Xerox in comment and analysis
Eric Schmidt
AS Profile He has also worked as a researcher at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Centre. Google CEO Eric Schmidt makes the Agenda Setters top 10 for the sixth consecutive year in 2009 and rises two places from his 2008 ranking as... [29 Sep 2009]
There's still a place for paper in a digital world - just don't drown
Comment Document capture products from vendors such as eCopy, Kofax, NSi, Omtool and OpenText can be integrated with MFPs from Canon, HP, Ricoh and Xerox. Despite the rise of digital communications, many businesses still rely on... [15 Jul 2009]
Doing away with printer headaches
Comment Remote monitoring systems now available include Canon's e-Maintenance, HP's Remote Monitoring, Konica Minolta CS Remote Care, Ricoh's @Remote and Xerox Smart eSolutions. Quocirca's Louella Fernandes describes how new... [07 Jan 2009]
The Brampton Factor: Do great firms innovate?
Comment The DOS operating system was bought in by Microsoft, Windows was based on ideas from Xerox Palo Alto Research Center already implemented by Apple, word processing was well established before Word, spreadsheets were... [20 Feb 2008]
Eric Schmidt
AS Profile Add to this a director seat on the Apple board and it's been a good year for Schmidt, whose experience at Novell, Sun and Xerox Parc are obviously serving him well as he demonstrates both the influence and persistence... [25 Sep 2006]
Editor's Blog: Dell and Google - titans in trouble?
Comment Just ask Hoover, Jacuzzi or Xerox. Dell is having to recall batteries - just over four million of them - that power some of its notebook PCs. Under rare conditions, it is possible for these batteries to overheat, which... [15 Aug 2006]
Paperless office - ages-old myth or valuable way forward?
Comment Andy Jones, a director at Xerox Global Services, explains a crucial change in the way we use paper. Offices will never get rid of paper entirely - but minimising its use is a relatively easy way for organisations to cut... [26 Jun 2006]
Devil's Advocate: A new 'soft' technology
Comment Especially as a lot of the talk came from within Xerox, best known for its ability to take one piece of paper and turn it into lots of others at the press of a button. Given the limitations of data storage and retrieval,... [04 Oct 2005]
Eric Schmidt
AS Profile His prior time at Novell, Sun - where he led the Java charge - and Xerox Parc attests to that. Eric Schmidt was setting agendas in the tech world long before taking one of the hottest jobs around in 2001. [23 Sep 2005]
Criminal IT: On Google and googling
Comment Would you xerox a sheet of paper that you'd printed off from your PC, and blue-tack it on the wall? But what about when they skip that stage and turn into generic terms such as hoover, xerox or - more... [21 Sep 2005]
Leader: BlackBerry love
Leader We are referring to things such as the BlackBerry or iPod, Xerox or biro - products so successful they become synonymous with a whole category. At a recent conference organised by a silicon.com sister company, it became... [27 Jul 2005]
Leader: Can Windows to open source moves still shock?
Leader With a membership including heavyweights such as Cisco, Dell, EDS, EMC, Fuji Xerox, Microsoft and Sun - some downright hostile to open source and others grudgingly accepting it in some parts of their business - the... [24 Mar 2005]
Minority Report: Jef Raskin and the Mac revolution
Comment Inspired in part by research from the Xerox PARC institute, the computer was to be built around human-centred design principles, which hid the complexity of cables and circuit boards from users inside an all-in-one... [03 Mar 2005]
How Microsoft keeps its edge
Comment Critics rightly dunned it for being a pale imitation of the work generated by Xerox PARC. Microsoft has managed to remain dominant in IT for decades while rarely being first to market. Charles Cooper looks at how Redmond... [15 Oct 2004]
Devil's Advocate: Patents are killing software innovation
Comment User interfaces with windows, icons and mouse were dreamed up long ago at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Centre. All they do now is prevent small organisations from competing with the big guys. There is a risk that patents... [31 Aug 2004]
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