– 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 […]
– Report published by The Business Research Company – Total global sales to reach $15.67 billion by 2030 – Market to reach $15.08 billion by end of 2026 – CAGR (compound annual growth rate) of 1.0% – Vertical markets include education, government and healthcare
– Sharp is a division of Foxconn of Taiwan, aka Hon Hai Precision – Will launch new “Poketomo”, a palm-sized, voice-interactive AI robot – “has a blunt, assertive, bossy, personality” – Features gray and white plastic body, with “upturned, sharp eyes” – Programmed to gradually open up, depending on how users interact with it – […]
– For the upcoming PRINTING United Expo 2026 held 9/23-25/2026 at Las Vegas Convention Center – Will be providing demos on: – REVORIA Press PC2120 – REVORIA Press EC2100 & SC285 – APEOSPRO C810 – APEOS MFPs – J Press FP790 flexible packaging press
– Research published by Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) – 77% of all events are confirmed theft of data by hackers – More than 471 million victim notices have been issued, already exceeding total for all of 2025 – 7 healthcare firms who were hacked, each notified 1 million+ patients of a breach – At […]
– Daily Mail newspaper reported that on 7/24/2026 many major websites were disrupted based notice from DownDetector – Widespread issues apparently experienced at Amazon Web Services – No reason given for outage
– The People’s Republic of China’s Ministry of Commerce announced it is launching a national security investigation into office printers and copier/MFPs imported into China, running on foreign system software. – claimed that preliminary information indicates that such imported office equipment may affect national security interests – System software includes print drivers and other embedded […]
