributor Ikon Office Solutions, while rival Canon Inc slid to a four-month low on concerns the deal would hurt its business. Ricoh, which competes with Xerox Corp, Canon and Konica Minolta Holdings,… Read more

  • FOR ESP: Making the Office Truly Paperless

    Alison Diana

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    The paperless environment the IT industry has promised over the years hasn’t quite happened yet but solution provider DIAMP Network sure is trying. From freshly printed Excel spreadsheets, to 50-year-old hand-written notes, DIAMP (Digital Imaging and Management Professionals) transforms paper documents into searchable, digitized images for a range of clients—from large law firms and government… Read more

  • Digital Pen Maker Writes New Channel Program

    Jessica Davis

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    Looking for an incremental revenue stream with a gee-whiz factor too?  A company called Adapx is rolling out a channel program for a digital pen that captures a user’s handwritten notes, stores them inside the pen, and then transfers them to the user’s PC once the pen is docked. What’s more, the pen actually has… Read more

  • Time to Talk About Tablet PCs?

    David Strom

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    Tablet PCs have firmly established themselves in certain vertical markets where users don’t have offices or need to compute while standing. But as the tablet market matures, more sedentary office workers could benefit from using them, particularly when it comes to annotation and approval tasks. This presents opportunities for solution providers to spread the message… Read more

  • Microsoft Gets Closer to Open Document Standard

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    ST GALLEN, Switzerland (Reuters) – Microsoft said on Wednesday that starting some time next year it will make it easier for users of an open-source rival to work with Microsoft Office. Without adding any special software to Office, users will be able to open documents sent to them in the open source Open Document Format… Read more