If you read my articles on "The Future of Inkjet Cartridges" or the "The Future of Inkjet Cartridges-Part II", you are aware that my purpose is to keep YOU, my valued customers, informed on what I feel the trend is in the printer industry.....(Look out Staples)! Yes, for now, we are pretty much stuck with the never ending toner cartridge world. A world where the powder or ink can wind up all over your clothes when changing the cartridge in your printer, sound familiar? Better yet, are you recycling your toner cartridges? That can be a royal pain as well. If you scanned my most recent article, "The Link Between Toner and the Digital World", paper is the link that crosses the industry into the 21st century. How does all this relate to Tomy Xiao? Well, that is the new digital camera which contains a printer made by Zink, the company with the paper and printer that makes the cutting edge technology. The new TOMY xiao™ TIP-521 Digital Camera with Built-in Printer is a full-featured

A couple of weeks I received a mysterious package in my mailbox consisting of a little device with numbers on it. The numbers change every minute or so and from the way my wife described it over the phone (yes, she was opening my mail), it looks like something that was ominously counting down to some fateful event. It turned out to be a One Time Password Token that my bank was using as part of its authentication mechanism to give me access to online banking. Why go through all the hassle? I already had a username and password that I needed to access my account. Did I really need a token to supplement that? Well, the bank was implementing a security technique called Two Factor Authentication. This is stronger than a simple username and password in that it requires an additional “key” that you need to prove you are who you say you are and open the door onto their services. Let’s start at the beginning. How can you prove you are really you? Well, security systems traditionally us

IT automation is a favorable solution for many reasons. The biggest reason is productivity, which in turn can help a company stay ahead of the competition significantly, while growing their revenue, increasing their profits and cutting back on their own costs without having to cut corners. IT automation and data center automation are both ways this can all be accomplished. If you think that IT automation can help you, then there are several assessments you'll need to make of your company and its exact needs. First, you will need to determine what level of automation your company is going to need in order to run efficiently and effectively. Some companies may benefit the most from full scale network automation, while others may just need a bit of assistance in order to cut costs in the IT department. You will also need to research the type of IT automation that will work best for you. One option is the SOP Automation module. This enables employees and workgroups to define and employ

Paper!! What was that answer, Paper? Explain this! I will explain how this relates to the Future of Toner and Ink Cartridges and it�s relevance with the digital world. In today�s world, you can never be complacent and sleep while the rest of the world and its technology pass you by. Today, digital equipment has exploded with digital imaging becoming as popular as the Beatles! I am amazed when I use my digital camera, I have the ability not only to take a huge quantity of photos, but delete the ones I do not care to keep. Then, go home and load them up in my computer and see quality digital photo�s in minutes. Sounds like we have come light years with this technology, right? Well��. It does not stop there. �Research shows that in this digital age, more than ever, people still have a deep-rooted need to see, feel, mark, share or use their digital images or information in a physical form. Paper, as a matter of fact!� This is where Zink technology comes in. This company is determined t

Ink Cartridges are strange things, innocuous vessels of a substance that seems so common and disposable � on every daily newspaper, on every flyer stuck to your car windscreen, even on those little sachets of silica gel you find in every box of new Nikes. Yet, if we want to buy ink for use in our own homes we seem to pay well over the odds. Today, a gallon of the stuff would set you back nearly �3000, and the outraged consumer is no longer standing idly by. In 2003 640,000 members of The Dutch Consumer Association started a month-long boycott of Epson Inkjet printers, whilst The Office of Fair Trading has also carried out its own investigation into the cost of ink cartridges. The OFT found three main problems with the printer market: 1. Consumers are unaware of the future costs of cartridges when they buy their printers, 2. There is no standard test to show how many pages should be printed by which cartridges, 3. Printer warranty information is unclear. The OFT investigation led t

The Eee - strange name, isn't it? White, roughly tablet sized, and inclined to make a person feel a tad loved up (towards it, at least, if not towards everyone else)... actually, I think I can see why Asus called it that now. Or perhaps there's supposed to be an unspoken "ba gum!" at the end of it? After all, you could easily be forgiven for uttering such a thing after a quick play with this impressive little gadget - I certainly did, and I'm not even from Yorkshire. But what exactly am I talking about, some of you will be wondering (unless you clicked the link)? And those who already know will probably be wondering why I'm going on about something that's such old news. Well, the other week was the first time that I, at long last, got my hands on one. It was love at first sight. Well, for me anyway; the Eee, on the other hand, remained quietly coy. Like anyone else with half an interest in a laptop I've been reading about the Eee's sensibly priced, pocket sized loveliness for mo

When looking for an electronics enclosure system, there are a number of qualities that one should consider. Look for a company that serves a diverse customer base, both domestic and international. Make sure the enclosure and console systems are used in a wide variety of applications, such as test and measurement, information technology, POS (point of sale), security, telecom, datacom, military, industrial process control, network operations, call centers, and trading rooms. A company that works closely with customers from the beginning to the end of the sale shows the dedication of that company. Through planning, designing, manufacturing, and installing, one should be able to see that the customer�s needs come first. A team of knowledgeable experts should be on hand to help find the perfect enclosure solution for the customer�s specific requirements. There are a number of services that a company can provide in order to show its customers that it really does care about them and th

Time and attendance and clocking systems have moved on over the last few years from traditional punch clock cards to the latest biometric technology. This might seem a bit extreme but companies loose millions on people being late, leaving early and what is known as �buddy clocking� people clocking for other people. Biometric access control is growing quickly large organisation such as banks, airports etc tend to set the trend with this type of technology and I am sure if you go into any of these you will find some kind of biometric scanner whether it is clocking or access control or simply to log computers on/off. What�s wrong with swipe cards or pin numbers you might ask, these can be copied or obtained covertly where as a biometric scan is a lot harder to copy in fact almost impossible. When people hear biometric they instantly think of fingerprint technology but this is only one of several biometric systems. Fingerprint is the most common and least expensive to implement in to a

The Universal Serial Bus port, or USB, was seminal in standardizing computer interfaces. Previously, separate ports, generally serial ports, were individualized according to the type of device that required connection to the main computer terminal. With the invention of the USB port, greater versatility and interoperability was achieved that allowed the average computer-user far greater ease with which to connect external devices. The USB cable was even more convenient for the fact that it does not require that the computer be rebooted before use. Perhaps the most visible change created by the introduction of the USB cable is the proliferation of USB flash drives, or compact, external memory devices. These devices are quickly replacing the need for traditional hard drives and their prices have continued to fall since their introduction into the marketplace. These drives are not only useful for users, then, but are also more cost-effective to produce. They have a 200 million-hour mean

As I write this, a CD is playing in the background. A sampled heartbeat gives way to clatters and skitters of drums; impossibly fragile cymbals begin to shimmer; a hip-hop beat kicks in; all the time a looped melody is gradually asserting itself, morphing, mutating, multiplying, dissolving, chiming; an assortment of new rhythms start to twist in and out of each other, snaking around the main beat, entwining� Well, you get the picture. But here's the point I'm making: there's more going on in this first couple of minutes of Four Tet's masterpiece Rounds than on some entire albums. The time and painstaking precision that must have gone into sequencing it all so precisely, so beautifully, is simply amazing. All those hours Kieran Hebden must have spent hunched over his laptop� You can't imagine it sounding any other way. But more than that, if someone were to ask him to start over from scratch (though I don't know why anyone would), you'd be amazed if even he could produce that exac