Office World News back issues from April 2000:
Make leasing work
Apr 01, 2000; ... Today, more than ever, microcomputer users, buyers, contract administrators and financial managers are faced with a new set of factors when considering technology acquisitions. Computer equipment acquisitions are no longer driven solely by economic factors. Instead, other influences and their ...
Market update: Digital advances
Apr 01, 2000; ... As the office equipment industry enters the final days of the analog to digital transition, what were once revolutionary new technologies are now settling into the routine and the commonplace. That's not such a bad thing from an end-user perspective where many businesses, who at one time might ...
The future of mail
Apr 01, 2000; ... Technology Survey Offers Clues on a New World of Communication Possibilities Imagine one of your many customers contacts you and requests to have his bimonthly statement sent via email. He'd also like to pay his bill online each month, and have access to his personal customer records on ...
EFI to be acquired
Apr 01, 2000; ... SALT LAKE CITY, UT-EFI Electronics Corp., a leading supplier of power protection products, and Square D Company, a supplier of electrical distribution, industrial control and automation products systems and services, have signed a definitive merger agreement for the acquisition of EFI Electonics ...
Oki Data introduces new print server
Apr 01, 2000; ... MT. LAUREL, NJ-Oki Data, has introduced the OkiLAN 6100e+ 10/100 Base-T Ethernet print server, promising data transfer speeds significantly faster than industry-popular models as well as integrated support for wireless networking and the new Internet Printing Protocol (IPP). The IPP ...
Office Depot and Avery Dennison announces Messiest Office in America winner
Apr 01, 2000; ... SAN FRANCISCO-OfficeDepot.com and Avery Dennison are rewarding Donna Higgins for the "disorganized desktop" in her home office. Higgins' office won the "prestigious" honor of America's Messiest Office in a contest sponsored by Office Depot and Avery Dennison Worldwide Office Products ....
City Office Supply celebrates 50 years of service
Apr 01, 2000; ... HOUSTON, TX-City Office Supply is celebrating 50 years of service this year. Defying the odds in an age of office product superstores and multi-national contract firms, this family-owned and operated company secured its position as one of Houston's oldest and most experienced office product ...
Anti-Defamation League Office Product Division honors Goldstein with Heritage Award
Apr 01, 2000; ... NEW YORK-On Wednesday, May 3, 2000 at the Hilton New York, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) will be holding its annual Office Products Division testimonial and award presentations. This year's recipient of the American Heritage Award is Barry Goldstein, Executive Vice President, Finance and ...
PC postage usage increasing
Apr 01, 2000; ... FRAMINGHAM, MA-The United States Postal Service gave the go ahead for PC postage in August 1999. By year end, only four months later, U.S. small businesses and home offices had already spent $8.2 million on the product, and according to market research firm IDC, they're just getting warmed up ....
FedEx reports jump in net income
Apr 01, 2000; ... Benefitting from the biggest growth spurt in its international express-delivery business in more than two years, FedEx reported a higher-than-expected 45% jump in net income for its fiscal third quarter. Based in Memphis, TN, FedEx posted fiscal third-quarter profit of $113 million on ...
Dell may be replacing defective notebook chips
Apr 01, 2000; ... Dell Computer Corp. may have to replace defective memory chips in as many as 400,000 notebook personal computers sold last year. Refusing to identify the supplier of the chips, Micron Technology Inc. confirmed that it was the manufacturer and intends to provide replacements for the 32-megabyte ...
Ingram Micro get a new chief executive
Apr 01, 2000; ... Ingram Micro has named Kent B. Foster, former president of GTE, as chief execufive. of the nation's largest wholesale distributor of technology products and services. Foster, 56 years old, succeeds Jerre L. Stead, who announced in September his intention to step down. Mr. Stead will ...
Manufacturers expect slower economy
Apr 01, 2000; ... The nation's biggest manufacturing trade group said its members expect rising energy prices and higher interest rates to slow the U.S. economy this year. The National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) found in an annual survey of its 2,500 members that manufacturers are becoming ...
Changing channels
Apr 01, 2000; ... As printers and copiers converge, manufacturers such as Hitachi Koki (HiKIS) and Hewlett-Packard are looking at new ways of getting their products into the hands of customers who were weaned on standalone copiers. And what better way than through the channel that did that weaning? However, ...
Charrette acquisition
Apr 01, 2000; ... WOBURN, MA-Charrette Corp. has announced its acquisition of Southern Blueprint and Supply, Inc., a reprographics company that has serviced Alabama, Florida, and Mississippi. Southern Blueprint will be merged with the Charrette/LDO operations in Mobile, Alabama. The company's owners, Charles ...
HP & Troy partnership
Apr 01, 2000; ... PALO ALTO AND SANTA ANA, CAHewlett-Packard Co. and Troy Group, Inc. have introduced Troy Groups' NetSend family of Internet print servers, allowing a wide range of nonHP and HP printers to communicate via HP JetSend. JetSend, an open communications protocol developed by HP, allows two devices to ...
Developing mail kiosks
Apr 01, 2000; ... HAYWARD, CA-Neopost Online, a pioneer of Internet-based mailing solutions, announced an agreement with IBM to integrate Neopost Online's digital postage cryptographic technology into IBM's self-service kiosks. The kiosks, which will dispense postage, are currently being market-tested by the U.S ....
Document solutions
Apr 01, 2000; ... By combining the benefits of various office equipment in a single system, interconnectivity Increases office efficiency and decreases costs, while providing busy executives with total document control. Perhaps I shouldn't admit it, but it doesn't seem that long ago when a discussion ...
Data & Cofix alliance
Apr 01, 2000; ... CLEARWATER, FL Tech Data Corp. and Cofix, Inc. have formed a strategic alliance to provide technology resellers with a web-based businessto-business (B2B) information technology (IT) services network. Powered by Cofix' technology, the network pairs Tech Data "TechSelect" reseller members with ...
Amcom awarded contract
Apr 01, 2000; ... AMCOM AWARDED CONTRACT MINNEAPOLIS, MN-Amcom Software, Inc. has announced complete implementation of its Automated Directory Attendant System (ADAS) software at 30 U.S. Army bases across the country. The system handles tens of thousands of phone calls everyday, including calls from ...
Rayovac award winners
Apr 01, 2000; ... MADISON, WI-Rayovac has awarded its top sales awards for Office Product Sales agencies, selected for exceeding their sales quotas and outstanding customer service. The Office Product Sales Agencies of the Year were: Buddy Brown & Associates; Alexander & O'Keefe, Inc.; Frey Gaede & ...
Telstreet.com program
Apr 01, 2000; ... INDIANAPOLIS, IN-Telstreet.com, Inc. has introduced its affiliate program to produce revenue opportunities for participants. Under the program guidelines, affiliates agree to place Telestreet.com's logo on their web site and are compensated for any sale ...
Copier Website
Apr 01, 2000; ... WOODLAND HILLS, CA-Glyphix Studio has announced the launching of CopierPoint at www.copierpoint.com. CopierPoint is an online marketplace dedicated to buying and selling used, refurbished, and overstocked copiers. Using the Find & Alert feature, users are matched with products, or are ...
Pushing the envelope--vertically!
Apr 01, 2000; ... Until recently the United States Postal Service (USPS) was the only organization with a vertical feed system that could process not only standard #10 envelopes but also catalogs, brochures, and other bulky mail at the same time. Francotyp-Postalia [FP), a leading, international mailing systems ...
Combating check fraud
Apr 01, 2000; ... Upon entering the new millenium, many myths were disproved in seconds, some in the last few months, while others have come true with frightening accuracy. The world did not end at midnight, on December 31, 1999, and there are no "paperless" offices. However, predictions for computer related ...
Business equipment usage tracking
Apr 01, 2000; ... In case you hadn't noticed, new office procedures and digital office products have resoundingly overturned "the paperless office" concept popular among the prognosticators in the late 1980's and early 1990's. In fact, sales of copiers, printers, and multi-functional devices has accelerated ...
Equitrac offers solutions to maximize efficiency, contain costs, and increase profits
Apr 01, 2000; ... Equitrac provides professional service firms and corporations with a highly automated means of tracking, managing, and accounting for expenses incurred from office technology resources. Billable office-related costs are an important source of revenue for professional service firms to ...
Hewlett-Packard introduces Color LaserJet 8550 Series
Apr 01, 2000; ... Until recently, in-office color printing was a luxury that most businesses could ill afford and made do without. Those with a competitive spirit followed a "print and distribute" model. Following this model, communications documents were conceived, designed, layed out, outsourced for printing, ...
Skills training becoming a never ending process
Apr 01, 2000; ... "An organization's ability to learn and translate that learning Into action rapidly is the ultimate competitive business advantage, " Jack Welch, chairman, GE. No technology in history has grown as quickly as the Internet. Backbone bandwidth demand has been doubling, not every 28 months ...
Digging up prospective customers
Apr 01, 2000; ... At the risk of overusing a popular phrase, the Internet is in the truest sense of the word a "paradigm shift". It has significantly changed the way we do business, and has drastically improved the distribution of goods and services. Businesses now have access to customers from around the world, ...
Web Wise: Top 10 tips for building a great Web site
Apr 01, 2000; ... Top 10 Tips for Building A Great Web Site During the course of an average day, I talk to dozens of web site owners that are looking for advice about how to improve their web site's visibility on the search engines. Invariably they will ask the dreaded question "What do you think of my ...
OPWA honors
Apr 01, 2000; ... BALTIMORE, MD-The Office Products Wholesalers Association (OPWA) presented five awards for excellence at its annual conference held in Indian Wells, CA. The 2000 Manufacturer of the Year Awards recognize companies that consistently achieve excellence in policies, performance, people, ...
Xplor study finds e-commerce top future investment
Apr 01, 2000; ... TORRANCE, CA-Hardly a concern for most organizations five years ago, ecommerce is now the top future investment for user companies and service bureaus/consultants, according to the findings of a survey by Xplor International, the worldwide electronic document systems association. In 1995, the ...
EMA Foundation wins Award of Excellence
Apr 01, 2000; ... ALEXANDRIA, VA-The EMA Foundation for Paper-Based Communications has won the Award of Excellence in the 2000 Associations Advance America Awards program, a national competition sponsored by the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE). The EMA Foundation received the award for ...
BTA offers new member services
Apr 01, 2000; ... KANSAS CITY, MO-The Business Technology Association (BTA) and Business Equipment Research & Test Laboratories (BERTL) have entered into an agreement to bring to product resellers a valuable online Digital Information Service, namely "BTA Selling Solutions Software". Members now have ...
New guide to managing distribution firms
Apr 01, 2000; ... WASHINGTON, DC-Pre-release discounts are in effect for a new book, Distribution Management in the New Economy: A Blueprint for Success, are now available from the National Association of WholesalerDistributors (NAW). The new work offers wholesale distribution managers, at all levels, a ...
COT slams OSHA standard
Apr 01, 2000; ... ALEXANDRIA, VA-Calling the proposed OSHA ergonomics standard a "massive set of requirements that will affect any office, if not every workplace, with employees who use any muscle to perform their jobs," the Center for Office Technology (COT) said the standard was "beyond tinkering with and ...