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Microsoft Corp. last week rolled out a slew of mice and keyboards for business users. The Wireless Optical Desktop Comfort Edition includes a keyboard and mouse with enhanced ergonomic features. The keyboard is slightly curved, and its keys are at a 6-degree angle to align better with the natural angle of the hand and wrist. […]

Computer Horizons Corp., which led the IT efforts for this months Republican National Convention in New York, is no stranger to setting up temporary networks under pressure. After the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, the Mountain Lakes, N.J., company helped New York Citys Office of Emergency Management get an ad hoc network up and […]

IBM is stretching out its speech technologies to the open-source community in an attempt to win more developers. At the SpeechTek Exposition & Conference this week in New York, Steve Mills, senior vice president and group executive of the IBM Software Group, will announce in a keynote address that IBM is providing software to the […]

TallyGenicom last week rolled out a $799 monochrome laser printer for small workgroups. The 9025N prints 25 pages per minute at a resolution of 1,200 by 1,200 dots per inch, with a first-print-out speed of 12 seconds, officials said. The printer holds 600 sheets, with an additional 500-sheet tray available for $259. It includes a […]

New color laser printing products coming from Canon Inc. and Dell Inc. next month are priced with small and midsize businesses in mind. Canon in September is expected to unveil a color laser MFP (multifunction printer) priced at $999, according to sources. The ImageClass MF8170C can print at 16 pages per minute in monochrome and […]

Printers typically dont stir up the same excitement among IT enthusiasts as other areas of technology do, but, lately, the $106-billion-a-year market has attracted more attention as Dell Inc. continues to ramp up its rebranded printer push in an effort to steal sales from rival Hewlett-Packard Co. In the middle of the turf battle is […]

IT managers eager to hear more about forthcoming phones and services that will allow users to roam between Wi-Fi and cellular networks may be in for a long wait. While Motorola Corp., Avaya Inc. and Proxim Corp. recently announced a joint plan to offer enterprise users a converged wireless device and the infrastructure to support […]

Kyocera Mita America last week rolled out the latest in a long line of multifunction printers for business workgroups. The KM-1650 lets users print, copy and scan up to 16 ppm (pages per minute) and route scanned documents to a users e-mail address or file. The $2,995 machine comes standard with 64MB of print and […]

Royal Philips Electronics is aiming to make dictation easier with new voice recognition capabilities in its Digital Pocket Memo 9450 handheld recorder. The devices voice-command feature can recognize strings of numbers or letters and up to 20 keywords spoken by a user and display that data as text. Such a device could go a long […]

Pressing on with its rebranded printer strategy, Dell Inc. next month will expand its arsenal of machines with the launch of its first color laser units. Dell is preparing three color laser printers for the business market—the 3000CN and 3100CN for SMBs (small and midsize businesses) and the 5100CN, which is aimed at large enterprises—according […]

Dell last week unveiled a digital XGA projector priced at $1,499. Based on Texas Instruments DLP (digital light processing) technology, the 2300MP displays images with up to 2,300 ANSI lumens of brightness, a 2,100-1 contrast ratio and 1,024-by-768-pixel native XGA resolution, according to company officials. Zoom and keystone correction are controlled manually. Connectivity options include […]

Although many insurance claims that Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield gets each year are handled electronically, about 20 percent are handwritten forms sent through the U.S. Postal Service by doctors offices that have yet to go digital. As such—and as anyone whos tried to decipher a doctors handwriting can imagine—managing those paper claim forms […]