by Hunter Feybusch
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by Hunter Feybusch
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- Huawei Software Co. of China and Canon announced they will team up to develop a native HarmonyOS, Printing Ecosystem
- “New software for printers, drivers, relevant applications, and cloud printing.”
- Announced new partnership during the Huawei Smart Office Ecosystem Summit in Wuhan, China on December 26, 2024
- Now an official partner of Huawei’s HarmonyOS next ecosystem
- Huawei of China has been under investigation for years:
- U.S. Department of Justice in 2019, charged Huawei with bank fraud and stealing trade secrets
- Charged Huawei, its chief financial office, and two affiliated firms with a laundry list of crimes including Conspiracy, money laundering, bank and wire fraud
- A group of US senators has pushed to impose sanctions on Huawei as they believe the company is a U.S. security threat
- Numerous countries allege that the company’s products may purposely contain security holes that China’s government could use for spying purposes
- Also, some countries allege that Huawei steals intellectual property from foreign technology
– Man in his 20s was arrested and sentenced to 2 years in prison in South Korea – Convicted of using a color MFP to make twenty 50,000 won banknotes Counterfeit bills used at convenience stores and restaurants
– Cyber Insider magazine published article about last week’s Pwn2Own hacking convention in Dublin, Ireland – Part of the event was a contest challenging hackers to compromise different brands of MFPs that were on stage – The following MFPs were successfully hacked, and prize money paid out: – Canon imageFORCE 1643F – Brother MFC-L8970cdw – […]
– Research published by Reliable Business Insights – Projected CAGR (compound annual growth rate) of 14.6% – Global market valued at $22.1 billion – MPS market growth driven by: o shift in demand from ownership to outcome-based solutions moving away from the capital-intensive model of buying and maintaining a fleet of printers to an […]
– Research report published by IEEE Xplore – Analyzed reliability of more than 400,000 hard disk drives from a variety of manufacturers – Includes Hitachi, Seagate, Toshiba, Western Digital, etc. – Toshiba hard disk drives between 50 and 100 months old, had a failure rate of up to 6 of 1,000 drives per month o […]

