– Article published by RTMWorld magazine – “widespread price revision for a substantial portion of their office and commercial printing lineup” – “scheduled to take effect on 8/3/2026” – Includes A3, A4, color, b/w MFPs and production print systems – Due to “persistent inflation of raw material and procurement costs” – Price increases range from […]
AI now being used by hackers – Google report – Google published warning that it has identified a new zero-day exploit that has been developed by hackers using artificial intelligence (AI) – Exploit is designed to bypass 2-factor authentication on open source web-based system administration tool – Was implemented in a Python script – (Python […]
– Foxconn, aka Hon Hai Precision of Taiwan, parent of Sharp, has been hit by the Nitrogen ransomware gang of Russia – Hackers claim to have stolen 8 terabytes of data with 11 million files from Foxconn’s network after it successfully hacking into a Foxconn-owned manufacturing plant in Wisconsin – Stolen files apparently contain confidential […]
– Several IT news organizations are reporting that Toshiba is not honoring its warranty on select hard disk drives that it manufactures – Apparently is refusing to replace faulty products – Reasons given include “no available stock” and/or “possible wait time of one year for a replacement” – Only option offered is a refund of […]
– Research published by Global Growth Insights – Global MPS market estimated to have reached $39.57 billion in 2025 – $14.29 billion in North America – Projected to reach $40.83 billion in 2026 – Will reach $54.21 billion by 2030 – CAGR (cumulative annual growth rate) of 3.2% – Reasons for companies to invest in […]
Toshiba America Business Solutions (TABS) announced it will become a reseller for Xerox PrimeLink color and b/w models – (these devices are actually made by Fujifilm) – Color models range up to 81ppm – B/w models range up to 136ppm – Toshiba was already a reseller of Lexmark device, which is now a division of […]
– Research published by Economist magazine – Over 600+ senior executives were interviewed – reveals a widening gap between AI ambition and workforce readiness – highlights how the disconnect between strategy and execution is preventing organizations from capturing AI’s full potential – 88% of senior executives view AI as a source of competitive advantage – […]
Reminder that OAuth v1.0 authentification standard, co-developed by Microsoft, has been updated to OAuth 2.0 for data security reasons If customers have an older MFP that does have available new firmware to upgrade v 1.0 to 2.0, customers may have problems using some scanning features Example of how users may be impacted if still using […]
Report published by Techbrew Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron control over 90% of the world’s DRAM )dynamic Random Access Memory) chip supply Are now allocating more DRAM chip supply to AI infrastructure projects than personal devices While new DRAM manufacturing plants are planned, they will not start producing product for years Expect DRAM supply constraints […]
Heise Online News reports that HP’s Device Manager tool has several UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) firmware security vulnerabilities Could allow hackers to gain higher user privileges Several weaknesses in Curl, OpenSSL, and Tomcar HP offers patches to resolve
